'THE RONAN PIONEER T1he Oldest Newspaper on the F"lathead. Indian Reservation Entered as second-class matter May 12, 1910. at the post- r Vfice at Ronan, Montana, under the Act of March 3, 1875. VOL. V. NO.3. RONAN, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MAY 15, 1914. $2.00 Per Year CANDIDATES ARE TOLDTHE LAW Every prospective candidate for office this fall will be inter- ested in an opinion rendered by Attorney General D. M. Kelly explaining just what candidates must do under the provisions of the direct primary law in seeking nomination. The opinion was rendered in response to a quiry from Vard Smith, county attor- ney of Park county. It will be a long campaign this year, and it is expected calls will soon be issued by the various parties for meetings for the con- sideration of primary details. Under the primary law the fall election campaign will extend over a period of 70 days, whereas under the old convention system the campaign generally averaged from five to six weeks. For the primary election the registration closes on July 25 and on August 25 the primary election for the selection of party candidates for the various offices will be held. After this is over the candidates will have 70 days in which to promote their candidacy, as the general election does not take place until November 3. In previous county and state elections the conventions at which candidates were nominated invariably took place about the first week in October, allowing from five to six weeks for the campaign. In answer to the questions of County Attorney Smith, Attorney General Kelly replies as follows: You are advised that before or at the time of beginning to circulate a petition for nomina- tion, the person intending to be a candidate for public office should prepare and sign a copy of his petition for nomination, substan- tially in the following form, and send the same by registered mail, or otherwise, to the county clerk, where such copy will be filed, and be deemed conclusive evidence, for the purposes of the primary law, that such elector is a candidate for nomination by his party: 1 o..........................county clerx ano recorder, and to the members of the ............. party and the electors of.....................county, in the statelof IMontana. I.............. reside at.... and my post office address is... ............ If I am nominated for the office of ........................... at the primary nominating election to be held in the county of ........................ the . day of ........................ 191... I will accept the nomination and will not withdraw, and if I am elected I will qualify as such officer. if I am nominated and elected I will during my term of office.......... (Ab we in not exceeding one hundred words, the candidate may state any reasure or principle he especially ad- vocates.) (]f not exceeding twelve words, the words to be printed after his name on nominating ballot, if any.) Signature of candidate for nomination. "After filing a copy of the foregoing, duly signed by the party seeking a nomination, it is necessary for the person seeking a county office to procure the signatures of a least two per cent of the party vote in the county at the last preceding general election, and the party vote for representative in congress is the basis on which the precentage for petitions shall be counted. "The necessary signatures must be procured in at least one- fifth of the precincts of the county and for each precinct a duplicate petition conforming to the foregoing must be prepared and signed by the candidate for nomination, the law expressly providing: "There shall be a separate leaf or sheet, signed as above, on every petiton for each precinct in which it is circulated. After the above, and on a separate sheet or sheets, shall be the fol- lowing petition. To ........................ the county clerk and recorder, for the county of ... ............... Montana: We, the uudersighed members of the ........................ party and qualified electors and residents of .. ........ precinct, in the county of .. ....... state of Montana, respectfully request that you will cause to be printed on the official nominating ballot for.... party, at the aforesaid primary nomi- nating election, the name of the above signed ........................... as a candi- date for nomination to the office of ...................... by said .. ........ party. (Name) (Postoffice Address) (Street and No. if any) (Precinct) State of Montana, county of .. I ......... . ........... . being duly sworn, say: I am personally acquaint- with all the persons who have signed this sheet of the foregoing petition, and I personally know that their signa- tures thereon are genuine; and I be- lieve that their postoffice address and' residence are correctly stated and that they are qualified electors and members of the .............. party. Subscribed and sworn to before me this ...... day of ..................... 191.... (Signature and title of officer before whom oath is made.) "The fact must not be over- looked that it is necessary not only that for each precinct in which a petition is circulated, there must be a copy of the nominating petition duly signed by the candidate for nomination, but that it must be attached to the petition to be signed by the qualified electors of the precinct and after being signed must be duly verified. "It is proper under the law for several petitions to be circulated in different voting precincts for the nomination of the same per- son for the same office at the same time, provided they be joined in one nominating petition before being filed in the proper office." NORTH END CANDIDATES SELECTED LAST SATURDAY A contest was held in Ronan last Saturday afternoon to se- lect the north end candidates for the declamation and spelling con- tests to be held here on the 22nd inst. to determine the district championship. In the declamatory contest Goldie Irish was given the first place, the judges being Mrs. I. M. Brandjord, Miss Bessie Kreis and Rev. Ross. In the spelling contest there were quite a number of aspirants for the honor of representing this portion of the district, and after three trials Joe Orchard of the Mud creek school was first, Gladys Reeve of Grandview second and Norbert Schmutzler of Mud creek was third. In the senior grade John Myers was first, Louise Eckley, second, both of Ronan, and Donald Mc- Caig of Mudcreek, third. The judges were Rev. Ross and C. F. Rathbone. The contest was -held in the Methodist church and quite a crowd attended, showing that interest is keen among the par- ents of the children attending the schools. The winners of this contest will represent this section at the annual festival to be held one week from today. SPECIAL LETTER BY KENNETH ROMNEY Washington, May 11-The troubles of a congressman, it seems, like those of ordinary mortals, never come singly. After having to vote during the present session on such ticklish subjects as the tolls exemption, repeal and immigration bills, the house of representatives is now con- fronted with the most frightful spectre in all its legislative his- tory. The joint resolutions for the submission of constitutional amendments providing for na- tional prohibition and woman suffrage have been reported out by the judiciary committee and are now on the house calendar, terrible and menacing. The con- sternation of the congressmen over the possibility of a vote on these questions on the very eve of an election is only to be imag- ined. It is not probable, how- ever, that the resolutions will be considered during the present session. The house has a care- fully placed buffer between them and a vote, in the form of a bill for the codification of the laws Df the District of Columbia, which will henceful be consider- ed very leisurely. But the ques- tions are up for settlement, loom- ing big on the calendar, and there will remain until the end )f the short session next March. Between now and then-presum- ibly after election- a vote on :hem will be had, a roll call, and t is conceded by everyone here :hat the drastic Hobson prohibi- ;ion resolutions will be passed by ;he house with a good majority when the members names are !alled. The Clayton omnibus anti- 'trust bill has been reported to the house and will probably be under consideration by the time this paragraph is read. A rule making the house a special order of business has been introduced by Chairman Henry of the rules committee and will be passed when the house is ready to pro- ceed with the anti-monoply leg- islation. The Clayton bill pro- hibits interlocking directorates in railroad, banking and indus- trial corporations; clearly defines obscure terms in the Sherman law, thus removing all debatable ground; makes unlawful the or- ganization of holding companies in certain cases; changes the rule of practice regarding in- junctions, giving relief to labor; and declares that nothing in the anti-trust laws shall be construed as prohibiting the existence or operation of fraternal, labor, con- sumers', agricultural and horti- cultural associations organized for mutual help. Social Washington, which has been startled more than once by the democratic simplicity of Pres- ident Wilson and his family, re- ceived a veritable shock at the manner in which the guests were bidden to the McAdoo-Wilson wedding. Instead of the hand- somely engraved invitations us- ually sent out on such occasions, the bride-to-be personally asked the few Washington guests over the telephone to come to her wedding to the cabinet minister. Invitations were sent only to out-of-town people-those who were not expected to be present. As if this were not enough for one week, the President set up a tent in the White House yard in order to get the benefit of the outdoor air during the hot sum- mer months. Following the splendor of the Roosevelt and Taft administrations, the Wilson ways are past the understanding of precedent-bound Washington. Attacks upon John D. Rocke- feller for failure to arbitrate the Colorado strike, and assertions that the blood of the men, women and children killed in the civil war in that state is upon the head of the Standard Oil king and his son, are frequently heard in con- gress at this time. Congress- man Evans of Montana, however, was the first member to point out the responsibility of the Rockefellers. During the exami- nation of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., before the committee on mines and mining, Mr. Evans urged him to make a personal in- vestigation into the deplorable conditions existing in Colorado, saying that if he would do so the strike would be speedily settled. Mr. Evans made it clear at that time that the Rocke- fellers could not escape responsi- bility, and the speeches now being made in the house and sen- ate bear out his contention. Senator La Follette, in an ad- dress to the senate this week, charged that a gigantic conspiracy has been at work to influence the interstate commerce commis- sion to hand down a decision favorable to the railroads in the so-called freight rate increase cases pending before the com- mission. His secretary sat at his side sorting out a mass of letters to support the charge, while the senator put all his characteristic vigor and gesticu- lation into his speech. Senator La Follette introduced a bill mak- ing it a misdemeanor to attempt to influence the interstate com- merce commission in the decision of cases. ALBERT 0. SMITH IS AN AVIATOR IN SPOKANE The Spokane Chronicle of May 9 contained several illustrations showing Albert D. Smith, who has a homestead on Crow creek southwest of Ronan, who is now an aviator in that city. Mr. Smith went from here to Spo- kane last fall and has been a pupil of B. C. McClellan who is conducting an aviation school near that city, and has been making some record flights. One of the pictures shows Smith high in the air in a Curtiss bi- plane and another while seated at the wheel ready to make the start. Mr. McClellan is also well known here, his mother being the second person to file at Mis- soula in 1910, she having made proof on :a homestead northeast of town. Mrs. A. D. Smith visited with Mrs. A. K. Resner last week at the Resner residence southwest of Ronan. There is an effort being made to get the question before the voters this fall by the iniative law of the consolidation of the ag- ricultural college and state uni- versity. Friends of the proposi- tion are now canvassing the state endeavoring to enthuse the peo- Iple for the proposition. In this connection one of the state uni- versity professors is now around the state personally campaigning and it looks from this angle like he might be earning his salary at the university rather than devot- ing his time (which is state's time) better by attending to his duties as such, professor. Con- solidation may be a good thing but it would be a great injustice to those cities which now has one or the other of the schools to be deprived of it. I1 FARMERS ENTER PACKING FIELD The Chicago Inter Ocean says: We made mild fun recently in these columns over the proposed 1 establiahment at LaCrosse, Wis., of a farmers' co-operative pack- ing plant, designed to show the United States how to solve the high cost of living so far as meat is concerned. Not that there was anything to make fun of in the La Crosse enterprise, but simply because under the in- crease in population and the de- crease in meat production the law of supply and demand makes the high prices that inevitably accompany such conditions. It now appears that La Crosse is going to try to do it. Anyway, F. A. S. Price of the national organization committee of the American Society of Equity, co- operative packing-house depart- s ment, called to say that he had just filed at Madison, Wis., the incorporation papers of the Farmers' Co-operative Packing Company of La Crosse. Mr. Price does not claim that the new co-operative packing plant will solve the nation wide pro- blem of the high cost of meat. Nevertheless, he thinks it will help things in the vicinty of La Crosse. And the La Crosse plant, he says is merely the entering wedge. The capital stock is $250,000- 2,500 shares at $100 a share. It has been subscribed by approxi- mately 1,000 farmers of Wiscon- sin and Minnesota in the imme- diate vicinity of La Crosse. No person may own more than ten shares and each stockholder has one vote. The dividends are limited to 6 per cent. Ten per cent goes into a reserve fund up to 30 per cent of the capital stock and 5 per cent into an edu- cational fund. The rest of the profits go back pro rata to the farmers who supply the meat animals. Inasmuch as the pro- jectors believe they see $7 profit to the packer in a 200-pound hog, and the new plant will have a capacity of 600 hogs a day, the question of profits is the least of thteir troubleks The five incorporators are men of influence in the community. l Ira M. J. Chryst of Hudson is president of the National Union of the American Society of Equity. J. H. Carnahan of Biack River Falls is vice president of the Wisconsin State Union. H. J. Tank of Warsaw is national sec- retary of the National Union. Henry Garbers of West Salem and Dell Baker of Desbach, Minn., are farmers. The con- cern is incorporated under the co-operative association law of Wisconsin and the scope of its activities does not appear to be limited. It will handle poultry, for .instance, do a cold storage business and job in butter and eggs. This La Crosse experiment is interesting, if only because it is the first of the kind in the West- ern hemisphere. There are forty such concerns in Denmark, where they have been very successful, returning millions of profits. Let us hope that the La Crosse plant is the first of an American chain of equally successful plants. Pioneer Woman Dead. Mrs. Eleanor Stinger, mother of Andrew and Sol Stinger, died in Missoula at the home of her son, Frank Stinger, on Friday last. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and had she lived until October of this year she would have been 81 years old. The deceased came to Montana 30 years ago and has made this state her home ever since. She was the mother of seven children and all but one son were at her bedside when the final summons came. The surviving children are Mrs. William Halford of Spo- kane, Frank Stinger of Missoula, Andrew and Sol of Ronan, Mrs. Mary Bourgois and Mrs. Pauline Green of Missoula, and Michael Stinger of Idaho. She leaves 39 grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. The funeral ser- vices were held Monday last and interment was in the Missoula cemetery. She was a woman generally loved for her many virtues and her death was a shock to them all. Death of Mrs. E. Stewart. Mrs. Esther Stewart, age 75 years, mother of C. W. Stewart, living southwest of Ronan about four miles, died suddenly May 3, at the home of her son. The de- ceased was in apparent good health all day Saturday, doing the work usually done around the house. She retired in the even- ing and expired during the night, no one knowing of her death until morning. Mrs. Stewart was born in Greenville, Pa., and had lived here three years with her son, C. W. Stewart. She leaves two sons, C. W. of Ronan, and W. J. Stewart of Preston, Kansas; two sisters, Mrs. L. M Patterson of Kalispell, and Mrs. F. H. Huron of Danville, Ind., and one brother in San Francisco. The funeral services were held at the home of her son south- west of town on Tuesday last by Rev. Ross of the Methodist church in Ronan and interment was in Poison cemetery. Rev. White of Poison conducted the services at the grave. Will Move Sunday Curtis Jeffries has rented the front part of the room occupied by the Ronan Tailoring Co. and will move his shop to that loca- tion next Sunday. Mr. Jeffries asks all his old friends and customers to call and see him at his new location and guaran- tees them the usual good work and courteous treatment. -Adv. 8th Grade Examinations Mrs. A. M. Sterling has been designated by County Superin- tendent Mrs. Ferguson, to hold an eighth grade examination for pupils of Ronan and surrounding schools, on May 20 and 21 at the school house in Ronan. Farmers' Meeting There will be a meeting in the Glacier View school house next Sunday afternoon, May 17, at 2 o'clock, of the Farmers' E. & C. U. of America. Work started Wednesday morn- ing on some street improvements to be undertaken in Ronan this spring. The street in front of Lemire Bros', store will be fixed up a little and the holes in the street in front of the Pioneer office will be filled, thus remov- ing an unsightly condition every time it rains. For all of which we are duly thankful. Mrs. F. B. Felhberg of Kalis- pell, a daughter of August Fleischer living west of town, is visiting the latter and family this week.