Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-02-25
GRAZING A ON
LIVESTOCK ASKED
WOULD LEVY TEN TO FORTY
CENTS PER HEAD ON OUT
OF STATE HERDS
Oil investigation Evidence Complet-
ed; House Kills Teachers Retire.
ment Bill; Seek to Give State Aid
in Combating Spotted Fever
ODy Our Helena Correspondent

Livestock sent 10 Montana to Craze
would pay u head tax of 10 to 40 cents a
season, under measure which Representa-
tive Leavens of Yellowstone proposes
shall be enacted into law.
owners would be required to report such
shipments TO the treasurer of the county
where the animals are to be located and
assessors would be instructed to check their
counties TO locate any outside stock
Horses, cattle and mules would be charged
10 cents a head and sheep and other ami
mails would be assessed at 10 cents a head.
The receipts would so to the general fund
of the counties where the animals were
located.
Iaking of testimony In the investigation
OF the price of gasoline by a Joint senate
aud mouse committee. Hof which Senator
faul or Powell county is chairman, has
ueeh conciuded. me hnal witnesses were
H. Is. Schaefer, rate clerk for the state
rallroad commission, who testified on
freight rates, and A. III. Angstman. assist
ant attorney general, who told Of that of
hce.s inquiry into gasoline prices In Butte.
Mr.. Angstman told the committee that
on complaint of Joseph Russell, operator of
the Silver Bow refinery of that city, the
attorney generals office prepared TO take
action to stop alleged price discrimination
but found that certain independent COM
panies were cutting the prices and the
other concerns were meeting these redue-
tons.
The committee has been given until Feb.
ruary % to submit its report. In the max
ing OF this report the committee will have
70 20 through a great mass of testimony.
much of which was given by refiners and
retailers.
The Montana house of representatives
killed the kemmis repeal of the teachers
retirement law and it recommended for
passage a fish and game DILL best described
by a. statement of Representative Knowles.
Jefferson county farmer, that II intend to
see TO 1t that the legislature shall have
charge of this business and not leave 1t in
the hands of the fish and game commits
sion"
The senate passed bills giving the state
preference right to purchase It's own war
rants, the minor prohibition bill and the
bill appropriating for Frank Baney. 4
The house passed senate bills permitting
cities to acquire ~airplane fields, accepting
federal funds for experiment stations and
the senate amendments to the O. G.. VIII
lett relief bill. OF its own measures it
passed bills providing for extended scale
inspection, establishing an automobile IL
cense plate factory at the state prison, pro.
yiding for rotation In terms OF county fair
commissioners, appropriating 500 to pay
for legal service and S12, 500 to purchase
100 acres for the industrial school.
The plan of the state board OF enfomol-
V-t " perfect IN tue Bitter ROOT valley
the serum for combating Rocky mountain
spotted tick fever and to experiment with
a parasite discovered in France that in
said to eradicate the wood tick, has come
before the Legislature in a bill introduced
by Reed, chairman of the appropriations
committee, and brIcker, republican floor
leader and chairman of the committee on
revenue and taxation.
The measure provides for an ap%propria-
ton of 100000 for building and equipping
a laboratory at Hamilton, where the tick
control work of the state, in cooperation
with the United States public health serv-
ice. is being carried on. The serum, in
vented by DR.. II. r.. Parker, who is con-
Quoting the work there, has been found to
against spotted fever. 1t Is
however, to send the serum to
Washington, D.. c., to have it refined and
perfected and 1t is the hope of the board
of entomology that the refining may be
done at Hamilton. 80
Experiments with the parasite insect are
to determine whether 1t will sur
yive and propagate In this climate.