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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-31

al or rejection, an amendment to Sec
ton / Of Article XIV OF the Constitu-
ton of the State OF Washington. so
that the same shall read. when so
amended as follows:
Section /. The Legislature shall pro-
vide for the appointment of COM
mission whose duty 1t shall be to To-
cate and establish harbor lines In the
navigable waters of all harbors. estu-
aries, bays and inicts of this state,
wherever such navigable waters lie
within or in front OF the corporate
limits of any city or within one mile
thereof on either side. Any harbor
line so located or established may
thereafter he changed. relocated or
re-cstablished by the commission
pursuant to such provision as may be
made therefor by the legislature.
The state shall never give, sell or
lease to any private person, corpora
ton or association any rights what
ever in the waters beyond such har-
Dor lines, nor shall any of the area
lying between any harbor line and
and the line of ordinary high water,
and within not less than fifty feet nor
more than two thousand feet of such
harbor line Gas the commission shall
eletermine) be sold or granted by the
state. nor its rights to control the
same relinquished. but such area
shall be forever reserved for landings,
wharves. streets, and other convent
ences of navigation and commerce.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of State shall
cause the amendment in Section 1 OF
this net to be published for three
months next preceding said election
In weekly newspaper in every
county where n newspaper Is publish
ed throughout the state.
Passed the Senate February 16. 1923.
Passed the House March S, 1929.
Filed without the signature OF the
Governor.
] GRANT HINKLE.
Secretary of State
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-31
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO STATE
CONSTITUTIONS.

TO De voted on NOVEMBER 4, IJ21.
An amendment of Section of Art-
Gle XI of the Constitution of the
State of Washington relating to
county officers.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-31
] GRANT HINKLE.
Secretary of State.

NOTE BY THE SECRETARY or
STATE
The above act filed In the office of
the Secretary of State March IA. 1923.
j. GRANT HINKLE.
Secretary OF State.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
STATE CHECKER ASSOCIATION
IN INTERESTING TOURNAMENT

The checker tournament of the Mon.
tana Checker association was held at
the Y. M. C. A.. Helena, February %,
% and "a, and was played out ex
cepting the finals which were post
poned to a later date not yet deter
mined. The tournament was a pro-
noUnced success, and was the hardest
fought battle of any hitherto conduct
ed. The result of the first round was
Henry H. Lepper of Glasgow, 20
points; Albert Goldberg, Springdale,
27 points George E. Cook, Helena, 26
points; DR.. r. r. Frazier, Helena, %
points; Thomas Rowe, Butte, %
points; John Goldberg, Springdale,
20 points, and Jack Williams, Helena,
16 points.
George e. Cook was elected presi-
dent for the ensuing year, and DIR. r.
r. Frazier, secretary and treasurer.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
Bank Bandits to Pen

George "Bad Eye Dyer and John A.
WEIGH, alias Tom Martin, pleaded
guilty to burglary in the first degree
in the district court of Gallatin county
and Judge B. B. Law Immediately SEN
fenced them to serve terms in the pen
itentiary at Deer Lodge to the limit of
the law. Dyer's term was fixed at
from seven and a half to Is years, and
Welch was sentenced to six and a half
to Is years. The difference in the
time of the minimum terms was ex-
planned by the court that he "did not
want the two men to be released at
the same time, for if there should be
an effort on the part of either or both
to reform, the less they saw of each
other the better it would be for them"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
SONS QUICK WORK SAVES
LIFE OF THEIR FATHER

His sons quick wit and courage
saved Cliff Fawcett of Roundup from
certain permanent injury or death
from gasoline burns. Mr.. Fawcett was
given surgical attention as quickly as
possible but the skin on his arms was
burned to a crisp and he must suffer
many days of severe pain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fawcett and two sons
had driven into the country and were
returning when they experienced
trouble with the gasoline feed. Sew
eral times Mr.. Fawcett was obliged to
drain gas from the tank and fill the
vacuum feed. In doing this some gaso-
line had been spilled on his arms and
the sleeves of his underwear had be-
come partly saturated with it. After
the last experience of this kind Mr..
Fawcett unthinkingly lighted a cigar
cite before resuming the journey.
Instantly the flame caught in the
sleeves of the leather vest and fur coat
he wore and before he could leap from
the car both arms had become living
torches. His two sons sprang to his
aid and together tore off his coat. the
leather vest and the sleeves of his I'M
.derclothing.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
FEDERAL GRAND JURY WOULD
INVESTIGATE RANKIN'S OFFICE

Great Falls, Mont.-Recommenda.
ton that a state grand jury be called
in Lewis and Clark county to investi-
gate charges of Gereliction made
against the office of Attorney General
Wellington d. Rankin was embodied
in a report filed here with Federal
Judge Charles N. Pray, by the federal
grand jury, which has been in session
for several weeks.
The resolution is based on evidence
given to the federal grand jury, going
to show that there is a profound disre-
gard for life and law and open fla
grant violation Of the prohibition and
gambling laws in Butte and Silver
Bow county. The resolution sets out
that the offenders defiantly and openly
boast of immunity from prosecution by
the state courts and that there is a
systematic conspiracy between offend
ers and officers, city police and county
and state enforcement officers in
Butte and Silver Bow county, ito the
end of securing protection to favored
law violators, particularly in respect
to the prohibition law"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
ARSENIC OUTPUT OF JARDINE
NEARLY DOUBLED LAST YEAR

Operations of the Jardine Mining
company of Livingston for the last
year end activities planned for the
new year are outlined in the report of
the company, just issued for the bene-
fit of the public and stockholders.
The stocks of concentrates for the
year amounted to 3S1 tons. containing
S16,7S3.30 in gold and 10000 in ar
senic, a total of SAT, 743.30 in the ia
tons of crude arsenic accrued in the
plant.
Improvements in the milling will in
crease the capacity from 40 tons to
175 or 200 tons a day. Considerable
development was done in the mine, a
new ore body being opened up in the
Iron Duke" A tunnel IS feet in
width and 40 feet deep was sunk and
425 feet driven in tunnel No. %.
A total of 44,429 tons of ore was
mined and milled at a cost of $40
per ton. To carry on the company's
mining and milling operations and con-
struction work 40 ment were en-
ployed. Further additions to the hous-
ing facilities and increase in the force
employed is contemplated the coming
season.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
FIRST CAR LOAD CABBAGE
is SHIPPED FROM STATE

A. F. Cave, living just east of Ste
yensville, loaded out a carload of cab
bage from there recently. The ship
ment was billed to the coast and ac-
cording to reports it brought about
$3.50 a hundred-Weight, f. O.. b. Ste
vensville.
This is the first car Of cabbage
shipped from this point in a great
many years. It is understood that A.
F. Boyer did make a car lot shipment,
however, some Is or 20 years ago.
From the reports of the crop of cab
bage grown by CAGE there is pretty
fair money to be made in the business.
On a little over an acre of land it is
understood that he grew about 80 tons.
This was pitted in the fall and a part
of it was shipped to Missoula after the
20 ton car was loaded.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
OREGON STATE COLLEGE AIT
WORK ON HAY FEVER CURE

Corvallis, Ore.-Pollens to prevent
hay fever are being prepared by the
Oregon college botany department
The persons treated are %inoculated
with a prepared solution containing
pollen before the pollens of plants APP
peal in the spring.
Pollens carried by the wind and not
those carried by insects are the com
mon ones which give hay fever, ac-
cording to DR.. Helen NJ. Gilkey, as
sistant professor of botany. Different
persons are affected by different pol
lens.
When pollen is found that affects a
person. he is treated by a series of in
EQUATIONS, which make him develop
a resistance against that kind of pol
len. These treatments are given early
enough so that the person will be i'm
mune by the time the pollens are ripe
in the spring.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
OIL INVESTIGATION
CL0UDEO BY CODE
"PEACHES," "APRlCOT" AND "THE
DUKE" MAKE APPEARANCE
ON SCANDAL STAGE
NEW NAMES ARE INVOLVED
Curtis, of Kansas, Underwood and A.
Mitchell Palmer Summoned to
Testify in Probe

Washington. Another ~engroSsine
chapter crammed with mystery and
personal emotion has been added to
the public records by the senate oil
investigators.
The characters in the story included
such mysterious ~personages as "Apri-
cots peaches and 'the Duke" re-
ferred to in code messages exchanged
between Edward B. Mclean, publisher
of the Washington Post, and his en-
ployes during his visit to Florida.
Among the more striking passages in
the chapters was a dramatic appear
nee of Chairman Lenroot on the SEN
ate floor to explain and defend his
committees course and to announce
that he would be glad to be relieved
of the pressing duties of the chair
manship.
AS the story was unfolded, new
names were brought into the inquiry,
including those of Senators Curtis of
Kansas, the assistant Republican lead
er, and Underwood of Alabama, a can
didate for the Democratic presidential
nomination, whose influence was
sought in an effort to keep Mclean off
the witness stand. Additional wit
nesses were summoned, among them
A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney general
n the Wilson administration, who
acted for a time as counsel for Nc
Lean in communications with the oil
committee.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
STATE AUDITOR SHOWS
WAY TO BIG SAVINGS
Letter to State Examiners Points Out
Method of Shaving Recent
Appropriations Half Million

An additional half million dollars
can be shaved from the general fund
appropriations as made by the last
regular legislative assembly and the
recent extraordinary session. State
Auditor George p. Porter has advised
the board of examiners of which Gov
ernor Dixon is president. The auditor
addressed a letter to the board with an
estimate 'of the requirements of the
beneficiaries under said appropria-
tons and possible percentage Of reduc-
ton, based upon past history, apd
other data in possession of this office"
The letter concludes:
ut will be observed that the esti-
mates indicate that it is possible to
save to the general fund more than
100000 during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1924, by observing due econ
omy and this without impairing in the
slightest degree the efficiency of any
departments, offices, boards, or insti-
tutious in question"
The reductions propose dby the state
auditor range from one per zen for
the supreme court expense to AZ per
cent for the school of mines mainte-
nance, the latter proposed cut totaling
$30,SO9. The auditor suggests that the
appropriation for the agricultural col
lege maintenance and expense account
be trimmed $96,947, with additional
cuts of $34,622 for the experiment sta
ton expense and S39,076 for the farm
ers' extension work. From the univer-
sity maintenance he would pare $62,-
IA and from the insane asylum main
%tenance $4,000. From the normal
the auditors figures propose a
reduction of $42,0S7 and from the fund
for county attorneys salaries, $4,000.
AS concerns 20 funds he has recon-
no reductions
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
FORMER VET BUREAU HEAD
INDICTED ON FOUR COUNTS

Chicago. nl.-Col. Charles r. Forbes,
FORMER director of the United States
veterans bureau, and John w. Thomp-
son, contractor of Chicago and st.
Louis, were named in four indictments
returned by the federal grand jury
which has spent a month investigat-
Ing charges of waste, graft and de-
b%auchery in connection with Colonel
Forbes administration.
Forbes and Thompson were named
Jointly in two indictments, charging
conspiracy to commit bribery and of
lenses against the government and
conspiracy to defraud the United
states government. Forbes was named
ulone in a third Indictment on a charge
Of accepting a bride, and Thompson in
a fourth charging that he had Indirect
~ give ne bride.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
DAUGHERTY DEFYING COOLIDGE
NEW YORK BANKER SAYS

New York.-President Coolidge has
asked for the resignation of Attorney
General Daugherty, but has not re-
ceived it, Frank A. Vanderlip, retired
banker, declared in an address here.
Asked to elaborate on his assertion,
or to tell from whom he had obtained
the information, Mr.. Vanderlip was
uncommunicative.
II will stand on that statement,
that's ALL" he told newspaper men.
Mr.. Vanderlip added in his speech,
however, that he had sent word to the
president, but did not know whether
his communication had been received
that Daugherty should not be al
lowed to resign if the resignation was
to be accompanied by a 'whitewash
letter"
Mr.. Vanderlip said a new political
party would be formed if the president
did not ''go through with the present
investigation in Washington, where
ever it leads, and purify the federal
government"
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
COURT ACTION FOR
ANNULMENT BEGUN
CIVIL SUITS TO PREVENT FUR.
Their EXTRACTION OF Gov
EMINENT OIL INSTIGATED
POMERENE HEADS COUNSEL
Criminal Action, If Any, Awaits More
Detailed Study of Sketchy
Investigation Evidence

Neutrality-suspicious. action in the oil
lease cases was initiated this week By
special government counsel while the
senate oil committee followed further
the trail of the celebrated Mclean
kilograms.
The first step of counsel will be ia
oring civil action looking to the stop
page of the extraction of oil from the
naval reserves in California and Wyo-
ming and the annulment of the leases
awarded by Albert B. Fall, as secre-
tary of the interior, to Doheny and
Sinclair interests.
Any criminal action growing out OF
the oil scandal must await a more de-
tailed study of the testimony adduced
before the senate committee and an
Independent investigation to fill in
gaps in that testimony.
Atlee Pomerene, former senator
from Ohio, will have more or less gen.
eral charge of the civil proceedings
while Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia,
will devote himself and his staff prin-
1lpdlii " liz oLudJ VI IN lliiilo
phases of the case.
President Coolidge is expected to APP
point additional special counsel to
prosecute actions looking to the re-
covery to the federal government of
sections 16 and SO in the Elk Hills re-
serve in California, now operated by
the Standard Oil company of Califor-
mia.
The executive will select counsel es-
pecially learned in land law to prose-
cute this case, inasmuch as the chief
point at issue is whether these sections
were known to be mineral bearing at
the time the state of California oD-
tanned them as school lands upon the
grant of statehood.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
HARLOWTOWN PROJECT
0KED BY COMMISSION
Irrigation Plan to Bring 10000 Acres
in MusseIsheIl Under Ditch
Meets Approval

Approval of the Harlowton-Durand
irrigation district in the Musselshel1
valley has been formally reported by
the public service commission of Mon
tana, making possible the issuance of
bonds for the construction of the prof.
ect t osupply water for 3O,O10 acres
of land. The project will cost, it is
estimated, S1,O27, 900, which will mean
an assessment of approximately $45.0
an acre for the construction costs.
This charge, it is planned, will be
spread we a period of 30 years, no
principal payments being due until
the sixth year.
OF the BOOTS acres under the pro-
posed ditch, 22,799 will be tillable and
irrigable and 7,219 will be grazing
land.
The maintenance charges, it is esti-
mated, will approximate 70 cents an
acre yearly.
There has been a cessation of irriga-
ton building in Montana in recent
months due to the lack of demand for
farming lands, but a land revival in
the sections of the state not limited by
nature to wheat growing has been indi-
Gated.
The land included in the Harlewton-
Durand district lies along the north
side of the Musselshell river, north
and east of Harlowton. 1t was segre-
gated for a Carey act project about 10
years ago, and then, when the federal
project was given up, was thrown
open to the homestead entry and fin
ally organized as a district under the
state irrigation laws. The state en-
gineers regard the land as adapted to
diversified farming, dairying, stock
raising and in fact, intensified farming
of all kinds. 1t is believed to be
among the most prosperous farming
areas of the state and as all the land
is privately owned there will be no
need for the state to conduct sales
campaigns although the state officials
believe that colonization could be con-
Quoted to advantage.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
Ouer the Great DiUide
Pioneers Of forty wears ago, or more,
who have come to the end of the trail

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ROSS-John L. Ross, who, coming
from Novia Scotia in 1870, was one of
the first locators in Argenta, and has
since that time been actively engaged
in the mining business at that place,
died at his home there.
SMITH-A. J. Smith, a Civil war
veteran, who, with his family located
in the Yellowstone valley in 1871, and
afterwapd moved to Bozeman, died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sol
Frank, at Livingston.
PARKER. G. Parker, former
prominent mining man of Deer Lodge
and a member of the state legislature
in early days died at his home in San
Francisco, California.
LOVE-William Love, one of the
first white men to homestead in the
Swan Lake country, and an old time
prospector of that section, died at the
Tea Kettle ranger station, where he
made his home with the ranger, neal
Columbia Falls.
BEAN-Willard e. Bean, who in
1882 arrived at Fort Benton via river
steamer, later took up a claim in Fer
gus county and engaged in the sheep
business until 1906, when he sold out
and moved to Billings, afterward To-
eating again on a large ranch in the
Big Horn, died at a hospital in Har-
din.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
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Washington.-By a vote of 40S TO s,
house. AS sent to the senate the
measure carries an income tax sched-
ule offered as a substitute for the
Democratic rates. This was adopted,
PIG 70 1919, after the house had refused,
by a vote of 261 to 1913, to reinsert in
the bill the original Mellon schedule.
The substitute, which was supported
oy Republican insurgents who previ-
ously had thrown their lot with the
Democrats, provides for a normal tax
reduction of 2 per cent on incomes be-
low $4,000, to 5 per cent on incomes
between $4,000 and $4,000 and to 6
per cent above $4,000.
1t also would cut by one-fourth the
present surtax rates, making the max
imum 371a per cent on incomes ex-
ceeding 100000. No increase in vx-
listing personal tax exemptions would
be allowed.
The house also approved a proposal
for a flat reduction of % per cent on
NIL personal Income taxes payable this
year.
Specific rate changes carried in the
bin will not become effective until tax
payments are made next year on in
come and profits of 1924, except those
made in the excise levies, which would
go into effect 80 days after enactment
of the law.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
Shot in Kidneys; Walks 5 Miles

Edmund Wagner, II, of Bonner,
walked five miles to find help after
his liver and kidney had been pune
tured by a bullet. He had been out
with his % caliber rifle and at the
time of the accident had been thrust
ing at a piece of ice in a small stream.
He was leaning forward, gripping the
gun by the muzzle, when it exploded.
The boy started back to Bonner and
had walked about five miles when he
was met by his sister, who took him to
the city and called a physician. The
Lad is said to be recovering.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
MELLON TAX PLAN
DEFEATED IN HOUSE
Compromise Measure of Insurgents
and Democrats Carries by a
Vote of 408 to 8
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MAJOR PROVISIONS OF
APPROVED TAX PLAN

X In addition to the new in
X come tax schedule, major pro-
X visions of the bill approved are:
X A % per cent reduction in
X taxes on earned income, all in
X comes under $1,000 being de-
X fined as earned for purposes of
X this reduction.
X Repeal or reduction of many ,
X of the miscellaneous or excise =,
X taxes, involving about $120,OO0,-
n 600 in revenues annually.
Tightening of the limitations j.,
X of capital loss and gross income =,
X deductions, which, it is estimat- ,
4 mated will yield about S60,000,- .,
X 600 revenue annually.
Increases in the estate tax !
X rates of about SO per cent. ,
X Institution of a gift tax with }
X same rates as carried in the ,
X estate tax.
r Creation of a board of tax J
X appeals to decide tax disputes J
X between the treasury and tax J
\ payers. J
X Opening of the income tax }
X returns to inspection by certain !
X congressional committees. :
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
Co-Operative Cannery

If plans made by the Hamilton
chamber of commerce with farmers of
the vicinity materialize, a cooperative
canning and preserving plant will be
going full speed ahead when the sea-
son opens this summer. The plan is
to organize an association among the
farmers and business men under the
guidance of the Eugene Canning COM
pany of Eugene, Ore. 1t is hoped to
map out a plan that will keep a can
merry open at least 10 months of the
year.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
FIREMEN SEARCH RUINS OF
EXPLOSION WRECKED TOWN

New Brunswick, N. J.-Aided by
tractors to tear asunder the masses of
debris, firemen and volunteers of the
town of Nixon are working to 0
the bodies of many dead as the result
of a T. N. r. explosion that wiped out
that town recently. Forty are thought
to be buried beneath the ruins.
Eighteen bodies have been recovered.
The terrific explosion occurred in the
munitions plant.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
Razino Jail

The Cascade county commissioners
have awarded the contract for disman-
fling and removing the old county Jail
at Great Falls to Albert J. Fousek.
He will pay the county $50 in addition
to doing the work and taking posses
sion of the material with the excep-
ton Of the iron and steel in the struc-
ture. There were min bidders, most of
whom wanted to be paid by the county
for the job.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
District Judqe RESIGNS

Billings, Mont.-A. c. Spencer, fol
the last nine years one of the judges
of the Thirteenth judicial district, en-
bracing Carbon, Big Horn and Yellow.
stone counties, has announced his in
tention to resign, effective April L
and will take up his residence in Los
Angeles, where he will become asso-
ciated with a prominent firm of at
%tOrneYs.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-03-06
Will Rrinn Bankers Back

Helena, Mont. - Gov. Joseph M
Dixon has issued acquisitions on the
governor of Washington, asking the
custody of A. l.. Brady and c. w.
Tewell, president and cashier, re-
spectively, of the Gilman State bank,
charged with having accepted deposits
after the insolvency of the bank was
known.