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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30
CITY ELECTION TO
BE HELD NEXT WEEK

Continued from Page One.)
All of the men named on the ticket are
strong advocates for the city man.
ager proposition. Mayor Sweet has
perhaps been the most prominent and
consistent advocates of the change,
and at the council meetings and
elsewhere ne has continually work.
ed to this end during the past
two years. Approached on the sub
ject by Courier reporter yesterday
and told that there was a rumor cur
rent that should he be reelected he
would work against the city manager
form Mr.. Sweet said, "For the past
two years I have, officially and unof-
ficially, advocated that Bozeman
adopt the city manager form of NUM-
cipal government. Having served as
mayor as have done / know, perhaps
better than anyone else, just what
city manager could do for Bozeman
and in the change lies the only relief
l can see for the present financial
affairs of the city. / have worked for
the city manager form and shall con-
tinue to do so. If elected it will be
my chief object to bring this change
about as quickly as possible. Indeed
it is only the belief that such change
is probable which leads me to again
run for the. office. l have served
my time as mayor and am perfectly
willing to step down from that office,
but as long as all the city officers
have given their consent to run again
and serve until city manager is in
stalled, / have done the same"
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30

A. Pease, Robert Finley, Mrs. Charles
Fridley and son, Mrs. Oscar Malm-
berg, Mrs. Louis Vandenhook, Mrs.
Seymour Cunningham, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. M. Bulen, Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Rute-
ledge, Vera Buell. Galloway, Mrs. j.
Muse, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Jeffries,
Mr.. and Mrs. M. 1. Mustersen and
son, Marcella White, Mrs. Arthur
Seamans and children, Mrs. Otis New
comb formerly Bessie Bulen.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30
CLUB MEMBERS HAVE
MADE GOOD IN WORK
Continued from Page one.)

Continued from Page One.)
$4,000, 10 members reporting.
Total value of property owned, ST.
606.04; No. reporting, 70; No. of years
a club member, year, so; 2 years,
-; years, 10; years, 1.
Grade in school Fourth, /; fifth,
Is; sixth, II; seventh, IA; eighth, Is;
H. S. Freshman, 5; H. S. sophomore,
8; senior, 3.
No. who are studying agriculture,
26; No. who are studying home eco
Monies, IS; No. who expect to go to
college, 60; to Montana State college,
A; No. who replied college out
side of state, 81; No. of club scholar
ships won, u.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30
NEW TICKET FILED
FOR CITY ELECTION

Continued from Page One.)
and rumors connected with the nomi-
nation of this new ticket. At least
its introduction has lent new interest
to what would otherwise have been
a featureless election.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30

FOR SALE - Five good work
horses five to seven years old, about
1400 lbs. in good condition. Will take
cash or bankable note.
FLINT & ISBELL
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30

FOR SALE-Good Tractor with
Oliver 14-inch four bottom pillow, good
as new. Will take trade or good note
FLINT & ISBELL
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30
"6allatin Valley Lands"


Nice room house with bath. Two
lots, chicken house and sheds, some
fruit and on paved street. $4,000, half
%Sash if sold soon.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30
SHELLEY SECURES
COURT INJUNCTION

Continued from Page One.)
ing of the committee under section
two of chapter one would injure them.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30
MONEY TO LOAN

We are always in a position to
handle local loans or farm loans
where the security is satisfactory.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-03-30

OsTEoPATHIC PHYSICIAN

Room 3O1, Commercial Bank Bldg.
Res. Phone 1858 Office Phone 886-W
, 1921-10-01

sibly have enough left to provide a plain tombstone
at the head Of the last resting place of his remains
when his spirit passes to another world where accounts
OF deeds done in the flesh are iiquidated.
The Hohenzollern fortune is conservztively esti-
mated ut twenty-five million dollars, and il has as yet
remained exemp. from taxation of any kind The alb
sent William is drawing many millions annually from
his agricultural lands, forests and otner real estate
without interference from present existing authorities
in Germany.
Nominally, the former kaiser has the law on his
side. A year ago when n contract between the gov
eminent and the Hohenzollern family was presented
to the r~eichstag, the republican parties refused to en-
dorse 1t, because much too large a share was awarded
to the head of the family. Pending an adjustment of
the property acquired during the centuries by one
means and another including brute force, the family
attorney smuggled a clause into the temporary agree
nene STIMULATING that taxes on the property should be
suspended until final settlem ent Of what was regarded
as personal and what government property.
Of course William is not piling up any taxes await
ing the day when the collector comes around to settle.
Like all Hohenzollerns he takes and uses what comes
to hand regardless of any considerations or rights of
others. The matter Of arrears in taxes in bothering
William not a little bit
The world has been none too well satisfied with the
manner in which affairs respecting the nrch-offender
have been permitted to drift and some day there will
come a demand for a settlement other than for taxes
due and unpaid. Then William win have a less easy
time.
, 1921-10-01
THE EASY

what is it that makes professional men and wom-
en- the peculiarly gullible victims of confidence artists
and crooks with phony investments to promoter" in
quires the Philadelphia Ledger.
Here's one more melancholy case of a professor
in a Pennsylvania college who somehow managed to
put by in the course of his long and active academic
career the tidy sum of $4,000.
"An investment broker in one year wheedled the en-
tire amount away from him, piecemeal, for stock in a
West Virginia coal syndicate which nourished illusory
hopes of amassing great wealth. The professor Ia
ments that the fhnancier who induced him to part with
his hoardings used occult or hypnotic influence. Even
in the courtroom the plaintiff was unnerved utterly
down while giving testimony
when wildcat fnanciers want to sell a western
gold mine that has no existence outside a glowing
prospectus, or lots at the seashore that are some
where beyond the three-mile limit, or oil wells that
gush only in the salesman's adjectives, they generally
go for clergymen and teachers. assuming that in COM
p~aratively sheltered lives the latter are comparatively
ignorant of the sharp practices of the strengthening
industry. One of these gentry said TO the late DR..
George II. Ferris of Philadelphia: 4 am looking for a
little financial succor.' you should have come to me
when 1 first entered the ministry replied the clergy
man.
"a few years ago an eminent New York pastor con-
fessed with streaming eyes to his congregation that
investment imprudeaces had involved him in a Sc
rious dilemma; and the men in his flock who were
wise in money matters, by prompt and generous ac-
extricated him from his plight. It would have
been the wiser plan to use a preventive ounce Of their
wisdom when the lure was first spread for his un-
, 1921-10-01

Is there no way by which we can get Ireland into
the limitation Of armament conventional
, 1921-10-01
HATS OFF TO THE CHEMIST.

'The meeting that brought together the leading
chemists Of Europe and America" says the New York
Herald, twas a notable gathering of men representing
a science which has accounted great achievements for
humanity in every part of the world from the poles
to the equator.
ssThe application of chemistry to agriculture has
practically doubled the food producing power of crop
lands, and it has brought into productivity areas that
hitherto have borne nothing but tares. Even those
same tares in many instances have been made to yield
gums, fbers and extractives of value to the world.
Chemistry has barred many of the secrets of nu-
triton. Not only has life been salvaged thereby, but
the span of life itself has been heightened; and the
discovery of the vitamines has resulted in making
dietetics as much of a science as is curative medicine.
Chemistry has lifted the practice Of medicine from
the plan of empiricism to that of a science. The tox-
ms and antitoxins that have reduced typhoid and
diphtheria from scourges to lurking skulkers are prod
ucts of the chemical laboratory. The employment of
arsphenamine as a chemical reagent rather than as a
medicine has revolutionized the treatment of the most
horrible disease that for more than four thousand
years has been the bane of humanity everywhere un-
der the sun. 1t is a triumph of chemistry.
"For five centuries or more the beautiful blue col
oring matter derived from a plant, Indigofera anil,
has been employed as a textile dye. Half a century
ago it was found that anil, or aniline, could be pre-
pared commercially from coal tar. By an improved
process the industry was made profitable, and the
gates were thrown wide open. Today a thousand or
more substances necessary to modern civilization are
coal tar products. They embrace about everything
from street paving to a sugar substitute, from medi-
cine to stove polish and from dyestufs to the most
destructive of explosives.
Next to brains, chemistry won the world war. It
furnished the arms, the ammunition, the deadly gases,
the smoke screens and the fammenwerfer. Still more.
chemistry has promoted the arts Of peace. Steel in
its various alloys of softness and extreme hardness,
aluminium. invar, type metal radium, celluloid and
bakelite are born of the chemical laboratory. Corn
cobs are converted into acetic and Tactic acids. Swamp
detritus is metamorphosed into horse blankets. Saw
dust is made into syrup and silk fabric; and the prov
erbial silk purse has been made from a sow's ear.
within twenty-five years modern sanitation has
reduced the death-rate from more than seventeen to
less than twelve a thousand in the United States; for
this chemical science is largely responsible. Let us
therefore take off our hat to the chemist. His ways
may be as inscrutable as his polytechnic smells are
vile. But he gets us somewhere"
, 1921-10-01

munity; did not even take time to
sleep. in fact in certain businesses
the doors were opened and the kew
thrown away. and tho cllnk OF glasses
and h rattle OF chips. and the hun,
Of the roulette wheels furnished music
sufficient to break any monotony that
might peradventure be hangane
around. And this was Casper. and
thus II continued to be with a reason.
ably normal growth and many thrill.
ing Incidents until about 1909.
or course a long time prior to this
oil was known to exist in commercial
quantities in portions OF Salt Creek.
and as early as 1883 a well was drilled
In what is known as the Shannon
field in Salt Creek. and in 1891 DR..
Fred Salathe built a small refinery
where the Oil Wen Supply company'a
storehouse nov stands Oil was
hauled by team from tho field TO Cas-.
per. and there refined and manufac.
tured into various lubricating oils, but
the transportation and other facilities
were OF necessity too crude and ex.
pensive to be permanent.
For several ear prior to this time,
however, cy Iba of Casper and Iver
Johnson OF Cheyenne. with many 9th.
crs, had the greater portion OF the
Salt Creek field located under the plac'
, 1921-10-01
What The People Think

This people Of Casper are beginning
to unburden their minds with refer
ence 10 the present administration and
to show nicer for what Is TO come
In the future As an Indication, the
following Is n fair sample Of COM
munications received at this office.
which win from time TO time be pub
lished IN these columns:
Editor Tribune Would II not be
wes at this time before picdging our
support to the candidate. mayo or
counciimen OF our city to give the
rame serious co-nsiderauon7 Previ-
Gus experience on the part OF n few
men TO handpick the man for the place
has proven a dismal failure. The con
ditions h a exist In our city today
bear out this fact.
The average taxpayer and citizen OF
Casper has been forced to look with
alarm at the constantly increasing ex-
penses of our city. The present ad-
m~inistrafion asks for 800, 900 more
for 1872 Than for 1884, This in face
OF the fact. hat they arc trusted to
handle $s35 900 in bonds and that
we r today facing a falling labor
and material market- Provided we
have a population OF 10000 people in
Casper. IT lean that 81 costs every
man. woman and child $500 each TO
maintain our city government. in
other words IT requires $500. 600 to fur
nish us h class OF service we have
at present
The office of city engineer should
be self-supporting, as no service Is
rendered the taxpayer excepting a
charge FOR the same is made The wa
ter department with the Increased
rates allowed by h public utilities
commission should pay its own way
and the police department should in
n measure be disappearing due to
fines. etc. At h present time our
city streets are in the worst condI-
ton possible TO place them. no work
having been performed on them. eve
and water bitches being filled dry in
, 1921-10-01

- n land mark. but whlch has now
passed into history along with many
other sigma Of the early days. The
Did watering spot Is now the site OF a
line OF six batteries OF pressure stills.
and w Eads bridges span the river
1t this poin-
The great activity. which must be
apparent 20 even a casual observer,
started on October &c. 1870, at which
lime the plant had grown from the
modest initial layout. already men.
toned TO 40 pressure stills, Is tower
stills. 6 continuous n two steam
sttlls. with two boiler houses. and a
considerable increase IN tankage- with
this then as a starting point. it Is
readily seen what a vast o CT
work had TO be done to shape and
place h material into a finished re
nnery OF triple our present capacity.
From that memorial day until the
present time. thanks TO Wyoming's
wonderful climate. work has been car
ried on each day at every point where
the famous appropriation los calls for
new or additional building. Three
steam shoveis were used to open up
the ground for footings and founda-
A0As NA- NO ootiltf were THESE l14lll
from the banks than the car
penters and brick masons were in the
holes after them setting forms, and
laying nues- Immediately the shoveis
were out and starting in on another
footing. concrete was running into the
n Just vacated. Steel soon began to
arrive n to tho din OF the workers al
ready making wonderful records was
added tho shrill tattoo OF rivet ham
mers. With concrete running at the
rate OF eight hundred yards per day.
pipe line going In as fast as ground
could be prepared. flat steel taking
on recognizable shape. increasing
water supply. and retaining building
sites from the Platte river. we were
indeed in the midst Of an industrial
development whose perspective is as.
founding.
What will be the net result OF all
this moi. and toll into which our
workers have been called. and to
which every man has answered with
whole hearted performances? Two
boiler houses with 10000 horse pow.
er capacity win furnish steam for the
operation OF two hundred and seventy.
five pressure stills. thirty-six coke
stills, sixteen tar reducing stills, eigh.
teen light oil re-running. six steam
stills. three pump houses, a continu.
out pressure treating plant. and acid
restoring plant. and tankage sufflci
emit TO handle all the oil for this oper
, 1921-10-01
WEARY OF COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.

With sentiment in Cheyenne strongly IN favor OF
Abandonment of the commission form Of government
and a suit pending to test the eonstitutionality Of the
law in Sheridan, the popularity Of the favorite PAN
acea for municipal ills seems to be waning.
Here are two cases in the state where a change from
the mayor and council form to the commission form
have not proved satisfactory to the people. Cheyenne
seems to be thoroughly disguised and desires TO re-
turn to the old forn, while Sheridan attempted earlier
in the present year to get away from her commission
fern and substitute the manager form but was pre-
vented by a court decision, placing a shadow upon the
enabling act of the last legislature permitting the
adoption of the city manager plan. M
Casper was preparing to submit the manager plan
to the voters when the court decision came and at once
called the election off.
It will be a couple of years at least before the
faults in the city manager law can be cured and by
that time it Is possible there will be no demand for
n change in the present form of government.
There is q. Times good sense in bearing the ills we
have instead of flying to those we know not Of"
, 1921-10-01
From Sagebrush to Industrial Center


Thirty-four years g the writer,
while on n trip of exploration, had
the good fortune to make n temporary
camp within n few miles of the place
where tho City OF Casper now stands.
At that time nothing was 10 be seen
but n vast area OF LIANT covered with
punches OF grass. sage brush, sand
dunes, and an occasional band of ante
lope or elk. Nothing greeted the ear
by day but the bark of the prairie
dog. or the whir OF the RATHER. There
was nothing to break the awful sill
ence of the night but the howl of the
coyote. and the chirp OF the night
hawk. ms they were gathering their
mean of sustsnance.
Thirty-four years is but 4 abort span
in the reclamation of a vast desert but
1t has been long enough for the hand
OF man to divert the waters from the
various streams and cause them to
flow over the several valleys and to
make them blossom in expectant fruit
ition. and to dot them with comfor.
table and happy IL not luxurious
homes. And as the valleys become
productive. fiocks OF sheep and herds
of cattle began to make their appear
ance. and f1ock-masters located their
homes here, prominent among whom
were the Hon Patrick Sullivan. the
Hon. b. 3. Brooks. Major Ormsby.
F. f. Place, Hugh L. Patton. Peter
Nicolaysen. Robert Taylor. Kenneth
Mcdonald. Eugene Mccarthy. Samuel
Conwell. c. H. Townsend. A. j. Gun
bingham. Charles IL. King. j. w.
Price and many others.
1t was then that the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway builded it's road
Into his community. and the little
town Of Casper was started as a sup
ply point for the ranchers and stock
men; and. to use an idiomatic ex
preston. 1t tvas ''some burg" W.
were not SO numerous but the busiest
mortals that over Eraced any com
, 1921-10-01
INCREASING FAX BURDENS.

From everywhere in the state comes complaint Of
tax burdens. The people are not complaining of taxes
they deem just and fair but they find fault with adj
ministration that constantly increases the burden by
extravaganza and costs of government. The Powell
Tribune has this to say on the subject:
TAT a time when the thought of everyone through
out the country is, or at least ought to be, in the di-
rection of having expenditures of every description
cut down and taxes thereby lowered, the Wyoming
state board of equalization notifies the county Off
cials of Park county to raise the valuation of all first
class land so per cent, and also to raise the value of
second class land 40 per cent. Naturally this raise
in the valuation of lands on the Powell fiat is not set
ting very smoothly on the minds of Powell valley land
owners No wonder they propose going today to Cody
in, a body and there meet a certain member of the
board of equalization in protest against such a raise.
Cheyenne, the state capital, is more than 500 miles
from Powell, and the state board of equalization meet
ing down there is wholly out of touch with the Sho-
shone project country. They have record of the
transfer of our farm lands at higher figures than most
anywhere else in the state. They feel that to be in
disputable evidence that the valuations should be
raised. Of course the raise applies to Park county
as a whole, but Powell farmers believe it to be espe-
cially directed at the project, for here is found most
of the first class land.
Regardless of what farms of the Shoshone pro-
5ect sold for in war times, the fact is that lands are
not selling for high values now. Real estate is not
changing hands now and a burden of high taxation
should not rest perpetually upon the shoulders Of
farm owners for the reason that some lands during the
past have sold well. Those who did not sell reaped
none of the benefits of these high prices, but are on
the contrary compelled to suffer by paying taxes on a
higher valuation.
ITO pay taxes on an assessed valuation of s135
per acre on the farms about Powell is an outrage. II
IS just about double what the lands should be assessed
at. The section of country about Powell is on the
verge of being crippled in its progress by over-taxa.
ton The war is over and the war prices must BIZ
disregarded in fixing the values Of these farming
lands. We can never build up the agricultural re
sources Of Wyoming by taxing the farmers into bank
ruptcy."
, 1921-10-01

the face Of contracts calling for IN.
settling OF this earth about th< ntn.-
leaving them in terrible cona,,sc-
Our pavements are full Of holes placra
for h benefit OF some conf-r.o-
and individual and no effort 4. -.s~
to take care or them Our eo-csn.s
Improvement districts have eo,fI-~--
ed the property of the fndtytduar A..
to the excessive charrer made =.
well as running the lots for comner~
cial purposes Our water deuarfr.r,
as regards quality and ~
well as. administration Is a dt-cnc-
The. present police department on fbe
city Is the biggest farce staged ont.
side OF a regular vaudeville thsater
IL Is no longer considered safe for 4
lady to use streets at night with
out an escort n II Is n dangerous
practice TO attempt to follow out the
parking resuiafions in the business
districts due to tho childish manner In
which tho traffic problem has been
Our streets and alleys are IN
"a very u~nsanitary condition due no
doubt TO the fact that n city OF 20 looo
people hal failed to provide a single
saroase wagon With the number
OF men on the bark department. nav
ron and the large family in charge OF
OUT CITY streets We should have beau
ufui parks n wen kept streets. To
sum VI the entire situation the people
OF Casper are asking. are you satisfied.
with the present moral. financial and
unsanitary condition OF your city? n
you are satisfied to remain in the
present condition OF ~inefnciency or
worse. well and good. but IL we wish
to make Casper a. city OF moral ana
financial standing. a city that VIII
hold forth Inducements to business TO
locate with US in fact a city TO be
proud Of. we will then give these mat.
ters our very careful attention. Ana
after careful investigation answer
ourselves fruthfuiiy. has present con
diuons been worth h price?
TOTALLY DIsGUsTED.
, 1921-10-01
GIVE HIM THE HOOK.

It was to be expected when Roscoe Arbuckle re-
turned to Los Angeles from San Francisco, a lot of
people could not be restrained from making asses of
themselves on the station platform. It was perfect
~ correct and in good form for friends Of Arbuckle
to greet him, even congratulate him on his escape
from trial on the moro serious charge of murder to
meet the lesser charge of manslaughter, but it GER
tainly was no time and no place for a demonstration,
however mild. Neither was it a time for foolish and
impulsiye women to rush into the scene with oscu~
lstory offerings and floral tributes. Such stuff is dis
gushing.
The movie crowd has got a rotten reputation
through just such birds as Arbuckle. The respectable
element of the profession is called upon to bear it
along with the immoral element. It must be lived down
er the Arbuckle kind is kicked out of the movies the
better for the movies.