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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
A MELTING POT"
1t Was That in Which Bouck White
Burned Flag.

New York, March Charged with
Decorating the American flag by burn
ing it. together with flags OF other ma
tions in this city on July Q last, Rev.
Bouck White and ten of his followers, in
GLIDING two women, were placed on trial
here yesterday.
White Gains he burned the flags in
melting pot" to signify the impor
tance of international industrialism. In
his personal examination of tslesmen he
asked questions regarding the interest of
prospective iurymen in war contracts
and denied any intention of insulting the
flag.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03

launch circus party. They hired
manager and made first payment down
on ground for a cooperative warehouse.
Then, last year being only a fair to
middling proposition as regards onions,
they quit cold.
But ii they hadnt-there might not
be so many people going around and
saying: Its all storage" as though it
hurt them to say it.-Springfield Repub-
lcan
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
Dead in Automobile.

New Britain. Conn. March S.-Charles
Taft Of the Ashwell garage, u Pearl
street, Hartford. was found dead with
three bullet holes in the back Of his
head in an automobile on a suburban
street yesterday. The machine Is said TO
have stood at the place from O'Clock
Thursday night until Yesterday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
PORTO RICO AND
INDIAN BILLS
ARE SIGNED
First Gives Resident of the Islands
United States Citizen
chin

Washington, March 3.-President Will
son yesterday signed the Indian appro-
priation bill and the Porto Rico bill,
giving residents of the island citizen
ship and changing its form of govern
ment.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
WAR RISK BUREAU EXTENDED.
House Adopts Measure Appropriating
s15,oOo,ooo for Its Use.

Washington, March " The House yes
terday adopted Senate measure ex-
tending the life OF the federal war risk
insurance bureau until September, 1918,
and appropriating an additional $4,000,
600 for its use.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
The surest Friend of Old Age

is an annuity, which guarantees an ade.
quate income for life, free from all risk
Investigate our plan. National Life In
surance Company of Vermont. (Mutual)
S. S. Ballard. general agent, Rialto build
ing, Montpelier, Vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
The Quinine That Does Not Affect the
Head

Because of its tonic and laxative effect,
Laxative Bromo Quinine can be taken by
anyone without causing nervousness or
ringing in the head There is only one
"Bromo Quinine," f. W. GROVES sig
nature on box. 25e.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
UNIVERSAL TRAINING
BILL INTRODUCED
IN THE SENATE
General staff Measure Is Referred to the
Military Affairs Com
mittee.

Washington, March 3.Senator Wat
son yesterday introduced the army gen
eral staff's universal military service
bill. which was referred to military al
fairs committee.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
WILSON FOR DRY" CAPITAL.
President Ready to Deliver Knockout
Blow 70 Liquor.

Washington. March 3.-President Will
son viii sign the District Of Columbia
prohibition bill, it was learned yesterday.
The Knockout blow to liquor is 10 be
landed to-day or Sunday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
LOAN TO TURKEY.
Austria to Lend s48,ooo,ooo to Aid Her
Ally.

Bernie (via Paris, March "a Vienna
dispatch says that Austria viii lend Tur-
key 240,0O0,0O0 crowns for an unnamed
period.
The money is TO be used for purchases
in Austria Hungary
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03
General Sporting Notes.

Ben Shaw, the Kentucky fence buster,
is at Macon, Ca. swinging his old war
club against the recruit pitchers in the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-03

advertisement effect
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The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18
HE IS SHERIFF,
JUDGE, JAlLER

Justice of the Peace j. w. Hedrick
is man of few words, but a whole
lot of action He believes in results.
John Ryan disturbed the peace and
dignity of Wolf Creek, located near
the new power plant of the Montana
Power company on the Missouri riv-
er, by touching a prominent citizen
for a $40 bill, which disturbed the
citizen nightly. There didn't hap
pen to be peace officer handy, so
Judge Hedrick sailed forth himself
and arrested Ryan. Then in his ca
pacity as judge he brought Ryan be-
fore himself. After making the pinch
he could not consistently cross him
self, so he found the culprit guilty
and gave him a jail term. There be-
ing no jail at Wolf Creek, Judge He'd
rick took Ryan into custody and act
ed as jailer until the next train came
by going to Helena. Then he board
ed the cars with Ryan and took him
to Helena, where he delivered him
at the county Jail.
Then the judge pulled down his
hat and started back to Wolf Creek.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18
CHASED JUDGE AND JURY OUT

Judge Frank II. Woody. who died
recently at Missoula, was one of the
attorneys in the first lawsuit tried in
what is now the state of Montana,
and from all accounts there have not
been many cases since that were
more hotly contested
This lawsuit was tried at Hell's
Gate in the Bitter Root, in March,
1862, before Henry Brooks, justice of
the peace, the proceedings being un-
der the laws of the territory of Wash
ington. A Frenchman, Tin Cup
Joe," accused Baron O'keefe of beat
ing one of Joe's horses with pitch
fork handle and then pushing the
animal into a hole, causing it's death
He asked for $40 damages
The place of trial was in a saloon
run by man whose name was Bolte
A jury of six was empanelled. Judge
Woody was attorney for '"Tin Cup
joe" The proceedings were lively
and finally turned into free -for-all
fight, whereupon the court and jury
fled for their lives. When peace was
restored they were nowhere to be
found. A posse was sent out after
them and they were eventually locat-
ed and brought back.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18
How Lone Chinamarl Nearly Caused
Anaconda to Be Capital of Montana
Story Why
With Bitter Fight Fight Between Clark and DAILY Over the
Location of the States Seat of Government.

clear majority of the votes cast at the
first election. Such proved to be the
case. The vote was as follows: Hell
ena, 14,010; Anaconda, 10,1S3;
Butte, 1852: Bozeman, 1855; Great
Falls, 5,012; Deed Lodge, $685. and
Boulder, 295.
Great Falls received only 5S votes
in Butte, and very few of these were
labor votes, so that the promises of
the labor votes were not fulfilled. Be
sides the $4,000 raised for the cleo
ton, Great Falls business men lost
more than $4,000 in bets of various
kinds placed on the city in the race.
Although they had lost the race,
having been in it, they felt very
grateful to Marcus Daily for the $15.-
600 he had donated toward their
campaign, and they were therefore
strongly in sympathy with Anaconda
in the fight that was to come up in
two years. Under the captaincy of
Matt Dunn, they threw themselves
into the battle, backed by Daly's
money. 1t is said that $4,000 was
distributed in and around Great
Falls alone, and that the fight over
the state cost Daily $1,O00,0O0.
Battle of Personality.
In 1894 came the final struggle.
All other political questions in the
campaign of that year were of minor
Importance. 1t was campaign in
which every voter became partisan;
every newspaper in the state, daily
and weekly, a vehement supporter Of
one side or the other. A host of
speakers canvassed the state.
The bitterly-fought struggle was
perhaps as much matter of person.
ality as geography, the two domin-
ant figures being DAILY and w. A..
Clark, the supporter of Helena. DAILY
was credited with being one of the
best organizers and managers the
country has ever known, and the re-
suit showed the estimate of him was
right. Helena won, but by a narrow
margin. The vote stood: Helena,
27,024; Anaconda, 25 .11S. Helena s
majority was 1906.
Great Falls influence for Anacon-
da was big factor in the fight, and
had it not been for that influence
the majority against the copper city
would have been much greater.
Senator Clark had been candi.
date for United Stat senator at the
1898 session of the legislature, ant
Marcus DAILY had prevented his elec
ton. Therefore he gave lavishly O
his money to beat DAILY, and he won
1t was the bitterest political figh
that the state has ever witnessed, ant
left scars that are not healed to thi
day.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18
A BROTHER OF M@BVTA0AW
HEADS AMERICAN RED GROSS

Eliot Wadsworth, brother of O. f.
Wadsworth of Great Falls, is the ex-
ecutive head of the American Red
Cross, and during these war times he
is one of the busiest men in the coun-
try.
Last autumn, when it became evil
dent that the United States was likely
to be drawn into the great world con-
flict, the directors of the American
Red Cross realized that they had a
huge task of organization ahead OF
them, and they began looking around
for man of sufficient calber IN the
matter of executive ability and expe-
rience to undertake the task. Eliot
Wadsworth was strongly urged by ex-
President Taft and others as the
man best suited for the position OF
executive head of the national hed
Cross organization, and he llhaily
was prevailed upon to undertake IL.
Eliot Wadsworth, until he declded
last fall to fulfill what he considered
patriotic duty, was member OF the
great firm of Stone & Webster OF
Boston, which rebuilt the Hauser
Lake dam at Helena.
During the first year of the war
he had experience in relief WORK on
big scale, having charge OF the us
tribution of funds for the RocKele'4er
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18

I votes shall have been cast shall be
and is hereby submitted in like man
ner to the qualified electors at the
next general election thereafter
Seven cities in Montana entered
1892. They were Helena, the tenn
pory capital; Anaconda, Butte, Boze-
man, Great Falls, Deer Lodge and
Boulder.
Why Great Falls Entered.
And here is where the hand of fate
reached out and dragged the Sun
River Chinaman, who had been drv-
en- out of Great Falls, into the game
of destiny.
1t happened that the State Fedora
tion of Labor, with headquarters in
Butte, issued a pronunciamento to
the effect that labor votes in Mon
tana would not be cast for any town
for the capitol where Chinese labor
was employed. Ira Myers, who was
president of the Great Falls Board of
Trade, pricked up his ears and called
a meeting of the directors. IF that's
the case" said Mr.. Myers, I'VE have
a chance to land the capital for Great
Falls; otherwise we will merely save
money by keeping out of it,"
1t was estimated that it would re-
Quire at least 100000 for expenses if
Great Falls made the fight. Before
deciding to raise this sum, a COM
mittee consisting of Charles M. Web
ster, A. e. Dickerman and Ira Myers,
went to Butte and interviewed the la
Dor leaders.
"Is it a fact that the labor vote
will be cast only for town that has
no Chinese residents?" they inquired.
"That's just the situation, and
you can bank on it," replied the pres
ident of the labor delegation.
well, we ran the only Chinaman
out of town who ever came to Great
Falls Mr.. Myers informed the labor
people.
"Then We'll promise Great Falls
the labor vote was the reply.
Raised Thirty Thousand Dollars.
On the strength of this, the Great
Falls business men raised among
them $500 and the ToWnsite COM
pany, which was then owned by the
Hill interests, was supposed to have
given the same sum, although it was
afterward learned that the money
was put up by Marcus DAILY, who
wanted to get as many competitors il
the field as possible, so as to detrac
from the strength of Helena.
1t was generally conceded tha
Helena and Anaconda were the prin
cipal contenders, although no on,
looked for any candidate to get
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18

en- the stage. However he was COM
missioner afterwards and he had the
honor of being chairman of that
body.
The story of his success when he
resumed the theatrical game a few
years ago is like a page from a ro-
nance. He was the live wire in the
organization of the Ansonia Amuse-
ment company, built the Ansonia,
bought the Orpheum and Princess
then bought the Broadway. He
brought Pantages vaudeville to Butte
and manages the Montana circuit for
Pantages. Then he capped the eli
max by agitating for Northwest
Pacific circuit for high class road
shows and was successful. His worth
was rewarded by his being made
president of the new organization,
the largest that the northwest has
ever known in the show business.
When He Called ''Next."
When Phil used to call "next" in
his own shop on Dakota street, only
the old timers were aware that he
had long experience in theatricals
back of him. He was with Gustaf
Walters, the originator of the string
of Orpheum theaters all over this
country, the man who named the
first Orpheum theater ever built in
the United States. Road shows, cir
cuses and vaudeville were all alike to
Levy He's still plain Phil, in spite
of the pile of money which he made
in the past few years. OF course he
runs around in an automobile now,
but when the money began to come
easy, he carefully invested in a Ford
until his friends persuaded him that
he should have a bigger car. Well,
he got one for Mrs. Levy, but still
believes that the Ford is good enough
for himself personally. That's the
kind of man Phil Levy is, the general
manager of the biggest theatrical or
ganization in the northwest and one
of the shrewdest managers that Mon
tana knows.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18
FROM BARBER TO
THEATRICAL KING
PHIL LEVY QUIT CRYING "NEXT''
TO PATRONS AND ROSE TO
HEAD BIG COMBINE.

Butte Man President of Northwest
Pacific Circuit of Theaters and
Owner of Many Show Houses in
West; Money Is Rolling His Way
But 1t Hasn't Spoiled Him.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18

1T that his dollars are turning as fast
as they are pictured to be on Mil
Waukee poster under the plow of the
new immigrant, but at that he would
sooner talk about the days when he
came to Butte broke and worked dur
ing the day in the barber shop and
during the night in the Arion theater
where the old DAILY bank stands.
1t would take more than column
to give all PhiIs experiences-he has
had many of them as actor, manager,
barber and film magnate in the 33
years since he first saw Butte. It
was in 1884 that he came to Butte,
and he came to see a prize fight be-
tween Dune Mcdonald and Pete Nc
Coy. He drove the 20 miles into
Butte on the blackboard, and liked
the first glance of the 5,000-popula-
tion camp. When Helena heard the
rumble of the mining excitement in
the Occur d'Alene district and the
town was practically deserted over
night, Phil went broke in the little
theater he operated there and he
thought of Butte and came here.
Bought Another Shop.
He went to work for Charley Joyce
next door to where the DAILY bank is
now, and with his work there in the
daytime and his work on the stage of
Arion at night, Phil was able to buy
out Joyce and open second shop.
Of course it was hard work, but
Phil needed the money then as he
thinks he needs it today, and he drew
down just 500 week. He got
$35 for shaving and haircutting pat
rons and SIS for pleasing folk on the
stage. Phil could sing, dance, do
character stunts and take a drink,
and he had more friends among the
Irish than among the Jews.
''Nationality cuts no ice with me.
If guy is all right, that's all I care
about he says and that's his system
today in the theaters which he con-
trolls in Butte as general manager of
Ansonia Amusement company, the
Ansonia, Orpheum, Princess and
Broadway, as we'll as the Helena
theater in Helena. When Catholic
girl wants to go to mass on holiday,
she does not have to ask Levy a Sec
ond time for permission, and there's
not priest in the state but is per-
sonal friend of Phil.
Gets Political Bee.
1t was natural therefore from long
association with the Hibernian set
tiers in Butte that he should have re-
ceived a sting from the political bee
He was elected alderman of the Sixth
ward in April, 1888, by big margin.
He served we'll but did not care for
politics as he was too busy with his
barber shops, having entirely forsak
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18

1t is one of the characteristics of
some men who have acquired wealth
quickly that they shrivel when one
refers to their days of struggle and
poverty. That's not the failing of
Phil Levy, however. Phil Levy of
Butte is today one of the biggest the
atrical men in the northwest. He
is president of the Northwest Pacific
Circuit, a Klaw and Erlanger organ
ization that has taken over all John
Cort's interest, and for three years
he has been president of the Montana
State Exhibitors league. Rumor has
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18

Guy OF any size iii Montana that
has never had IA single Chinese
resident, and why was that fact
responsible for Anaconda COM
ing within less than 1000 votes
of being the capital of Montana
in the bitter capital fight of
1894?
The answer to these two qlcs-
tions forms an interesting story
that has never been published
before, and is an illustration of
how often trivial incidents turn
out to be the causes of epoch
making events in human affairs.
In 1887 Great Falls was an infant
municipality among Montana towns,
being only three years Old In those
days everybody in Great Falls knew
everybody else, and there were the
usual small community joys and sor-
rows, likes and dislikes, sympathies
and feuds between the residents. 1t
happened in that year that widow,
whose name was Mrs. Sutherland,
was supporting herself and small
she was a pleasant, Woodworking wo-
man, she had the good will of the
people Of the town and was making
a comfortable living.
One evening Mrs. Sutherland's s
small boy came home to supper and
announced that Chinaman had
come down from Sun River and was
going to open q laundry. Fearing
that she might lose some of her pat
ronage, Mrs. Sutherland felt uneasy
about it and mentioned the fact to a
neighbor.
Threw Chinaman in River.
That evening half a dozen men
hunted up the Chinaman and in
formed him that the Great Falls eli
mate was extremely bad for Chinese.
They escorted him forcibly to the
river bank, and putting him in row.
boat, started to row him across the
river, intending to point the trail to
Sun River and warn him not to re-
turn. Before starting on the expe-
dition, however, the men had taken
considerable number of libations,
and as a result they were none too
gentle in their handling of the Chi
naman. After rowing two or three
hundred feet one of them remarked
that it was a long time between
drinks, and forthwith they uncere-
moniously dumped the frightened ce-
lectial out into the river, and turn
ing the boat, they rowed back to
land.
The Chinaman swan and Waded
back to shore, and thoroughly terri
fled, walked to the dismantled box
car that served for a Great Northern
station, where he skulked in the
shadows, expecting to get out of
Great Falls on a freight train. Be
fore long, Jim Matkins, who was then
clerk and recorded of Cascade coun-
ty, happened to walk by the place
and saw the Chinaman. He stopped
to speak to him and the yellow man
poured forth his story and begged
for protection. Matkins took the
Chinaman to a cheap lodging house
and asked the woman who ran it to
permit the yellow man to dry his
clothes and stay there till morning.
The next day. as soon as the ferry
across the river was running, the
Chinaman started for Sun River and
never returned. The Great Falls cit
izens had established a precedent
that has held until this day, and
there never has been a Chinese resi-
dent of the Electric City. Word was
spread among the Chinese OF the
west, and it would have been impos-
sible to get one of them to come to
the city to stay after that incident.
Chinese passing through the city,
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18
HANG TWO MORE
WHERE 20 SWUNG
BUTTE TO HAVE DOUBLE EXECU-
TION JUNE 20, WHEN FISHER
AND O'NEILL WILL DIE.
Scaffold on Which Two Murderers
Will Pay Penalty Has Gruesome
History; Among Its Victims Were
Two Convicts Who Attacked War
den of State Penitentiary.

The first hanging in Butte for II
years is scheduled to take place June
20, when Frank Fisher and John
O'Neill, sentenced to pay the extreme
penalty for the murder of Thomas
Higgins, will die on scaffold which
already has been used to hang 20
murderers in the past.
The scaffold which Sheriff John
X. O'Rourke has in prospect has a
gruesome history, and is at present
stored at the penitentiary at Deer
Lodge, where it was used to hang
Rock and Hayes, who killed Guard
Robinson at the state prison during
a break for freedom some nine years
ago. At that time the two convicts.
together with another who was shot
to death, attacked Warden Frank
Conley and cut his throat badly, but,
fortunately, not sufficiently to cause
death or permanent injury.
The gallows was shipped to Deer
Lodge from Butte, where the last
man to hang from it at the big camp
was Miles Fuller, convicted of the
brutal murder of an old prospector,
Henry Gallaghan, in 1904. Fuller
was executed May 16, 1906. Other
murderers who swung into eternity
from this scaffold were Dan Lucy,
Dotson, Macarthur, Potts, Metzger
and Chinaman, Tom Sing, who was
hanged at BoZeman.
No Trap Door.
Unlike many gallows, there is no
trap door with this one.
The gallows frame consists of two
| oh tc ~ ho OF tho IN
In operation. rope is suspended
from the cross bar at the top and
weights at the other end of the rope
are released when trap is sprung.
At former hangings this trap has
been sprung by hangman, concealed
from the view of witnesses of the ex-
ecution by tent, erected just beside
the scaffold. A Deer Lodge express
man sprung the trap at the hanging
of Rock and Hayes, coolly walking
from his place of concealment imme-
diately after doing so and before the
spectators had disbanded. At the
hanging of Miles Fuller, it is said
that cook employed in a local ho-
tel sprung the trap. He received $50
for the job, this apparently being the
conventional fee for such work. 1t
is related tnat at inc tlme tnefe was
no dearth of applications for the job.
The Crime.
According to the testimony intro
duced at the trial, Fisher and O'Neill
were engaged in holding up man
named Sullivan on the night of Sep
tember last, at Wyoming and Sill
yer streets, when Higgings happened
along and went to Sullivans rescue.
AS he did so he was shot by one of
the two and died from the effects of
his wound several days later in To-
cal hospital.
O'Neill's right name is said to be
Gullich.
Fisher and O'Nell are extremely
bitter against the Butte police and
the newspapers, and O'Neill has been
a desperate and unruly prisoner.
Fisher is alleged to have sent word to
Chief Jerry Murphy that he did not
expect to swing and that he'd live to
see the day when he would put day.
light through Murphy.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18

The jury found for the plaintiff
and the amount of damages, together
with the costs, amounted to $50. The
defendant attempted to take an ap-
peal to the district court, but as that
was Colville, Wash, 800 miles
away, he concluded to settle the
judgment, which he did.
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18
DON'T KNIT SOCKS IS
WARNING OF ARMY
"Women, don't knit socks!"

women, don KHlL SOCKS!
That is the advice of Col. Daniel E.
Mccarthy, quartermaster for the CEN
trail army department of the United
States army. The government, he
says, is buying socks for Is cents a
pair, and it costs those who knit them
at home about SO cents pair, if
time and energy are counted.
The department quartermaster ad-
vised women who want to bring COM
fort to the soldiers to knit scarfs and
Wristlets
The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18

Foundation in the war-stricken coun-
tries of Europe.
Mr.. Wadsworth has visited Mon
tana on several occasions.