The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-12
PROPERTY.
TO BE PADLOCKED
DRASTIC ACTION ON
BOOZE QUESTION
Montana State Prison May Take Care
Of 100 Federal Prisoners Because
of Crowded Condition at the Pen
itentiaries

CBy Our Helena Correspondence
HencefOrth, declared Attorney General
Foot, the paddock will be used on property
In Montana where intoxicating liquor is
found, kept, sold or served contrary to law
Mr.. Foot was commenting on action Of
ms assistant, E. e.. Collins, and County
Attorney Ira J. Stagg, in obtaining abate-
ment orders Monday directed against 10
places in Anaconda. These orders. issued
by District Judge George B.. Winston, will
close the places for enc year.
County attorneys he said, will be
required to file abatement proceedings
against all places where the liquor laws,
or the laws against gambling or prOstitu-
ton are being violated and the attorney
generals office will assist the county attOr-
neys In any way possible in making the
a6atement laws and the use Of the paddock
Montana may soon be caring for 100
federal prisoners at the state penitentiary
aC Deer Lodge, George Gordon, federal in
speetor for federal pisOns, appeared before
the state board Of prison commissioners
recently to discuss the matter Of Montana
caring for federal prisoners sent up from
Montana, Wyoming and IDAHO. The taking
over Of federal prisoners by the state is
made necessary because Of the crowded
condition Of the various federal prisons.
According to an estimate furnished the
state board Of prison commissioners by
Warden Middleton, the Montana prison
could care for 100 male prisoners. The
state board Of prison commissioners told
the inspector that that many would be
taken care Of by this state at 81 per day
per head not including bedding and to-
baccO. TIL inspector appeared to be salts
fled with the offer and will take the matter
up with his superior officers at Washing
ton upon his return there. He has made
an inspection trip through the Montana
prison.
The judgment OF the district court Of
Cascade county, in favor of the town Of
Cascade in its action against the county
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and %enJOining the county Of officers from
selling for taxes, 2,76O acres Of land ac-
quired by the town in connection with
the administering Of the August Weds-
worth will, has been affirmed by the
supreme court.
The land was that upon which the
Wordsworth estate had held a mortgage
and as the mOrtgagOr was unable to meet
his obligation he conveyed the land by
deed to the trustees Of the town of Cas-
5 cade on January ,, 1922. Taxes assessed
paid by the town Of Cascade on the
grounds that it was exempt from taxation.
To prevent threatened sale of. the land
e fol-. taxes the town Of Cascade began an
, action, which was tried in the district
( court and resulted in judgment against the
= county. From this judgment the county
q appealed to the supreme court
In affirming the judgment of the district
court of Roosevelt county in the matter OF
5 the conviction Of Mike Larson, for the
DuEBldElLluS Oh a DulluluS uSeu Dy 4uOE
valid Johnson as a garage, the supreme
; court sets at naught the claim Of the de
I PENDANT that the information filed agains
0 Larson was not legal in that it was signed
I by the deputy county attorney instead o.
the county attorney.
As a holder Of special improvement dis
Z trict warrants issued in 1910 by the city o
Butte in payment for the construction o
Il concrete sidewalks and upOn which tn
F interest and principal remain unpaid
Of Butte liable for payment thereof, say
r the supreme court in affirming the judg
ment of the district court Of Silver Bow
county in favor Of the defendant in Gag
mons action against the city.
1t appears that the taxes upon tn
property within the district where tn
n walks we're constructed have gone de
n linquent and there is practically no none
in the sinking fund created for the pay
ment of interest and principal of thes
warrants.
Ascertaining from the expense account
If Of various appOintive officers Of the stat
connected mainly with departments en-
q plOying field men located in various part
Of the state, that the state is now pay
4 ing part or all Of the rentals for telephone
D. in residences of from 20 to % of thes
is officials, the state board Of examiners Ia
In ordered that from February 1, 1926, tn
state will not be responsible for any pa
Of the rentals on telephones in the home
of state officials or employees.
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Ia MOntana's motor transportation act
N constitutional, the state supreme cOul
r holds. The question was raised in a
appeal from the district court for Lew.
he and Clark counties, where Samuel JOhnsO
IA Of Helena was charged with operating
passenger bus for hire between Helen
and East Helena without first obtaining
IA license from the Montana railroad con
II. mission. The lower court dismissed II
suit and it is ordered to grant a new tria
- @ o g
Regardless of the constitutional pr.
10 vision permitting free exercise and enjO!
= ment Of religious profession, the supren
court Of Montana declares it is clear
within the power Of the legislature to d
termine whether the practice Of usiI
10 PeyOte is inconsistent with the good Orde
Is peace and safety Of the state.
While the court thus expresses itse
sD on the question as to whether Big Shet
- was making illegal use Of a fOrbiddC
= drug, it grants him a new trial in ord
that it may be determined whether he
ut subject to the laws Of the state. 1t
pointed out that if he has been a citiz,
of the United States and not under feder
restriction or if he committed the often