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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23
Pullman Porter News

Zone Supervisor Mr.. G. L. Del
lums will arrive In Seattle Satur-
day at 2:20 p. m. He will go I'M
mediately to the Y. w. @. A., 100
21st Ave. North and address the
porters at ESQ.
At the same place, he will ad-
dress the porters at one o'clock
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. He
will address the Ladies' auxiliary
at the residence of Mrs. Armita
Harst. There will be no public
melting.
All porters must be present at
these meetings and learn the oper-
alton of the new working condi-
lions under the new agreement.
Please extend this information
to all pOrters.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23
Who's Afraid OF Free Grand Jury? VIII Behind IT, We Would Like To Know

Attorney Theodore Turner Is a
Republican member of the state
legislature. VIM. v. Cowan Is q
well known attorney and Democrat
precinct committeeman of Renton,
Wash. His letter published In the
Renton Chronicle, May Is, attrac-
ted much attention and accentu-
ated public comment. In his letter
to the Northwest Enterprise, At
orney Cowan wants to know,
"What's the hurry"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23
| Who's Afraid OF
Free jury, Asks
VIM. Y. Cowan
Renton Chrinicle, May /


VIM. v. Cowan, well known at
torney and Democratic precinct
committeeman, is up in arms over
what he charges is an attempt by
certain parties to tie the Demo-
cratic party in with the move to
effect a referendum on the grand
jury law, passed by the last legis-
lature. The law provides that no
prosecuting attorney may function
in grand jury proceedings, but that
the superior court judge or judges
shall name an attorney for such a
duty. Cowan feels that there is
something sinister behind the
strong effort now being made to
kill the measure. His letter fol-
lows:
Editor Chronicle - Democratic
precinct committeeman in King
County, and possibly elsewhere are
receiving large envelope with re-
quest to obtain signatures to RE
ferendum Measures No % and
"a" Along with it are paragraphs
taken from speech by John T.
Dalton, a prominent attorney of
Seattle.
Those paragraphs attempt to de-
lude the bewildered precinct work
er by telling him that the Grand
Jury law, as passed by the last
legislature is contrary to the Con-
stitution; that it violates" the
Democratic theory "as to rule of
the majority" and a lot of other
sophistical reasoning which facts
fail to justify. 1t is extensively
printed, misleading, and plainly the
work of somebody or some interest
which has it's own fish to fry.
Who is really behind it?
/ Why this sudden tenderness to
prosecuting attorneys? Why this
appeal which in effect tells us that
our superior courts are incompe-
tent when it comes to selecting an
attorney to appear before the
grand jury. Who is anxious to
hamstring the new Grand Jury
law? Who is it that wants to
keep all such power in the hands of
one mantle prosecuting attor-
ney? No citizen who honestly be-
lieves in decent government will
quarrel with this splendid piece
of legislation. Who is it that is
fearful of an Independent Grand
Jury?
VIM. v. Cowar
Renton Chronicle
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23

The circulation Of petitions No.
% and No. "a is to halt the oper-
alton of the law enacted by the
recent legislature defining how a
grand jury may be called. The
petitions have served to focus at
tentiOn of the public on the merits
of the law.
The Northwest Enterprise to en-
tighten its readers sought the
views of two well known attorneys,
one a Republican and the other a
Democrat.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23
Why Hamstring
Our Grand Juries?
By Theodore Turner


The forces opposed to an indie
pendent grand jury are circulating
two referendum petitions design
ed to tie up the new grand jury
laws passed by the 1941 legisla-
ture. These referendum petitions
are numbered % and "a. The real
story does not appear on the re-
ferendum petitions. 1t is told in
the fifty years of unsatisfactory
experience we have had under the
old law, and in the new 1941 law
which plugs the loopholes of the
old.
The most important duty of the
grand jury is to inquire into the
"willful misconduct in office of
public officers" A conscientious
grand jury which is determined
to fulfill this duty is the most
powerful weapon that the COM
mon people have against malfeas-
ance in public office. Why hasn't
it worked better? Because the
grand juries have been practically
dependent upon the prosecuting
attorney for advice and guidance,
and all too often the prosecuting
attorney has been a pretty close
friend of the other public officials
in his county. Generally speaking,
the prosecutor is a member of the
same political party as they are,
and the chances are that he has
campaigned with them at election
time. After election, he becomes
their official legal adviser, and has
constant dealings with them. The
result of all this is that the pro-
secutor comes to feel that his own
political fortunes are tied up with
those of the other public officials.
When the grand jury uncovers evil
dence that some of these officials
are corrupt, the prosecutor is very
apt to give advice something like
this: "This evidence may look pref
ty bad to you, but you could never
get a conviction on that. If you
indict this man, you'll never get
anywhere, and you will just be
wasting the public's money" And
so nothing is done.
The 1871 legislature corrected
this defect in our grand jury sys-
tenn by passing chapters 1853 and
191. The new laws require the
court to appoint a special attor-
ney to advise the grand jury in
dependent of the prosecutor. The
prosecutor is not allowed to advise
or interfere in any way. He may
not even appear before the grand
jury except in cases where he has
initiated the proceedings.
These laws will plug the loophole
in the old law. The superior court
judges are in the best position to
select a satisfactory legal adviser
for the grand jury who has no
connections with any public off
cial.. And if he doesn't do a good
job they can fire him and get an
other.
The new laws go into effect June
II, unless enough signatures are
! obtained on referendum petitions
number % and "a. The referendum
would suspend the new laws until
after the 1912 election.
Who do you suppose is interest
ed in delaying the operation of
the new grand jury laws? Isn't it
Continued on Page Two)
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Who Is Really
Behind 1t?

Editor Northwest Enterprise:
The more one contemplates the
Continued on Page Two)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23
Negro Priest Popular
Speaker In Portland

Rev. Dom Basil Matthews, o.
S. B., of Trinidad, B. w. Indies,
has been much in demand during
his short stay in Portland where
he is spending the summer before
resuming studies for his Masters
Degree at the Catholic University,
Washington, D. c.
Father Basil who is but 20 years
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23

of age, holds the
distinction of be-
ing the first Ne
gro priest in the
1900 year old
Benedictine Or
der. He studied
two and one half
years in Louvain
Belgium and was
ordained priest in
Trinidad in 1886.
T h e Benedic-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23

land. He is the son of Mrs. Alice
Hays and brother of Mrs. Mabel
Henderson, this sity. Hays is in the
employ of the Union Pacific. The
wedding of this popular couple will
take place June Is at A. M. e.
Zion Church Rev. ]. F. Smith Pas
tor will officiate. A reception will
follow at the home of the bride.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23

tine priest celebrated a solemn
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Brown, I'll N.
Cherry st. announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Maxine to
Chauncey Hays, 1908 N. Ross st.
Miss Brown, a graduate of Jane
Adams High School in January
is organist for A.. M. E. Zion
church and popular in music and
dramatics.
Mr.. Hays is well known in Port
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04

up country and left her to her fate.
Meanwhile Bolt had secured the
minister and was entertaining him
with such stories as he could recall
that were fit for ministerial ears Sud-
denly he stopped.
Didn't you hear a cry2"
why no." said the minister. Il
didn't"
at sounded to me like the wall Of
a wolf There 1t goes again"
Jumping up he grabbed his Win
chester and rushed down the trail
toward the corral, followed closely by
the minister.
what the devil-scuse me-what
the blazes is that In the drift"
In an instant his rifle was aimed
at the black object floundertng In the
snow.
Hold on" yelled the minister, 'see
what it Is before you shoot"
Bolt whistled shrilly, still holding
his rifle on the "critter," and some
thing that looked like q human arm
and hand seemed to beckon them on.
Bolt lowered his rifle.
I'm be damned If it amt a woman"
He rushed forward and the lady fell
fatnting In his arms.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
COLORED WAITER
GOES BACK HOME
LEAVES BUTTE FOR SUNNY SOUTH
AFTER so YEARS IN TREAS
URE STATE
Louis r. Ridley, Son Of a Slave. Was
Brought TO Montana by Marcus DAILY
in 1890; Highly Regarded by All Who
Knew Him.

Louis R. Ridley, the popular
cOEored waiter Of the old Silver
Bow club in Butte, has gone back
TO his home in the sunny south
after half a century in Montana.
He left a few days ago for Bir-
mingham, Ala, where he win
spend his declining years with
relatives.
Ridley. the son OF a slave, was
brought to Montana In 1890 by Marcus
DAILY to become headwaiter at the
Montana hotel In Anaconda. He re-
manned there for number Of years
before coming to Butte to take a SIM
liar position at the old Silver Bow
club.
Many an old-timer dropped in at
Ridley's home to say goodby before he
left. Ridley was highly regarded by
all who knew him. AS his friends
dropped in, Ridley reminisced with
them, telling of the time Marcus DAILY
met him in Utica, N. Y, and urged
him to come west.
II was a waiter in the Utica hotel, "
he said. Mister DAILY was back there
with his race horses and was a guest
at the hotel. we got more or less
and he told me about the
fine hotel he was opening up in Ana
conda. He offered me the chance to
be the headwaiter and accepted.
That was so years ago. I'll never for
get the night the hotel opened. There
are others still living who can tell
you about 1t"
Many of Ridley's visitors were of
the 'old school" Each had a kindly
word for him and told little anecdotes
Of the past. Ridley nodded his head
in appreciation.
HE was real waiter" one visitor
said. you didn't have to draw map
when you gave him your order. He
Just naturally knew his business"
Ridley loved horse racing and was
often a spectator at the old DAILY
track south OF Butte. He talked about
such famous horses as Tammany and
Ogden and of how DAILY had picture
q Tammany's head inlaid on the floor
at the Montana hotel.
''Adr. DAILY never stepped on that
head" Ridley remarked. HE fairly
that horse"
Ridley's wife died few weeks ago
In the Mining city. Relatives who at
tended Mrs. Ridley's funeral accom-
panied Mr.. Ridley back to his old
home. He was born 10 miles from At
Ianta. He remembers little OF slave
DAYS, having been born the year the
Civil war started. He went north a
few years after its close.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
BRIDES BY MAIL
IN EARLY TIMES
PIONEER PROSPECTOR GOT
QUICK RESULTS FROM AID IN
NEWSPAPER

Partner of Prospective Groom Met
Lady at Depot; Tragedy Narrowly
Averted When Team Became I'm
manageable on Trip to Ranch Home.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04

POI SON-Al Pronovost Of the I'M
EMPLOYMENT office here sent 10 men
to Tacoma to help build barracks for
army camps.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
Attorney General
Rules on Warrants

A county issuing warrants IN excess
Of the statutory $4,000 limit afor a
single purpose" does not violate Mon
taha law If the warrants are issued
to aid the needy, Attorney General
r. J. Freebourn has ruled.
The opinion was written for State
Welfare Administrator I. M Brand
jord, who informed Freebourn that
Yellowstone county commissioners had
declared an emergency IN the poor
fund and set up an emergency budget
against which the warrants were Is
sued.
The warrants totaled $4,000, which,
when added to other poor fund war
rants issued and not paid, would ex-
coed the $4,000 limit Of county tn
debtedness imposed by state law.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
WAITER, PLEASE,
ONE FULL ORDER
OF IMAGINATION
IF IT'S THE MAIN INGREDIENT IN
VEGETABLE sTEW, N
MUST BE GOOD

Imagination Is an essential In
gredient In every good meat-and-
vegetable stew, says Bessie Z.
McCieRHand, extension foods and
nutrition specialist at Montana
State college. However, she adds,
q few definite rules help to give
the dish good flavor, save food
value, make use Of l0w-cost in
gradients.
color, start by browning the meat in
hot fat, Miss hfcCleIIand suggests
Then add enough water to cover the
meat, and finish cooking at a low tenn
perature. Simmering. rather than
boiling, softens the connective tissue
and makes the meat tender.
The No. / rule when making stew
is long cooking for the meat, short
cooking for the vegetables. Modern
cooks know that food values disappear
when vegetables are overlooked. Short
cooking also means fun flavor, bright
color and firm texture for the vege-
tables.
Most stews start with the less-tender
meats, because these cuts can be made
tender with long, slow cooking. It'd
bits and small pieces of tender meat
can also be used to advantage In
stews Although these meats are low
in price, they are Just as nutritious
as the more expensive steaks and
chops, Miss McClelland said.
Among the beef cuts suitable for
stews are the fore and hind shank,
the heel Of round, flank, neck, short
ribs, plate and brisket. Veal and lamb
riblets, made by cutting between the
ribs Of the breast, are excellent for
stew. So are small, very lean Shout
ders. And there are other trregularly
shaped pieces Of veal, lamb and pork
that make good starters for delicious
and savory stews.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04

A new use for peanuts-in Skin
lotion.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04

Two placer miners who had been
partners on Confederate bar for a
season in search of auriferOus
metals, having met with fair sue
cess I'm days when So to the pan
was considered "pay dirt" aban-
d0ned their claim and pulled up
stakes for the Big Hole basin, a
high upland on the eastern water
shed of the Rockies, its uplist $3.50
feet above the sea. Dry land it is,
wrung out from an inland sea in
prehistoric times so remote the
mind staggers in an attempt 10
reckon It.
Through this land runs a clear
mountain stream, dashing and splash
ing over boulders on its way TO join
the opaque waters Of the Big Muddy.
This virgin soil was untrod save by
the moceasin foot of the redman, until
the placer diggings were worked out
10 a great extent and the placer miner
turned his attention to agricultural
pursuits.
Miners Go Farming
Two miners, Harris and Bolt, squat
ted on 100 acres, built comfortable log
cabins, were the first pre-emptors and
had the choice of land to select FROM
They grew in opulence as the wheels
of time revolved and the yearly adj
dendum of young stock grew into
many herds on many hills. These min
ers were boon companions and were
in the habit OF taking turns staying
q part of the time at each others
cabin in order to comply with the law
when it came time TO prove up title
to their lands, to keep one another
company and to break the bloody
monotony" of the semi-Arctic stiffness,
as Harris was won't to say.
The Ideal Life
When discussing other things, one
October night, the question arose
man to live alone, and be exempt from
the visiting Stork or to have guard
ian angel preside over the household
affairs; and after a thorough argu-
ment pro and con, Bolt chung with
tenacity to the affirmative side Of the
question and resolved to take unto
himself a helpmate.
He would rush into the matrimonial
state, providing he could induce some
unsuspecting female to share with him
the Vicissitudes of ranch life in the
west. Harris suggested that as neither
he nor his partner had left behind
q sweetheart when they started west,
an advertisement in some eastern I
newspaper was likely TO bring about
the desired results, and wrote the fol-
lowing notice. posting 1t to an eastern
paper for insertion:
ITO whom it may concern: Cores
pondence desired with lady, not over
80 years of age, must have some
knowledge of farm life and capable
of attending to the duties on ranch.
Object, matrimony. Photographs to be
exchanged. Bolt"
A short time passed when letter
was received addressed to Bolt, calig-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
PATROLS DO MORE
DAMAGE THAN ELK
so SAYS SUN RIVER RANCHER IN
COMPLAINT FILED AT
HELENA

The Montana fish and game
commission, which numbers among
its tasks that of seeing that nai-
grating elk don't damage private
lands, had one a few days ago
with a back spin" on II. Instead
Of complaining of elk damaging
property, q rancher in the Sun
river area declared deputy game
wardens on patrol are a greater
nuisance than wandering animals.
For some time the commission has
assigned three deputies in that area
to control migrating elk. During the
heavy migration from the highlands
the number is augmented.
Complaint has been made in the
past that the animals have damaged
private range.
The recent communication, present
ed formally to the board, asserted
more damage was done to grass by
patrols than by elk.
I'm the past II years I have at no
time made complaint TO the state con-
corning elk" It read. II have
permitted game patrols to make paths
through and over my property to avoid
trespass on other property. I have also
served at odd times for three winters
to patrol elk and know the stu
alton
Il have come to the point where
I must put a stop to this TO protect
myself. The patrol herd does a great
deal more damage to fences and prop
erty than If let alone. Also trails made
across my land by patrolers doesn't
help my grass.
Il am hereby giving notice that all
game wardens and deputies or other
persons trespassing on my property
be stopped
Natural trespass by elk will not be
objected to, but no patrol on my land
It any time"
No official announcement came
rom the commission on the COM
nunication.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
NEW CnITNsEL NAMED

Appointment of Enor K Matson,
first assistant attorney general as
counsel for the Montana railroad and
public service commission was an
bounced. Matson, first assistant at
torney general since 1887, and prior
10 that connected as an assistant, was
named to take the office immedi-
atelv" He succeeds Emmett Angland
OF Great Falls whose dismissal was
announced by the commission Ang-
land was appointed IN June TO take
the place Of John w. Bonner, attorney
qeneral-elect, who resigned IN tire in
ferests of his campaign.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
All Time High Is
ReDOrted bu Board

The state board Of equalization has
reported license tax collections for the
fiscal year ending last June 80 were
the highest ever collected in the his
tory of the board. The report of the
board showed license tax totals were
$8,556, $40, nearly q quarter-mil
In subdivisions collected, the board
reported taking in the largest corpo-
ration taxes in the past 20 years, and
all-time thighs" in gasoline taxes and
individual income tax funds.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
MONTANA BLIND
YOUTH NEAR TOP
WHITEFTSH YOUNG MAN is MAX
ING GOOD AT CON-
ZAGA

When Mrs. Carl Walters re-
turned from Spokane, she brought
word Of Floyd Mcdowell, who was
educated at the school for the
blind In Montana and who Is now
a student at GOnxaga university,
where he Is majoring In music. He
Is a member of the Gonzaga Glee
club and has given a number of
concerts and taken a leading part
in others. He is doing wen In pipe
organ work.
Mcdowell was bern I'm Whitefish.
He became a member of the
Charles Young family while MIR.
and Mrs. Young were in Whitefish
and the YOungs were instrumental
in getting him into the state school
In Montana, where he received his
education and was able to develop
his musical talent.
A new use for peanutS-in ski
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04
CHOOSES PRISON
TO CONSUMPTION

A Montana man committed a theft
with the intention of getting a prison
sentence 20 avoid the draft, it Is re-
ported
An account Of the incident appeared
In the Bozeman Chronicle which said
the man, Clarence Edwards. 80. re-
ceived a three-year sentence ia the
Deer Lodge penitentiary when he
pleaded guilty to burglary before Dis
tr1ct Judge Benjamin E. Berg. He Is
alleged to have taken q jackhammer
valued at $50 from a mining company.
The Bozeman paper said Edwards
confessed that he had a prison term
IN mind TO avoid CONSUMPTION when
ne nurglarized the mining company
storehouse.
do you mean you wanted to let
someone else fight for your country
and your" the Judge asked him.
Edwards said that was his original
idea and added: II guess I'm Just a
coward" according to the paper. He
also guessed 1T was mistake"
The average man would be only too
glad to pose as a retired captain OF
industry on half pay.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04

BROADUS-A young All club steer
exhibited by Jensen Bros. at the Bill
lings All club show win be killed for
serving at the seventh annual meet
ing Of the Miles City Production
Credit association to be held Jan. 10
in Miles City. The baby beef dressed
SIS pounds and brought $1O913.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-01-04

MISSOULA-G George F. Parlin, re-
tired rancher and former Butte police
officer, died here following an illness
Of more than q year. Parlin, Mon
tana pioneer, came here last year
from Lincoln, where he had operated
q ranch for 81 years. He had lived In
Butte 10 years before going to Lincoln
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1941-07-05

Elwood Cook was caught swip-
ing leftover buns while Robert
Williams stored some weinefs. !
wonder il they could have been
cooperating?
Those found wading in the river
were: Sonny Wells, Youletta Mason,
Ardys Tyler here from Washing
ton; Frank Norman, Doris Todd.
and Oliver B.oome. Others who
participated in the gay frolic were:
Jean and Buddy Waundless, An
drew Henry. Don Lawson, ALVIN
Boyd. Jean Carmichael, Bruce
Wilson and Dorothy Scott, Kenneth
Todd. MARCEL Todd, Betty Owens.
Arlen Burton. Leonard and Edward
Proctor, LeontIne Cole. Elmer
Craige, Leon Kennedy, John and
Herman Berry, Doris and Iris Bell,
Charles Burke, Jackie Cook, Mar
rie Morris, Erman, Erestine, and
Mary Louise Fisher, Julian Wlther-
spoon. Barbara Jean Blair, Myzel
Soue'l, Willie Bryant, Charles
Taylor, J. D. and Mildred Mason.
Lenore Richardson Davis, Buddy
Richards, Leonard Hayes, Dorothy
Ann Hicks, Phyllis johnson, and
George Smith and many others.