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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
Americas Marvels
NATURAL AND OTHERWISE
BY T. T. Maxey
CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL

The Chicago Drainage Canal ranks
well to the fore among the great en-
cheering feats of modern times.
The purpose of it's construction wa
twofold. Primarily to purify Chieago's
supply of drinking water, which is OBJ
tanned from Lake Michigan, by revers
ing the flow of the Chicago river 81
that the sewage from the city, instead
of being dumped into the lake, would
be carried off into the Des PLANES riv
er which in turn empties into the Hi
nOis river, Ultimately, to provide 6
ship canal from Lake Michigan to the
Gulf of Mexico.
Commenced in September, 1892, and
formally opened in January, 1900, this
so-called canal is approximately forty
of twenty-five feet, varies in width
from 100 to 300 feet at the top, and has
a capacity Of about 100000 cubic feet
of water per minute.
Four major operations were in
volved in this huge task. First, the
Chicago river had to be both widened
and deepened for more than five miles
next the digging of a canal for twenty
eight miles /; then the river had to be
diverted from the old to the new chan
race and a new channel for seven
miles.
Grave fears were entertained by
many that the cities past which this
diverted sewage must flow and which
obtained their supplies of drinking wa
fer from this stream would be visited
by an epidemic of water-borne diseases,
particularly typhoid. Again he ques-
ton as to whether the taking of suf-
6cient water from Lake Michigan to
the interests of the states and cities
bordering on the lake, through the low
ering of the surface of the water in
the lake, and in turn interfere with
the navigable capacity of the rivers
which flow into the lake, was long and
seriously discussed.
But scientific examination and inves-
tigation failed to ~substantiate the
threatened dangers from disease; the
imagined damage to the navigation in
terests of the Lake Michigan region
failed to materialize.
That Chicago has benefited immeas-
urably from a sanitary standpoint
there is not the question of a doubt,
according to the reports of the health
department. When the locks in the
Des PLANES and Illinois rivers, which
connect the canal with the Mississippi
are increased in size and the
fixed bridges which span the canal in
the Chicago zone are transformed to
swinging or lift bridges, it is expected
that barges and light-draft river craft
will move in large numbers from Chi
through this man-made channel,
to New Orleans.
90. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
SCOBEY NEWSPAPER
LOSES in HIGH COURT

Helena, May 19.-Daniels county
board of commissioners had no RICH
to award the contract for county
printing to the Daniels County Leader
published by Joseph F. Dolin, which
it did August 7, 1922, but should
have given the contract to the SEQ.
bel Sentinel. Such is the decision OF
the supreme court in an opinion de
livered by Chief Justice L. L. Call
away and handed down Saturday in
the injunction proceedings of F. D.
STANCE against the board of county
commissioners of Daniels county, and
others.
The records show that the Daniels
County Leader was established in
February, 1922, and on August 7,
1922, the board let to it the on
tract for the county printing having
at the same time before it the bid of
the Scobey Sentinel, a newspaper
which had been published in the
county for several years preceding
the letting of the contract. Each
bid was considered under the statu-
tory rates.
After awarding the plaintiff, a tax
payer and voter of Daniels county,
brought action to restrain the board
from carrying out the contract, and
upon hearing, the district court rem
dered judgment for the defendants,
from which the plaintiff appealed.
The supreme court holds that the
determinative statute governing the
matter is section 1882, revised codes
of 1921, which makes it the duty of
the county commissioners to contract
for the county printing with some
newspaper, published at least once a
week, and of general circulation, pub
Eshed within the county, and having
been published continuously in said
county for at least one year immedi-
ately preceding the awarding of the
contract" and says that the word
"published' evidently mean printed
and published and refers to a news
paper having its home in the county.
The opinion reads further:
Inc COMMISSIONERS Hdu no uiocIc-
ton in the premises. Under the con-
ditions confronting them they had
simply a ministerial duty to perform
which was to award the contract for
the county printing to The Scobey
Sentinel. While the Daniels County
Leader might have been otherwise
competent, and fully as desirable a
paper as the Sentinel, it did not
within the terms of the law and
the board did not have the right to
let the contract to it. The judgment
is reversed and the cause remanded
to the district court of Daniels county
with directions to grant the plaintiff
the relief prayed for in his COM
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
Fresh Air Cures Colds.

If you have a stuffy head cold, lie
down In q room with windows open
covers enough to keep you warm-and
consciously breathe deeply for ten to
fifteen minutes. Try to fill your lungs
from the bottom up, as it were-then
force the air all out, and start again.
You will find the stuffy feeling vastly
relieved. Headaches, that tired feel
ing" indigestion, melancholia, constipa-
ton. and countless other disorders,
may be benefited or entirely relieved
If you will but make a real effort to
help yourselfl
without sufficient oxygen we stag
nate and become swamped in u own
waste products. If you would be well
and alert and capable Of doing your
best day after day-learn to clean your
own blood stream by the daily use of
air-it's free, too! Just try it.-C.
Richmond, D. o., In the Health Bull
letin.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
WANAMAKER EPIGRAMS

We can only reach each other with
sympathy, the biggest word among
the three or four big words of the
world.
Let us be citizens first, and not
merely bankers, lawyers, merchants
and manufacturers.
A mans true estate is not in houses
railroads, bonds and the like; it is in
himself.
To stay by the lesson until it is
learned and stay by the work under
taken until it is completed is the real
thing.
l believe it is true that every
baby is born with a song in its
mouth.
There is so much to be done, and
each day is a gift that we must try
to make use of for some good pur-
pose.
Service is something deeper and
broader than political parties, and
commercialism means much more
than making money.-Dearborn In
dependent.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
poino the Impossible.

The mothers looked upon Alexander
and saw that he was good. He had
money, power and position, SO they
added their lore of bygone days to the
almost complete knowledge of their
debutante daughters and the campaign
was launched.
Athletic girls, domestic girls, beauti-
full women, soul aff1nities and working
girls tried their wiles, but he was In
vulnerable.
Then he went to the town where he
was born to eat his Thanksgiving din
ner with his old-fashioned mother. The
teacher of the village school boarded
with his mother, partly to keep her
company. The little teacher did not
know Alexander could not be caught.
So they were married on Christmas
Eve.-Judge.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
pax of Deep sionificsncs.

More than double significance which
attaches to Memorial day in 1923 grows
out of the memories and experiences
of the past. 1t long ago was realized
that we do the dead but a small serv
ice If we but place flowers on theil
graves and are content with that. The
living comrades of those who fought
and died were stirred by the memories
of the occasion to new resolutions to
make these sacrifices worth while, and
the extent to which their example has
been followed by all citizens has been
the measure of the profit that has be EN-
derived from observance of the day
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
Reverses Sounds.

A curious instrument has recently
been invented capable of reversing
the sounds of a word or a sentence.
A steel piano wire, carried on two
spools, passes between the poles of a
small electromagnetic, so connected
with a telephone transmitter that
spoken words are magnetically record
ed on the moving wire and reproduced
in a receiving instrument. When the
motion of the wire is direct, the words
are heard as in ordinary conversation,
but if the motion Is reversed, the
sounds come to the ear in reverse
order, like words spelled backwards.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
Shares Flowers With Employees.

Louis F. Swift, president of Swift
& Co, does a large part of his work
at a standing desk outside of his
private office. At this desk he re
ceives department managers as well
as office boys.
He has adopted this custom in order
that he may come in close contact with
his employees. He does not believe
in the use of private offices to any
great extent.
He is seldom see without a flower.
His one hobby Is flowers, and he
shares them with his employees. Every
week large boxes Of flowers are
brought to his office from his conserva-
tory and distributed among the va
rious Observation-Disclosures City Star.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
CONFERENCE ON ROCKY
MOUNT. SPOTTED FEVER

The conference on Rocky Mountain
Spotted Fever which was held in Mis-
soula on April 9Th and 9Th, was g
marked success. Representatives
were present from Wyoming, Oregon
and Washington as well as Montana,
Reports of the prevalence of the dis
ease were made by the health off,
cials of Saskatchewan, British Co.
lumbia, California and Idaho. DR..
R. R. Spencer and DR.. R. R. Parker,
who are representing the U. S. Pub
lie Health Service, reported on the
of their investigational work
in the Bitter Root valley. DR.. Spen-
cen reported on a practical method
which he had worked out for quick
ly determining whether or not a tick
was infected.
DR.. H. Noguchi, of the Rockefeller
Institute, New York, was present and
announced that he had discovered a
toxin-antitoxin which can be used for
the prevention of the disease. This
discovery of DR.. Noguchi is of very
great Importance and will probably
revolutionize the control work. He
remained about a week in Montana
and while here inoculated nine Jap
anese and all of the laboratory force
at Hamilton with his prophylactir
serum. This was given in two doses,
one week apart, and in none of the
eases was there any unpleasant re-
action.
The subject of tick paralysis was
also discussed at the conference. A
number of cases of this disease we're
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
Naturally Affected Her.

The magnate came home grinnlne
and cat down in q cheerful frame OF
mind to carve a large roast.
my private secretary" ne an
nounced. "told me today that he is en-
gagged to be married. On his salary
the girl will starve."
At this the daughter OF the house
burst into tears, whereat dad was con-
siderably taken aback. =
"Why. what's the matter, daughter
he inquired solicitously.
tits me he is engaged TOGO" sobpeo
the girl.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
WAY of Lightning.

1t has been pointed out in some
scientific quarters that the now known
facts seem to require a modification
of the statement found in some text
books that "it is impossible to say
whether a flash of lightning moves
from q clnnd ~ - -rt@ arr = u.e
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31
MoNInu.

"The editor Of the Tumlinville Torch
of Liberty gives his brother-in-law, the
Hon. Pete Puterfish, q nice funeral no
tice, don't he?" asked a neighbor.
"Eh-yahi" replied Gabe Gosnell OF
Grudge. "He writes durn nigh as pitt
full about him as if he had been a good
do2."-Kansas City Star.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-05-31

reported from British Columbia and
the northwestern portion of the state
of Montana. DR.. Spencer requests
that physicians having cases of tick
paralysis send the ticks which have
been removed from such cases to him
at Hamilton, Montana, for expert
mental purposes.
, 1923-02-28
ROBERT R. ROSE
IS NEW JUDGE Of
NATRUNA COURT
Appointment Is Made by
Ross as He Signs Bill
Creating District.

CHEYENNE, wyo.. Feb. ss.-tspe.
cial to The acknowledgements VIM.
B., Ross Wednesday morning sighed
h act of the recent legislature ere,
ating the Eighth judicial district.
comprising Natrona and Fremont
counties, and Immediately thereafter
appointed Robert r. Rose. now OF
Casper but recently of Kemmerer, as
Judge of the district. Mr.. Rose, who
was the Democratic candidate for con
gress asst November. was Endorsed by
many members of the bar associa
tons Of Natrona and Fremont cou
ties although a great majority Of the
Natrona association favored the ap
pointment Of Geo. ". Ferguson, Cas-
per attorney.
, 1923-02-28
CARRIER
WOULD BE BOON
TO SALT Greek
Oil Magnate Says Line
Would Help to Build
Metropolis Here.

Harry F. Sinclair, head of
the Sinclair oil interests, who
arrived in Casper on his pri-
vate car, Since, this morning,
is strongly in favor of such a
railroad as the Wyoming
North and South. and said so in no
e~qulvocable terms when interviewed
in his car by representatives of the
Tribune.
While admitting that he was not
sufficiently conversant with the local
situation to express an opinion on
the letting of leases on the much
discussed Section Thirty Six. Mr.. Sin.
clair sal that he considered n rail
road would be the making of Casper
He expressed great confidence in the
ability of Governor Haskell. whom he
has known for many years.
THE G~overnor." said Mr.. Sinclair
is a man of great energy. He usu
nlly does what he sets out to do. He
Is a builder with constructive ability
and nothing ] c1n think of would br
OF more benefit to Casper thai tc
have such n railroad ms he is reported
to be ready to build"
II do not fec that I know the stu
ntipn here well enough to take q
stand on the question OF Sector
Thirty Six. Even n question of bid
Is relative. Who can say whether g
ia better to have n railroad than Ia
have a few extra dollars in a school
fund.- But I think hat a rn.iroac
would bo tho absolute making OF Cas-
per. Personally I would like to sec II
built. 1t is hard TO operate forty or
fifty miles from rails. II VOID be @
great thing for the Salt Creek field
Casper the terminus.
Mr., Sinclair said that he lad not
stated whether or not he would bid on
section thirty,R'x himself. He pointed
out that II railroad from Casper &c
Salt Creek. leaving out Of censlderh,
ton any further extension of the
line, would be OF inestimabie value tc
the city. II would make. he thought
all the difference between putting
Casper over the peak and taking the
chance OF having her slide back,
1.-THE influence OF the Salt Creeb
field is tremehdeus,' said the oil mag
nate. It extends eVeF a great section
of the country. ] think 1t has beer
tho biggest individual fHeteF in bring
ing Denver ur, II ia just the differ
enee of filing your extra stores ant
office buildings, which may have beer
only three quarters tenanted bsers
Il is the dividing line between pros
perity and comparative stagnation,'
Mr., Sinclair had nothing to say re
garding his own enterprises, or th'
report that he might build a refinery
in Wyoming at a point net yet de
termined, but which presumably
would be at Clayton below Glenreck
He is leaving tho city today on al
Continued on Page TwelVe,)
, 1923-02-28
NEGROES BEING
TERRORIZED In
S. (. MISSOURI

ST, LOUIS, Mo, Feb, ss,-Uuited
States District Attorney Carroll to.
day announced he has received MS
meFous comaislH's that Degrnas are
being Nfffsn f9m fasBat6t siE puuB
l1 esHptlse I'm southeast b~lissoun.
that naHrqaH had boon fired on, : ID
ta4s m sumo instances WARNINGS i5.po
been sent them attached 70 st3as Z
dynamite, Mr. Carroll eddod uat N
complaints asserted that tho HEEa ii
dynamite attached Ia the warnings
had been placed on dsersteps of ne.
groes' homes in several instances, and
that planters housing negroes had
been admonished to rid themselves OF
negro labor,
Mayor Burd of Charlottesville,
county sea Of Pemisost county, said
over the telephone hat about a dozen
such instances had been reported in
Charlottesville, and q less number
pea Rennett, county seat of DunklIn
county; Ho expressed the opinion
that the warnings were from whites
wha folt the negroes were dlspiacing
them in employment, adding thai AR.
ly large numbers OF negroes entered
the counties last autumn.
, 1923-02-28
SINCLAIR FAV0RS RAILROAD, PRAISES HASKEEL.
RICH COMEDIAN OF BROADWAY
fame RECONVERTED in MONTANA

NEW YORK. Feb. 2s.-Lured
back to active Christianity as he
sat Idle in a sleeping a stalled in
a snowstorm in the Dakotas. Fred
Stone. comedian. one of the gayest
lights ever to illuminate Broadway,
has dedicated the rest of his life to
Christ and a tenth of mis- large in
come to the church.
Though not devotedly religious.
Stone has always been regarded as
a man devoted to his family and his
re-conversion-he was baptized
many years ago-didn't surprise the
white light district.
The strangeness lof the incident,
as reported from Butte, Mont. lies
in the manner of its occurrence.
Stone, in a telegraphed statement to
the New York World, said:
What you read in the Butte Mi
, 1923-02-28
Of
RETIRING SOLON
TO HIGH PLACE
IS MADE today
Selection Of Iowan for
Governor of Island
Territory to Succeed
E. Mont Rely Is Made

WASHINGTON, Feb. %.
Frank W. Mondell, Repub-
lican floor leader of the house
who retires from congress ON
March 4 after &c years of SER
vice, today was nominated bv
President Harding to succeed Mr.
Davis as director of the War Finance
corporation.
Horace NJ. Towner Of Iowa, for a
year a Republican leader in the house
Of representatives, was nominated IN
succeed E.. Mont Reilly as governor
Of Porto Rico.
The following were nominated to
be United States district Judge: r, C.
Jacobs. for the district of Arizona;
md orio l.. Philips. the district Of
New Mexico.
Dwight Davis. OF Missouri. n dIree.
tor OF the War Finance corporation
was nominated to be assistant score.
tary Of war In the place of ]. MAYHEM
Wa nwright, who leaves office March
4 to become a member OF the next
congress.
Georgia W. Mcknight. was nomI.
mated to be register of the land oriee
at Vale, Orc,
Nominations for postmasters se,t
TO the matt today included lanes
9. Tyrrell, Grass Valley, Cal. and
Harvey st. Cannon. KallspeIl, Mont.
Mr.. Towncr. named as governor
OF Porto Rico. does not take that
position until April l, the effective
date of the resignation OF Governor
Reilly. He has been chairman OF tina
insular committee OF the house for
several years and In that position has
given close study TO conditions in
Porto Rico.
Representative Mendsll has had a
quarter or a century Of service IN
congress and has been tho RepubIi.
can floor leader since the beginning
OF h special session OF the 6sth
congress, lie did not run for re-
election TO tho house. seeking in.
stead II seat IN the senate for which
Senator kendrick, Democrat, wyom-
ing, defeated him last November,
RJB friendS had urged SIR, MondelI
for secretary OF the interior aud
many members OF congress had re-
commended him to tho president,
Mr., Davis, who becomes assistant
secretary OF war. has been q director
Of the war finance corporation alncp
1891, lie Is a banker and IN widely
known as the donor of the Davis
tennis sup
, 1923-02-28

Robert r. Rose, sworn in today by
Justice Kimball as Judge OF the
newly created distrlct-the sth-was
born in South Dakota October Is,
1885, moved with his parents to Den.
yer. Colorado, in 1880. He wa- edu,
Gated in the Denver grnde ana high
schools and at the University of Den
yer, from which no was sruduntts
with tho degree of J.. l.. D. in 1906,
He was admitted to the bar that year
and in 1918 moved 10 Kemmerer.
Wyo., where no practiced until com
ing recently to Casper. lie served as
county and prosecuting attorney OF
Lincoln county, Wyoming in 1917 and
1918. As democratic candidate for
congress last fall he was defeated by
Judge Charles Il. Winter of Casper.
running on the republican ticket,
Mr.. o was married July rs, 1913.
to Miss Eleanor BronnuEh, formerly
OF Musk9fee, Okla. They have two
children, Robert Jr, aged z yearH, and
Mary Virginia aged 90 months, The
family at present Is visiting relatives
in Oklahoma n viii be In Casper
within a few days, Judge Rose is a
Send degree Mason, a member OF the
Elks lodge and a member OF the Epls-
cepal church,
, 1923-02-28

Arthur NJ. MillRrd. president OF the
Masonic Bureau of Service, poiled
81 ,ob4 votes for the Republican nom
nation and Bernard BaruHa, muni'
cipal judge who ran on Il platform
favorinE return of peer and light
vines. 1880 votes.
william a. Guinea, Socialist cahdi.
date for mayor, WIS unopposed.
City council seats from so wardA
were niled, while candidates In 80
wards failed OF maJoritisa, and the
two highest In each instance will con,
test at the April election,
Fer the frat time the aidefmanie
contests were along nen-partisan
lines, inaugurated with the Seward
re-distrieting measure, which, also
changed the representation fFem TIVE
to n aldermen from each division,
However, the races for representa-
tleR in the city governing body were
said Ia have been contested along the
old party affiliations and politicians
declared the results indicated further
dis~integratiaH of the waning support
enee aoliiy in the column of Mayer
William Hale Thompson,
support Of Mayor Thompson and
Fred Lundin, reputed ''bess'', was
said in some quarters to have been
swung to Mr., Litsingep in Yester-
days mayoralty primary and failure
of that candidate also was said by
some to have marked a further re-
buke for the ThomPsen-Lu ndin align
meRt,
Mrs. willifred Mason Huck, elected
last November to complete the term
Of her father, William Il, Mason, de
, 1923-02-28

ner Is true. I am not looking fol
publicity. 1t is a simple and natural
thing, much too sacred to be used
as copy"
II seems that Stone acted on his
resolve by dropping off his train at
Billings and buying a Bible. After
reading it and praying. he was
ready when Butte was reached to go
to the Rev. Cecil Clifford and take
some spiritual advice.
The next day, Sunday, he ap-
peared in the pulpit and told his
LIES story to an astonished congre-
cation.
His income is estimated at about
S125, 0V0.
Mr.. Stone has large realty hold.
ings, including a 2O-story building
here. end a large farm and Long
Island country home. He and his
company now are in Seattle. Wash.
, 1923-02-28
KHAN ACTIVE
IN ELECTION
AT ST. LOUIS

EAST ST, LOUIS, H., Feb, ga
Interest in the local political situation
today turned to the municipal cleo.
tlen to be held in April following the
primary yesterday in which three
candidates alleged to have been sup
ported by the Ku KluK Kan were
nominated rs city commissioners, and
two other supposed khan candidates
were defeated,
The Rev, William Il Evans, Ralph
Cook and August NJ, Eggmann ara
the three victorious candidates said
to have been indersed by the khan,
They polled threa of the fouF largest
votes for commissioner,
, 1923-02-28

htilltlg hol 4Ntas
Virginia Little IL the daughter of
Mr.. and Mira, J, 70. Little, 1853 South
Cottonwood street, She Ii a member
OF the sophomore HAS Of tho Ma
trona County high school and has
been noted as an exceptionally good
student,
Neither the mother o the father
of the girl was present at the time
of the poisoning, Mr., Little is said
to be in Illinois, while the mother has
been IN the hospital for severn, days
recuperat!ng from an operation, Only
the two ANAL brothers OF the girl
were in the apartment at the time,
shortly after making the mistake,
Misa Little, suffering from pain,
notified the persons in the adjoining
apartment, DIR. Hansari was called
and the patient was rushed to the
hospital,