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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
NOTICE TO

Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals will be received for the in
stallation of a street lighting system
IN special improvement district No.
Is OF the City of Wolf Point, Mon
tana, not later than eight O'Clock o.
M, of the 23rd day of February, A.
D., 1920, by the Clerk, at the CITY
Hall, the regular place of meeting
of the Council of the City of Woff
Point, Montana, at which time and
place proposals will be publicly OPEN
ed and read.
The work to be done will embrace
the furnishing Of all materials and
labor necessary to install a street
lighting system of poles, cables.
wires. lamps, globes, r~efectors and
other Incidental work as provided for
in plans and specifications.
Each proposal must be
led by a certified check, payable to
the Treasurer of the City of Wolf
Point, Montana. and certified by g
responsible bank, of an amount not
than ten (10) per cent of the
proposed bid.
All of the above material and work
to be furnished and done in accord
ance with plans and specifications on
lille at the Office of the Clerk.
Anyone desiring extra copies of
plans and specifications for per-
;onal use in preparing bids may OBJ
ain the same from Samuel Dowell.
City Engineer, by making a pay
nent of $500 to cover cost of prints
md specifications.
The Council reserves the right to
eject any or all bids or to accept
my which may seem to be to the
'est interest of the City.
(Signed) O.T.STENNES,
Slgned) Samuel Dowell, Mayor.
Clerk. 1925.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
WOLF POINT IN OIL BELT
STRONG COMPANY FORMED


ASOiAb41Atoo Po6C OAOJ
toward securing oil leases on land
located favorably for oil prospects.
The company urgently requests that
owners of land from both the south
and north sides of the river come in
and see them with reference to
leases. If we have oil here, we want
to prove it as soon as possible. 1t
is greatly to the interest of everyone
hat this excellent prospect be thor
oughly tried out. If oil should not
be found the owners of the land
would suffer no injury, and if oil is
found, the benefit is unlimited.
Geological surveys have located
other domes at points along the Mis-
souri, river. At Williston, at hole
has been sunk to a depth of over
1000 feet and oil was struck, but a
break in the casing allows a strong
artesian flow of water to fill the
pipes, and until the broken casing
can be taken out and new put in, it
is impossible to determine the
amount of oil that has been tapped.
Another dome has been located
south of the river at Poplar and it is
said that drilling will commence
there in the spring.
North and South Belt
There is an oil belt reaching from
northward across Montana
and it passes right through the Wolf
Point and Poplar country. In Wy
in a country very similar in
appearance to this, hundreds of pay
ng oil wells have been struck. There
s considerable oil excitement at
files City, straight south of here, 5
account of surface indications of /
found by ranchers. At Roundup, 9
everal wells have been sunk and oil !
been found. c
Prospecting for oil is a big and ex- Il
ensive proposition and calls for d
ommunity cooperation. In the z
rst instance, this mean that the t
eople owning land in the favored n
rip must be willing to take less v
Or oil leases to the local company !,
preference to outside p~rospectors. a
ONE in and get in touch with the O
fcers of the company-that is the :,
cry reasonable request they make. +
he company cannot operate with ii
1t funds, which come from the sale al
stock. And, to sell stock, there =,
ust be assurance of ground to pros az
in other words, leased ground. in
ne owners of the land will be treat II
right and have everything to gain ~
d nothing to lose. 81
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
THE CITY OF WOLF POINT. MON
Section 1. JURISDICTION.

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Section 1. JURISDICTION.
That the said council has and does
hereby find and determine that the
protests made against the creation of
such proposed Improvement district
and against the making of said pro-
posed improvements be and the same
are hereby overruled and denied and
that the council deems itself to have
acquired jurisdiction to order the
proposed improvement.
Section 2. CREATION.
That there be and hereby is Gre
ated a Spesial Improvement District
to be known and designated as
Special improvement Lighting Dis
trict No. Is" of the City of Wolf
Point, Montana, and that the general
character of the improvements to be
made in said district is as follows.
to-wit:
An overhead street lighting sys-
tenn and other necessary work as out
lined in Resolution of Intention No.
.101.
Section 8. BOUNDARIES.
That the boundaries of said Spe-
cial Improvement District No. Is
shall be and the same are hereby de-
clared to be he same as are describ-
ed IN the foregoing mentioned Reso-
luton No. 101, to which reference
is hereby made for particular des-
cription thereof.
Section 4. REFERENCE.
That the council hereby makes ref
erence to Resolution No. 1O1. dec]ar-
ing its intention for all and
said resolution is hereby referred to
for further particulars.
Section S. ADOPTION OF SPE-
OBLIGATIONS.
That the annexed instructions to
bidders, specifications, form of con-
tract. bond and notice to and bid of
contractors for the construction of
Improvement provided for in
of Intention No. 1O1, in
he City of Wolf Point, Montana, in
Special Improvement District No. 18,
and the same are hereby APPROX !
ID and adopted. 5
Section 6. FILING. !
That a copy hereof be, and the !
anne is hereby ordered and directed I
Q be kept on file in the office of the q
Clerk of the City of Wolf Point,
fontana. T
Section 7. PUBLICATION. a
That the Clerk shall, upon the pas Q
age of this resolution publish the
Notice to Contractors" above re- I
erred to in the name and form
equired by law, in two successive
of the Wolf Point Herald, a
'eekly newspaper, printed and pub
shed in the City of Wolf Point,
ounty of Roosevelt, Montana, be- S,
with the issue of January {,
9th, A. D., 1920, and ending with
le issue of February 9Th, A. D., o.
920. ST
Section 8. DATE OF LETTING. ts
That the council of the City of q,
off Point, Montana, will be in ses- :
on on the 23rd day of February, 81
D., 1920, in the office of the CITY
lerk, the regular place of meeting m
the City of Wolf Point, Montana, III
which time and place the council
open and consider proposals for
e construction of the proposed As
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
SMASHING

A really big photoplay that makes
a smashing impression, will be the
attraction at the Liberty theatre on
February 18th and 18th. 1t is
"The Miracle Man." a Paramount
Aircraft picture, produced by George
Loane Tucker, and which was adapt
ed from the remarkably successful
Broadway play by George M. Cohan.
Thomas Meighan, Elinor Fair, and
are included in an unusual cast.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
ELEVATOR MEETING
INTERESTS MANY
Continued from Page One)

Louis Peterson, Culbertson, vic,
president for Roosevelt county.
L. Borgan, Glasgow, vice presi
dent for Valley county.
C. D. Willis, Homestead, vice pres
ident for Sheridan county.
j. N. Magnus, Malta, vice presi-
dent for Phillips county.
A. B. Anderson, Savage, vice pres
ident for Richland county.
A committee on resolutions made
the following report:
Whereas, the cooperative farm
ers' elevators of northeastern Mon
tana desire to be in the front ranks
the service of the farmers of this
part of Montana, in the cooperative
marketing of all farm products and
the collective buying of farm sup
plies usually handled by elevator as
sociations, and
Whereas, there now exists no
central agency among our elevators
for the ~discharging of those func-
tons, therefore, we have this day
formed an association of the farm
ers' elevators of Phillips, Valley,
Roosevelt, Richland, Sheridan and
adjacent counties.
Cooperative Buying and Selling
Through this association it is our
purpose to better serve our farmers
in having cooperative supplies and
selling their grain and other farm
products, and of ultimately forming
a closer association or merger of our
elevators to these ends.
"And, provided that the vice pres
ident for the respective counties shall
serve as a committee in investigation
of the several central or merger ele-
vator organizations now developing
in the northwest states, and shall re-
port back to this organization at a
subsequent meeting to be held on call
of the president, within the next six
months, results of such investiga-
lions. !
Furthermore, we recommend that
all members of this association be-
members of the Northeastern
Montana Auditing Association. {
Whereas, we, as growers of grain, &
-ealize that the final success of our I
business is conditioned upon the /"
'asic practice of fair play and equal /
Justice in all economic relations, and 1
Whereas, the legislative assem- e
ly have enacted a tax law with the F
urpose and effect of shifting the I
ublic burden from the powerful or a
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
NO.. 1O2

A Resolution of the Council of tn,
City of Wolf Point, Montana, ere
ating Special Improvement Dis
trict No. 49,, for the purpose O.
Constructing a Street Lighting
System on Fifth Avenue Nortl
between Alder Street and Tailor
Street, as outlined in Resolution
No. 101, approving and adopting
specifications, a form of contract
surety bond, proposal and notice
to contractors, authorizing the pub
LEGATION thereof, and setting a time
for receiving bids for the work to
be done in said Special Improve
ment District, and providing for
the execution and delivery of Spe-
cial Improvement District War
rants in payment of all costs and
expense incurred therein.
WHEREAS, the council of the
City of Wolf Point, Montana, duly
and regularly passed and adopted a
resolution declaring its intention to
create Special Improvement District
No. 10, which resolution is now on
file in the office of the Clerk of the
City of Wolf Point, Montana, and
to which reference is hereby made,
and.
WHEREAS, said council of said
City caused a notice of it's passage
and adoption of said Resolution of
Intention to be published in The
Wolf Point Herald, a weekly news
paper published in the City of Wolf
Point, Montana, in the manner and
form and during the period Of time
as required by law, and has also caus-
ed the Clerk on the 18th day of De-
cember, A. D., 1919, that being the
day of the first publication of the
to mail to each and every
person, firm or corporation, or known
agent thereof, having property with
the proposed district, to the last
address of every such person,
or corporation, OF agent, a 40
ice Of the passage and adoption of
iuch resolution giving them notice
# the intention Of the council to Gre
tie such special improvement district
or the purpose therein mentioned
nd giving them full, due and timely
as is required by law, which
office so published and mailed des-
ribed the character of the improve
1ent proposed to be made in said
the estimated cost thereof
nd setting a time and place for the 5
caring of protests against the crea-
on of said proposed district and the 1
of said improvements and I
Ihich notice also contained a ref /
renee to the number of said Reso- Y
Ition of Intention, giving the bound !
ries of said proposed district and all I
her necessary particulars; and E
WHEREAS, the council having 2
us day met in regular session at t
time and place fixed and men |
oned in said Resolution of Intention
Id said issuance of said notices for
hearing of protests against the Y
cation of said proposed district and 81
.ainst the making of said proposed A
lprovements and the council having C
lily heard and considered all such il
~'otests; a
NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T RE- W
)LVED BY THE COUNCIL OF Il
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-29
gained interests to the ~powerless I'M
organized farmers, therefore be it
Unjust Taxation Scored

organized farmers, therefore be it
Unjust Taxation Scored
"Resolved, that we, as farmers and
producers of grain, do protest with
all our might against this unjust law,
and we do demand a tax system I'M
der which the public burden shall be
placed uniformly on all interests. If
the mines of Montana are to be tax
ed on their net proceeds, we insist
that the farmers shall be taxed on
their net proceeds, but if the farmer
is to be taxed on all he possess, we
demand also that the mining corpor-
atoms must pay taxes on all they
are to be taxed upon their initial in
vestments alone, we insist that the
farmers must also be exempt from
taxation upon everything except
their original investments. But if
the farmers must pay taxes on the
present value of all that he owns as
we'll as what he owes, we insist that
the banks must also be taxed in the
manner.
"And to this purpose we pledge
our hearty cooperation with every
body in Montana who is looking for
The same end"
Moved and carried that the ~resolu-
ions be adopted as read.
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1920-02-04

Kastl, ktery 70 prav5 V mistnosti
nach&sel, byl zran9n dosti vdxnd
letaiicim sklem u tfiskami. Jeho
ncmocna manxelka Sc dvema ttz
%nemocnymi d6tmi nachSxela sc '
pokoji mad saloonem a byla vcIi-
ce poIekdna mocnym otfcscm bu-
dovy a hfmotem, tax 10 ne il
znacne pfitixilo. Krajan Kastl
musel byti dopraven do nemocni-
ce. V kafe nachazelo Sc mimo
motoraka a konduktera n6kolik
pasazerh, z nichx xranena jedna
divka, iedouci 2 ncmocnice, kite.
ri musela byti Ease do nemocnicc
rpet posIana. Skoda zpdsobena
kraianu KastIovi dosahuje $500.
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Nahle sesilela.

Chicago. X vclikemu sbehu
'lidn doslo ondy pred domem cis.
2227 sew, Western ave, kde W
druhem patfe bydleli starsi iiz Il
de, sourozcnci Houdovi, bratr Sc
fstrou. Bratr byl slabomysInJm,
ale sestra zdaIa Sc byti pfi zdra-
vych smyslcch, vedla fadnG do
macnost a starala Sc 0 bratra. O.
sudneho vcccra nahlc Sc otcvfclo
okno V obydli Houdoyych b M
fimsu stonpla 81 Houdova, od9na
nonze nnenisn rcaehhem stain stain tan,
jake socha. Lido. ktcfi dole chya-
Il Sc izkosti, ze jcdiny chybuS
krok, nebo jediny pohyb dostaci.
ably zcna SC skaccla doln a usmrti
la, ncvedeli 81 rady, co pociti. Ne
ktefl bezeii pc schodech nah0rii.
ably vnikli do bytu a vtahli do
ynitr ncsfastnici, ale dvefc byly
pevnf zamceny. Bylo tedy rychk
tclefonovano pro policii. K1ys
poIieajti Sc dostaviIi, rozbili dve.
III d zenn, ktera nstayicne stala
M rinse, nevsimajjc 81 niceho, %
kolem nj Sc dele, ytahli dovnitf.
naeez kdyz il opatfili proti ziml.
doprayili j do psychopaticke ne.
mocnice. Slabomyslneho bratra
jejiho bali Sc policajti nechati sa-
motneho Y byte q proto jcj 3D.
veil zarovcii 30 scstrou. Souro.
zcnci Houdovi mai pry kdesi nj
jiI,ozapalni strsn6 pFibuznet, jichz
adrcsa ncni xnhma. Houdova, bu-
deli Muana s~ilcssoti, blldc ovsen
posIana do iistayu choromys.-
ale pro jcjiho bratra budc
&c jspise tfeba ustanoviti opatroy-
uika.
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Bobdan Pavlu v New Yorku.

Jake v. Chicago, tax j v New
Yorkn ~prcdnasel piedak ceskoslo.
vcnskych icgii ma Sibiri a publ.
cista ccsky R0hdan Payli o po.
m6rcch v nasich legiich a roztpg-
Ill mnoho chmur. @ jeho pred.
'iiascc pise elias Lidu": Soko.
lovna T. J. s. v II. nj. byla ope.
ne svedkem iednoho 2 krasnych
ckamzikh, jcz my new-yorcane,
posazeni zdc na samem kraji r.
yropy, caste oproti ostatnim ma
sim osadam prozivamc. Pritom-
III byli zde pan Bohdan Pavln,
dosavadni zastupce ceskoslovcn-
ske ylady Y Rusku a nekolik jci
dustojnikn cesko-
slovenskc arsnady V Sibifi, Z nichz
mimo p. Pavl1 promluvil k cetnc
shromazdivsimu Sc obecenstvu, la
kc major kliyn. SchGzi pofada.
nou G. y. S. a SIov. Ligou zaha-
jill j. III. lhricky, ktery pfedsta
viz mile hosty, pfedal slovo panu
Pavlh. Recnik prohlasil, ze i
jedni nazey pro mas armada jest
ecskoslovrnskf vojsko ma Rusi
dotkl sc jen Ietmo n~ektcrych liz
znamYch yeci 4 pravil, ze postu-
PEN fasu nase vo.jsko ziskalo ST
IN Rllsi yelice dobrou povest, KITE
ri miino iin1 mfla til dobrou
yIastnost, Re y nasi .armady take
mnozl nell dikIadnf strach, jezto
o poctu jejim nebylo urcitych
zprav a tvrdilo Sc, zc nasich hp-
ehG bylo Cd $4,000 az do pnl mil.
liopu, 20 Y pvavdf iieh nebylo.
vice, jak 10000. NUN. Ale ! 81
bylo dostl znacne teleso d ia byIo|
nkolem jiste nesnadn.gm Y cize zc.
mi. zmitane yalkou, ncpokoji a zs|
st5lebo boje opatriti il ysim po-
tfebnym. ndrzeti jcjiho ducha al
pfiyestj Ease pokud mono eelou|
do vlasti zpet. Proto tasto by.o|
delati mnohe, 80 se snad mr.
libilo jednotlivci, ale 20 prospi
vaIo "a 10 vgboru6 cclku. NAH
hpsi jsou rozI,odn5mi odpirci Dol
scvik1, ncjcn proto, he tito vedc-
nj jSc1 hlaviif ntmcckymi a ma
darykym vddci, ale zc vdbec po-
bolEeyikl ycde ralsky nar0I
K 1plne zahub6, X 1pIIleinu rox-
q zniceni- Lid qpi pod hFst.
kpsq dobrolrlhi. kteff neW0h0;
splaati ulcello 2 tcho, 20 slsbsva<'
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1920-02-04

velice zajimava zminka jest v
lprosineovem elsie americkeho oil.
borneho casopisu pro tiskafska
femcsla The Inland. Printer,
v niz sc pravi: Mnoho nesprav-
nych informaci sc objevuje v IT,
sku o vzniku rotogravury. Sku-
tecnost Jest tato: R%otogravura
byla vynalezena Harlem klicem,
rczenym V Ccchach v rocc lS4l,
klic byl take vynalezcem fotq-
gravury, COZ jest leptanim HAD
kych medenych desek tax, &c mo
hou byti pouzivany k tisku S Il
skafskou cernf pro desky urce-
nou. Klicovi napadlo, re by mohl
|ryti fotogravurove dcsky ma cy-
|lindr, ably mohlo jich byti pouzi-
vano k tisku jake pfi nast6nncm
|papiru. We Vidni Sc mu ncdosta-
10 zadneho povzbuzeni a odebral
So do Lancasteru v Anglii a S po-
|moci bratrf Storeyd, latkovych H.
|skafii, upravil zpiisob rotogravu-
roveho tisku, iak jest jej nyni po-
uTvano. Rcmbrandtova spolec-
post byl nazev, kterym byl ozna-
cen zavod Klic-Storey, jenz vyro-
bill nejvice krasnych tiskd, udr-
5uje jeho zpdsob V tajnosti. To
bylo Ike sklonku devadesatych
let. Asi o deset let pozdeji byla
sorganisovana Van Dyck spolee-
most V New. Yorku, ably provade-
la podobny fisk, jaky dodayal
Klic v Anglii. o velikonocich r.
1910 Sc objevila "Frciburger
Zeitnng' v Nemecku S tiskem D.
brazkn 2 valcovych strojG. Ne
mecky syndikat prodal zpdsob sve
vyroby peti vydavatelum We Spo-
jenych Statech, ale zpisob ten
sklamal a ia misto jcho byl pfi-
Jat yynalez karla kllce.
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u, lid klsdovi, mJsta Petrohrsd .
Moskva jsou jen misty bfdy, e.
'pidemii a hladu, prdmysl xema
rozvr6cen atd. Mali hoii V bo-
jich 8 bolseviky m6li ma mysli
pouze svoji sebeochranu a rusk.y
lid vida, jak 81 naii pocfnaji, lnuI
\ MIN, af to byl sedl&k, dtlnik ne.
DO m6Stan, la nabixcna jim ! Via
da, byIi zadani, pby Sc ujali We
deni veci. Pan Psvld pax pro.
mluvil 0 vnitfnich pomarech v ma.
III armadS, prohl&sil, zc vedena
jest dosud duchcm brattstvi. Pro
no b~ratrstvi znamcna rovnf pravo
pro kazdGho, ma. sch0xich mdxe
kazdy pronesti cokoliv, jcn po-
'stranni swami Sc netrpi. Armada
vi, jake jsou JEFF povinnosti a jest
ochotna "a y6c r~epubliky pfinesii
kazdou ob6f. Jedine, co xaviiuic
jich nespokojenost Jest, ze chti
domii. COZ jest pfirozeno. jinak i
delegace q vlasti sc pfesv6dcila, Re
armada, o nfz Sc tolik pomluv pu.
stilo do svdta, jest jednou . nej-
'lepSich, jake dnes existuji, vzor.
ma, v pofadku a v dobrem hospo.
dafskcm postaveni, osacena a eel
KEN spokojena. Jsou to nejstar-
81 obeanc ceskoslovcnskeho statu
a az SO vrati. dovedou take svych
schopnosti a zk,lsenosti v kazdem
.ohledu donna uplatniti. Sloziv
pax jest6 znacny tribut ceskoslo-
venske Americc V dobe osvobozc.
nj, fecnik "a velikeho ~potlcsku
skoncil. Ma to major Khyn Sc
znamil mas S nekolika zajima-
vymi podrobnostmi re zivota ma
81 armady v ohledu hospodaf-I
skem. vlastnf organisaci Sport.
telni, kde mali 40 millionn ru-
blu, dale banku ceskoslov. legio-
narh S l2 milliony frankd, 2 pc
nez, jez takto usetfili, postal jiz
domii nekolik lodi $ invalidy Il
prvymi vojaky a spoustou suro-
yin, jcz donna pfijdou jist9 who'd
Pro vojsko mali sve vlastni to-
varny obuvni, od6vni, pivovary a
v.yrobny vsech moznych potfcb,
nevyjimaje ami tovarnu ma dout-
Milky, vyrabeiici tisice cigar a ci-
garrett denne. Armada vrati Sc
DON'T nejen v poradku, ale VAST
pfiveze vitanou ponce hospodat
skou. Pri tom Sc nezapomina I'D
budoucnost, p6stuji Sc styky S
ruskymi obcioduiky, studuji pc.
merry Sibifi ] Japonsku, mladi
Tide nasi vsimaji 81 svstoyeho OBJ
ehodu atd., ably re sveho nucenc-
no pobytu V cizine pro vlasf a ma
rod ziskano co ncjyice. Slova ta-
to pfijata ) vclikym nadsenim u
fecnik odmenen potleskem.
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DroSkif pfsjel vlastni zenu.

DrozkSf Antonin Plechaty zc ziz-
kovs Libusina III. cis. 50, ieI dnr
/. Isdna odpoledne tax prudce
Hybcrnskou uIici, zc pfsieI syoji
vIsstni zenu Mari PIechatou.
Droxkaf, ktcry byl fplnf xpis, q
hrozoysl kolemjdoucl q byI ~ po,
moci uSkoliks yojfnd doprsven ~
strijEci kde PopechSu byl vc va
VI. jezto se J ma str4zuici choyal
yelui ytrzne.
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Pfehlcd ces. ~-americky
Poulitni kara viola do obchodu
krajans.

Chicago. OllJyno odpoledne
20 5. bod. kara LIME Bcrwyn
Lyons, rychle jedouci smerem H.
padnim po ~ VI. i ciccrn, vysi,
nuia We . k0Ieji u 81 avenue q
'pfejedonc chbdnik, yraziIa do do
krsjaua Franka KastIa, 54OG
zdpadni %. I'll, kdcz Dive pro-
vozovaI Utmost hostinnkou. cclf
pfedek ! veIkSmi okiiy byi yyra
zsR I pagui radiator q okna se 10
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-08
Attorney Nicely ALI
eyes This at Open
ingofMaiala Trial
|HAGGERTY IS NAMED
Is Charged With Telling Ma
iala to Defend Him
self. ILL.,.

Long time he want to kill me.
Now he no hurt no one," was the re-
mark made by Bainzio Maiala as Pete
Pechedda crnmpled up and fell dead
on the floor of the mine store room
at Fonr States, on the morning of
May 6; n
This statement was made by Thomas
Minear, mine foreman, the first wit
ness for the state in the Criminal
court before Judge Scott c. Lowe and
2 jury at the beginning of the trial
this morning and epftomizes the line
Of defense that will be set, up by Ma
y Or n :. NJ Nicely counsel for Maiala,
who was put on trial for murder.
In addressing the jury at the begin
ming, Prosecuting Attorney, Walter
Haggerty reviewed the events that
led up 70 the killing stating that
there had been an argument over the
question OF who should do certain
work that morning, that Pechedda
had cut the defendant on the cheek
with a knife and that the latter had
gone home, secured an automatic pis-
tol and returning killed Pechedta who
was in the custody of mine officials,
pending his removal to Fairmont. The
prosecutor stated that he would in
'rroduoe testimony tending to. show
that the prisoner had shot the de-
ceased on account OF the cutting, and
would ask for verdict Of murder in
the first degree.
The dead man was a member of a
Black Hand society, was the emphat-
ic statement made by Major Neely
and had made threats and sent. threat.
ening letters to the defendant, who
had come to Prosecuting Attorney
Haggerty and complained of the mat
ter, and had been advised to take
steps to defend himself. The evidence
would show. Major Neely contended,
that the killing was done through fear
that Pechedda would carry out his
threats to kill Maiala, a threat made
repeatedly and almost carried into
execution that morning when he
missed his victims jugular vein with
the knife by about two inches.
Prosecuting Attorney Haggerty
ngain took the floor and after stating
that there would not be very much to
the Black Hand evidence to be intro
tConhnned on page four.l