The Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1918-1919, 1919-05-24
SUPREME TRIBUNAL
DECIDES BIG CASE
RESERVATION OF MINERAL
RIGHTS IN LANDS SOLD ARE
NOT TAXABLE.
HAPPENINGS AT STATE HOUSE
What 10 TranspIring In the Different
Departments Where the 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 a decision by
Chief Justice Theodore Brantly. The
court reserves the decision in the suit
of the Northern Pacific against Mus
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 venlCIeS.
To the rescue of the horse came
the supreme court of Montana in a
decision by Justice Sanner i'm 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-
omobiles-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 a bug
gy while crossing the Higgins ave
nue. bridge, the horse she was driv
ing becoming frightened at 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 croI
reports received by the state coun
Gil Of defense from Is counties as O.
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 dan
ger is reported from insects. Their,
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 stat,
land. This is greater acreage thai
was ever applied for before in tn,
| history Of the office, but the signifl
| cant feature is that this record wa
made with the season just beginning
Ordinarily applications for certain
ceived until late in the summer or il
the early fall
Special Master Appointed.
C. N. Davidson of Bolton has bee1
appointed special master by Judg
Bourquin to conduct the foreclosur
sale Of the property of the Northern
Idaho and Montana Power compan
and the Oregon Power company a
Kalispell, Aug. IS.
Governor Asked to Settle Strike.
Mayor H. T. Wilkinson telegraphe
to Governor Stewart for aid in Sc
Ting the telephone strike in Missouls
which has tied up all intra-mural con
munications. Mr.. Wilkinson asked tn
governor to have the matter take
up at once by the public utilities con
mission. There was no answer sent, a
Governor Stewart was away from He
ena at the time.
1T is not over a question of wage
that the operators are striking sal
c. G. Cotton, district manager, frol
Butte, who was here. 1T is over tn
recognition of their union. We di
not have a chance to put the ne
wage scale we had prepared for the
consideration into effect We beliel
the voluntary wage scale we were pr
senting was fairer to them than tt
one they wish to Introduce"
Survey Work Delayed.
Government survey work in Mo
, tana will be made more difficult tn
, year on account of the difficulty
securing competent men, according
]. Scott Harrison, assistant superv
sor of surveys. During the past fe
, weeks three of his men have resign,
to take up land and three have gol
into the army.
Quarantine Is Rescinded.
}. The quarantine on account of Il
= dourine in horses put in effect Jul
: 7, 1916, in the territory east Of Il
r Big Box Elder creek in Carter cou
t ty has been rescinded by the sta
t livestock sanitary board. 1t has al
] rescinded the sheep scab quaranti
J. in the Great Falls district on all t.
Q ritory except the ransS owned a.
D controlled by the Floweree Sheep a
t Horse company north of the Sun riv
+ and along the Marias river. The gu;