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VOLUME 9» NO. 11 BIG TIMBER, SWEET GRASS COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928 PRICE 12.00 PER YEAR
Vote On Senator-Elect Smith RUTH SNYDER AND GRAY Will Probably Come Up TodayCUBA GIVES PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, .tan. 18.—Modifies of the .senator-elect have insisted that PAY PENALTY IN CHAIR lion of tlie resolution finally barring Governor Small would' not take tills ITS GREATEST RECEPTION Fran|;,L. Smith, republican, of Illinois, course, leaving Smith free to present from the senate was agreed upon in his credentials again at the opening private conferences today as the sec of the seventy-first congress after the >Voman, Accompanied By Priest, Goes To Chair ond day of debate on the report of genera! elections next fall when one- Pan-American Delegates Hear Outline Of U. S. tile speeial slush fund committeepro third of the senate meml>ership is to Praying: Forgiveness-—Gray Faces End ceeded on the floor be chosen. Policy—Key West Next Stopping Point Stoically—Death Instantaneous . At the insistence of Senators Borah, Discussion today was opened by Of Coolidge And Secretaries republican. Idaho; Iteed, democrat, Mis Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, who in a long prepared .speech toot: SING SING PHI SON, Ossining, N. V, I prehensibie beyond the tael that "she souri. chairman of the committee, and would seem to indicate the certainty other senators, it was consented to sharp issue with those who have con HAVANA. Jan. 17 --President Conl- Jau. 12.—Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry tended that (lie senate is powerless to idge. having outlined the policy of Hie of its being accepted. Judd Gray died in tho electric chair “Have mercy on my soul,” were theeliminate j the phrase that Smith Is not I’nited Stales before the delegates to -The preliminary meeting also went flrit words plainly distinguishable. entitled | to oatii of office because of pass upon Smith's qualifications be tonight, she crying out for forgiveness yond those laid down in the constitu tlie Pan-American conference and hav on record as favoring the appointment and he inaudibly muttering prayers, As she was strapped in the chair contributions and expenditures, in his ing been received witli greater acclaim of eight committees to consider the by four guards the matrons stood be-1 •)nn,i,r-v campaign in 1926, tion. , Mrs. Snyder was pronounced dead at The .Montanan also denounced the than the head of any other government subjects on the Agenda- a committee 11:09 o'clock, and Gray at 11:10. tween her and the witnesses. As the I As thus changed the resolution would proposal advanced by Smith supporters who ever visited Cuba, departed from to lake tip each separate group of Both had been announced resigned to prison guests murmured prayers sheI recite that' the senator-elect’s creden- its shores today on the cruiser Mem questions as arranged by the Pan- was asked if she had any last words. Itials are tainted with “fraud and cor that since the people of Illinois knew their fate by their spiritual advisers before the election all the facts the phis. bound for Key West. American union. Instead, however, of shortly before time for the execution Then suddenly she seemed to realize I nipt ion,*’ and that therefore he is not senate now knows and still voted him Six dcs'troyers escorted the cruiser appointing a committee to consider the and they walked to the chair without to the full imminence of death and I entitled to membership in the senate, with the presidential party, and guns nt-xt meeting place of the conference, pulled herself sharply erect. Her voice I It would add that a vacancy exists ininto office the senate should not set assistance. Neither had been given any itself up as a judge against him. boomed in salute as the Memphis it is suggested that two committees opiate or stimulant of any sort. came in a shrill treble and her hands I the representation of the state of Till steamed away. The battleship Texas, shall be appointed, to study private unis. “The proposition thus advanced As each sat in the chair, a priest clenched in tense emotion. | scarcely requires refutation.” Walshfrom which President Coolidge landed and public international law, grouped for Mrs. Snyder and a minister for “Forgive them. Father,” she cried, in on Sunday, passed out of the harbor by tlie Pan-American union under one Gray murmured prayers. ruder this declaration of vacancy, said. this strange, unnatur.il voice, “for they I a number of senators hold that the “Baldly stated as it was on this several hours later. The transfer of beading. The execution was carried through know not what they do.” the president to the Memphis was for Tlie opening business session of the without the slightest hitch. Just be governor of Illinois rould appoint a floor, it is too shocking for accept She was silent then and as if at ! senator in Smith’s place but friends ance.” purpose of convenience when Key West conference will begin at 10:30 a. m. fore 11 o’clock Warden l.awos called some unseen signal the black mask was reached. with Dr. Raphael Martinez Ortiz, Cu the official witnesses, four doctors and was placed over her face and the exe , Almost immediately, the delegates ban secretary of stale, in the chair. 20 reporters, into his office and told cutioner,' Robert Elliot, standing in a took up the work which brought themI)r. Ortiz is expected to address the them that the time had come. little alcove, pulled down the switch. /?. 5. Jarrett Named One Of Vice to Havana, that of organizing for a meeting with an address in reply by Briefly he outlined the procedure, It seemed to watchers that death was one of (lie delegates, probably the to avoid possible confusion, and then so sudden it must hsve been entirely discussion of the important questions Presidents Of Montana Woolmeninvolving the American republics and representative of Glide, as the last all started for the death chamber. The painless. There was no struggle and conference was held at Santiago. The way led outdoors across the prison no outcry. seeking to strengthen the ties between the various states. One important step effect of President Gnolidgc’s visit 1» grounds, into a walled court and a* Gray immediately followed and the GREAT FALLS, Mont- Jan. 14.—Sale« Kuhr, of Chinook; C. Simc, of Boze (.nba is marked, file Gillian term through a door directly into the death process was repeated. of fleeces by members of the Montana man; J. II. Carmichael, of Augusta;has already been taken, whereby open chamber. Woolgrowers* association “without ad- diplomacy and full publicity is virtually “imiv .sinipatico”—“charming personal When he was asked if he had any Guy Stnmbaugh,of Deer Lodge; John ity” is frequently npplied to him. This is a large bright room about word, however, he made no response. \ice from their local banker or cum Etcharl. of Tampico; Percy William assured. 80 feet square with four doors, four in e rely continuing his soundless pray- j petent and reliable market authorities,1 of Miles C ity; C. N. A rnett, of ffonorfo Pucyrredon, president of the President Machado ami the president son, of the United States amt thefr short benches for witnesses and the era. amt tlie mask was strapped in I is discouraged in a resolution adopted Bozeman, and S. McKcnnon, of Helena. Argentine delegation . brought this wives chair. place. I at the closing session of the annual fSecond vice presidents are R. S. Ja r question up at a preliminary meeting bade each other farewell after Secre There are no other furnishings. The Warden Lawes stood about 10 feet I convention here today. The resolution at which the chairmen of all the deletaries Kellogg and Wilbur, who were ret!; of Big Timber; Frank Burnett, of also returning In Washington, took plaster walls are a light cream and to one side of the chair during both I s.ivs that the Boston market has not Conrad; Guy Dean, of Plains; C. E. gations were present. His motion, the floor of stone. It is a room giv electrocutions but be kept his head I advanced in proportion to the foreign Long, of Lewistown; Martin 0 ‘NeiI, of which was adopted 16 to .'».'had been leave of their Cuban hosts and the ing no impression of sadness hut for bowed and so far as couhi be told he | market and “as there seems to be no Havre; Perry Moore, ofTw.wlot; Roy seconded by Charles Evans Hughes, American delegates. the central ehair with its straps and did not once look at either prisoner. I prospect of a falling off in prtcea Li Ciary, of Great Falls; C. E. Sime. bead of the American delegation, and Tlie Cuban president look liis guest metal. As soon as Gray had been pronounced I abroad.” woolmen ‘ should not contract of Bozeman; Peter Pauly, of Deer although this action has to be ratifiedby the arm and accompanied him to Besides the official witnesses, seven dead. Warden Lawes opened the doorl for future delivery’ without a close Lodge; J. E. Morse, of Dillon; K. O. by the conference, which opens Its the waters edge, as if reluctant to let doctors, half a dozen guards, the ex into the walled court and the solemn I Mmly of conditions. Haugau, of Fishtail; A. B. Moyer, of business sessions tomorrow, tlie en him go. Mrs. Coolidge and Señora eeutloncr and his assistants and the (Continued on page sevenl C. H. Williams, of Deer Lodge, was Glendive; A. E, Westlake, of Bozeman, dorsement of such „a large majority Machado also devoted Die last minutes warden were the only ones in the re-elected president; Harry Snyder, of and Ray lT. Miner, of Stanford. to each other. Finally Mr. Coolidge Hillings, vice president, and'Murray E. Among resolutions adopted were Senator Walsh Goes turned from General Machado to Sen- After all had entered and scarcely Stebbins. of Helena, secretary-treasurer. those expressing “unqualified opposi ora Machado, bent low over her hand \ before the witnesses had seated them Yellowstone River Is Roy F. Clary, former vice president, tion” to further extension of national After Canadian Firm and repealed his words of appreciation selves or found standing room along Bad One At Glendive I forests and parks or the withdrawal for liis visit. A hearty handclasp and the walls. Mrs. Snyder was brought in. becomes a member of the executive committee to which J. E. Morse, of of more public land for federal ad WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.—Preliminary smiling words passed between the two She entered through a door behind Billings Gazette: As the swollen and I n lion -inil A T HihW d nf Hnl ” ministration, a shearing scale of 12Vi steps in the investigation of the extinct presidents, only interruptd by the ne the chair over which a large sign bearicc-jammed Yellowstone river slowly S re-elected ' °f Hc,C,,,,’ cents except for heavy Ramlmuillct C ontinental Trading Go., Ltd., of Can cessity of assisting Mrs. Coolidge to ing the one word “silence*’ was fas receded Sat unlay night, one family and* flexes, matters relative to grazing inada. which lias figured in litigation enter the launch, which was to con tened. two single men were known to be held The meeting pla£c for next year,rijtiimd forests, better shipping fa- growing out of tlie leasing of Teapot vey tlie parly to the Memphis. At first her nttcranres were Jnm»v» „ “ # •. i .. * | aiV/i Vtbiehu \WfC «Br*t* transit, control ot tnc nun fiver e«* with* ttfeacti&t Tuesday A last cheer—“Goodbye Come hack another family was in a hospital at (he NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Ghanges in >‘23(1,500 from the profits of the com Im.is and their school girl companions, by §50.000.000 the taxes paid by larger to undulate ranch lands, cuter ranch policy which would tend to make Hie bouses and cause severe livestock losses. fraud in registration and voting in pany to Albert B. Fall and his son- many nf whom said they were visiting corporations, were made In the house Philadelphia, Allegheny and four other American Women’s association a semi- a night club for the first time in their Monday by Representative Garner, dem Ice gorges near Terry broke early in-law. M. T. K\crliarl, of Pueblo. counties in Pennsylvania was charged aristocratic rather than a purely dem Colo., a hanker. lives, found Ihemselies Monday tile ocrat. of Texas. Saturday morning to pile up again a ocratic were responsible for tlie mile east of Glendive. The river rose in an amended petition filed with tlie club, A hatch of subpoenas for witnesses center of an inquiry reiolung around The Texan, who is ranking minority resignation of Miss Gertrude Robinson a federal prohibition raiil early .Sunday member of tlie house ways and means rapidly behind a jam JO feet high and | senate Monday by William B. Wilson, to appear at 1 lie opening of Hie hear flooded both sides of 11$ stream for» democrat, who is contesting the seat Smith as president of the organization, ing was issued Monday night, lint Sen on the Club Bagdad at Sixty-fourth committee, made bis assertion coinci -die said in a stall incut today. dent witli the announcement that Sen miles. Heroic efforts of rescue parlies of his republican opponent. William S. ator Walsh declined to make public street and Cottage Grove aienue. ^ Vare. She asserted that Miss Anne Morgan, tlie names, explaining Hint he did not Blanket denial that I here was any ator Simmons of North Carolina, sen 'saved the lives of ranchers. Two homes sister of J. P. Morgan and a leader in ior democrat on the senate finance where water swept nearly to the sec The petition was more specific in its think it was in Hie interest of Hie drinking b.i their party while at tlie ond floor could nol lie reached hut ■illegalions than was ,thc one filed at the eltih since its inception, originated inquiry that lie siioiild do so at this night club was made hi tlie students committee, would align democrats Hie plan for a “membership of quality” against the republican move to postpone their occupants were .believed to he the Iasi session and on which the coins, lime. following the announcement of William mil tee ordered its privileges and elec confined to leaders and potential lead Ilowi'i i t . it is known tlie committee J. Rogau. acting superintendent of tax legislation until after the March safe for the night. ers among self-supporting women. Miss One man still was isolated by ice tions committee to make full inquiry ilcSiros especially to hear John I). schools, dial lie would conduct a search 15 returns were in. Morgan is chairman of the dub’s ex Garner asserted that under a -provi and water on the island near W'aco to determine whether Vare was legally Rockefeller. Jr., of the Standard Oil ing investigation. ecutive committee sion of |lie bill, corporations in which submerged Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer eleeled. Meantime, that senator-elect interests; George K. Vincent, president The raid was led by Deputy Prohi has been refused the oath of office be A majority of Hie directors favored of tlie board of the Standard Oil Com bition Administrator Jamie. Several Secretary Mellon was interested, would Mill, their 3-year-old girl and infant the change,* Miss Smith continued, pay a total increase of ¡81.000.000, add son were taken from the island Sat cause of expenditures in his primary pany of Indiana and one nf those who hollies labelled "gin” were confiscated urday noon. Efforts to reach Ira Hill, campaign. adopting measures to further ttic plan guaranteed to the late A.’ E. Humphthe agents said. ing: without consulting tlie membership “It means more taxes for Mr. Mellon, a hrollier of Elmer llill, in his home Wilson charged specifically that dur reys of Denier Hint the Continental Mr. Kogan said that if tlie facts were nnd that isn’t l.i\ reduction to 1’nele Ihrce-fourlhs ported lo him, lie would cancel Andy.” on Nov. 2. 1920, large sum s of money tion that they lie self-supporting. As tract to purchase 33.333.333 barrels of ■‘every senior prom now scheduled.” were cheeked hy an ice jam packed . result, she said, she offered In r res- Tlie increase would lie brought aboutdose to and surrounding the house.were expended by the republican or oil from In's Mexia fields in Texas. "This is shameful and disgraceful,” he under section 1-11 of the new law The rancher was known to have suffiganizations in the places mentioned, i nation as president last April ini' Stewart, who failed to testify at the added. which would require parent and subcient food and was left to continue and that “in order to conceal the said i.es persuaded to remain in nftiei until eiiil trial of the Teapot dome .use at Tlie 70 couples went to tile night sidiary corporations to file separate his lonely vigil until Sunday. expenditures of money, tlie republican •.■mptelion of financing plans foi an (dies 1-11110 due to his absence from the il.ii) following the senior prom of Me- tax returns instead of “affiflated®re Nearly 1.000 head of lambs were committees filed false and improper re .•i miO.OOO clubhousen o il under c<*n- loiintri. is now in Yuuzucla on busidill high where they arc students. turns.'' as permitted at present, he ex drowned near Waco as the river rose turns of the moneys received and ex • 'ruction. ness for his company. Adam Schultz, president of the senior plained. over land on which they were feeding. pended.” Miss Sm ith’s resignation and those The chairman said the committee class, said no liquor was scried or He asserted that in carrying out of of seven directors and the of the six would cxpict Stewart to he hack in consumed while the students, many not the conspiracy in Philadelphia county members of the membership commit this country and ready lo testify be more than 15 years old, were at the a large number of persons were regis tee were made known after the month- fore the end of tlie month. place. tered as voters who were nol of-age: lv meeting of the association last night. DEATH CLAIMS BEN URNER,PIONEER wtio were dead; and who had not paid their poll taxes. Mellon Urges Excise AROUND MELVILLE AND HARLOWTON Flint Murderer Gets Tax Stay On ProgramFORTY CENT WOOL AT GREAT FALLS Life In Penitentiary NEW YORK. Jan. 14.—Andrew J. News of the death of lh \ 1 rner. for when lie was informed was more (ban Mellon, secretary of the treasury, toLAST SATURDAY DID NOT LAST LONG many years a resident of sweet Grass lie could withstand. FLINT, Mich., Jan. 18.—The slayer day urged retention of excise taxes as county, was receivedwljth regret by old “Mr. Urner was the founder of the of golden-haired Dorothy Schneider is a safeguard against a shrinkage in gov ernmental revenue when a slowing up time friends in this community. An first store at Melville and of the Ur on his way to pay the penalty for GREAT FALLS. Jan. 18.-Closing of ers of Chicago several days ago, ac early day resident of Melville, he was ner Mercantile Co., in Harlowton, the of prosperity may reduce incomes ami three contracts for the purchase ofcording to information received from connected with various business enter oldest business establishment in the his crime. Judge Fred W.’Brennan of taxes derived from this source. wool at 10 cents a pound last Saturday, reliable sources. The Echart clip is prises in the county; hut for the past city. Ills business life during all the the Genesee county circuit court today “It is for this reason that the treas while the Montana Wool Growers’ con one of 17,000 fleeces. eleven years had made his home at years of his activities here was Irre sentenced Adolph Hotelling to life im ury has opposed the elimination of vention was in session here, was not The Lingshirc. Milne, McCartney and San Diego, Calif. proachable. Always interested in civic prisonment at hard labor in solitary such excise taxes as those on automofollowed by a general advancement of F. C. Campbell clips have been sold The Harlowton Times of last week affairs he was a leader in whose good biles and admissions,” he told the bids to that figure hy eastern buyers,at JO cents, all hut the Lingshirc sale gives the following particulars: judgment everybody placed the utmost confinement in the state branch prison Women’s National Republican club at according to growers and buyers who having iiecn dosed last Saturday by “Ben Urner, pioneer citizen of Wheat- confidence. This community is im at Marquette. its seventh anniversary luncheon. arc in the city. The deadlock which Webb Armstrong and Arthur Ward, land * county, but for the last eleven measurably shocked and grieved at his The murderer bears with him on “It is easy and popular.” he said, existed in most cases last week was representatives of the Colored Worsted years a resident of California, passed death. his trip to the bleak upper peninsula "to slash taxes, particularly those evident again Monday, witli no sales mills of Providence, It. 1. The top away at his home in San Diego this “Ben Urner was bom April 5, 1861. institution, a mark that brands upon which have a general application and closed here during the day, so far as price of Hie year lias thus far been evening. A message was received byat Sanwood, X. J. He passed away him the hate and desperate grief of have a .wide spread in their appeal. reported. paid by this house, theSilberman his son. Ben Urner, Jr., of this city Thursday, January 12, at his home inthe father of his victim. As the stolid, Both the treasury and congress arc in One of the larger growers said here house, Chicago, and theWebb house, about 9 p. in., announcing tlie sad San Diego, Calif, He is mourned' by disheveled Owosso ^carpenter, and agreement In wanting to reduce taxes Monday night that “some wool can be Philadelphia, V news, and he left on No. 17 ,to be his devoted wife and four children^ church elder, was brought Into court to the greatest extent consistent with bought at 38 cents and a great deal The wool of the Kuhr Land and Live present at the last sad rites. Ben. Jr., of this city, and Alice, Ethel today, Leslie Schneider, father of the the revenue needs of the government, could he contracted at 40 cents,” and stock company, Chinook, was sold and Milton of San Diego. Particulars girl, sprang from an anteroom, lashed lint care must be taken to keep such that opinion was regarded hy sheep some time ago at 39 cents to Hallowell, “Deceased had been in ill health for of the funeral arrangements hayc not out at him with all his strength and reductions well within the surplus men as accurately sizing up tlie situJones & Donald of Boston, sheepmen some time, having retired from the licon received. The Times together with struck Hotelling full in the face. The which may be counted on, for we do ation at present. Growers who previ said here Monday, tlie sale marking aetis’e management of his business hundreds of friends in this commun man blinked, shook his head and placed not want Is he lowering and then rais ously had set their price at JO cents one of the highest prices 'paid in this here about eleven years ago and gone ity extends its sympathy to the behis hand to his face. It was evident ing our taxes every year or two. While were still holding for bids of that part of tlie state at the time the con to southern California for the benefit reaved relatives.” the blow was painful. of his health. it may be good fdr business to lower amount, while two comparatively small tract was closed. The KnJir clip con Editor’s Note: The first store in In passing sentence upon the con taxes, it most assuredly would nol help clips were reported sold during Mon tains approximately 27,000 fleeces. “Only a couple of days ago the Melville was started by II. 0 . HIckox fessed murderer, who had entered a matters to be obliged to raise them. day at 38. These were the Haggerty Parker Teuton, representing Cording, news was received here of the death in 1882. with about §75 capital. Mr, plea o f guilty. Judge Brennan declar “Once the excise taxes arc eliminated clip at Browning, and the J'inlayson iy & Co., Boston, said Monday night of his brother, Frank G. I'rner. of New Hiekox also had a homestead where ed; “The details as shown by thiscon they will not be restored. Tlie first clip, Conrad, purchased hy IMiil L. tli.il last week he purchased two clips York City, who had almost completed Melville now stands and laid out a fession and the proof almost convince move will be to increase the rates on Cole for the Koshland wool house ofnear Billings at 31 and 35 cents, one the trip by way of tlie Panama canal townsile. In 1892 the Melville Mercan me we shouldhave capital punishnicnl individual and corporation income taxes Boston. of 1,800 fleeces commanding the lower to San Diego on a long planned visit. tile Go. was formed with Ben Urner in this state.” and the very persons now urging an Report of another sale at 10 cents, figure and the other, with 3.600 fleeces, On account of the condition of Mr. at the head. Ten years later, 1902, the Three witnesses only were called 1» excessive redaction in taxes will betlie clip involved being tlie largest sold the higher. Announcement of the pur Urner’s health, Jic had not been ap store passed hack to H. O. Hiekox and the state, including the girl’s father, the first to pay the penalty in any inat that price in northern Montana, was chase of tlie Angslmau clip at Havre prised of his brother’s death when the C. O. Hathaway, and in 1906 it was a physician who told of the autopsy, crease In the taxes which may be nec received here Monday. This wool was at 36 cents was made Monday evening news was received here, and It Is sold to B. Bclnccke, now a resident of and a court reporter who identified essary for the production of needed the John Echart clip, grown at Glas hy Henry Willie, representative of thought that the shock of the news California. Hotelling’s confession. revenue.” gow, and was sold to Silberman Broth- Hallowell. Jones & Donald.
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