The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-07-20
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:. DECIDES BIG CASE
OF MINERAL
RIGHTS IN LANDS SOLD ARE
NOT TAXABLE.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What 10 TranspIrino In the Different
Departments Where tho Affairs Of
State Government Are Ad-
ministered.

Helena
Reservation of any possible mineral
deposits made by the Northern Pa
cific railroad company in land sold
by it in Montana are not taxable, but
reservations of surface ground for the
mining of any such possible desposits
is taxable against the company, ruled
the supreme court in decision by
Chief Justice Theodore Brantly. The
court reserves the decision in the suit
| selshell county.
Would Remove Sheriff and Attorney.
Attorney General Ford has filed com.
| plants in accusation against Attorney
V. r. Griggs and Sheriff Bickle of
Havre. The documents are long and
specific, and ask the court to GUST
them from Office.
Condensed, the accusations are in
substance, that numerous houses of
prostitution have been operated and
maintained in Havre to the common
knowledge of everyone.
Decision on Vehicles.
To the rescue of the horse came
the supreme court of Montana in a
decision by Justice Sanner in which
the court declares:
'The drivers of horse-drawn We
hicles have the same right to use the
public streets as street cars or au-
tomobiles-neither more nor less;
none of them may go blithely along
Indifferent to the danger of others;
but each must be operated so as to
prevent doing avoidable injury to 9TH
ers-stopping if and when necessary
to that end"
The pronouncement was made by
the court in affirming the judgment of
the district court of Missoula in ia
vor of the plaintiff in the personal in
jury suit of Clara B. Anderson against
the Missoula Street Railway company.
The plaintiff was thrown from bug
gy while crossing the Higgins ave-
nue. bridge, the horse she was driv-
ing becoming frightened at a street
car. The motorman paid but little
heed to the actions of the animal. The
plaintiff recovered $500.
State Needs Rain.
Rain is needed in practically every
district of the state, according to crop
reports received by the state coun-
Gil of defense from Is counties as of
date of July 1. Beaverhead, Cascade,
Teton and Missoula report conditions
better than in other counties. The
season is later than usual and the
hay crop is about average. Some dam
ger is reported from insects. There
Is no labor shortage at present.
Applications for State Lands.
The state land Office has received
applications for the listing for auction
Of approximately 100000 acres of state
land. This is greater acreage than
was ever applied for before in the
history of the Office, but the signifi- !
cant feature is that this record was
made with the season just beginning. |
Ordinarily applications for certain
ands to be listed for sale are not re-
,eived until late in the summer or in
he early fall.
Special. Master Appointed.
C. N. Davidson of Bolton has been
appointed special master by Judge |
3ourquin to conduct the foreclosure
sale of the property of the Northern
IDAHO and Montana Power company
Ind the Oregon Power company at
xalispell, Aug. IS.
Governor Asked to Settle Strike.
Mayor H. T. Wilkinson telegraphed
o Governor Stewart for aid in set
ling the telephone strike in Missoula,
which has tied up all intra-mural COM
nunications. Mr.. Wilkinson asked the
Governor to have the matter taken
p at once by the public utilities COM
Mission. There was no answer sent. as
Governor Stewart was away from Hell
ma at the time.
1T Is not over a question of wages
hat the operators are striking" said
!. G.. Cotton, district manager, from
lutte, who was here. ut is over the
ecognition of their union. We did
OF have a chance to put the new
1age scale we had prepared for their
into effect. We believe
ne voluntary wage scale we were pre-
enting was fairer to them than the
ne they wish to introduce"
Survey Work Delayed.
Government survey work in Mon
ina will be made more difficult this
ear on account of the difficulty in
scuring competent men, according to ,
Scott Harrison, assistant supervi-
,r of surveys. During the past few |,
eeks three of his men have resigned
take up land and three have gone
to the army.
Quarantine Is Rescinded.
The quarantine on account OF the
,urine in horses put in effect June
1916, In the territory east Of the