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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

AT the coming meeting of the
Montana Municipal League to be
held in Great Falls, September 23 to
25, a definite legislative program in
the interest of the municipalities of
the state of Montana will be agreed
upon for presentation to the next leg
islative assembly. At an executive
committee meeting of the league
held in Great Falls early in August,
it was decided hat a successful leg
islative campaign could not be car
ried on by the municipalities of the
state unless a few measures, we'll
thought out, properly prepared,
meeting the essential needs of a ma
jority of the municipalities of the
state, and having the endorsement of
all of the cities, were presented to
the legislature.
With this idea in mind a legisIa-
tive committee was appointed at that
time, and instructed to present to
the coming convention such meas
ures as seemed to meet these requis-
ties. The committee appointed con-
sisted of LaRue Smith, city attorney
of Great Falls, chairman; Hon. E. G.
Day, city attorney of Helena; T. F.
ohOds ely dIIOIlCy VI DllliuSSy w. -
ToWner, city attorney of Fort Ben
ton; Dominic Spogen, mayor of Belt;
T. II. Wilkinson, mayor of Missoula,
and A. l.. Mitchell, mayor of Hardin.
That committee is now at work Sc
curing suggestions for needed legis-
lation from as many of the ninety
seven cities and towns in the state of
Montana as possible, and preparing
bills upon the subjects which seem
to meet with the most universal de-
mand for legislation. These meas
ures and suggestions will be present.
ed to the meeting of the league, and
a definite legislative program of a
few measures will be united upon
at that time with a view of securing
a favorable expression from pros
pective legislators in the various
counties of the state.
In past sessions of the legislature
the municipalities of the state have
Jared badly, say the members of the
legislative committee. This has been
as much the fault of the municipal
league as of the legislature. Invar-
iably the cities and towns have ask
ed the legislature to pass too many
The measures presented
have not always been well consider
ed, and in fact sometimes have been
the product of cranks and hobby
riders. The result has been that
legislative assemblies of the past de-
cade have done little towards bet
tering the laws relating to affairs of
the increasing number of growing
cities in the state of Montana, and it
is hoped to reverse this condition at
the coming session of the legislature.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

six binders and a complete threshine
rig to handle the yield properly. They
maintained that when they came tt
thresh they discoered the Mennonites
in the field with another crew, which
was being worked under contract
with the %colonists, and the manager
of the crew refused to quit the field.
The temporary injunction granted
in the district court was later dis
solved and although Blinn and Gill
crest were able to work for a time
they were stopped and appealed to
the supreme court pressing upon the
court the urgency of the case and of
their intense desire to start t~hreshing
Immediately to save the crop.
Injunction Continues
The supreme court granted an or
der continuing in effect the former
injunction of the lower court, which
excludes the Mennonites from the
land and leaves the case for final set
Element later.
In all about 1900 acres had a vol
unteer crop, according to the court
records. The Mennonites owned
about 10000 acres in all which they
sold under contract for 100000
early this year. They abandoned
their holdings, moved their personal
property back to South Dakota and
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
DEDICATED HIGHWAY
LINKING UP PARKS
20 AUTOS WILL INVADE MON
TANA FROM DENVER, CARRY
ING OFFICIAL PARTY
Will Reach Yellowstone Park Sep
TENDER 4 and Stop at Various
Towns Between There and Glacier
Park; End of Five Years Effort
for Scenic Development of West.

A caravan of 20 autos bearing tht
official party and others for the dedi
cation of the motor highway con
Meeting twelve national parks and {
number of monuments and forests
will enter Montana early in Septem'
Der and stop at various towns eI
route from Yellowstone park to Ola
eier park. This is the elimination
of five years labor toward the scenic
development of the west through
roads leading to the nations play
grounds.
The itinerary of the official party,
arranged by the National Park-to-
Park Highway Association, of which
Gus Holms of Cody is president; the
National Park Service, of which Ste
phen T. Mather is director, and the
American Automobile Association,
represented by A. L. Westgard, path
finder, calls for the start of the tour
in Denver August rs, and provides
for stops as follows:
Boulder, noon, August rs; Estes
park and Rocky Mountain national
park, night, August % and 20; Fort
Collins, noon, and Cheyenne, Wyo.,
night, August 81; Chugwater, noon,
and Wheatland, night, August 81;
Glendo, noon, and Douglas, night,
August 20; Glenrock, noon, and Cas-
per night, August 80; Lost Cabin,
noon, and S%hoshoni, night, August
81; Thermopolis, noon, and Worland,
night, September 1; Basin, 10 a. M,
Greybull, noon, and Cody, night,
September 2; Pahaska hotel, noon,
Lake hotel, night, Yellowstone park,
September g.; Grand Canon, noon,
and Old Faithful hotel, night, Sep
TENDER 4 and September s.; Lake,
noon, and Canyon, night, September
6; Mammoth, noon, and Livingston,
Montana, night, September z; White
Sulphur Springs, noon, and Leavitt
Pass, night, September 8; Belt, noon,
September 8; Great Falls, night,
September 8 and until noon, Septem-
Der 10; Choteau, night, September
10; Browning, noon, and Glacier
Park hotel, night, September IL;
Glacier Park, September II; st.
Mary's Lake, noon, September 10,
and Bolton, night, September 49,;
Lake Mcdonald, noon, and Kalispell,
night, September IA.
Since the pathfinding trip began,
late in June, the government has
shown indications of cooperation in
defining this scenic highway by cut
ting a connecting link through the
rugged Glacier park, work on which
will be started soon.
United States Senator Francis e.
Warren, of Wyoming, in writing Mr..
Ho1ms, says: 1.-THE United States is
just beginning to wake up, so far
as good roads are concerned. Now
that automobile travel in the parks
is permitted by the government, the
building and maintenance of a
first-class road is essential, both for
the convenience of the government
and the public"
Congressman John w. Summers of
Washington, wrote Mr.. Holms: GAS
a member of the roads committee of
the house, I have watched with in
terest the splendid work being &C
complished by the National Park-to-
Park Highway Association, and i
heartily endorse your plans. Proper
hard-surfaced roads would serve
more than one good purpose"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

With any provision that might
be made to care for the oil likely
to prove inefficient and the pipe
line to Winnett probably not half
large enough to carry the oil from
the one we'll, the Frantz has prob
ably only one chance of placing
the we'll under control. On to the
10-inch casing which is said to
have become frozen in the well, a
cap might effectually be placed to
shut the we'll in. Past efofrts,
however, to cap the big producer
failed when the production was on
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

ly a fourth of its present volume
SO that any attempt is likely &c
prove futile.
The great flow of oil encounter
ed in this we'll in the first sands
and the bringing in by the Decker
Collins of a strong we'll in their No.
l we'll in the second sands seems to
offer indisputable proof that tire
Cat Creek field is destined to lie an
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
Charged With Murder

A charge of murder was filed in
justice court by the county attorney
against ]. A. Williams and Evangel-
inc Schoffner, both colored, who are
held at the city jail in connection
with the deaths from narcotic poison
ing of A. S. Kerrigan and James V.
McAlona. The two men were found
shortly before their deaths in the
cabin owned by the couple.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

feet in height. Oil welled out of
the casing and flowed a steady
stream a foot or more above the
top of the hole.
Since then there has been no
subsistence of the flow which is
now pouring through a four-inch
pipe and swedged connection plac-
ed on the we'll to direct the oil in
one direction instead of the num-
Der channels it cut in the ground
around the rig. Instead of coming
in heads as it originally did the
is now flowing in a steady
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

der-reamer and then was with
drawn. Faster than it was hauled
out the oil and shale came up after
it. No sooner had the baler clear
ed the top of the casing than with
a roar that could be heard hum
dreds of feet out of the we'll burst
both oil and shale. The oil rose
80 feet into the air, and back of it
came a column of shale fully ten
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

stream which gushes through the
four-inch pipe and shows a trem-
endous pressure from the under
ground regions.
An official measurement of the
flow showed a daily volume of
zoos barrels. 1t is claimed this is
the largest we'll in the world pro
ducing oil with a 81 per cent 9050
line content.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
Fergus Business Men Farm

Owing to the shortage of farm
workers the business men of Lewis
town are organizing crews of wheat
shockers and these gangs go out to.
the fields in autos and put in some
hours each day. They r shocking
from 20 to 100 acres, all told, each
afternoon and evening.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
FRAMTZ GUSHER CALLED GREATEST HIGH
GRADE OIL WELL 1M WORLD BY EXPERTS

Blowing itself in with a force
that sent a column of oil and shale
flying into the air, we'll No. 2 OF
the Frantz Corporation, in the
Cat Creek field near Winnett, has
been flowing since last week at a
rate of more than 1000 barrels a
day. This is the we'll that was
brought n last May, and which
since then has been flowing at a
rate of about 800 barrels a day, al
though increasing in volume grad
ually but surely. This latest de-
velopment, coming entirely unex-
pectedly to the Frantz people, has
given them the greatest we'll in
the world producing oil testing 81
per cent gasoline. At the same
time it found them entirely unpre-
pared to take care of this enormous
flow and it has been found wholly
impossible to check it.
Just 1000 feet away is Decker
Collins offset we'll, on which drill
ing has been stopped at the edge
of the sands in order to give time
to prepare for storage. There is
no doubt in the minds of oil men
that Decker-C Collins will produce a
gusher of equal size to that of the
Frantz corporation.
Excitement at West Camp.
At the west camp of the Frantz
last week re-enacted the scenes
which occurred when the we'll was
brought in, on the morning of May
18. Teams of the Frantz corpor-
alton worked to the point of ex-
haustion in throwing up huge
to hold the oil that is flow
ing an irresistible stream and some
hours ago filled the last space in
the large storage tanks, overran
the reservoir created by throwing
up a dam when the we'll first over
flowed and which was then wholly
adequate and ran crafty in a num-
Der of directions down the coulee
below the camp. All provisions
made at the first strike to care for
the production from the we'll are
but a bagtalle compared with the
necessity that has now arisen.
In the arroyo a number of lakes
IF oil collected and filled the hast
1y constructed reservoirs back of
1ams that ire already inadequate.
Leads the World.
Since the first discovery of oil
n Montana nothing to parallel the
occurrences of the last discovery
las ever developed. News that
he we'll had suddenly catapulted
to a rank at the head of all
wells in the world with a high
grade production has spread like
ire and hundreds of cars will
Don be coming in from all direc-
What took place was entirely
for by the Frantz itself.
cor the last week a crew had been
ngaged in underreaming to set a
at the bottom of the casing
0 confine the flow of oil through
he aperture afforded by the pipe
nd to prevent it from coming up
round the outside of the casing. /
With Mighty Roar. L
Of about 100 feet of cave, :
trough which the oil was forcing {
self, all but eight feet had been +
leaned out. Preparatory to sink
lg the casing to this depth, the 6
aler was run again after the un- :
e
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
Cascade Leads the state

In assessments of watches, jewel
ry, plate and household goods, Cas-
cade leads the state with a valua-
ton of $2,514,609, a drop from ST.
709,627, in 1919, according to com
pilation of John Edgerton executive
clerk of the state board of equaliza-
ton. Yellowstone county is second,
Lewis and Clark third, Fergus fourth
and Silver Bow next.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
Montana Pioneer Dead

James S. Smith, veteran of many
of the bigger battles and of nearly
every campaign in the civil war, a
pioneer mining man of Montana and
resident of Helena for more than a
score of years, died last week at the
age of rs, after a brief Illness. Mr..
Smith was among the most widely
known pioneers of the state.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

gave up their residence, according to
the plea of the owners.
The controversy also involves set
Element of ownership of a volunteer
crop, which has long been a mooted
question in this state and has now
reached the supreme court.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
New State Director

G. B. Edwards, of Seattle, has
been appointed by Miss May Trump
er, state superintendent of public in
struction, to succeed l.. R. Foote as
state director of vocational educa-
tion and state supervisor of trade
and industrial education in Montana.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
MONTANA CITIES
WANT NEW LAWS
PLAN FOR LEGISLATIVE PRO-
GRAM TO BE OUTLINED BY
MUNICIPAL LEAGUE

Attempt viii BE Made to Frame and
Have Passed Some Much-Needed
Measures; In Past Too Many Laws
Have Been Presented, and Those
Ul-Considered.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26
Kills Pool Hall Owner

Ellin Johns, a harvest hand, at RAJ
pelje, shot and instantly killed John
Dolver, a pool hall owner.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-26

enormous producer, and The activ-
ity in drilling by other companies
is certain to be greatly stimulated.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09

The committee was informed that viz.
tually every private house in Sonora
contains thousands Of rcunds Of small
arms ammunition which has been
smuggled across the international line
from the United States by the anti
Carranza elements in the last few
months.
That Obregon had. succeeded in hi,
plans or was about to succeed was in
dicated when Governor de la Huerta
the Carranza military governor in So.
nora, was recalled and replaced by Cen
eral Dieguez with reinforcements. II
IS supposed that Dieguez is commits
stoned to carry on the Threatened war
against the Yaquis.
The Senate committee heard most ~
the testimony in secret session at tho
request Of the witnesses. The commit
tee ascertained that the Mexican order
prohibiting all persons who appear be-
fore the committee from reanterinp
Mexico applies only to those who tes.
tify against the Carranza regime. A
test case was made through Bracy Cur
tis, president Of the Nogales Chamber
OF Commerce, whose testimony was
favorable to Mexico. En- route to Mex
lean West Coast points, Curtis crossed
the border to-day
Many other witnesses at San Antonio
and Ell Paso have not been allowed to
return to Mexico.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
McAdoo Sees Bond Issue
AS Means to Avert Panic
Believes Tax Burden May Be
Eased if Issue Is Approached
in NOn.Partisan Snirif

William G. McAdoo, former Secre-
tary of the Treasury, assailed by Rep
resentative Mondell, the Republican
floor leader in the House. for his al
legged administration Of the finances
or the government during the Wilson
Administration, yesterday issued the
following reply to Mr.. Mondell:
Il have seen the statements of Mr.
Mondell and Mr.. Kitchin concerning
my suggestions for the amelioration of
the tax burden for the next two years.
have much respect for their opinions,
but it is absurd to say that beneficial
reduction Of taxes through rigid econo-
mles IN expenditures, postponement of
SINKING fund for two years and the
issue of not exceeding 81 500, 900 900 of
bonds, as have suggested, will cause
panic.
1T Is more likely to prevent trouble
by helping the business situation dur
ing coming period, when the load
should be lightened and enterprise
stimulated, so that prosperity may be
preserved.
Il believe that safe and sound plan
Tor casing the tax burden, simplifying
the present complicated tax law and
distributing the burden of taxation
more equitably can be found if we all
approach it not in a partisan spirit,
but with a genuine desire to deal wisely
with very serious problem, which
should be taken up Immediately.
For the six years that was in the
Treasury ] became accustomed to the
cry of 'Panic!' from opponents of
Treasury policies or proposals when
there was no other way to combat an
argument or meet a situation. No
panic occurred during those six years"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Youth, While Dreaming,
Shoots Both His Parents
Blow on Head Awakens Him.
and He Is Amazed at Scene
of Struggle

DANBURY, Conn, March s.-En-
gagged in an imaginary battle while an
parently in q dream. Franklin NJ.
Komp, nineteen, son of Frank S. Komp.
shot his father and mother in their
home last midnight and otherwise in
Jured them during the struggle that
followed.
The elder Komp is in the hospital
with bullet wound in the shoulder.
another in the hip and decorations
caused by blows and bites. Mrs Koinp,
at her home, has two wounds upon the
head, one apparently caused by bullet.
Inc son, charged with assault with in
tent to XII, is held in $4,000 bail
Brooklyn few months ago. Mr.. Komp
is the head of the Lansden Company.
electrical goods manufacturers.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Komp retired
last night their son was at a table
reading Sunday school paper. Two
hours later they were awakened bv
pistol shots in their room, and found
the boy with revolver in each hand
firing at random.
A struggle ensued, in which the fam
IN, barefoot and in night clothes,
went out of the house and into the
deep snow. Mrs. Komp wrested one of
the revolvers from her son and struck
him upon the head with it. At the
fourth blow young Komp ceased the
struggle, rubbed his eyes and looked in
evident amazement at his surroundings
and the revolver in his hand. He re-
membered nothing that had happened.
he said, but in a dream he had had a
struggle with party of men who had
entered the house.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Livingston Will Fight
Clynn for Chairmanship
State Committee War Said To
Be Flank Attack by Travis
on Hugo

Jacob A. Livingston, chairman of the
Republican executive committee of
Kings, is slated by the down-state Re-
publicans to oppose George A. Glynn,
of Watertown, for chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee, if Mr., Glvnn
seeks a reelection following the pri-
maries next September. The moveme mt
in behalf of Mr.. Livingston is inter
preted as flank attack by the friends
of State Comptroller Eugene M. Travis
upon Francis M. Hugo, Secretary Of
State, townsman of Chairman Glynn.
The Travis men believe that they
have absolute proof that Chairman
Glynn is using his prestige to assist
Mr.. Hugo in his canvass for the Gov
ernorship nomination. This they in
tend to- check by rallying to the sup
port of Commissioner Livingston, who
will have practically the solid support
of the largest Republican organization
in the state for the state committee job.
Commissioner Livingston was asked
last nj ght If he was candidate for
the state committee chalrmanship.
"All I've got to say at this time is
that l have plenty of trouble as chair
man of the Kings County Executive
Committee" was his reply Deputy
Comptroller William Boardman, Mr.
Travis's chief lieutenant. when asked
what about it, said
II think that Commissioner Living
ston would prove a splendid state
chairman"
Comptroller Travis would not discuss
the matter at all.
The subject of backing Mr.. Livingston
for the state committee chairmanship is
likely to come up tonight at the Mon
tauk Club when the leaders will attand
a dinner arranged by Senator William
M. Calder for Governor Frank O. Low
den of Illinois, who is to speak at the
monthly meeting of the Republican
county committee tonight at Kismet
Temple.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Police May Display Guns

In order that policemen may more
readily bring their revolvers into ac-
tion in time of trouble, an order NAV
be issued by Police Commissioner En-
right giving the men the right to carry
their side arms outside their Jackets
after the fashion of army officers.
letter written recently by Chief
City Magistrate McAdoo to Commits
sioner Enright suggested that the case
of the murder of Policeman Henry In
men, of the Webster Avenue Station in
the Bronx, few weeks ago, should be
an example. Commissioner Enright re-
piled he would give the matter careful
consideration.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Bar to Discuss Judges
Question of Indorsing Incum.
bents Will Re I'm To.n;oht

The Bar Association at meeting to-
night will take up for discussion the
question Of indorsing for reelection the
judges of various courts whose terms ex-
pire at the end of this year. There are
six such expirations in the Supreme
Court to consider.
The justices who will have served the
fourteen-year term on December 81,
1920. are Platzek, Ford. Erlanger,
Giegerich, Hendrick and Guy. With the
exception of Justice Ford, all are Demo-
Gratis.
In the Court Of General Sessions.
Judge Grain and Judge Rosalsky, Demo-
crat and Republican, respectively, will
be considered for reelection. In the CITY
Court there will be one vacancy.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Mayor Upholds Hubert

Mayor Hylan, in a letter to Murray
Hubert, Dock Commissioner, yester-
day directed him under no circum-
stances to revoke pier permits of
American shippers for the benefit of
anybody "who pretends to be working
in the interest of American shippers
when, in fact, they are sympathizers
with foreign shipping interests"
one from Commissioner Hubert inform
ing him he had refused to grant the
request of John Barton Payne, chair
man of the United States Shipping
Board. to revoke the permits for the
use OF Piers SO and 81, North River,
and turn them over to the Shipping
Board. Commissioner Hubert told
Chairman Payne he should obtain ac-
ccommodations at the army base piers
n South Brooklyn
New-York tribune., 1920-03-09
Senator's Hear
Mexico Is Ripe
For Revolution
Cen. Obregon Preparing to
Fisht His Way Into the
Presidency, With Villa
10 Command His Army
Support of Yaquis Won
r,erv Private House i'm So
nora Is Said to Contain
Smuggled Ammunition
Bv Wilbur Forrest
r.<.:n, pispoteh TO The Tr1bxns

s,<e:ai Dispatch to The Trtbxns
srcsON. Ariz., March s.-Informa-
.., from highly accurate sources de-
.;,.,ed to the Fall Senate committee
s.-. o-day Indicated an impending new
~.~n,ution in Mexico which would
...r,hrow the existing government and
.,,.s Francisco Villa in position
r,.-. the Wilson Administration would
:. ..lled upon to deal with Villa Of
tally If the committees information
>. .orrect 4Alvaro Obregon will be the
..,. President of Mexico. He will fight
s.. nav into Office Francisco Villa will
.nnmand Obregon's army. or good
portion Of it
An indication that Obregon will be
.n..essful in his revolt. which is re-
..,ded now as inevitable within the
ssr. four months. is that Obregon has
ssscotiated successfully the support of
me Yaoui Indians of Sonora, the Mexi-
..n So. state lying south of Arizona, and
.i-eady important bodies of these fight
.rs heavily armed. have crossed the
Mountains M, to join the forces of Villa.