The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20
DELAY EXECUTION
OF TONY VETTERE
HIGH COURT WILL RULE ON
APPEAL FOR SANITY
HEARING
Flathead Ranchers Would Compel
Utility to Extend Electric Light
and Power Service Along West
Shore of Lake
(By our Helena Correspondent

(By our Helena Correspondent
InflictiOn Of the death penalty on Tony
Veterre, Butte murderer, has been stayed
by a second appeal to the state supreme
court. This time the court was asked to
pass upon the refusal Of the district
court to institute an examination into
VetteFe's sanity.
Vettere was convicted Of the murder Of
Antoine FaVerO whom he shot on the
streets Of MeaderVille, a Butte suberb,
last November. The supreme court upheld
the district courts judgment and Vettere
was sentenced to hang on August p. The
appeal automatically postponed execution
of the sentence and the supreme court
now in recess, does not %reeOnvenue until
September.
Request for the sanity hearing, which the
law requires shall be before a Jury, was
made by Vettere's attorney, NJ. S. GalassO,
who declared that his client appeared in
sane and unable to understand the nature
Of the proceedings against him. In his
brief in support of his appeal, Mr.. GalassO
declares that Vettere spoke %incOherently
to him in the courtroom upon many diff
ferent subjects and that he insisted that
Tony Vettere was not his name.
What authority the state railroad com
mission has to compel the investment Of
caDtial in extensions Of service by a public
utility will be an issue in a hearing asked
by residents Of Flathead county. Electric
light and power service is sought by about
100 rancherS and owners Of summer homes
near SOmes and along the west shore Of
Flathead Lake and petitions asking a hear
ing on the matter with the purpose of
inducing the commission to order the
Mountain States Power company to build
a power line and offer service has been
filed.
What to do! What to do!
The state board Of examiners is prepar-
ing to distribute insurance on the many
state buildings, premiums on which amount
to about $4,000. The job recurs each
three years. There are between 1000 and
5000 instance companies in the state. Nat
Urally, some complications arise.
In the first place, all the agents who
wrote the insurance three yeas ago seeH
renewals on the ground that since the poll
cies have been satisfactory. It is common
custom in the insurance business to permit
them to continue.
But, the hundred Of other agents argue
that the agents that wrote the policies
three years ago nave had their shar,
and the business should ciculate some.
Then there are individual appeals. One
man explains that he is the only democrat
in the insurance in his county and should
have a share in the business. Another
finds politics his best argument and ad
vises that he is candidate for the legisla
ture and that he is going to be nominated
and elected and so.
OF course, many Of the insurance agent
were personally responsible, for the cleo
ton Of one or members Of the boards
their letters indicate-and they should shar
in the spOils Of war.
| Sometimes there is another angle o
/ approach. One man declared that he mus
have some Of the insurance else he wOult
not be able to send his daughter to schOo
this fall. Another touches upon his wa
record. Still another emphasizes hfe-lOn.
friendship. And so on.
Unfortunately for the board member
many Of the arguments are sound bU
Z there are only so many policies to be writ
ten and the number is not more than one
tenth Of the number Of insurance agents s
some Of them arc bound to be disappointed
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