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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-23
RURAL CORRESPONDENCE
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Mrs. W. C. Cook, who has spent
the summer at the home OF her
daughter, Mrs. Knudt Saboe, has
gone to Corvallis to visit her son be-
fore returning to her home in Wis
cousin.
BOYD and Iva Nefzger from Circle
spent Saturday and Sunday IN the
home of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Nefzger.
Peter Crowley has rented the
Remley farm and expects to take
possession soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Leuenberger
and son called Wednesday evening
at the Clarence Nefzger home.
Mrs. Johnnie Eggebrecht is assist
ing with the cooking during threshlng
time at the w. C. Dillon home.
Mrs. c. E. Nefzger and Mrs. E.
Dye called Thursday at the Gorley
and Dick Nefzger homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Birch also Mr.. Haset
were callers at Vida Saturday.
Ed. and P. M. Krebsbach were IN
Wolf Point on business Monday and
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Price Vine are the
parents of a baby boy, born Oct. 10.
Mrs. Clair Kelley is home again
from P. Schillinger's home where she
has been employed for some time.
Mrs. James DeWane and Cleo Mae
spent the first of the week at Wolf
Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Kirchner from
Circle spent Saturday night and Sun
day at the DeWane and P. Schll-
fingers homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Mason have
moved their household goods to Wolf
Point. where Mr.. Mason is employed
on the train.
Miss Ethel Nefzger spent Sunday
night and Monday at the home of her
cousin, Mary Kathryn Dye.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-23
PORTIONS OF PROPOSED
INITIATIVE NUMBER Is

"a Bill to enact by the Initiative
. law providing for licenses for rev.
enne purposes, requiring all persons,
individuals, firms, co-partnerships,
associations, joint stock companies,
c-ommon-law companies, business
trusts, sy~ndicates and corporations
engaging in or carrying on the bust
ness of working or operating ANY
mine. or mining property in the
State of Montana, from which gold,
silver. copper. lead, or any Other
:. stal or metals or precious or semi
M, c.ous gems or stones of 1nY KIM
sL,Il he mined. extracted or pred, ed,
T., nav to the state Treasurer an an
nual license tax for engaging in and
carving on such business in this
state. fixing the amount of such Ii
censA tax. providing a method for the
assessment and collection thereof
and the disposition of the proceeds
Of such license tax; prescribing pen
alties for violations of the provisions
of this Act" Etc.
Amount of Tax
Section 4. The annual License
Tax TO 5e paid by such person en-
gagged in or carrying on the business
of working or operating any mine
or mining property in this state from
which gold, silver, copper, lead or any
other metal or metals, precious or
semi-precious gems or stones are pro
duced. shall be one dollar, together
with an additional sum or amount
equal to an amount computed on the
gross value of product which may
have been derived by such person
from such business, work or operation
within this State during the calendar
year Immediately preceding, at the
following rates:-A of 10 of the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-23

amount by which such gross value of
product exceeds 800, 100000 and
does not exceed $3.50, 100000; u of
lie OF the amount by which such
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-23

gross value Of product exceeds $780,
10000 and does not exceed $500, 600.
90; ~ of Ia of the amount by
which the gross value Of product ex-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-23

oeds s4OO,OOO.OO and does not ex-
ced s5OO,O00.O0 and 10 of the
amunt by which the gross value of
project exceeds $500, 100000.
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Mrs. Fletcher, broken jaw.

The auto was driven by Mrs.
Fletcher. She told police that she
vas going south on Guilford Ave.
and saw the street car coming, but
was unable to swerve from its path
because of another automobile. The
street car struck the rear right wheel
throwing the car into another ma
chine at the curb. owned by Sam
Jacobs, $50 S. Illinois ST.
Mrs. Fletcher's 3-year-old son.
Warren F. Fletcher, Jr., and Miss
Ida Vacini, Is. of 4247 Guilford Ave-.
were uninjured.
Mrs. Fletcher rescued the baby
from underneath the car. The child
was not even scratched.
Roy Asbury. 67s1a E st. Clair ST..
told police he saw the collision and
declared that Mrs. Fletcher's car
was going approximately thirty miles
an hour. He estimated the speed
of the street car at twenty.
Curtis johnson, 2S, 1912 W.
Twenty-Seventh ST., was the motor
man and Arthur Schlanger, Fl, of
73S Congress Ave, was the con-
ductor. Coroner Paul r. Robinson
is investigating.
Police Capt. Drinkut ordered Mrs.
Fletcher and the motorman slated
on charges of manslaughter.
The. injured were taken to st.
Vincent Hospital, where the girl
died in the surgery.
The Geisberg girls, nieces of Mrs.
Fletcher, and Miss Finell, have
been visiting Mrs. Fletcher. Miss
Vacini, a neighbor, was being taken
downtown where Mrs Fletcher was
to meet her husband. Warren c.
Fletcher. Then they were to drive
in the country.
Fletcher is president of the W. C.
Fletcher Company, manufacturers
agents, with Offices in the Fletcher
Trust building.
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FIGURES DON'T
LIE; July COOL
Average Temperature During
Month Was 72.9.
Figures don't lie.

Figures don't lie.
Doesn't matter If it did seem hot
and tropical.
Indianapolis during July was an
ideal summer resort so far as wealth
er was concerned, according to sta
tistics for the month, ISSUED by J..
H Arlington, weather bureau
meteorologist. today. Average mean
temperature for the month was 72 g
degrees above zero. 2.S degrees below
the normal July average, and far be.
low some of the hot Julys OF past
years.
The highest temperature recorded
was 81 degrees on the goth. 15 de-
grees below the record set July %,
1901; lowest, 81 degrees on the Sd.
3 degrees warmer than the record
set July 1, 1885.
Real relief was at hand from the
hot wave today. Temperatures kept
under the 20 mark in the early
hours.
Rising temperature was forecast
for Sunday. with probable thunder
storms.
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"If you can tell US what to do.
we will thank you very much"
Tell them what to do: Bless their
hearts Mr.. F1xit's doing it for
them.
i Inquiry at the city han disclosed
that the sewers at this point are
under direction of the street com
missioner. The street commission
er's office promised to send man
to investigate what should be done
70 remedy the trouble at once.
II the odor is not eliminated soon.
Mr.. Fixit invited the East Side
F7appers to let him know.
Write to Fixit
Fixit will investigate reasonable
municipal complaints for anyone
who writes to him in care of The
Times.
An order from the city for the In
dianapolis Street Railway Company
to extend it's lines has about as
much effect as an offer to buy the
Monument"
Board of works records are fun Of
orders for extensions, all disregarded
by the street car company because
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PIERCE RITES MONDAY
Retired Farmer VIII Be Buried at
Fowler, Ind.

Funeral services for William R.
Pierce, 65, who died at the Methodist
Hospital Friday, will probably be
held at the home Of his daughter,
Mrs. L. G. Baumgardt, 1913 \. Tux
edo ST.. Monday afternoon. Burial
will be at Fowler. Ind.
Mr.. Pierce. a retired farmer. had
lived in Indiana practically all his
life an6 had been a resident Of In
5iaanpo.,s since 1916. He was born
near Remington, Ind.
Surviving Sterling are two sons.
Sterling Pierce, South Bend, and
Adrian Pierce, Indianapolis.
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ing them. but If they were incar-
cerated and a study made society
might receive some benefit. There
may be future developments in
their mental condition that will
throw light on their acts"
NORMAN PATRICK, attorney.
500 Indiana Trust Company Bldg:
"If 1 were trying that case think
l should not hesitate to sentence
them to life Imprisonment, on the
theory that if they were mentally
off they could be sent to a hos
pital for proper treatment"
EDWARD w. HUNTER, secre.
tary-manager indianapolis Adevr-
tising Club: II cannot conceive of
any sane human being taking the
life of another, SO / believe they
are insane. II they are insane 1t
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for life. Those boys have been
raised in luxury and should now
be given taste of hard life. Soil
tary confinement would not be too
good for them. Hard labor and a
taste of work will do lot to them.
They have had too much college
education.
MRS, ELIZABETH ELLIOTT,
1417h Kentucky Ave: I say give
those boys life imprisonment.
MRS. CHARLOTTE FITCH.
-121S N. Sheffield Ave; l don't
favor capital punishment, but /
believe society would be better off
with those youths out of the way
3 They are highly educated and
don't seem to be sorry for what
they have done. It would not be
right to let thAna 1--we.
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certainly would be a crime for the
law to take their lives. Society
should be protected from them"
MRS. MARY SHEA, 1912 S.
Serate Ave: II am not in favor of
death. Those boys are much too
young, and we must consider their
youth. 1 don't believe youth really
understands the seriousness of all
it's acts"
MRS. o. w. LOCKE, 2915 Cliff
ton Ave: l say sentence them to
capital punishment. They have
confessed to committing such an
awful crime so should get the
fullest extent of the law
MRS JOHN EGELHOF'F. 2102
Madison Ave: 1t Is a hard pro-
position just to say what should
be done to Leopold and LOEB. !
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out similar plot, so 1 believe they
should take the consequences.
believe paying them back in their
own coin, is tn way to stop that
kind of crint in this country"
E. J. GAUSEPOHL, Jr., mer-
chant, 1853 Broadway: "They
should be hung.
JERRY KINNEY, inspector of
detectives: II don't care to ex-
press an opinion, since first hand
facts are not available"
EUGENE S. BENNETT. adver-
tiser, 244 s. Meridian ST.: 81 be-
lieve in capital punishment and
think they should have the limit"
DIR. JOHN w. SLUSS, 901 Ma
tional City Bank Bldg: They
ought to be sentenced for life I
SEQ nothing to be gained In hang
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GROVE TRAP
FOR AL|EN|ST'
IS THWARTED
Prosecutors Second At
tempt to Force Jury De-
CiSion on Sanity of SIay-
erS Fails When Judge
0verruIeS Questions.
By EDWARD c. DERR

By United Press
CRIMINAL COURTROOM, CHI
.CAGO. Aug. Estates Attorney
Robert E. Grove today failed, for d
second time, TO force the mental
condition of Nathan Leopold Jr.. and
Richard Loeb before a jury.
While cross-examining DR.. William
A. White, an alienist, who appeared
in defense of the millionaire murder
ers Of Robert Franks. 14-year-old
schoolboy. Grove attempted TO force
the witness to state whether In his
opinion the boys were insane.
The defense objected to this ques-
ton and was sustained by Chief JUS
tice John R. Caverly, who is hearing
evidence to determine whether Leo
pold and Loeb shall hang or be sent
to prison.
Failing in this direct attempt,
Grove tried by various subtle ques-
tioEs to force DR.. White across the
thin line of mental responsibility"
to the question of insanity. Each
time he was repused.
The fiery States attorney made
his first effort 10 throw the ques-
ton Of the boys mental status be
fore a jury several days ago. when
he objected to the admissability Of
alienists' testimony before the court.
Grove OverTuIed
His contention was that such a
question must be heard by a jury.
but after lengthy debate he was over
ruled.
Grove scored. however. what he
considered a successful attack upon
the credibility of the defense alienist
when his demand for DR.. Whites
original report on Leopold and Loeb
was refused by the defense.
Grove declared that DIR. White, in
his first report found Leopold and
Loeb insane, but when the defense
changed it's mind and pleaded the
boys guilty, thus giving up insanity
as defense, the doctor quite con-
veniently changed his conslusion for
the purpose of aiding the defense
case
Justice Caverly sustained the de-
fense's claim that IT was not neces-
sary for them to submit the doctors
original report.
DIR. White was excused as a wit
ness after a few brief questions in
examination by the defense and the
case went over to Monday.
Attacks Dream Life
Prosecutor Grove began cross
examination OF DR.. White today
with a vigorous effort to tear down
the 'phantasy life" defense.
He attempted to show that the
super-intellectuals with the emo
tions "of a child of 5'-the crux of
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do think they should be made to
suffer as they made the Franks
boy.
MRS. E. A. M'KEE, 30o7 N.
Delaware St.: If. thought the
two youths would stay in the
penitent1ary and remain there the
rest of their lives, l would be
satisfied to see them sentenced
for life. But l am afraid if such
is tn cease they will go free few
years later.
MRS. LAURA GRANT, 1908
Southeastern Ave: l most certain
ly do think those. two boys deserve
some kind of punishment. Yet l
do not believe In breaking Gods
commandments. think they
should be taken to the penitentSary
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Attacks Dream Life
YOUNG WIFE is TAKEN

Funeral for Mrs. Matte May Monger
Arranged.
Funeral services for Mrs. Matte
May Monger. %, who died Friday
night, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday
at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs
Howard Monger,. 1929 N. Oakland
Ave. Burial in Crown Hill Gene
terry.
Mrs. Monger Is survived by the
husband, Fred r. (Monger, inspector
for American Telephone and Tele.
graph Company; her mother, in Den
yer, Col, and. a sister at ST. Louis.
She was a member OF First Baptist
Church and had lived in Indianapolis
for sixteen years.
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DENSE FOG
SEPARATES
j. S. FL|ERS
Two World Airmen Turn
Back When Mist of North
Atlantic Makes Progress
Difficult Third Plane
Continues.

KIRKwALL, ORKNEY IS
LANDS, Aug. z.-Lieut Eric Mel
son Of the American round-the-world
light was winging his way toward
iceland alone today after becoming
separated from his flying mates in
a fog twenty-five miles out of Hough-
ton Bay, off Kirkwall.
A radio from the destroyer Reid
at $50 p. m. said Nelson passed over
the ship at 2:4o, still heading toward
Iceland. He had covered about 400
miles and was within less than 200
miles of Hornafjord.
The Reid was half way between
the Farce Islands and Iceland.
Others Return
Lieut.. Lowell Smith, commander
" the flight, and Lieut.. Leigh Wade
decided TO return to Houghton when
they lost Nelson in the dense mist
which hung over the North Atlantic.
The commander and WAGE flew
back over Kirkwall at 10;15 a. N.
and circled over Houghtcn Bay TO
their landing buoys.
Meantime, the United States cruls-
~ Richmond. which had cheered
the fiers' departure. put out to sea
under full steam to race in the wake
Of the speeding Nelson and render
him assistance II 1t is needed.
The Richmond was recalled to
Hougf1ton Bay after a short cruise
outside the bay. without sighting
the missing aviator.
Above Fog
Lieutenants Smith and Wade
both believed Nelson probably had
penetrated the fog. which they said
was encountered at a height Of 5000
teet.
The Richmond sent out hurried
radios to the torpedo boat destroy
srs Reid and Billingsley, warning
lhem that Nelson was on his way
alone, and asking that a close look
put be kept for him.
The two ships previously had TAX
en- up positions along the route Of
the fiiers from Houghton Bay to
Hornafjord, Iceland.
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Ten years ago today was
Sunday, black Sunday for
Europe and tho world.
All Europe was pl0nging into
war A German troop train
was blown up in Alssce- Lorraine.
The Russian fleer was re-
ported defeated by German war.
ships.
Germans were invading
France and II was reported
2,o00 had been taken prisoner.
A railway car loaded with
100000 in German gold was
seized by the French.
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WANTS MORE WATER
West Lebanon Man Says Friends
Fail to Function

r. ]. Goodwine. West Lebanon.
Ind, who prints "agriculturist" un.
der his name on his stationery. says
three of his best friends are on the
town council, but plead with them
as he WILL they are not functioning
as successful water commissioners.
Goodwine, in a letter TO the pub
lie service commission today. asks
the commission to use it's influence
to get the town to drill a new well
for water supply.
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Tick out of fourteen Indian
10 apolis persons, interviewed
IL at random by Times re-
porters, declared in favor of the
death sentence for Nathan Leo
pold Jr. and Richard Loeb. con-
fessed murderers of Robert Franks
in Chicago.
Three of the six in favor of
capital punishment were women
and three men. Two women and
three men were for life imprison-
ment. One man and two women
did not have definite ideas upon
what should be done
Here are their views:
E. c. SMITH, 3210 Brooklyn,
motorman: '.Ehey were wise
enough to read that sixteenth GEN.
tury book on perversion and work
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SPEED ARRESTS DRIP
Only Two Men Held Friday Nigh -
Explanation Lacking. .

Arrests on speeding charges
dropped to two Friday night, the
lowest In several weeks.
Police said they did not under
stand the drop, as motorcyclemen
were on the job as usual.
Duarell Carter. 10, Of 142 w. Thir-
tfeth St, and Floyd T. Smith, 49,,
OF 35 S. Brookville, Ave-, were
charged with speeding.
William Woldt, AZ, of sos s. Tibts
Ave, and Lester Scott, 20, Of TIA
Lord ST.. are charged with driving
while intoxicated.
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Gallant Fixit
East Side FIappers' Ask
Him a Favor and He
RuSheS to Do Their
Bidding,
II ALLANT Mr.. F1xit.
IL There's nothing he'd rather
10 shan odd q Iodx fy1 diS+~aee

ALLANT Mr.. F1xit.
IL There's nothing he'd rather
do than aid a lady in distress
And when it comes to several ladies'
Well. he's right on the job.
That's why he hustled right over
to the city hall when this complaint,
signed East Side F1appers" came
by mail:
Dear Mr.. Fixit:
Can you do anything about
this?
Across from our home on Now
land Ave, is a creek, Pogue's Run,
in a beautiful little park, Spades
Park. 1t is very picturesque. but
the odor! 1t is especially horrible
between Jefferson Ave. and Com
merce Ave.
When a girl wants to take a
stroll through the park with
friend she is often embarrassed. All
the sewers empty into this creek.
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LANTERNS ARE COSTLY
City Spends $500 for Lighting Street
Holes and Distractions.

1t has cost the city nearly $500
this year to afford citizens protection
from holes and Instructions in the
streets.
For exactly 257 red lanterns set
ost by the street department have
either been broken or stolen since
Jan. l. w. B. Schoenrogg said today.
Seventy-flve lanterns were stolen
and 1872 were broken beyond further
use when struck by vehicles.
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struction were necessary to use
the trailer system.
"If Indianapolis car riders ap-
prove of this type Of car" Todd
said, I'VE are going to purchase
twenty-five more of them. We
will have to pay approximately
$4,000 for them and the new
ones will not be one particle bet
ter than the ones now in use"
Todd explained when such
motors deteriorate from over
heating they are rewound and
any worn parts replaced and
they are better than new untried
motors.
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RIOTS BREAK OUT
IN MEXICO CITY
One Civilian Killed, Five
Wounded in Fighting,

~ United Press
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2.-Political
tension was high here today follow.
ing riots between civilians and
milit@y police and firemen in.
which one civilian was killed and
FIVE wounded.
The fighting took place near the
Nationel Palace when police and
iremen attempted to dispense a pro-
cession demonstrating against high
taxes.
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suitable for use in Indianapolis
and that he believed the company
had succeeded in making a good
bargain.
However, the public has been
given to understand that the COM
pany had bought new cars, al
though some of the strap-hangers
were dubious when they noticed
the painted over dents in the
sides of some of them, the
cracked ceilings and the old-ap-
pearing seats.
The company is making a par
tial payment Of the cars with the
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proceeds of $51, 200 in car trust
notes. the issuance of which was
authorized by the public service
commission.
The order of the commission
said:
THE evidence shows that the
purpose of issuing said notes is
to purchase ten NEW street cars.
which have already been ordered
and will arrive ready for use In
about four weeks"
The order was dated May %,
1924.
John W. McCardle. member of
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the public service commission,
who was chairman of the com
mission when the order was is
sued. indicated he knew the COM
pany did not buy new cars and
said the cars 1t did buy were
'just as good as new ones"
A report of the company for
May. the last one on file with the
commission, shows the company
paid $4,000 toward recondition-
ing and adapting to Indianapolis
traffic ten Peter Witt type pas
senger cars Nos. 1,034 to 1.043.
There is some disagreement as
to the age, of the cars. A dis
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By United Press
WASHINGTON. Aug. q
One year ago tonight, death
suddenly struck down President
Harding in San Francisco.
A few hours later, President
Coolidge took the oath of Of
flee in the parlor Of his fathers
farmhouse at Plymouth, VT,
his father administering the
oath.
The White House flag today
was at half-mast in memory
of the late President
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business stroke to get the cars
from the Cleveland company at
such a bargain, when new ones,
no better, would cost us $16,000,"
Todd said.
The company president de-
clared the cars to all intents and
purposes were absolutely as
good as any that could be pur-
chased from the Cincinnati Car
Company. This type Of car is an
experiment here. Todd said, and
the company did not feel like
buying new ones when the bar
gain presented itself.
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patch from Cleveland said they
had been in use there ten years
Todd denied any attempt at
secrecy in the purchase of the
cars or any attempt. TO put any
thing over on the Public Serv-
ice Commission.
Todd said the cars were on the
cornpany's books at approxi-
mately $1,000 each and that they
gave notes Of approximately
$4,000 and paid cash for the
balance.
I'VE thought it a mighty good
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Todd explained the cars were
overhauled by the Cleveland
company and driven to Indian
apolis under their own power. He
said they had been In use only
approximately five years and
that the twenty-five horsepower
motor was the latest type in use.
They were originally built for
Rochester. N. Y, but went to
Cleveland and were only discard
ed by the Ohio city because they
were not constructed to pull
trailers. He said heavier motors
and heavier rear platform con-