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The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-05-30

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Johnson and
family were dinner guests at the Park
horne of Fromberg, Sunday, May %.
Mrs. Myrtle Johnson and Mrs.
Headington went to Billings Friday,
May %, and attended the Shrine Ball.
They returned Saturday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Bates and family
were Red Lodge visitors last Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Weaver Of Red
Lodge spent the week end with Mrs.
Weaver's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ehler
Meyer.
Mrs. NJ. E. Garrett attended the an
nual convention of the Rebekah Lodge,
at Red Lodge Friday, May %.
Mr.. William Walsh returned to this
city from a short visit at the Their
mopolis.
The State Examinations for the sew
enth and eighth grade were held at the
High School, last Thursday and Fri
day, Mrs. w. |. Golf officiating.
The Misses Fay, Fern and Darline
Watson and Gilbert Mathews, were
dinner guests at the home of Miss
Abby Christopherson, Friday May %.
The D. S. Smith family, who
are opening restaurant in the Link
building, were transacting business
in Billings, Saturday.
Mr.. A. F. Klampe and son, Ray
mond, left Sunday evening for the
Yellowstone National Park, where
they viii be engaged for short time
in the carpenter work.
Mrs. Robert Dullenty of Boyd, spent
Tuesday and Wednesday of the past
week ather former home.
Miss Hazel Dillon has been spend
ing the past week with her friend
Miss Nellie French, near Roundup.
The Misses Bessie Duffield and
Dorothy Leavens spent the weekend
with the formers parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Duffield.
Howard Honnold spent Sunday in
Red Lodge.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-05-30
BRIDCER NEWS ITEMS
Especial to The Chronicle)

The Friendly Society an organiza-
ton of young girls just recently form
ed under the leadership of Mrs. l.. A.
Gates, held regular meeting at the
home of Mrs. Gates on Wednesday af-
ternoon. About fifteen girls attended.
Mrs. A. II. Wilson left Tuesday for
an extended visit to relatives in the
East. She was accompanied by her
son Max.
Mr.. S. W. Rankin was a Billings
visitor one day last week.
The Ladies Aid held meeting at
the home of Mrs. King in Billings on
Thursday. Thirty of the local aid
members journeyed to Billings by au-
to and enjoyed a very pleasant day
with Mrs. King.
Mr.. L. G. Hubner passed through
Bridger on his way to Billings to at
tend the Shrine Convention on Friday.
He passed through on his return to
Belfry Saturday noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Beckett and
family Of Billings spent the weekend
at the 7. S. Buford home.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. ]. Baldwin drove to
Billings Friday, returning Saturday
morning.
Paul Reed is spending a few days
visiting Theodore Shaw at the Shaw
ranch near Belfry
The Bridger Commercial Club have
| just received new booster plates for
the front and back of automobiles.
The plates are Of brass embossed in
black and reads "Bridger, on the Jim
Bridger Trail" On one end there is
a covered wagon. These plates will
certainly be clever boosting stunt
as they are attractive and will at
tract attention. AS Bridger car own
ers scatter for their summer vacation
these plates will proclaim to all that
they are from Bridger and in this
way help to put the town on the map
A band of gypsies stopped in Bird
ger Saturday afternoon but were told
that their presence was not desired
and were compelled to move right on
The Mothers of the members of the
local American Legion Post served .
luncheon in the Shupak g. Kuchinsk
building Saturday. The funds are te
be used to buy flowers for decoration
day for the graves Of those soldiers
who sacrificed their lives and have
been brought home for burial.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-05-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Pierce and
children of Bridger visited Sunday at
the home Of Mrs. Pierce's mother, Mrs.
r. A. Russell.
A head of water was turned in the
High Line ditch Thursday and the
farmers have commenced to irrigate
their hay.
j. j. Ley was business caller at
the Henri De Witte home Monday.
VIM. White, Jr. has been employed
as High Line ditch walker for the
coming year.
Frank Devries was a caller in Rob-
erts Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Schrumpf and
children were callers at the Harry
Clark home Friday evening.
Mrs. Rose Wiekierak visited We'd
nesday evening at the Frank DeVries
home.
The rain which fell Thursday and
Friday was greatly appreciated by
the farmers in this vicinity.
Frank DeVries made business trip
to Red Lodge Monday returning the
same day.
Mrs. Clarence Bjordhal visited Wet
nesday at the J. Marsh home.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-05-30
CHERRY SPRINGS
Especial to The Chronicle)

az the brc Sidih faHSh w CuiCSuoJs
Mrs. Rose Wiekierak was a county
seat visitor Friday and Saturday.
Coral Marsh, who has been at Cas-
per Wyoming for the past few months
returned to his home here Saturday.
John DeWitte was business caller
at the Psenda home Wednesday.
Jack Golf and Phil Butler Of Boyd
we're business callers in the Cherry
Springs vicinity Wednesday.
Miss Emily Wiekierak visited with
friends in Red Lodge Sunday and
Monday.
The Misses Edna Bjordhai and Luz
lua Stinson went TO Roberts Thurs
day and Friday to take the eight grade
examinations.
w. E. Lochridge is doing some plow-
ing for ]. ]. Ley.
Henri DeWitte is planting corn for
Louie Johnson this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Hudson and
daughter Mary and Mrs. Wentworth
of Roberts were business callers in
this sectionneiCh TherasD ETEE
this vicinity Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Stinson were shop
ping in Roberts Saturday.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Weir were
Red Lodge business visitors between
trains Friday.
Lou and John Tunnicliff brought a
bunch of horses from Wyoming We'd
nesday and put them in pasture on
Elbow creek.
/ The dance which was given at the
Elbow school house last Saturday
night was we'll attended.
Peter Obert and family motored to
Roberts Saturday.
Mr.. Merritt and Ray Dewell Of Rob-
were callers in this vicinity Tuesday.
Mrs. w. E. Lochridge visited Thurs
day at the Harry Clark home.
DR.. H. G. Morgan was called to the
Marsh home the first of the week on
account of the illness of Mr.. Marsh.
| Mrs. t. G. Schrunmpf and children
and Mrs. Miles were Monday evening
visitors at the Wei1ierak home.
]. ]. Ley was business caller in
Roberts Wednesday.
| Mrs. Ed Sauerwein who recently un-
derwent an operation at a Billings
hospital is reported as getting along
nicely. -.4.s
Herman Weir has purchased the old
Hawkes. ranch about one mile north
of Selmes.
| Grandpa" McFate, who has been
visiting for the past week at the Her
man DeVries home returned to his
\ home in Red Lodge Wednesday.
The Selmes school was closed Fri
day May 23rd for the summer vaca-
ton. "The teacher and pupils enjoyed
a picnic and weiner roast on Friday
afternoon.
An auction sale was held at the old
Hawkes. ranch Thursday May 22nd.
/ Ed Marsh was called from Billings
Monday on account of the serious i'll
ness of his father, Joseph Marsh.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-05-30

dren and Mrs. Erick Forsman have
received their passports and are now
making their final arrangements for
vacation trip to Norway. They will
visit friends and relatives across the
waters during the summer.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-05-30

The flume which was partially des-
troyed by fire three weeks ago has
been completed and the water users
who were dependent upon the flume
for their irrigation wagers now have
the water in their bitches.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-05-30

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
5, GIRLS BRANDED
 w HAZING PRANK
May Be Permanently Disfigured
 From Silver Nitrate

NEW YORK, April 7.-Three girls were branded with silver nitrate and perhaps permanently disfigured at a hazing which marked their initiation into Brooklyn inter-high school sor- ority, it was disclosed today.
 Physicians feared fatal developments when the victims became seriously i'll, but now pronounce them out of dan ger.
 The girl who led the affair, a Sun day school teacher, was reported as suffering a nervous collapse.
 The candidates faces, throats and backs were daubed with the nitrate. whiskers and moustaches were painted on them, crosses inscribed on their cheeks and the sorority letters on their foreheads.
 Even the victims thought it painless fun until the next day. Then when they got into the sunlight they turned black wherever the nitrate had touched. Intense burning pains and illness fol- lowed and the doctors were summoned.
 The girls who planned the initiation are said to have declared they had used the silver nitrate in the belief that it would not burn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
KENTUCKY JURY l. INDICTS SLANGLEY ON DRY CHARGE
Congressman And Five Others Charged With
 Conspiracy

CONVICTION, Ky, April 7.--Con- gressman John W. Langley of Ken lucky, was indicted by federal grand jury here late today on three counts, charging conspiracy to withdraw, sell and transport whisky.
 The indictment also named NJ. E. Huth and w. B. Carry of Canton. Ohio, and Albert F. Slater, Hiram W. Ben ner and William F. Lipschultz, Phila- delphia, the latter three, prohibition off, ficials of Pennsylvania. The conspiracy charges are based on the alleged illegal withdrawal of 400 cases Of whisky from a distillery at Lawrenceburg, Ky.
 An important witness before the grand jury. was Elias H. Mortimer. New York city, who gave much infor- nation in connection with the veterans bureau inquiry which led to the indict- ment of Col. Charles Forbes, former head of the bureau. Mortimer, it is said, gave information that caused the indictment of Langley.
 Congressman Langley and the other five me nare accused in one count of having conspired to defraud the gov ernment of approximately $17,64O by the withdrawal and sale of 1,40O cases of whiskey from the Belle of Ander. son distillery October l, 1921.
 The second count charges the same men with having conspired to sell the liquor for consideration that is said Dto have been $32,000 and the third charges them with having conspired to transport the liquor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
MAYFTELD CHARGES
 TO BE HEARD SOON
Recount Shows That Texan
 Enjoyed Large Majority

WASHINGTON, April 7.-The re- count of the ballots cast in the Texas senatorial election in 1922 was prac- tically completed today and on it's face shows a substantial majority for Sen ator Mayfield democrat.
 At the office of Senator Spencer, re- publican, Missouri, chairman of the committee which is handling George E. B. Peddy's contest of the election, it was said a number of contested bal lots would have to be passed upon by the committee as the counters were without authority.
 Public hearings on Peddy's charges of excessive expenditures of funds in the campaign on behalf of Mayfield and of the counting of fraudulent ballots probably will be started within week or ten days.
 Senator Spencer explained that the counting of the ballots was mere pre- liminary step in settlement of the con test. The count, he said, only leads up to the legal question of whether Mayfield's name was printed, pasted, or written on the ballots in accordance with the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
sl20,OOO ORDER ]. FOR WATER PIPE
 IS PLACED HERE
Birmingham Waterworks To Improve Service.
 Start Work Soon

Order for more than s120,000 worth of water pipe was received Monday by the United States Pipe company, Bir- mingham, from the Birmingham water works. It was one of the largest or ders for al lone-sized water pipe ever placed by an Alabama water company.
 By the end of July the Birmingham Water Works company expects to have laid more than six miles of 16-ineh main line exetnsions.
 The order in question calls for 29,- $40 feet of 12-f00t lengths all 16-inch. There will be 2, ,445 sections.
 From Fourteenth street and Avenue B, through Elytpn, West End and Cen trai patk the line win 60 to a junction with another 18-inch main at Warrior road and Seventeenth avenue. This new line will reinforce this, increase the pressure for fire protection and will serve as feeder to branch lines, yet to be installed, through the terri tory it will traverse.
 . The order for the new pipe is placed in Birmingham, will entail the use of Birmingham district raw material, give employment to Birmingham workers and business to home interests. In the laying of the pipe 20O-men gangs will be used working from the ends. S Delivery is expected to start in 30 days and by May 16 the work of lay ing the pipe is expected to start. Com pletion is looked for by early August. The new line is expected, also, to have a beneficial bearing on fire insurance rates through the territory served. , H.. H. Horner, Vice president and general superintendent of the. Birming- ham water works, announced also Mon- day morning that an additional 16-inch main has just been completed from Pike avenue at Warrior road along the Possum Valley road through Fairfield to Forty-fourth street.
 This section Is 3,4S0 feet long, and, combined with the new order. will mean 32,820 feet, or about six miles of new 16-inch main for Birmingham this spring and summer. It took less than four weeks to lay the line on the Pos sum Valley road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
CHICAGO LIQUOR UP
 M DAUGHERTY QUIZ
Committee Also Hears Indian
 Land Fraud Story

WASHINGTON, April T.-Prohibi- ton enforcement conditions in Chi cagO and Indian land fraud prosecu- tiOns in Oklahoma occupied the atten- tiOn of the Senate Daugherty investT- gating committee today.
 Brice F Armstrong, a Chicago pro- hibition agent, testified that eight breweries were allowed to run in the Lake City under protection" in the manufacture of high power beer"
 Armstrong, who will continue his story tomorrow. said local politicians held up the federal governments moves to stop the brewing "Even in the face of repeated violations of the law by brewers" he declared. federal in- junction proceedings were not success ful because of official influence.
 Senator Harold. republican, Okla homa, opened the days testimony with a voluntary statement that he had seen "seed for scandal" in the removal from office of H. N. Peck, federal district attorney for the~western district of Ok lahoma, by the incoming republican td- ministration in 1921. He intervened to have to have Mir Peck, who had been appointed by the Wilson admin istration, retained in service to prose- cute the Miller brothers and their as- sociates.
 From Edwin S. Booth, now special assistant to the attorney general and assigned since March 1, to conduct the cases against the Miller brothers, the committee received the entire files of the Department of Justice bearing upon the matter. It was shown that Secre- tary Fall, then head of the department of the interior, first sought delay in the prosecution of the Millers and then withdrew his request.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
ACIPCO EMPLOYES TO SHARE
 MILLION DOLLAR TRUST FUND
Former President John J. Eagan's Will Leaves
 4s Entire Holdings To Cause

A million-dollar trust fund, the in- come and dividends of which are to be used for the benefit of employees of the American Cast Iron Pipe company, is created by the will of John !. Eagan, former presidentlo lof the company, which was filed for prpbate at Decatur, Ga, Monday.
 Under terms of the will Mir. Eagan's entire common stock holdings in the company, 1,0S5 shares in all. are left to the fund. This fund is designated to supplement the wages of the men. to re- imbuse them if incapacitated by acci- dent, sickness or other misfortune.
 A board of management and opera tors will handle the fund with direc- tions to deal particularly with actions which will be of most benefit to em- ployes.
 The board of management of the trust fund is comprised of Paul A. Ivy, c. D. Barr, and W. D. Moore, all executives of the American Cast Iron Pipe company. Board of operators in- cludes 10 employees. They are: A. J. Bryant, Ed Dougherty, John West, NJ. J. Wilson, J. c. Henson, Claud Nail, A. H. Smith, R.. H. Allgood, Will
 A second outstanding feature of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
SHORT HAUL RATES
 PUT ON OWN MERITS
Supreme Court Rules That Damages Must Be Proved

WASHINGTON, April 7.=-Shippers charged higher rates for short hauls than the published rates for longer hauls on the same railroad and in the same direction can only recover such actual damages as they can prove, the supreme court held today.
 In an opinion by Justice Mickey holds it declared the fact that the rate for the longer haul was lower than the rate for the shorter haul would not of itself establish which of the two was the unreasonable rate.
 It was contended by shippers that under the long and short haul the lower published rate became the maxi mum which the carrier could charge, notwithstanding the higher published rate and that any amount collected above the rate for the long haul amounted to an illegal exaetion. re- coyerable without other proof of sc- tual damage and without-regard to the intrinsic reasonableness of either rate.
 It would be going too far to hold, as the. shippers had insisted, Justice McReynolds declared, that the unau- thorized publication established the lower rate as the maximum permissible charge from the intermediate point the onIX rate therefrom which could be demanded" |" sria ,gs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, April 7.- "The Muscle Shoals Situation as Viewed by the Press of America" is issued today in Washington. ostensibly by the Ten nessee Manufacturers association of Nashville.
 In view of the fact, however, that all the editorial excerpts contained in the pamphlet are highly critical of the Henry Ford offer for Muscle Shoals, whereas all the complimentary pas sages extol the Alabama Power com pany and the monopoly offer of that company, there is no doubt in Wash ington as to the corporation Jack Hor- ner who has injected his thumb into this particular pie.
 Purpose Declared Obvious
 While the purpose of the pamphlet is to influence the Senate committee on agriculture which tomorrow will de- termine the question as to whether or not delay will be suffered in order to give hearings to those interested in de- feating the Ford offer, it serves as an instrument for the isolation of those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
LANNON'S WIDOW H SUBPOENAED IN FUNDS QUIZ
Committee Seeks To View Cancelled Checks
 And Records

WASHINGTON, April 7.-Witness- es have paGsed before the Senate oil committee in rapid succession today, but little new information was con- tributed. They were questioned both about campaign expenditures and stories of oil deals at the republican national convention in 1920. The committee ad- journed its hearings until Wednesday after a decision to summon William H. Miller of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. Jake ! l.. Hamon, widow of the late republic an national committeeman from Okla homa. Subpoenas also went out for William D. Nichols, former police chief of Oklahoma City; Maj. Gen. E. F.. Glenn, retired. of Glendon, N. C., and a "Mr. Himrod" of Mooseheart. Ill.
 Miller was mentioned in testimony to- day as one of the Harding managers in Chicago and was identified as a former attorney general of Ohio. His sub poena requires him to produce books, papers and records showing receipts and expenditures of the pre-convention campaign of Senator Warren G. Hard ing and in connection with the repub- lican national convention in 1920"
 Would See Checks
 Mrs. Hamon, who, according to in formation given the committee is ad- ministratrix of the estate of Jake l.. Hamon is required to produce 'all rec ords, papers and cancelled checks show ing all receipts and expenditures by Jake l.. Hamon for the seven months preceding his death in November, 1920
 The subpoenas for Miller and Mrs. Hamon grew out of testimony today by J. B. French of Oklahoma City, that Hamon had told him he had spend $4OO, 900 in carrying Oklahoma for Harding and $25,000 for the hotel ex- penses for the Harding headquarters at the Chicago convention. French said Hamon had told him he had paid this over to "BilP' Miller, described by the witness as a former attorney gen. eral of Ohio.
 Editor, Knew Nothing
 Robert F. Wolfe of Columbus. pub isher of the Ohio State Journal told the committee he had no information of any offer to Leonard Wood in Chi | cago by which he could have been nom mated. He also said he had no posi- tive information at the time about ? o'clock morning conference at which the nomination of Harding was agreed upon.
 W. L., Kistler, Oklohama oil man and Wilbur W. Marsh of Iowa, for mer treasurer of the democratic na- tional committee were the other wit nesses. Marsh, summoned by Sena- tor Spencer, republican, Missouri, said the committee would have to consult the democratic committee records as to campaign contributions by E. l.. Do heny, California, oil magnate, to the democratic war chest" in 1020,s while Kistler disclaimed any connection with republican collections in that week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
JUSTICE DOCKET
 OF 32,2S5 CASES
 FACES H.F.ST0NE
Huge Mass of Unfinished Business COnfrOnts
 New Attorney
By E. B. MCDONALD
 RkfG-x 4. TA. Asa naanlIN

WASHINGTON, April T. Con- fronted with the three-fold task of clearing the Department of Justice cal endar of 32,2S5 pending cases, reorgan- izing the staff and rebuilding the pub lie confidence, Harlan F. Stone, new Attorney General, is preparing to take hold" for a general cleanup.
 The staggering task of materially re- ducing the number of cases pending will require hearty cooperation be- tween members of the staff so that per sonnel reorganization probably will be undertaken first in order that a har- monious group of executives may as- sist Stone.
 The most serious cases confronting Stone will be those involving violations of the prohibition laws, numbering 24,- 442. Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandt now is in charge of prosecution of these and it is believed she will continue in of flee.
 Courts Are damned
 The difficulty in handling prohibi- tion cases is due to the terrific jam in the courts. During 1923, 15,000 cases were disposed of with an ever-increas- ing number being received s0 that the department was unable to prepare the cases reported. This situation may lead to an enlargement of the prohibi- tion unit.
 Due to the impetus given such mat ters by the Senate committees investi- gating alleged frauds, it is thought likely Stone will concentrate on anti trust and war and land fraud cases.
 There are now pending 34 war fraud cases. of which the Standard Aircraft case is the largest; Is antitrust cases and S9O land fraud cases of which 425 are located in Texas.
 Would Clear the Air
 Clearing the calendar of these three groups, before election probably. will go long way toward allaying the ad- verse sentiment aroused by the un- covering of the oil and Daugherty scandals.
 Of the remaining 7,S43 cases. aside from prohibition matters, 3,1S2 have to do with charges growing out of the draft laws and 733 with radicalism, In view of Stones previous stand con cerning the Reds" it is considered like ly these radical cases will be dropped.
 Important groups of cases in addi- tion to those already mentioned are:
 Bankruptcy, 70; thefts from govern ment, 142; conspiracy, 19 perjury, 21 {; fight film transportation. 8; federal rail injunction, IS: smuggling arms. 4; miscellaneous, 327.