The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-09
WEAR RIBBON IN YOUR HAT TO
 AVOID CATCHING INFLUENZA IS
 IDEA ADVANCED BY NENANAITES

 court was sustained. The supreme court, MT. Justice Marshall presiding. said in a unanimous opinion that:
 "The aldermen certainly had au- thority to compel the dog to wear a collar and on the collar badge. It is contended for the appellant, Wash. burn, that he paid the tax, that the dog wore the badge conspicuously displayed, that he had no intent to violate the law. that he loved his dog and wanted to differentiate him from ordinary dogs. But Washburn as citizen is compelled to obey the laws enacted for public protection and if the Aldermen had required the license tag to be suspended from a ring in the dogs nose. it was acting within it's plain rights had it done SO. Case is remanded back with judg. ment affirmed"
 Great Falls Cattlemen's Association vs. Mittlebach.
 In 85th Montana, pages 15-21, a case directly in point is given.
 It appears that Montana statutes confer upon voluntary associations of cattle owners the right to regulate the practice of branding. The Great Falls Cattlemen's Association of which Mittlebach was a member en- acted regulation requiring all cat. tie to be branded on the left hip with brand registered in the asso- ciations archives. Mittlebach, hu- mane man, did not believe in brand ing. He thought it cruel inflic. tion upon his bovine proteges to burn | their hides with hot iron. He pre- ferred to encircle their horns with a brass ring ensraYt u with his name and the number of the animal as signed to it in his records. He refused 10 comply. Iue d~sociation' $ agents rounded llp Matt. hach's herd and wi h absolut. Iai,nsS- and equity di ided them up aupU@,, other mem bels oi the a-s.,,e ton calming the entire 1000 head ar n,.Iicks, be. cause not briuiu i t,,u ding 10 law. They proceeded to ho-tie the cattle and brand item uu iu 1T left hips with the registered bands of other members of the association. Mittle bach sued the association for the value of his cattle. The lower court gave him judgment for $68,933.25, the proved value of his stock, but the association appealed and the su. preme court reversed the judgment and in the course of his remarks MT. Justice Pearson said:
 "Mittlebach had his nerve with him, to defy the mandates of the Cattlemen's association. He deserved what he got. We have our suspicious that he is a pro-German anyhow. His name sounds too much like Mittel Europa to suit us anyhow. Why does he want to be so gol-dinged high. toned? Whoever heard of branding being painful we'd like to know. If Mittelbach knows what's good for him he'll buy set of branding irons and get his mark on the left hip of his cows or leave the country. He has his choice. We never asked him to come to Montana anyhow"
 Further on in this same opinion we find references to several other cases in point cited by the appel lants to prove their cause just. In one of these, City of Topeka vs. Ptolemy Prodapopulous, Ca Greek) 1t appears that the board of health of Topeka prescribed that all persons having red hair should wear green hats. It was learnedly set forth in this case that red hair was a symp. tom of ramanopobitis, virulent and communicable disease, the only known prophylactic being the color green. It was learnedly established by various citations from profound works on medical jurisprudence that the examinations of the red rays from sunset locks set up certain atomic vibrations in the ether and so gave life, buoyancy and industry to the bacteria of ramanopobitis, which became much more deadly un- der the stimulating effects of the infra-red rays. But the green rays emitted from the headgear prescribed by the health board neutraiized the red and caused the bacteria to de. stroy itself in despair. Thus the public health was promoted by the wearing of green hats upon red heads.
 Now Ptolemy though Greek and red.headed was in love with a red headed girl. Neither of them liked green as a color and both deter. mined to resist the wearing of the green. They were arrested. fined $2 each and incarcerated in the lock. up. But Ptolemy appealed. The SUI. preme court affirmed the lower courts decision. however, and Ptol. emy had to pay.
 MT. Justice White speaking for the whole bench, said: