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Evening star., 1924-12-04
Tuscan Net Curtains
$1.85 Each: $3.50 Pair

A useful and practical gift are
these tringed-bottom Tuscan net
curtains i'll ecru color.
These are the large mesh net cur
tains with bullion fringe bottom
that so many people prefer. 2H
yards long.
Curtain Section, Fifth floor.
Evening star., 1924-12-04
Match Gases, 75c
Women's Gloves, $1.25

\ practical gift are these g.
button-length p-wrist
Twoplex Fabric Gloves, in
mode, sand, beaver and gray,
with 3-row fancy embroidered
backs.
Glove Section, First floor.
Evening star., 1924-12-04
Mems Slippers, $50

They will give real comfort
and pleasure. Made of warm
felt with soft padded soles.
Brown, blue and gray.
Mems Shoe Section. Second floor
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
FLOODS IN WYOMING
DELAY TRAIN SERVICE
Weakened Bridge at Arvada Causes
Burlington Line to Can
eel Train

Sheridan, Wyo. Burlington rail
road trains running east out of Sher-
idan were Cancelled early Friday, April
4, following reports of damage to the
railroads bridge over Powder river at
Arvada, 40 miles east of here.
Stub trains were run from Billings
to Sheridan and from Edgemont, S. D.,
to Echeta, Wyo., east of Powder river,
it was reported at the railroads divi-
sional headquarters here.
However, resumption of through
passenger service on the Burlington
line through Sheridan was indicated
Friday night, according to local rail
way officials by the orders given to
e%astbound train No. A. From the
fact that the train was ordered to pro-
coed through, it vas presumed that the
danger to the bridge at Arvada was
considered past.
Driftwood and ice, carried on the
crest of the river, swollen by the melt
ing of snow in the Big Horn moun
tains, piled up against the Arvada
bridge and greatly weakened it, break
ing several piling timbers under the
temporary bridge erected to carry the
tracks when sections of the bridge
were carried out last fall and during
the winter.
An ice gorge has formed against the
bridge at Cadiz, also, it is reported,
and broken several timbers. The
Belle Fourche river at Moorcroft is re-
ported high. Big and Little Goose
creeks, running through Sheridan, are
reported high, but no danger of floods
is apprehended at present.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Ouer the Great Divide
Pioneers OF forty years ago, or more.
who have come 60 the end Of the trail


HARRINGTON - Fayette Harring-
ton, pioneer legislator, miner and mer-
chant, died at his home at Missoula at
the age of 81 years. In 1864 he joined
an emigrant train bound for Montana.
During the pioneer days he engaged in
mining, merchandising, banking and
the cattle business, and was active in
politics, being a member of the First
and Second legislative assemblies.
NICHOLSON Andrew Nicholson,
pioneer rancher of Jefferson valley,
died suddenly on the train at Dillon
en- route from Los Angeles to Harri-
son, his home. He was more than 60
years of age and one of the first set
tiers in Jefferson valley.
COOLEY-John r. Cooley, well
known rancher of Musselshell, died at
his home after a few weeks illness.
He was G6 years of age, having come
to Montana in 1880, settling on the
present ranch near Musselshell.
CONDON-Daniel J. Condor, early
settler of the Niehart mining district,
died at his home at Niehart at the age
of &c. He came to this state from
Colorado in the early eighties.
ROWLES-Mrs. Ellen M. Rowles,
wife of Presley II. Rowles, died at the
family home at Great Falls, aged SO
years. She came to Montana with her
aunt 40 years ago.
GROBRITE-William Gobrite, one
of the early pioneers, died at the age
of 50 at Helena. Coming to Montana
in 1863, he was active in Vigilante days
in Virginia City.
HODGES-Woodson Hodges, Park
county pioneer, died at his home on
Missouri creek, aged 70 years. He
came overland by wagon from Mis-
souri, in 1874.
MURPHY-Mrs. Mary Murphy, pion-
eer, died at Helena. She came to the
in 1868, living most of the time
in Lewis and Clark county.
HEAD-Norval Head, rs, died at his
ranch home on Reese creek, near Boze-
man, where he had lived for about 40
years.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
YELLOWSTONE CROPS
BRING s5,130,000
Value Of Five Principal Crops For
1923 Compiled by Billings
Commercial Club

The total value to the farmers OF
Yellowstone county of the five princi-
pal crops grown upon their land IN
1923, was S5,130,000, according to sta
tistics that have been gathered by the
Billings Commercial club. This sum
is exclusive of livestock, poultry, yege-
tables and the minor grains. 1t in
cludes only sugar beets, beans, corn,
alfalfa and spring and winter wheat.
There are $500 farmers in Yellow
stone county. Spring wheat holds the
record for the largest acreage sown
by them to any one crop in 1923, with
$4,000 acres. The total wheat produc-
tion for the county last year was l,S00,-
900 bushels, valued at S ,620000.
Alfalfa is next with $4,000 acres
the value of the crop being placed at
S1,25O,OO0. One noticeable fact is that
the 5000 acres devoted to alfalfa pro-
d%uction, returned only $4,000 more to
the farmer than did the 1000 acres
which were in sugar beets. The value
of the beet crop to the farmer was, I'M
der the cooperative plan in effect,
$115 an acre. The total bean crop of
the county was 100000 pounds, har-
vested from 10000 acres and the crop
was valued at S595,000.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
STATE SUES RAILROADS
FOR SLEEPING GAR TAX
Attorney General Files Suit to Collect
$4,000 From Three Lines on
Licer 7es

Suit to collect an aggregate of $780,
900, plus interest, has been filed by At
torney General Rankin against the
Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul, and the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroads. The
facts set forth by Mr.. Rankin were
not disputed and the only point raised
by the defense was hat of constitu-
tional authority, it being contended the
sleeping cars were engaged in inter-
stste commerce and not subject to a
state license tax. A ruling to this
effect was handed down by one of
Montana's former attorneys general.
First honors in the suit went to the
attorney general when Judge A. J.
Horsky in the district court of Lewis
and Clark county Thursday, April 3,
o%ver-ruled demurrers of the railroads,
attacking the law on constitutional
grounds.
Judge Horsky's ruling is regarded by
Mr.. Rankin as a complete victory for
the state. Except for a possible ap-
peal to the supreme court tG test the
soundness of the decision, Mr.. Rankin
does not believe the roads will further
fight the case.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10

G. Fl. Barnes, field man engaged by
the valley farmers to promote better
farming and to introduce the methods
of growing sugar beets, was in Har-
lem recently meeting the various bust
ness men and telling them of the posi-
bilities for the beet industry here. Mr..
Barnes is carrying on an educational
campaign to show the farmers and
business men that a different system
of farming will be adopted in the val
ley if farming is going to be put on a
paying basis.
The campaign is now on to have all
of the farmers in the valley prepare
ground for beets in 1925 by growing
cultivated crops like corn, potatoes,
beans and peas. 1t has been assured
that if 5000 acres of land in the Milk
River valley can thus be prepared this
year there will be no trouble at all in
inducing a factory to come here.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
FREAK STORM HITS
EAST COAST CITIES
Snow With Thunder and Lightning
Discrepancies Traffic and Snip
ping; Wires Down

New York.-A snowstorm, in which
winter staged a comeback with u
der and lightning effects, swept the
Atlantic coast states, Tuesday, April
1. The storm was said to have set a
record for April in New York and IN
most of the country it visited. Win
ter sifted down a fluffy snow to a
depth varying from four and a half
inches in Connecticut to II inches in
Baltimore's suburbs.
In all instances the snow turned to
slush directly it struck the ground. 1t
carried down telephone and telegraph
wires about New York, interfered with
harbor shipping, delayed commuters
trains and was responsible for a rear
end collision of elevated trains, result
ing in the death of one man and IN
juries to Is others. Several thousand
street cleaners fought the storm
throughout the night.
Thunder and lightning provided the
spring touch for nearly three hours at
New York, but the snow did not turn
to rain.
The storm, with freakish elemental
ways a part of it, came up from the
gulf states and storm signals were dis
played from Cape Hatteras to East
port, Maine.
It brought an early end to the de-
l"iberations of the senate when Wash
ington streets had been covered under
six inches of slush and traffic gener-
ally d~isorganized. Downtown Balti-
more was under nine inches of water
snow.
The electrical storm gave Philadel-
phia a bad hour or so, with roken
telephone and telegraph wires, a partly
crippled police telegraph system, and
with fuses blown out all over the city.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
OIL NEW
BRLETL YRECOUNTED

Penn-Kentucky Oil company of West
Virginia made location for a test vel
on the Laurel structure, west of Bill
lings, and is now rigging up with
standard steel derrick and heavy duty
rig and tools for a deep hole. Unless
unforeseen difficulties arise the vel
will be spudded in before April 10
The test well location is about two
miles north of Laurel on the f. w.
Schauer ranch. Mr.. Schauer, organ
izer of the Shower Oil company, which
at n time planned to test the same
in the area to be tested. The .loca-
ton is about one mile north of the
HOyt well drilled several years ago
to a depth in excess of 2,10O feet. The
latter well a plugged, but oil is still
coming up with the water through the
plug.
For the first time in the history of
the Kevin-Sunburst field, near Shelby,
a government permit is being con
tested with a view to cancellation by
a private party, who homesteaded the
land and gained title to surface rights,
but failed to file on the mineral rights,
under the leasing ACT, prior to the en-
try of another person. William Sea-
brook of Kelvin homesteaded 800 acres
on the west side of the field near
Kelvin in 1920, before there was any
evidence of oil in the vicinity, and in
1922, T. A. Pike, formerly of Chester,
Mont, received a government permit
as a result of his application for a
lease on 26O acres of the Seabrook
homestead.
That work of drilling for gas with
which to supply the requirements of
Glendive householders will be started
in about 60 days is an announcement
made by Manager John Johns of the
Eastern Montana Oil & Gas company.
who is in Glendive from Forsyth. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Johns the well will
be drilled on the Baker-Glendive anti
cline in the Ash creek country, at a
point about q miles from the Cedar
creek wells. The drilling rig has al
ready been moved to the site of the
proposed operations, and Mr.. Johns
says he has secured the necessary pipe
for the line.
Charles L. Emmons, president of the
c. L. Emmons Oil syndicate,
ed upon his return to Shelby from Kali
ispell, the sale of 4S0 acres of land
in fee to Minneapolis parties. The
transfer is made to Or. CRANE of Min
neapolis. The land is a part of the
ranch of Jean Hasquet and wife of
Shelby, Mont. The original owners
reserve from the sale of 6 per cent of
the oil and gas rights. While the con-
sideration was not made public, it is
understood to be around $4,000, which
comes to S62.50 per acre.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
One Dead in Mine Dispute

Pineville, Ky.-Labor troubles, brew
ing for weeks at the mines of the
Liberty Coal and Coke company on
Straight creek, had come to a head
April 4. George Lucas was dead and
Edward Dishman wounded, victims of
a fusilade of bullets directed from a
mountainside by hidden riflemen. The
men, both from Virginia, were among
the company's n%on-union employees.
The shooting, the second time re-
Gently, according to company officials,
that their men have been subjected to
a volley from the m~ountainside, was
the elimination of a series of changes
in the operations of the mines. Coun-
ty officials initiated an investigation.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Dawes Committee Meets

ParIs.-The reparation experts of
the Dawes committee met April l with
the prospects brighter than at any
time this week for a speedy winding
up of their work.
Although General Dawes and Owen
D. Young. his American associate, have
booked their passage tentatively for
April %. their assistants and COUNSEL
lors are planning an earlier departure.
The amount of the Preparations bur-
den to be laid upon the German rail
roads was expected to be settled with
the smoothing out of the differences
that have existed between the English
and American delegates on this point.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD


Farms Being Observation-Disclosures
farm lands in the vicinity of Dodson
are rapidly being resettIed, some by
farmers who left here one or two years
ago and some by new settlers from
Idaho and Missouri. According to
those who are coming back after abb
sences ranging from a few months to
two years, opportunities for success
on farms in this section equal, if they
do not exceed, those in other states.
In addition to the exceptionally
bright prospects for greater agricul-
tural activity around here, there is
considerable interest in the report that
a stamp mill will be installed at bod
son to handle the high grade ore from
the Landusky mines which is now be-
ing hauled to that point and shipped
to East Helena.
Wild Geese Seen.-For those who
have grown sick of the belated winter
weather, there is much hope in the
report that a large flock of wild geese
was recently cen flying over Billings
heading north, which is taken as the
final word in indications that spring
has arrived. The geese apparently
landed at Holdings lake northeast of
the city to spend the night.
Ducks have been reported for several
days, arriving from the south and
many of the feathered travellers, sens
ing that this section was to have a
mild winter, halted in the Yellowstone
valley last fall and spent the winter
here rather than continue their long
flight south.
Drives Hogs SO Miles.-John Under
man, a farmer of the Glentana section,
recently drove 40 fat hogs 90 miles
to his nearest shipping point, Scobey,
without i'll results and proved that
unfavorable marketing conditions are
that section of the county. Mr.. Lin
derman declares he saved 5000 by
walking" his hogs to market rather
than freighting them by truck, and
that the animals arrived in better
condition and with less shrinkage than
WOulu nave DecH Tic CuSc OllCl WISE
Navigation Opens.-Navigation has
been resumed on Flathead lake. The
steamer Kallispell made the run to
Somers March 80, carrying a large
amount of freight. No regular run
has been scheduled as yet. A tugboat
is being constructed for the Dewey
Lumber company on the Poison beach
to be used in towing logs from the
logging camps around the lake
to the sawmill.
Refinery at Observation-Disclosures of
Incorporation of the Hart Refineries
company have been filed with Clerk
and Recorder Darlington. The capital
stock of the concern is $4,000 and it
Is formed to buy, sell, trade and deal
with and in petroleum and natural gas
all forms, and will have its principal
place of business in Missoula.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Start Colonization Project

1t has been reported that the bonds
have been sold for the Bynum irriga-
ton project which when completed
will irrigate about 200 acres of land
on the Porter bench, northwest from
Conrad, and east from Bynum. 1t is
also reported that the Great Northern
is contemplating a colonization scheme
for the project, and will put settlers
on the land and finance them with
enough stock and dairy cows to insure
their success. 1t is expected to com
plete the project this year.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Pension Bill Introduced

Washington.-An adjusted pension
bill'' designed to remove inequalities
between gratuities now paid veterans
of the several past wars, has been
passed by the senate. Introduced by
Senator Bursom, Republican, New
Mexico, the bill was described by him
as substantially the same as that
which President Harding vetoed last
session. The pension bureau estimat-
ed it would cost an additional $55,OOO,-
600 the first year. The bill provides a
flat rate of $72 a month for veterans
OF tho Mexican and Civil wars.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Ian Pirates are Indicted

Tokio.-Reklichiro Ezure and 80 of
his followers who, after an unsuccess-
full. hunt for gold in the Okhotsk re-
gion of Siberia, turned pirates, seized
crews. numbering So Russians, were
indicted April 4 for piracy on the high
seas. Inc motive for the piracy, Ezure
declared, was a desire to avenge the
Nikolaivsk massacre of 700 Japanese
by Russians in March, 1920.
After Staying the seamen, the only
loot the craft offered was the fish oil,
valued at 10000 yen.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Reclamation Bureau Reorganized

Washington.-The bureau of recla-
nation has been r~eorganized by Secre-
tary Work of the interior department
and an advisory committee.
The committee is expected to sub
nit it's report next week, but Secretary
Work let it be known that a new di-
vision of finance will be created to
handle receipts and disbursements,
thus separating this part of the work
from the engineering and agricultural
phases.
Il. A. Davis, former governor of
Idaho, who has served as reclamation
commissioner since the post of direct
or, will take charge of the new finance
division.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
New Highway Stretch DELAYED

County Commissioner Charles A.
Smith said that the only thing that is
holding up the letting of the contract
on the Harlem-Dodson federal aid
project by the state highway commits
sion is that, as yet, all of the land
owners along the road between Har-
lem and the river have not executed
~right-of-way agreements. Several of
the land owners are out of the state
right now and have not been heard
from. However, it is expected that
all agreements will be in before
long.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Two Killed in t;oIdup

Montreal.-Eight masked men, who
opened fire on a money car of the
Bank of Hochelaga, April l, escaped
with S142,2S9, after one of their num-
Der and a bank employee had been
killed and another bank employee
slightly wounded. The car carried
$246,1 Oo.
The police subsequently returned
$4,000 from the wreck of the mems
machine, which in its Night struck a
telegraph pole and overturned. In the
car also was the body of one of the
bandits. He had been shot through
the head.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Alberta Coal Miners Strike

Calgary, Alberta.-Eight thousand
miners in the coal fields of Alberta
and northeastern British Columbia
struck April /, after the last shift in
district 10, United Mine Workers of
America, had finished their tasks.
Maintenance men remained at work.
The strike was ordered March Is
when union officials and representa-
tives of the Western Canada Coal Op
orators association failed to reach an
agreement on a new wage contract.
Observers predicted it would be one of
the hardest fought in the history of in
dustrial relations of this section.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Hoos Shipped Out to Market

Two carloads of fine hogs, all fin
ished off nicely with a corn ration
and three carloads of fat cattle have
been shipped to the market from Har
lem. This was a community shipment
supervised by l.. D. Teeple, who has
been appointed local representative OF
the Blaine County Marketing associa.
ton. 1t is an unusual thing for cattle
% be shipped from this section at this
time of the year, but it has been such
a fine winter and there has been such
an abundance of feed that cattle are
q tip-toD condition.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Dillon Stock Show AnnuIIed

Prevalence of the foot and mouth
disease among cattle in western states,
especially in California, has resulted
in the cancellation of the annual Mon
tana state livestock show. which had
been arranged to be held in Dillon,
April "a, % and 26. DR.. w. ]. Butler,
state veterinarian and leading mem
bers of the livestock association con
ferred at Butte and decided to cancel
the show.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Credit Relief Body Chartered

Pierre, S. D.-The Agricultural
Credit corporation, organized for rural
financial relief in the northwest, has
been incorporated here to operate in
South Dakota with authorized capital
stock in this state of 100000 and
property valuation of 100000. James
Mcfarland was named state counsel
for the organization, which will have
its headquarters in W~atertown.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Cream Buying Station for Antelope

Plans have been worked out where
by a real buying station will be put
in at Antelope to meet UP with the
state requirements and will be in OPP
GRAFTON in 10 days if all goes right.
A building will be placed by the flour
mill which will be fitted up with a
water and drainage system and will
be fully equipped. Gus Steinberg, the
miller, will buy the cream and will pay
the top prices.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Fresh Slides Mark Funerals

Naples, Italy.-While solemn funer-
ais were being held for the victims of
the disaster in the splendid old thir-
teenth century cathedral at Amalfi, de-
stroyed by landslides, March 26, new
slides continued, n of which destroy
ed the aqueduct which carries drinking
water to Ninori and suburbs.
In several places hot springs burst
forth, inducing the opinion that the
disaster was of volcanic origin.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Iowa DELEGATES for McAdoo

Davenport, Iowa.-An Iowa delega-
ton to the Democratic national CON
vention in New York next June favor
able to the candidacy of William G..
McAdoo was apparently assured April
8, when nine of II districts in pre-
convention named delegates who favor
the election of Clyde Herring of Des
Moines, McAdoo's Iowa manager, as
the states national committeeman.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
General Ludendorff Acquitted

Munich.-General Erick L~udendorff,
former German field marshal, has been
acquitted of the charge of treason for
his part in the unsuccessful revolt here
last November. Adolph Hitler and
former Chief of Police Poehner were
convicted and each was sentenced to
five years Imprisonment and fined 200
gold marks. DR.. Weber and Colonel
Kriebel, accused Of being Hitler's
aides, received like sentences.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Toston State Bank Closes

The Toston State bank in Broad
water county has closed its doors, ac-
cording to advice received April 8, by
State Examiner L. Q. Shelton. Steady
Withdrawals together with a lack of
confidence, due to much knocking are
blamed by Cashier A. e. Southam for
the failure. This is the first state
bank to close in Montana in more than
q months time.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-04-10
Mail Pilot Flies Record

San Francisco, Cal.-The flight from
Reno to San Francisco, was made in
one hour and seven minutes, April 4,
bv Burr H. Winslow, airmail service
pilot, creating a record for the Reno
San Francisco flight, according to of
ficials of the service, who calculated
Winslow averaged 100 miles an hour,
with a strong east wind against him.