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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04
Draws Civil War Pension
as Bogus "Old Soldier"

Kansas City, MOTOR II years
Peter Branan has lived under the name
Of his brother, William Branan, who
died many years ago.
Peter Branan drew q pension from
the government as William BrRnan for
the service Of the latter in the Union
army. and snapped war stories with
the veterans at the old soldiers home
in LeavenwOrth, where he lived at
Uncle Sans expense.
Now, eighty years old and almost
blind, he is a prisoner IN the Wyan-
dOtte county Jail, charged with de-
frauding Uncle Sam Of almost $1,000
by the falsehood which government
officials say is one of the most unusual
cases on record.
civilian Branan, my brother, served
In the war as a Union soldier" Peter
said. Il didn't. ] needed money and
- years ago the Idea occurred to me
Of presenting his discharge. After
some delay I received a pension Of SO
a month as William.
Il obtained Ambulance TO the sol
diers' home by showing the pension
papers"
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04
MOFFAT TUNNEL
CALLED GREATEST
Stupendous Engineering Task
Ia Well Advanced.

Denver, COlO.-The MOfTat tunnel,
piercing the Continental Divide Of the
Rocky mountains west Of here, and
one Of the worlds greatest railroad
bOres, Is nearly One-thlrd completed
and is 10 per cent ahead of the time
schedule set by the builders.
10 date the pioneer, or water, tun-
mel has been bored $500 feet from
the east portal aud $40 from the
west portal, or more than O%ne-thlrd Of
the six-mile distance.
The main heading has penetrated
James peak, 6,316 feet from the eaEt
portal and 4.700 feet from the west.
The crOSs-cut tunnels connecting the
main and water bOres at intervals Of
from 1900 TO 1900 feet have reached
2 total Of $50 feet.
Each Of these crOss-cut tunnels is
approximately 20 feet in length. The
full-slEe railway tunnel has penetrated
1904 feet from the east and 5S1 feet
from the western portal.
At present the work Of enlarging the
main heading, which Is being drilled
~ by 8 feet, to the full-Size tunnel,
which viii be 10 by "a feet, Is proceed
ing twice as fast as the work at the
front. At this ratio, tunnel engineers
estimate, within a year this work VIII
he abreast Of the main heading.
The slowness Of progress on the
western end Is accounted for by the
fact that builders have encountered
soft shale and dirt rather than solid
rock. This ~necessitates timbering every
foot Of the way at a cost of more than
500 per linear foot.
At the east portal solid rock was
found after the first few hundred feet
and enabled the contractors to speed
up the work materially.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04
Busting" Balloons New
Sport at London Dances

LOnd0n.-The latest stunt at Lon
don society dances is busting" which
has taken like wildfre.
Men dancers tie four balloons 10
their partners ankles, and as the
dancing proceeds the men attempt to
burst as many Of the balloons as pos
sible while keeping those of their
partners intact.
A good deal of skill is necessary for
this latest craze. and it is said polo
players have come off best, probably
because they are used to quick turn
ing and breathIess rushes. It makes
also for 4 considerable increase in
noise, because of the popping of bal
looms and the excited shrieks OF the
women.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04
BY George H. Webster

Chief, State Division of Dairying.
My attention has lately been called
to a communication in the Bozeman
Courier, in a recent issue, by Mr.. w.
o. Bohart, in relation to a talk l made
at the annual meeting of the State
Dairymen's convention at Bozeman,
January 9th Of this year.
When / first read the article men,
toned, I was considerably amused
and not disposed to think seriously
of it. On thinking the. matter over.
as / had intended for some time to
write an article for some Of the pa
pers read by farmers, explaining, not
only the system Of cream grading
under government supervision as it is
conducted in three provinces of Can
ada, but the proposed compulsory
pasteurizatiOn law as well, / concluded
to take this opportunity to do so.
will say in beginning that I have
known my old friend Bohart for about
twenty years; and while 1 have long
known him as ga man of. parts" and
somewhat versatile, / did not know
that he had added the use of sophis-
try to his list Of accomplishments.
It may be we'll to state that sophis-
try is argument whereby. one makes
his opponent the author of ridiculous
statements and then proceeds to teaT
those statements to pieces. Some
times this method of reasoning is
successful, particularly if the oppon-
ent has no chance to come back
Nearly all of Mr.. BOhart's article is
Of this nature and l would not take
the time to answer it, if it were not
that it brings out the points which
intended to cover in an article to the
farm press. What I will write is es.
sentially a repetition of what I sait
at the meeting referred to. I viii
take up the matter of pasteurizatiol
first.
The proposed law does not relate t.
pasteurization of milk or cream ex
cept where such milk or cream i
used in the manufacture of butter o
ice cream. 1 expressly stated in tn
beginning CT my talk that a genera
pasteurization law could not be pass
ed; and / further stated that it Nigh
rot be practicable to have such a law
as the retailers of milk in smaI
towns would not be able to pasteul
= ize, owing to the expense of tn
equipment necessary. 1 cited Be
grade, Toston and, I think, TownsenC
as examples Of towns that would b
too small.
In the first place, what is pasteul
ization, what gave it the name, ar
! what is it used for? The name
derived from Louis Pasteur, a Frenc
. chemist and scientist of great not
. who was born in 1882. He spent
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04
Shell-Shocked Soldier
Wild Man In Swamp

HonOluiu.-Private Cyril BE Freest,
missing from Fort Kamehameha since
October 27, has been found living as a
Wild man on raw fish and crabs in a
swamp near the fort. He apparently
has been suffering from amnesia. De
Freest, a member Of the Fifty-ffth
coast artillery, WAS shell shocked in
France. His home is in Jacksonville,
Fla.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04

An English artist OWNS a eat which
viii not enter the house by the back
door. 1t always walks up TO the front
door, which has a kaOcker at a con
venient height. gives one or tive
knocks and tl.en waits'fOr the door 10
be opened. If there is not an immedi-
ate answer it knocks again until e
gains admittance.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04
Eskimo's Marriage
Fixed in Infancy

New York Shortly after an
Eskimo baby is born It is prom
lsed by its parents to. the little
child Of some Of their friends or
nelghbOrs held in high esteem.
This pledge Is mutually binding
and hardly ever dlsregarded. so
that an EskimO's destiny as to
welded life is settled from the
beginning. says Christian Leden.
By sixteen or seventeen the
Eskimo girl has reached matur-
ity. and then she prepares for
herself her first lOng-hOOded
coat. o. amaut. the kind her
mother wears. This is a sign
10 her afianced sweetheart she
Is ready to marry. Perhaps he
IS away at the time, hut word
reaches him - her step, so he
starts forth to claim her.
As a matter Of form he shows
little lmpatienee in getting TO
her. lie does not tell his errand
TO anyone, and out Of courtesy
no one mentions II to him, but
the purpose OF his journey 10
thoroughly understood.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04

making. l related as distinctly as /
could, and almost in the very Ian
guage, an extract from the report of
Doctor E. c. Schroeder, of the u. S.
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture Experi-
mental Station at Bethesda, Mary
land. He conducted a number of ex-
peIlments to determine how long
pathogenic germs would live in but
ter and continue to be dangerous. 1
will let Doctor Schroeder tell his own
story-then there will be no mistake.
I quote the following from a paper
which ne read at the Twelfth Annual
convention Of international Milk and
Dairy Inspectors at Washington, D.
IC., in 1928:
I'VE know that disease germs, like
tubercular and typhoid baciIli, may.
remain alive from five to six months
in. butter kept under commercial, cold
storage: conditions"
1.-The milk from which cream is OBJ
tanned to make butter is Of no better
quality and no more exempt from
dangerous concentrations than ordi-
nary"market milk, and that raw mar
ket milk may be dangerously con-
taminated with disease germs, is in
disputably proved by the numerous
epidehics Of typhoid fever, scarlet
fever, ~diphtheria and septic sore throat
have been traced to its use, to say
nothing of the fatally serious intes-
final troubles among artificially fed
infants and cases Of bovine tubercu-
! loSis among infants and children for
l which 1T must be responsible:
5 Raw milk, produced under the besJ
: economically practicable conditions,
may be heavily infected with disease
A germs, some of which multiply
: abundantly in milk without changing
its appearance, odOr or taste and tho
5 presence of which, u senses cannot
detect in the cream obtained from
d the milk or in the butter made from
the cream"
5 Fer lack Of space, 1 am obliged t,
d omit much of Doctor ~Schroeder's pa
o per, although every line of it is in
l. structive. / will go on to what h
IS says about carriers of disease germs
:. Speaking of help around place
Ie wehere dairy foods are produced, h
points out how some people who hav
had contagious or infectious diseases
ID may continue to be dangerous car
E. ~riers of such diseases long after the
is recover, especially when employed i
dairy work. Note the following
st This includes individuals VIII
re continue to harbor and expel diseas
germs for months, sometimes year
to either continuously or intermittent!
at after seeming complete recovery fro
30 an infectious disease.
~ %The harm such individuals may (
to through the contamination Of DAN
is products with the germs they expo
ds is c~onvincingly illustrated by a mil
ch borne epidemic of septic sore thrOa
a which occurred this year in one
n our Western cities. This epidem
mt which spread rapidly among the Gu
III toners of one of the city's be
he diaries, numbered 487 cases of di
.ly ease with % deaths, and the sour
le- of infection was found to be a dai
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas H. Rea have
gone to southern California to spend
several weeks.
Attorney George D. Pease spent a
couple of days at Livingston and Big
Timber this week, on legal business.
Representative E. j. Parkin came
over from Helena to spend the week
end with his family in Bozeman.
Gel. and Mrs. Charles L. Sheridan,
of Helena, spent several days visiting
relatives and friends in the city the
first Of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Moore have
returned from their honeymoon and
are at home at Tracy and Koch
streets.
Special Officer Rogers surprised a
burglar at work in the Bozeman meat
market Monday night. The fellow
struck Mr.. Rogers n the face in the
dark and made his escape.
Capt E. v. Phipps, commanding Co.
&c, 16Srd Inf, and member Of the
Bozeman police force, has been order
ed to Fort Benning, Ca, to attend the
infantry school. He will leave in a
few days fer his new pest Of duty.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Schuy-
Ter, at the Desconess hospital, Mon
day night, a son. Mr.. Schuyler was
formerly manager Of the Montana
Power company branch here, but was
promoted and transferred to Billings
the first of the year.
COMMISSIONERS MEET
The February meeting CT the boart
Of county commissioners was held
this week, beginning Monday morn
ing.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04
The EcLipse I

A. mother-in-law is everything until
five minutes after the honeymoon, and
then she is snuffed out.-LondOn An
swers. y
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04

employee affected with a mild ~
throat.
Concluded Next Weekly
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-04

COMMISSIONERS MEET
The February meeting CT the board
Of county commissioners was held
this week, beginning Monday morn
ing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
Flasch's Florida
Excursion Popular

Several representative Kenosha peo-
ple are taking advantage of the Won
derful opportunities offered TO secure
Florida land and are taking the excur-
sion trip to Florida next Tuesday
with the Flasch Real Estate and In
surance Co., realtors cooperating with
a large Chicago firm of realtors. They
are offering unusually productive land
in Watson County, Florida, on beau
tiful Choctawhatchee Bay at $50 an
acre and lots in the village of Santa
Rosa as low as 500 each. This en-
ables ore to buy 10-acre tract of
fruit and farm land for $500, village
lot and build house in the commun-
ity center close to this beautiful bay
all for about $1,000. Spend your win
ter vacation here and make Florida
pay for it by raising produce on your
farm.
Special excursion rates of 500 in
GLIDING everything, railroad and boat
fare, berths, meals, hotels, and sight
seeing trips or railroad and boat fare
only for $64 with berths So each way.
Special excursion leaves Chicago Tues
day.
Only a down payment Of 5000 is
needed to secure a 10-acre farm, the
balance is payable monthly.
For further information about ex-
cursion or land phone, write or call
the Flasch Real Estate and Insurance
Co., Realtors, Phone 4o9. - Adver-
tisement. (W-43)
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
BLAINE In FAVOR OF
LISTING STATE JOBS
Governor Tells Legislature TO Print
Names in Blue Book But
Make an Appropriation.

Madison, Wis.-Governor John j.
Blaine, in message TO the legislature
today. urged adoption of the Titus
Blue Book" resolution, but suggested
that an appropriation act be passed
to provide for publication of a sup
plement to the book and that the lat
ter include "facts regarding the cost
of state government, the sources OF
income, and such other financial infor-
nation as may give the truth regard
ing the fiscal affairs of the state"
The joint resolution, introduced by
Senator w. Titus Of Fond du Lac and
adopted last week by both houses, pro-
vides for the publication in the Blue
Book or a supplement the names and
salaries of ell officers and employees
of state departments and boards, to-
gether with the incomes OF the agen-
cies and the sources Of income. Re-
consideration of the vote by which it
was passed in the assembly was on
the calendar of that house today.
ITO make the resolution what l
have suggested in my opinion it should
be and to adopt an appropriation act
to carry it out, parliamentary pro-
cedure necessitates the reconsidera-
ton Of the resolution and its refer
ence to the joint finance committee"
the governor declared.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
PARIS

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Price and daugh-
ter, Elsie, and Thomas Price, were
Sunday dinner guests at the home of
Isaac Grifith's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert GunterN and
daughter, Ruby were Sunday afternoon
visitors at the Geo. Price home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Murdoch and chill
dren of Bristol enjoyed Sunday after
noon at Gunter Bros.
Mrs. Martha Streuli and daughter,
Julia and son Erwin spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Zentgraf.
Marion and Albert Erickson spent
the weekend at the home of their sis
ter, Mrs. VIM. Gore of Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. StreuE and chill
dren of Union Grove were entertained
at the Chas Klug home, Sunday.
Harvey Erickson spent Thursday
evening at Gunter Bros.
The card party and oyster supper
held at the home of Chas. Fonk last
Friday evening for the benefit of the
Paris Center, P. T. A. was well attend
ed Euchre and rock were played
First prizes in euchre we're won by
Myra Myers and Walter Myers and in
rock by Grace Gunter and Arthur
Price.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
Aged Woman is
Called by Death

Death claimed one of the older resi-
dents of Kenosha on Tuesday when
Mrs. Louise Dorothy Schramm, aged
SO, widow of the late Christian
Schramm, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Minnie Kresal, 80
North Congress street, after long
illness from the weaknesses due to
her advanced age. She had been cri-
tically ill for several days and death
was not unexpected.
Mrs. Schramm was born in Ger-
many, August IL, 1896, and had lived
her early life in her native land. In
1888 she came to America, coming
directly to Kenosha where she has
lived since that time. She had been a
member of the Friedens Evangelical
Lutheran church and had been active
in its work.
Surviving her are one son, William
Schramm of Richmond, Illinois; two
daughters, Mrs. Louise Sleep of En-
rlewood, and Mrs. Minnie Kresal of
Kenosha; fourteen grandchildren and
fifteen grandchildren.
The remains, now at the Hansen
funeral home at Alb Park avenue, will
be taken Saturday afternoon at one
o'clock to the Friedens Evangelical
Lutheran church where they may be
viewed by friends until the time for
the funeral to be held at the church
at two o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Interment will be in the family plot
in the Green Ridge cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
Resume City Classes
at City Hall Again
University Extension Classes in Smoke
Abatement and Fuel Corserva-
ton Thursday and Friday.

The classes being sponsored in Ke-
nosha by the University Of Wisconsin
extension division in the study of
smoke abatement and fuel conserva-
ton are to meet for the second time
on Thursday and Friday evenings of
this week. Tomorrow evening the pow
err plant engineers and fremen have
their classes with Pros. Elliott from
Madison as the lecturer. The first
weeks enrolment in this class ex-
ceeded thirty persons and if present
cation of the future meetings this par
ticular class will be most successful
one. The class begins at 1880 o'clock
and includes a lecture, discussion,
question and-answer period and illus
trative demonstrations.
Friday evening at 1880 o'clock the
large public heating plant engineers,
firemen and janitors meet for their
class with Prof. Wines. At the first
meeting of this class close to so per-
sons were enrolled and more are ex-
pected to join the class this week.
Enrollments are still being taken
for both classes, and anyone interest
ed who has not yet entered the in
struction meetings is invited to do
so on Thursday or Friday evening in
the city council chambers at the city
hall where the classes are held, or
before hand in the office of the city
inspection department, Room Is City
HALL
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
JOHN R. FORBES Is
SENT TOLEAVENWORTH
Former Veterans Bureau Head Gets
Two Years Sentence but Also
Thirty Day Stay.

Chicago, Ills. Charles R. Forbes,
former director of the veterans bureau
and John W. Thompson, wealthy st.
Louis contractor today were sentenc-
ed to two years imprisonment to Leav-
enworth penitentiary and $4,000 fines
by Federal Judge A. Carpenter.
They were found guilty by a jury
January 80, Of conspiracy to defraud
the government in the ALLEGATION of
veterans hospital contracts and re-
ceived the maximum sentence.
The court granted a 30 day stay of
sentence for the filing of an appeal
and defense counsel indicated the case
would be Immediately appealed.
"When those in the high positions
of trust betray that trust, there is
an attack upon the fundamental fabric
of our institutions" said Judge Car
penter in denying motions for new
trial.
"The fact that defendant Forbes of
fered his life to his country in the
world war and received the disting-
uished service medal is going to make
it all the harder for him."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
CITE SITUATION
IN THIS CITY
Departure of Offices of
Simmons Co. Mentioned
In Message.
SENT TO STATE SOLONS.

Of interest to Kenosha is mes
sage which has been sent by the G..
B. Lewis company, one of the long
established manufacturing concerns of
Watertown, Wis, to State Senators
John G. Schuman and Herman Bill
grien and Assemblymen H. w. Stokes
and j. NJ Dihring, urging that no
further steps be taken by the legisla-
ture towards the increasing of taxa
tion. The departure of the Offices of
Simmons company from Kenosha is
cited in the message as a warning
what other manufacturing concerns of
tax situation should become more bur-
densome for industries in the state.
The message in full, as published in
the WATERFOWL Daily Times, copies of
which reached Kenosha today, reads as
follows:
During the 1925 session of the Wis
consin legislature we understand var
ious bills will be introduced upon
which you will be given opportunity
to vote, changing and possibly at
tempting to increase taxes.
Urge Careful Consideration.
Finding ourselves in very diff
cult position with present high taxes
upon our corporation, its officers and
particularly it's employees, we send you
this open letter, urging you to give
very careful consideration before vot-
ing to increase any taxes.
.Like dozens of other Wisconsin cor
orlxy N NOR rant 0f ot1T
sales are in Wisconsin. That means
we must compete for life with cor
porations in other states such as Iowa,
Ohio, New York and Minnesota where
tax burdens are much lighter. We
bring thousands of dollars into Wis
consin and pay most of it out for sal
aries to Wisconsin citizens and for
Wisconsin labor. We send practically
nothing out of the state.
Cite Kenosha Situation.
eve believe in Wisconsin and want
to remain here. Like other Wiscon
sin corporations, we can move if I'M
fair tax burdens make that necessary,
but this would be our last resort.
Other corporations have moved, in
spite of contrary statements by our
state officials. If you doubt it, ask
any business man of Kenosha how it
hurt Kenosha to loose 100000 in
taxes when the Simmons corporation
moved out, because of unfair Wiscon-
sin taxes.
eve repeat, moving out of Wiscon-
sin would be our last resort as we be-
lieve in this state and like most other
corporations in Wisconsin, are still
boosting in spite of many adverse cir
cumstances with which you are no
doubt acquainted. Most important of
these is the unfair tax situation as
compared with other states in which
our competitors thrive.
"We believe in your desire to vote
for the best interests of your constit-
uency. We believe that higher taxes
of any kind are not for the best in
terests of your constituents, nor for
Watertown, nor for Dodge and Jeffer-
son counties. We thank you for your
past efforts to be fair to business and
hope for your fight against tax in
creases this year"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
Surgeon FIys to Cave City.

Louisville, KY. An airplane left
Louisville at 10 a. m. today for Cave
City with DR.. William Hazlett, Chi
cago surgeon, who was commissioned
by an unknown Chicago citizen to
rush to Cave City and render what
ever assistance was needed to Floyd
Collins, imprisoned in Sand Cave
since Friday by slab which caught
his feet.
DR.. Harold Jones, his assistant, left
on a train about the same hour.
Cave City is about. sixty miles from
Louisville on an airline and the plane
trip probably will make the trip two
hours shorter than is possible by rail.
DIR. Hazlett reached Louisville from
Chicago about 1880 this morning but
did not Immediately call for his plane
at Bowman Field, officials. from there
reported.