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The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
Farm Labor Well Paid.

Farm labor in Montana is better
paid than in A. other states of the
United States, only five paying higher
farm wages. according to statistics is
sued by the department of agricul-
ture.
During 1919 permanent farm labor.
paid by the month. received S621. 20 per
month where board was furnished, and
$50 without board. in this state. In
1910, Montana was paying farmers $3S
with board and $50 without. During
the harvest season. where extra labor
was employed only for brief periods.
Montana farmers were paying last
year 81 IL day with board and $495
without board, while day labor Mt
other seasons was paid S3.25 with
board and $4.35 without. Nine years
ago during the harvest season, wages
in Montana We're S9.O5 per day with
hoard and $3.50 without. and ut other
times SLIT with board and $22.36 with.
out.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
Attractions Of Railway Travel.

Herein. think. lies the chief attrac-
ton Of railway travel. The speed is
so easy. and the train disturbs so lit
tie the scenes through which it takes
US. that our heart becomes full of the
placidity and stiffness Of the country I;
and while the body is borne forward
In the flying chain of carriages, the
thoughts alight, as the humor moves
them. at unfrequented stations; they
make haste up the popular alley that
leads toward the town; they are left
behind with the signalman as, shad-
ing his eyes with his hand, he watches
the long train sweep away into the
golden distance. - From "Ordered
South" by r. L. Stevenson.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
VOTE ON PRIMARY
DENIED BY COURT
JUDGE PooRMAN DECIDES THAT
AMENDMENT OF LAW IS AN
EMERGENCY MEASURE
NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY
Statistics Compiled BY United states
Department Of Agriculture Show
Paid Than In 42 States

Helena.--With the notice of appeal
already filed in the Goodman injunc-
ton case by the attorney general and
the statement by Mr.. Ford that, re-
gartlless Of the reports to the contrary,
he had also filed an appeal to the
state supreme court in the case and
would ask for an early hearing on the
matter BY that tribunal, 1t Is thought
the primary proposition will be set.
tied in y reasonably short time.
An order enjoining Charles T. Stew.
art, secretary OF state, from receive
ing and filing petitions to refer to the
voters the presidential preference pri.
mary law and senate bill 81 of last
August, amending the primary law mi.
tiated in 1912, has been made here by
District Judge w. II. Poorman, after
the case of Sam Goodman Of Helena,
relatOr, against the secretary Of state
as respondent had been submitted on
the affidavits of the relator. Frank
Woody, assistant attorney general, up
pearing for the secretary of state,
consented to the default judgment.
In an opinion by Judge Poorman
on a demurrer by the respondent it
was held that senate bill 81 was pass
ed as an emergency measure and
through Il provision Of the state con-
stitution could not be submitted to
referendum.
Ii Judge Poor1nan's ruling prevails
there will be only one primary and
voters ut the primary will have to
declare their party preference. The
amending act provides that the pri-
mary in April to choose delegates to
the presidential conventions will also
name the candidates for county and
state offices.
Secretary of State Stewart has filed
referendum petitions covering 1916
veters on the presidential primary
matter and 1864 on senate bill 81.
These petitions represent rs counties
and sufficient signatures to refer the
measures. Fifteen per cent Of the
total voters. or :6O35, would render
the acts imperative.
Petitions that may be received from
now until the decision of the supreme
court is announced will be marked rs
To date by the secretary of state and
in case the district court is reversed
and he is upheld. the petitions will be
'hen filed in their order.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
PREDICT spUos WILL
GO TO SEVEN CENTS

Great Falls.-With potatoes selling
at five cents q pound wholesale. deal
ers declare there is little hope Of any
cheaper spuds until a new crop has
been grown. and some of them pre-.
dict that the price will 60 to seven
cents a pound Wholesale before it gets
any lower. The present offering Ia
being drawn from Washington with an
occasional shipment from, Idaho points,
the market In Washington being under
that In the states east Of Montana.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
Rooster "Mothers'' Chicks,

A little bantam rooster which
Brainard Souther Of bingham, Mass.
named George Washington. has
adopted flock Of eight young chick
ems abandoned by their mother. and
is giving them maternal care, the only
trouble being that G. w. 10 not large
enough to cover the chickens proper
". so that some Of them stick cut
around the odgea
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
Painful Operation.

The policeman knocked loudly Mt the
doc: from which came screams Of NOR
tel anguish. Neighbors stuck forth
their heads from windows and Won
,lered audibly who was being muir
dered. Others. less curious but sleep
Ter. knocked irritably on partitions anu
cried for the police. So the policeman
bravely knocked again.
"What's all the racket What are
you pulling off in here?" he shouted
through the keyhOle.
Back came the tired voice OF the
wife, while the husband continued his
protests:
"A porous plaster. II you must
know."-American Legion Weekly.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
Orders Reassessment Power Lines,

Orders ReasseSsment Power Lines.
Directing the state board Of equal
iZatiOn to reassemble to assess only
the ''inter-county properties Of the
Montana Power company, the Great
Falls Power company and the Thomp-
son Falls Power company" the SUI
preme court has granted Il petition for
Il writ Of mandate against the majority
If the members Of the board, includ-
ing Governor s. V. Stewart, Secre-
tary Of State c. T. Stewart and State
Treasurer H. L. Hart.
1T is altogether immaterial by what
criterion the value is determined, so
long as the property is assessed at its
full cash value" the court held.
Van Hook Gets Present.
State Forester ]. c. Van Hook has
received splendid desk set made
from the burl Of a Montana larch.
which he will retain for exhibition at
the forestry building at the State fair.
The p. l.. Howe lumber mills present,
ed the gift with New Year wish.
r 4 4
Heavy Hay Shipments Coming.
Hay shipments into Montana are
very noticeable now in the rail traf-
fic. says f. 8. Richards, general agent
for the Northern Pacific In Helena.
Much Of this hay Is coming from Min.
nesota and the Dakotas. Also much
corn from Iowa is being sent to the
Treasure state for feed, he reports.
Farmers in many instances who had
enough feed for an ordinary winter
have used practically all their hay be-
cause of the premature cold weather.
Large shipments Of stock have gone
from Montana for this reason.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
Ex-Czar Not Summoned:
$l,OOO,OOO Writ Denied

Because summons had not been
served on Nicholas II. ex-Czar Of Rus
sa, Justice Callaghan in the Brooklyn
Supreme Court yesterday dismissed
the application Of the Marine Trans
port Service Corporation to restrain
Coudert Brothers and the National City
Bank from disposing Of $1,000, 900
fund belonging to the Russian govern
ment and asking that q receiver be
named to distribute the money among
the creditors.
Several years ago the Marine Trans
port Service Corporation secured a
judgment by default for $117,540.4l
against the then Car personally 1t
subsequently was discovered that there
was in the possession Of the National
Git Bank about $1,000,0O0 received
in settlement of the Russian govern
ments claims against the Tennessee
Copper Company and National Surety
Company.
The action dismissed yesterday was
begun January 8, 1919, and on March
Ia of that year Justice Benedict held
that Nicholas Romanof. being q party
defendant, would have to be served
with summons. Yesterday Bernard
Naumburg contended that personal
service on the former ruler was i'm
possible, it not being known definitely
whether he is dead or alive. Justice
Callaghan granted him permission to
carry the suit to the Appellate Di-
vision.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
Mills Blames Democrats
For Anti -s'Red'' Hysteria
Declares Curtailing Free Speech
Is 'Sas Stupid as 1t
Is Wronu',

Deploring the present campaign
against radicals as hysteria, Ogden L.
Mills, in an address before the Re-
publican County Committee, at Bryant
Hall, Fort second Street and Fourth
Avenue, last night, held the Democratic
Administration responsible for it and
accused it of both leniency toward
dangerous propaganda on one side and
an attempt to destroy fundamental
American liberties on the other.
There is no occasion for serious
alarm" said Mr.. Mills, speaking of the
RED" menace. "The danger can and
will be averted by firm and consist
ent attitude on the part of the govern
ment and by the Administration of a
vigorous and impartial justice under
that orderly process which guarantees
to each individual the protection of
the fundamental law.
"The Administrator has trifled with
the issue. 1t has wavered between the
eXtravagant leniency of Fred Howe and
the arbitrary use of power by Secretary
Wilson and A. Mitchell Palmer. 1t has
wavered between open dereliction of
duty and hysterical activity. Their
hysteria has been contagious, and TO-
day, following the leadership p of the
government, patriotic but misguided
men and women are trying to save
America by destroying one of the fun
damental cornerstones Of American
liberty-the right to free spech-a
policy which is as stupid as it is
wrong"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
Navy Club Entertains
Wounded Men at Dinner
Gift of $4,000 by ]. P. Morgan
Announced; Clergymen to
Appeal for SuppOrt

Wounded soldiers from the Fox Hills
Military Hospital at Staten Island were
entertained at dinner last night at the
Navy Club, 1915 Forty-irst Street.
One hundred and twenty-five men were
brought to the city in the afternoon
by. the War Camp Community Service
and witnessed the performance at the
Capitol Theater.
Mrs. William H. Hamilton, one of
the executive officers of the Navy Club,
said last night that with the closing of
all other war activities the Navy Club
is the only home for service men in
this city large number of dinners
for wounded soldiers and sailors on
furlough will be given at the club
rooms in the near future.
j. P. Morgan gave $4,000 to the
Navy Club fund, it was announced yes
terday at luncheon at the club rooms.
The luncheon was attended by business
men who are supporting the 100000
endowment fund to make the club a
permanent institution for the benefit
of sailors and marines.
Clergymen Of the city will set aside
Sunday, February 20, as a special day
on which to urge the necessity of the
Navy Club upon their congregations
according to a statement by the Rev
George William Carter. Among the
speakers at the luncheon were the Rev
Joseph P. Dineen, secretary to Arch.
bishop Hayes; Rabbi Samuel Schulz
man, Jason Rogers, publisher Of "The
Globe; Edward C. Delatield, William
II. Hamilton and Frederick L. Eldridge
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
Denies "Unkissed Bride
Got Divorce at His Cost
Believed Their Chicago Trip
Was to Engage New Music
Teacher. Declares Hoys

Arthur S. Hoyt, seventy-two years
old, took the witness stand before Jus
ice Platt in Supreme Court at White
Flains yesterday and denied the alle-
cation of his "unkissed BRIDE" Estelle
Carroll Hoyt, that he had paid the
expenses of her Illinois divorce from
2. ]. Mcmahon. He swore that he
supposed her never to have been wed
when he married her.
Hoyt is seeking annulment of the
marriage on the ground that Mrs,
Hoyt's divorce from Mcmahon was in
valid under the New York statutes.
Mrs. Hoyt, who is thirty-seven years
old, is a teacher Of French In Hamil-
ton College, at Lexington, Ky. She
was private secretary to Mr. Hoyt in
his New York office. He testified that
he sent her to Europe to study music
and that he accompanied her to Chi
cago. This latter trip, he said, he be-
lieved was for the purpose of engaging
new music teacher, not to arrange
for her divorce.
I'VE have both been disillusioned.
You advised me to take the matter to
God and l have done So" Hoyt said his
wife wrote to him from Highland Falls
after they separated in 1913.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
Republican Club Urges
Drastic Law for Aliens

The National Republican Club last
night adopted unanimously resolutions
presented by w liam Williams, former
Commissioner of immigration, calling
for amendment of the immigration
laws.
The resolution calls for an affective
administration Of the existing immi-
grafton laws at every point where
aliens may enter the country and for
continuation of that branch Of the
immigration service having to do with
deportation of undesirable aliens
All aliens, under Mr. Williams's res
olution, will be required to register
and report to some government au-
thority once year. Appropriate
measures for the gradual Americaniza-
ion of all aliens in this country are
also urged.
The resolutions also call for the re-
peal of laws in certain Western and
Southern states that permit aliens to
vote after filing a declaration of inten-
tion to become citizens and demand a
stringent regulation of the foreign
press.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
Hold-Up Men Visit Two
East Side Cigar Stores

Clerks Of two United Cigar Stores
within a few blocks Of each other in
the lower East Side were held up and
robbed late last night by two men.
At 1880 o'clock the men entered tho
store at Third Avenue and Nineteenth
Street and held up Edward J. O'Neil. the
clerk; Henry Rustin, West Point ca
Diet, who gave his address as Governors
Island, and Eugene Wollesky, deaf
man. Rustin started to put up a fight,
but one o the men pressed a revolver
against his chest and told him to keep
quiet.
The deaf man was unaware Of what
was happening until a revolver was
pressed against him and one of the
hold-up men shouted in his ear to put
up his hands. The two men made their
escape with $40.
Fifteen minutes later they appeared
at a store in Twenty third Street, near
Lexington Avenue, where they held up
George Munroe, the clerk, who was clos
Ing the store. and his brother John, who
was waiting to accompany him home.
The hold-up men made OFF with $45.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
Roosevelt Introduces
Minimum Wage Bill
Measure Supported by A. F. of
l.. and Women Now Be-
fore LEGISLATURE
From a Staff Correspondsn.

T'o"e u oLuU COTTSSVOVQENC
ALBANY, Feb. 17.-Assemblyman
Theodore Roosevelt introduced to-day
the minimum wage bill, backed by the
women's joint legislative conference
and the State Federation of Labor.
1t provides for >the appointment Ivy
mission to determine the minimum
wage of women in industry The
minimum rate will be set by wage
board appointed by the commission to
investigate conditions and to decide
the lowest amount on which a woman
working in any particular industry and
locality can live in health and eff
cheney. The wage board will be made
up of nine persons, three representing
the employers, three representing the
employees and three representing the
public. After determining what is a
living wage in any community and in
dustry the board will recommend it's
decision to the minimum wage commits
sion, which will set the rate, after we'll
advertised public hearings.
Assemblyman Roosevelt has received
many letters and kilograms of appre-
citation from working women because
of his interest in the passage of the
bill
"As important problem as we have
confronting US in this country" said
Colonel Roosevelt in discussing his bill.
"is the adjustment of the relationship
Of employer aad employee. To my mind
an important principle bearing directly
on this adjustment Is set forth by this
bill In its wage board"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18


counts were less than 800, 900. and
$4,000 Of it's $150,000 capital had been
capital stock Of 100000, and since
that time officers and directors have
served without pay.
During the dinner Clarence W.
Loves, president of the institution, re-
ceived gold watch as a tribute to his
work in reestablishing the bank.
Job E. Hedges, one of the speakers,
was introduced as "the man who
brought us the snow storm" He said
that he was willing to take credit for
"the snow if Mayor Hylan will bring
on the rain" During his speech the
electric lights went out, due to FIRE
in Long Island City. Mr.. Hedges
finished his address in the dark. Frank
A. Vanderlip also spoke.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
First Connecticut Book
Sold Here for $l.775

G; D. Smith, a dealer, paid Sits yes
terday afternoon for the first book
printed in Connecticut, "The Necessity
of Judgment and Righteousness in a
Land, Sermon at the sale of the
rare American books from the private
library of Francis w. Fabyan, held at
the galleries of the American Art AS
ISOLATION.
The total reached for the Fabyan
sale was S21925. A sale of inscribed
first editions and autographs of ia
nous American and English authors
from the collections of Francis w.
Fabyan and P. K. Foley brought a
total of $5,471.
Mr. Smith also purchased Increase
Mather's Several Reasons Proving
that Inoculating or Transplanting the
Small Pox is a Lawful Practice" for
81 ,050. He also bought "The Christian
Cynic" and several other books by
Cotton Mather. An inscribed copy Of
the first edition Of Robert Louis Ste
venson's Travels With a Donkey in
the Cevennes" was purchased by W.
M. Hall for $87O.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
B. X. T. Men Accent
Working Schedule
Cian1or for Strike, Quit
Meeting, Then Return, to
Approve Co.'s Terms

The threatening, though repeatedly
denied, strike of B. r. T. employees
seemed momentarily nearer to reality
last night, when about 1000 members of
the Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees met in
Pa m Garden, Greene and Wilson Ave-
nues, Brooklyn, refused to accept the
offer as to working scedule offered by
General Manager Menden and clamored
Strike! Strike! Strike!"
Mr.. Menden's offer was to put into
effect on February24 70 per cent Of the
new working schedules, and to initiate
the remaining 80 per cent on March g..
The men rejected the proposal almost
unanimously
1t took the combined arguments of
Patrick j. Shea vice-president Of the
Amalgamated; Hugh Frayne and Louis
Fridiger to keep the meeting from vot-
ing strike then and there.
Then, when the meeting had ended
and the men who had been clamoring
for strike were pouring out of the
hall, after announcing that they would
give the company until next Tuesday
to install the new schedule, they expe-
rienced, for some unknown reason a
sudden change of heart.
They fingered outside the building,
arguing and squabbling among them
selves. Some one suggested that they
return to the hall and reopen the
meeting. This met with approved and
they resumed their seats.
Some one rose and moved that Mr..
Menden's offer be accepted. Another
seconded it, and the men who fifteen
minutes before had been shouting
"Strike!" carried it unanimously. They
will now await the outlined change in
working schedules unless they have
another sudden change of heart
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
Beer Bill Introduced
In Jersey Legislature

TRENTON. n. j., Feb. 17.-Enact-
ment BY the New Jersey Legislature
OF an act to permit the manufacture,
safe and transportation Of. beer was
seemingly assured tonight when Sem
atof Pilgrim, Repub lean. of Essex
.ounty, introduced a bill which would
autnorze beverages containing 2.75 per
cent alcohol by weight, or about 3.4
per cent by volume. Indications were
mat the Republican majority in both
houses will pass this measure instead
% The Democrats per cent beer bill,
1svored by Governor Edwards.
=, oniess held up by a publ ic hearing,
zoe grim bill will likely be voted on
n the Senate next Monday night. SEN
ssor haines, Republican, announced he
ylded for a referendum to decide
% "neeher per cent beer would be per-
nitted In the state.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
bondy Art on Sale To-day
neappraisal Shows Prima Donna
Left @221171

the sale Of art objects collected by
tS;. me late Emil C. Bondy will begin
A i"1s Afternoon at the Plaza Art Rooms.
trIaong the pieces are Flemish tapes
.a, .nes' suites Of gothic furniture, Ori-
tasai thsi and European porcelains. With
;se ;taese Will be sold household furnish
Nss collected by W. S. Cox and addi-
s,s1s S,s9s from other private owners IN
n;s.alne Queen Anne and Georgian fur
s.S sS.S1re, water colors. early American
do S;N English china, and collection Of
NsrMaonds set in platinum.
ane contents Of the former town
vWvuse We Of the late Mary Maxwell. ~
k"est Fifty-ffth Street, will, be sold
~ ~ auction ON the premises this after
I0en by C. B. Clarke Of the Old CAL
,su,es; na;s.: In addition to collection Of
Sr.,snslngs and prints and library Of
isSs;rn iSo;ern works, there also are two col
SSI'I1ions Of coins and examples of me-
Sonic So,ic art, minerals and jewelry. The
aosss9ld ,aoasehold furniture, silver, glass and
tb.eeiain also will be disposed of at
New-York tribune., 1920-02-18
ArchboId Estate Saves
Big Sum in Tax Decision
Travis Loses Fight to Place a
Higher Value ON Oil
Stock

The estate Of John D. Archbold
president of the Standard Oil Com
pany who died in 1915, will save many
thousands Of dollars under decision
rendered yesterday by Justice Finch
in the Supreme Court.
The justice denied the application
of State Comptroller Travis for an
order vacating a stipulation entered
into between his attorney and counsel
for the Archbold estate to place a
value of $275 share on 66,478 shares
Of Magnolia Petroleum Company stock
held by the estate. This valuation for
transfer tax purposes was agreed upon
to expedite the settlement of the
Archbold estate. Since then Comptrol-
er Travis has learned that TOO .ov a
valuation was placed on the Magnolia
stock, as some of it was sold as high
as S475 a share.
Justice Finch decided that in view
of the fact that Comptroller Travis did
not appeal to the court within sixty
days the stipulation fixing the s275
value would have to stand.
Another point covered by Justice
Finch concerns $108,185 the estate paid
to the Federal government as income
tax covering stock dividends received
during the years 1913, 1914 and 1915.
Since then the United States Supreme
Court has decided that stock dividends
received during those years were not
subject to the payment of an income
tax. The money received was, there
fore, returned to the Archbold estate.
Comptroller Travis contended this be-
came part of the estate and as such
was taxable under the New York State
transfer tax law. In this he was up
held by Justice Finch and the refund
will be taxed