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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-19
(By II. G.. Linebarger.)

Wy - vi
The annual beet cutting and refin-
ing season of the Billings sugar plant
is fast drawing to a close after the
most successful season in its history.
The product from about 10000 acres
of beets was cut this year at the re-
finery, the saccharine matter turned
into the purest white sugar and the
white pulp sent to the feeding yards
for the fattening Of cattle, being used
in conjunction with alfalfa and sugar
syrup.
This only represents a portion of
the sugar product of the Billings dis
trict for factories at Sheridan, Wyo.,
and Lowell, Wyo., have handled the
product Of some 10000 or $4,000
acres formerly handled by the Bill
ings plant, thus making the acreage
this year a record breaker for total
amount devoted to the culture of sug-
ar beets.
Plant for Western Montana.
Another feature of the campaign
this year was the handling of the
product of several thousand acres
from various parts of Montana, espe-
| cially northern and western Montana,
where experiments have been con-
Quoted to determine the practicable
ity of erecting plants in those Sec
tions. AS a result western Montana
is to get a plant, and work on it has
been started already at Missoula. 1t
will be the same size as the Billings
! ~1o~k 1r,,inr0I Wifh tho mncf mod.
ern machinery. While figures have
not been compiled it is believed as a
result of early tests that the average
price this cas- will be between
$3.50 and $500, while the average
yield per acre, it is believed, viii
bring the average price paid to the
farmers for an acre OF beets above
the $50 mark.
Considering that the harvest sea
son this season was especially damn
and cold and very unfavOrable, the
results are considered very remark
able. This excellent yield, it is be
lieved, is partially due to the face tina
all of the seed planted last sprin,
was Montana raised, produced on tn
farms of the Great Western Suga
company at Edgar and Billings
These farms had just entered tn
productive scale on a business basi
when the war broke out and the sup
ply of European seed was cut Oft
They came to the rescue and save
the sugar industry in the intermoun
tain regions, furnishing not only tn
seed for Montana, but for sewers
other sections.
:. Aid in Fattening Cattle.
One feature of the industry tina
has been particularly active this yea
and of which little is heard is cattl
feeding. Livestock plays an imporI
ant part in the sugar industry. Their
are now feeding at the Billings fa'
tory 100000 head of sheep and 200
head of steers, according to figure
furnished by the management.
addition to this number fed at tt
factory there are thousands fed G
the beet tops and on beets at variol
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-19
Rangers Attending School.

With several dozen rangers in at
tendance and with an Institutional
staff that includes three former for
est supervisors as we'll as special lee
turers now in the forest service, the
winter short course in forestry for
rangers has been opened at the state
university at Missoula.
The ranger course this term fol-
lows in general the curriculum of a
year ago, but courses in advanced
grazing and national highway con-
struction were added.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-19
Old Car Still "New."

A 1909 Studebaker $50" which
has run 200, 900 miles to date and il
still in good shape and ready to e
at any time, has been discovered ou'
in Oklahoma. With the exception
of one connection rod and bearing
the original a is intact. This is the
same car Barney Oldfield, the veter
an speed king, drove 101 miles al
hour on a straightaway course il
1911. "
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-19
States First Farm Loan,

The first loan made to a farmer
secured by Jean Theo Braun of Bak-
err, Fallon county. Braun has a 800
acre farm near Baker. Ninety acres
are under cultivation and 173 acres
have been plowed. The land was ap-
praised at 1884, and Braun Sc
cured a loan of $4,000 on it.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-19

There is this .out having a
daughter old enough to entertain a
beau: 1t gives you a chance to work
off the boyhood "reminiscences your
family long ago refused to listen to,
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DRAWING FOR CONSCRIPTION
 COMMENCES AT WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, July 20.-Drawing un, der the selective conscrption act began Tn the Senate building at 9:40 o'clock this morning Secretary of War Baker drew the first number. It required an hour and forty five minutes to draw the first thou sand numbers At this rate the entire draft will require eighteen hours.
 First Man Drawn to Claim Exemption
 SEATTLE, July 2O.-The first man drawn under the selective conscrptlon act was Arthur O. Huston, naturallzed Nor wegian. He says he will claim exemption on the ground that he has dependent wife and baby.
 National Guards Begin Work
 OMAHA, July l6.-The National Guards of Iowa, Nebraska Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin began mobilization today to be gin training for service in France.
 Half Are Mobized
 WASHINGTON, July 17.-About one hundred and thirty thousand or over half the National Guard was mobilized today. Federslization as to pay began in eleven states Sunday.
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MENACE OF ANARCHISTS
 TO BE DEALT WITH FIRMLY

COLUMBUS, N. M, July 14.-A cattle car train carrying twelve hundred l. W. W.'s arrived here this morning. They will be placed temporarily in detention camps.
 Military to Handle Them
 FL PASO, Tex, July 14.-Washington has instructed General Bell to move the l. W. W.'s from Hermanas to Columbus, and to provide food until further orders.
 President Is Apprehensve
 PHOENIX, Ariz., July 14.-President Wilson has telegraphed to the governor that he looked upon such actions as the citizens taking the law into their own hands with grave apprehension. He said that federal officials had been ordered into Arizona to report on conditions within the state, with view to cooperation with the state off cials in maintaining order.
 To Guard Great Tunnels
 SEATTLE, July 16.-Troops have been rushed to the Cascade mountains to protect the great railroad tunnels from menaclng l. w. W's.
 When in Doubt, Blame l. w. w.
 KLAMATH FALLS, July 16.-Fire charged to the I. w. W. destroyed the flour mill of Martin Bros.
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Indorsed by Majority of Parties
CONSIDERABLE ANXIETY
 SHOWN BY DEMOCRATS
 AS TO GOVERNORSHIP

The delay in the matter of the appoint ment of a successor to J. r. A. Strong as governor of Alaska has been the cause ot considerable anxiety to local Democrats, who have been inclined to believe that the delay was caused by the desire of the secre tary of the interior to retain Thomas Riggs the man who has received a general lndorse, ment for the position, in his present work on the Alaskan engineering commission In the meantime Strong's claims to reap polntment are being pressed.
 With these facts in view, and desiring to know how matters stood, The Pioneer last week dispatched a suggestion to John W Troy, editor of the Juneau Empire, that in case the department insisted on retaining Mir Riggs in his present position and there was a chance of Strong's reappointment Tn consequence the name of Judge Charles E. Bunnell be again presented. Judge Bunnell, early in the fight had been a strong candl- date for the governorship, but withdrew in favor of Judge Jennings, as also did Mir Troy, whose name also had been mentioned as a possible candidate. It was pointed out that Democrats here while backing up the nominee of the territorial central committee, Mr. Riggs, did not desire that the office should go to Strong by default in case 1t should be impossible to secure the appoint ment of MT. Riggs.
 The following reply was received from the Empire on Wednesday last:
 There IS no doubt, from a careful can vass made, that Judge Bunnell would be completely satisfactory to all organization Democrats. Riggs was selected because he also was satisfactory and 1t was known that 1t would require no evidence to convince the secretary of the interior that he Is capable and worthy, and because of his exceptional acquaintance and friendship at Washington, The editor of the Empire, so far as known, was the first man to suggest Judge Bunnell for the place when the Democrats were seek ing a candidate, and when many of them were asking him to be candidate himself, He IS still convinced that Judge Bunncll would make splendid governor. The Dem ocrats were seeking 8 man who was good timber with strength at Washington"
 On Wednesday also the news dispatches had the following from Washington:
 "The indications point to the appointment of Thomas Riggs for the Alaska governor ship He is said to have the support of Chairman Vance Mccormick of the Demo cratic national committee, There is much uncertainty ss to the date of appointment
 It would seem, therefore, that the chances of Mir Riggs appointment are excellent. But there is quite strong undercurrent here in favor of Judge Bunnell, and it is believed by many that had his name been again presented when Judge Jennings with drew he would have been the logical candl- date for the honor.
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RUSSIAN CAPITAL
May Be Moved to Moscow Because of Chaotic Conditions Pre-
 vailing at Petrograd

PETROGRAD, July 19.-A general feel ing prevails here that decisive stage be tween the forces of order and disorder is rapidly approaching. Cannon have been posted about the buildings of the Winter palace, which is the seat of government. An extraordinary cabinet council is dis cussng the proposal to transfer the seat of government to Moscow, to prevent inter ference of the irresponsible section of the Petrograd garrison.
 Hundreds Killed in Disorders
 PETROGRAD, July 20.-Five hundred persons have been killed or wounded in the disorders of the past two days.
 Germans Responsible
 A letter from General Brusiloff states that Nickolai Lenine the radical Socialist leader who headed the latest outbreak here and fled, is an agent of the German general staff.
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Denounces Defendant
EXTRADITION IS DENIED
 IN CASE OF RICH CRIMINAL

ROME, July 14-The American embassy was informed today that the extradition of Alfredo Cocchi, the slayer of Ruth Cruger, would be violation of the governmental law of Italy.
 Cocchi, notorious white shaver, who fled from the United States to escape an lndlct- ment under the Mann act, was taken into custody here on June ?, charged with the murder of Ruth Cruger.
 The police of New York have been en- deavoring to secure Cocchi's extradition, and his arrest in Rome was at their request. For a long time they have been trying to run down the perpetrators of a series of murders connected with the white slave traffic, and recently began digging up the cellars in two shops occupied by Cocchi, who was the head of the organized gang of white slavers. Cocchi became millionaire through his connection with the traffic. Ruth Cruger is believed to have been assaulted and mur- dered by the gang when they could not in duce her to serve their purposes, and the police are trying to find the bodies of other victims whom they believe were similarly treated. It is believed that many of the bodies of the victims were burned and the police entertain no hope of finding many bodies of the lost girls. Confessions of men arrested in New York implicated Cocchi as the leading figure in the horrors.
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TO STAKE TRAIL

Efforts are being made to raise a fund to stake and mark the summer trail between Discovery, Otter and Tokotna, and to pro- vide three shelter tents along the route. The trail follows the ridges of the noun tains, and there Is considerable travel over it. At times it is decidedly dangerous be- cause of mists and fogs, and many persons have lost their way and wandered about the country helplessly. It is said that several persons have lost their lives on this trail. Tom Shallow, the wel-known old-timer, has been engaged to do the work
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LABOR STRIKES IN SEATTLE MAY BRING INAUGURATION
 OF MUNICIPAL CONTROL

SEATTLE, July 1S.-The street car lines of this city are completely tied up as the result of strike nauguratcd last Saturday. Mayor Gill declares that if operation IS not resumed the city may ask the appointment of q receiver and operate the lines itself. The mayor has called a council session tor this afternoon to discuss the revocation ot the Seattle Electric Company's franchise be cause of incorporation of cars. The mayor announced that he would arrest every man brought from other cities to take the places of strikers.
 The company has announced that if the men are not back at work by Friday noon street car men will be brought from the East.
 Lumbermen and ShipbuiIders Also
 It is estimated that twenty-five thousand lumber workers and shngle weavers are on strike throughout the state. A strike ot the Seattle shlpyards employees IS threatened on August l, in sympathy with the demands of the metal trades workers for more pay. Federal conciEators are trying to prevent the cessation of work
 Use Auto Trucks
 An auto truck carrying passengers was upset today injuring nine persons two men dangerously.
 Resented Being Called "Scab"
 J. c. Nash, Wells Fargo guard, when called ''scab" by striking express drivers fired into a crowd of men, wounding two
 Want Eight-hour Day
 SEATTLE, July 17.-The shingle weavers ,hro ho ata np Str Q eight-hour day.
 Tacoma Street Car Men Also Strike TACOMA, July 16.-Street car men of this city are out on strike because of the refusal of the company to recognize the union,
 Picketing Unlawful
 OLYMPIA, Wash, July lS.-The state supreme court has ruled that picketing places of business by strikers is unlawful Policemen Refuse to Work with "Scabs" SEATTLE, July 20-Policemen c. l. Henderson and W. c. Warman were dis charged today for refusing to ride on express wagons to protect non union men from the strikers.
 l. w. W.'s Are There
 Several scores of l. w. W's today in vaded the city hall and tore from the walls of the municipal employment office posters calling for men to work in the logging camps. The leaders have been arrested
 Must Resume or Show Cause
 Judge Gilman has ordered the Seattle Electric Company to resume the customary car service by o'clock this afternoon, fail ing which it must show cause why a re- ceiver should not be appointed
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VICTORIOUS RUSS
 WEARS LEMbERG
Principal War Operations of Week Seem to Have Been on Eastern Front, Where Russians Are
 Advancing Rapidly

PETROGRAD July 14.--ln the Stanlslau sector the Russians have advanced seventeen miles nearer to lemberg northwest along the Dneister river, and are now menaclng Stvr and Rohatyn threatening to cut the Austro- German lines between the two towns.
 Austrians Lose Prisoners and Guns
 PETROGRAD, July l6-Attacks by the Russians in the Lodzanl region, southwest of kalush, have resulted in the Austnans losing positions, together with one thousand prisoners and a number of guns, according 10 announcement made by the war office.
 hustro-H -Hunearians in Flight
 ROME, July l6. The Russian army in Gallcia has occupied the important railroad town of Dolna and the Austro-Hungarlans are in flight through the kenn mountains, according to dispatch from Petrograd.
 Fighting Along Entire Front
 WASHINGTON, July 17-The Russian front from the Gulf of Riga to Roumanla is reported in official dispatches today from Petrograd to the Russian embassy here to be alive with battle The Germans are rushing up troops from the Italian and French fronts and entirely rearranglng thelr positions.
 A Costly Operation
 PETROGRAD, July l9.-The Russians have captured Novicia but owing to heavy losses withdrew to the east end of the viii lage.
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ALASKA'S DOGS OF WAR" DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES
 IN RAGING BLIZZARDS

NOME, July l7-Mrs. Darling of this city has received the Cross of War won by Alaska dogs for service in transporting ninety tons of shells to an isolated post under fire, through blizzard which ragged for four days and nights on the French front.
 In 1915 Lieutenant Rene Haas of the French army, formerly resident of Nome, was commissioned to go to that city and buy dogs for service in the Vosges noun tains. He secured something more than a hundred, many of which were from the kennels of Mrs, Darling. "Scoty' Allen, the famous musher, now a member of the Alaska legislature accompanied the dogs to France.
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BRITISH CABINET
Noted Irish Unionist Retires and Winston Churchill Becomes
 Minister of Munitions

LONDON, July 1S.-Sir Edward Carson has resigned as first lord of the British ad- mralty, and has been succeeded by Sir Eric Campbell Geddis, formerly a station agent cn the Baltimore 6c Ohio railroad.
 Winston Churchill, formerly first lord of the admiralty, has been appointed minister of munitions. He succeeds Dr. Christopher Addison, who remains in the cabinet as minister without portfolio,
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THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN
The Weekly Report

The Weekly Report LONDON, July l9- Twenty-six British vessels were torpedoed during the week end ing last night.
 Americans Killed WASHINGTON, July 17.-The American steamship Grace has been torpedoed. Three of her crew were killed and two members of the naval guard were injurd.
 British Transport Sunk LONDON. July 14.-The British trans port Aramandal has been torpedoed.
 Russians Sink Submarine PETROGRAD, July 20.-A German sub marine was sunk in the Baltic today by a Russian destroyer
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NOT A DESIRABLE POSITION

TIENTSIN, July 1S.-Feng Chang has declined to accept the presidency of China.
 The Innocent Bystander
 WASHINGTON, July 14-Three Ameri- cans have been wounded by stray bullets during the fighting between the republican and monarchical forces at Picking.
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BURGLAR GRATlFIED THIRST
 WHILE AWAITING VICTIM

SEATTLE, July 1S-A masked robber entered the home Of Ben Pincus early this morning and bound Mrs. Pincus and her two half-grow children. He awaited the return of Ben, who also was bound and robbed of S1O0 He then made his escape. During the hour spent while awaiting Pin GUS return he drank a quart of whisky which he found in the house
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THE MOONEY TRIAL

SAN FRANCISCO, July 17.-John Welby, a juror in the trial of Mrs Mooney, charged with complicity in the preparedness pa rade bomb outrage, was dismissed from the panel today and his place was filled by the thirteenth juror, William s. Dean. The dis mssal was on the ground of his physical infrmities.
 Denounces Defendant
 SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.-The district attorney, in his opening address to the jury, characterized Mrs Mooney as the slaughterer of women and children.
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TERRELL BE REAL DROUTH
 IN PROHIBITION TERRITORY

WASHINGTON, July 14.-Every form of liquor transportation into "dry'' territory is now forbidden, whether on the person, by common carrier, by private conveyance or as baggage, according to instructions sent to United States district attorneys throughout the country by the department of justice tndaY
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CAMPAIGN OF ASSASSINATION
 CHARGED TO GERMANS

PETROGRAD, July 17-Extraordinary precautions are being taken to protect Pre- mier Kerensky and General Brusiloff, the Russian commander n-chief to assassinate whom Germany sent 700 spies into Russia, according to a plot just discovered by the intelligence department
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REGISTRATION

Up to noon yesterday but two names had been registered by Major G. W. Albrecht under the conscription law Registration commenced Wednesday and will continue until September 2 Major Albrecht an nounces that no regular hours will be main tained at his office, but that elgibles can register at any time, as he can always be located
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somethino About the Visitor

In letter written to Thomas Riggs Jr., member of the Alaskan engineering com mission, H. A. Myer, assistant secretary of the interior, states his intention to visit Alaska during the summer, says the Seward Gateway of June 5. He has executive charge of the railway work in Alaska, and he in tends to visit not only the coast end but the Interior also.
 The assistant secretary, before being pro- noted to his present position, was prlVate secretary to Secretary Lane. In that posi- ton he gained an intimate knowledge of the railroad work and was well qualified to take up the duties which fell to him in his new place.
 Mir. Myer has the distinction of being one of the youngest men in the history of the country to hold the position which he now occupies He is only 30 years of age, but was given the position because of the great executive ability he displayed when private secretary to Mir Lane.
 As Mr. Myer has been good friend not only of Alaska, but of the Interior, he will be given a big reception upon his arrival, and it is likely that it will be an occasion for a general holiday.
 Arrives at Seattle
 SEATTLE, July 20.-H. A. Myer, assist ant to Secretary of the Interior Lane, and his party of engineers arrived here tonight. In all probability they will sail for Alaska Sunday or Monday
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ALASKA COPPER MINERS
 AGREE TO RESUME WORK

WASHINGTON, July 14.-The striking miners at the Kennicott copper mines, Alaska, have yielded to Secretary of Labor Wilson's request to resume work pending the arrival of the government medators, according to a message received by the de partment today.
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CLAIMS FOUR BIG U-B0ATS WERE SENT TO BOTTOM
 BY UNCLE SAM'S BOYS

LONDON, June 16.-A Rome dispatch emanating at Berne from a German source says that four of the largest model German submarines were destroyed by American warships which were conveying the first United States troops to France.
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AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT EXCITED
 OVER A PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACT

ZURICH, July l6-The Austrian reichs- former Czech Minister Praschek declared that the hatred of the entire world was not directed against Austria but against Ger
 many, and that Austria should detach her self from Germany, says Vienna dispatch.
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SUCCESSOR TO GUTHRIE

WASHINGTON, July 19-Roland S Morris of Philadelphia has been chosen for ambassador to Japan, to succeed the late W. G. Guthrie It is understood that he is persona grata to Japan and that his nomina tion will go to the senate shortly.
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STRANGE ANNOUNCEMENT
 MADE BY STATE DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON, July 19-The entente allies have invited the United States to join in an inter allies war council at Paris The state department announced today that it is understood the government does not con slider it necessary to send representatives.
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UNBELIEVABLE CHARGES
 BROUGHT AGAINST GERMANS

KANSAS CITY, July 19.-Three Germans have been arrested by federal officials in Kansas towns charged with selling court plaster on which were declared to be fatal disease inoculations, according to govern meut tests
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DISASTER TO NORWEGIAN SHIP

ST. JOHNS, N, F, July 16.-The liner Kristiania, from an American port for Nor way, ran aground off Cape Race and foun dered, She had twelve hundred passengers all of whom were removed in safety.
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RADICAL CHANGES MADE
 BY JAPAN IN MANCHURIA

TOXIC, July 2O.-Japan is arranging a radical change in the administration of Manchuria, by which the whole Japanese zone of influence is to be placed under mil- tary authority.