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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
1
The Conley case at Kata State penitentiary remains unsettled as hearings are adjourned over Christmas. Warden Frank Gowles faces questions over alleged $200,000 state property misappropriation while Governor Dixon and officials debate the proper legal path and committee composition for future proceedings.
Washington dispatch says a conference on submarine and auxiliary fleet strength stalled after France and Britain clashed over future war risks. The American delegation proposed a joint declaration on warning merchant ships, while limits on tonnage for carriers and other ships were debated but not finalized among the powers.
Mrs William Bowie, a longtime Yellowstone Valley matron, died at the local hospital yesterday following an operation to prevent cancer. Burial is set for Saturday at 2 p.m. from the Congregational church with Rev Kelts officiating. Annie Stewart Bowie, born in Aberdeenshire November 14, 1869, married William Bowie in 1906 and lived near Columbus after moving from Montana towns. She leaves husband, daughter Flora, two brothers, a sister, mother, and an uncle. the community extends condolences.
Memphis dispatch says a storm swept Clarksdale Arkansas and nearby farms killing seven Black residents and one white man. About twenty injured, most Black, were taken to Memphis hospitals as telegraph wires were disrupted and buildings leveled in the disaster region.
James Bamber, who arrived in Virginia City in 1865 and mined across the West, died at a Bozeman hospital after a long illness. Born in England in 1839, he journeyed from Virginia City to Helena then contested gold routes in the Yukon Siberia California Arizona Old Mexico and the central United States before settling in Gallatin County in 1910.
In Atlanta a hearing on a petition by 174 bona fide Klan members asks that the organization be placed in receivership and that two officers Edward Young Clarke and Elizabeth Tyler be removed. Judge Pendleton set January 28 for the hearing and issued a temporary restraining order barring disposition of property or funds except ordinary expenses. Four grand goblins deposed signed the petition amid ongoing related suits.
The Treasury Department introduces two new savings certificates in 25 and 100 dollar denominations with issue prices of 20 80 and 3800 respectively. They mature in five years at full price and pay slightly higher interest than prior certificates. Cash value shown on the back schedule. Stamp program to end this year. Post office will provide information and savings will remain payable as before.
Washington plans for the current session include bills to aid the merchant marine provide a veterans bonus and establish permanent tariff schedules. Representative Monell said after a White House meeting with President Harding there are no McBinite merchant marine proposals and aims to pass appropriation bills by April 1 to give the senate time to act before a June adjournment.
Arthur Burch faces murder charges in the Belton Kennedy case while the lunacy commission reports doubts about Burch's mental state. Dr. Allen and several alienists testified amid defense and counter-claims, as proceedings move toward trial.
Court in Butte orders the execution of the convicted murderer, detailing the judgment and timing. The case names the defendant and references the legal process leading to the sentence.
ST PAUL Dec 28 The farmers are not suffering from lack of credit but over expansion says E G Quamme president of the federal land bank of St Paul He questioned the need for new machinery for agricultural credit noting farmers already pay high interest and that if money is needed it should be charity rather than credit He warned against risky loan associations and cited land bank lending totals of about 60 million on farms in recent years matching roughly an eighth of such loans He urged relying on the land bank appraiser reports and questioned the safety of some farmer loan groups announced by congressional committee members include J C C McLaughlin Clarence Haugen and Wahineea among others
Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, arrived in Washington after a Christmas commutation of his 10 year espionage sentence. He met with Attorney General Daugherty and President Harding, spoke of liberty for prisoners, and planned to reassess his future activities with activists and labor leaders including Samuel Gompers.
President Harding commuted ten year espionage act sentences and granted full pardons to five soldiers for Rhine murders on Christmas Day. The action follows Justice Department review of 197 war law cases and includes Charles Ashleigh who faces deportation to England after commutation.
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