''HE LIBBY HERALDVOL. 2, NO. 34 LIBBY, LINCOLN COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1912 $2.00 PER YEAR
STEADY ADVANCEIN LIBBY.REALTY
Vacant Business Property Goesto $100 the Front Foot onMineral Ave. Recent SalesJustify Upward Tendency.
SiTnce the purchase of the 251footlot on Mineral avenue by the ModelMeat company last week for $2250the Libby Realty company has ad-vanced the price of the adjoiningthree lots on the north to $2,500each. Th~irty days ago two lotssouth of the meat company's prop-erty were sold to B. F. Howardand son for $2,000 each. Thesteady advance of business realtyfor a year past has been little shortof'remarkable and it must be ad-initted when lots sell at the rate of$Ioo per front foot, as they noware in that block, investors showan abiding faith in the stability ofthe town and a confidence in itscontinued growth.
16 YEARS AGO THISW EEK(Items culled from old Troy Times.)
The case against Ben Getchellfor alleged car robbery was dis-missed at Kalispell and the prison-er returned to Troy,
A bill was introduced in congressfor the establishment of a land, of-fice at Kalispell.
J. H. Geiger and J. L. Getnerwere publishing a notice of appli-cation to cut timber on land threemiles from Libby, estimated atthree million feet.
C. F. Smith filed a placer loca-tion at the old town of Libby.
A movement was started in NewJersey, his birthplace, to erect amonument to Charles W Marshall,the discoverer of gold in California.
The ages of the leading republi-can presidential candidates were:McKinley 5r, Reed 56, Harrison62, Allison 66 and Morton 72.
The silver leagues decided tohold a national convention July 2at St. I,ouis, with a view of takingpolitical action and placing an in-dependent presidential ticket in thefield.
Miss Agnes Belle Steele, daugh-ter of the mayor of Helena, wasselected to christen the gunboatHelena at Newport News. Theyoung lady was i6 years old, bornat Helena and this was her firsttrip out of the state.
The relinquishments given byJory to the visiting delegation ofVahk miners were found to be de-fective, and at the instance of JohnA. Finch and Patsy Clark one ofthe best mininglawyers of Spokanedrew' up new papers. Finch &Clark, purchasers of the Keystone,said they had rather pull out ofthe camp than deprive others oftheir just rights.
Raises Unique Question.A recent decision of the supreme
court of Washington, in view of aformer one, raises a unique ques-tion.
'FThe court has held that a hospi-tal in a residential section is a nuis-ance and lately held that an under-taking establishment is also a nuis-
In junct ions were issued to re-strain each business.
Query? How can anybody getsick and die in Wa'shington with-out the fear of the court interferingby injunction ?
SOCIALIST LECTURERTALKS ON SUBJECT
Rev. Buzzell Delivers Lectureon Subje4 to Local Follow-ers. Divides Trouble Into 4Subdivisions. Has Remedy.
Rev Buzzell spoke in the inter-ests of the socialist cause last Fri-day evening in Plummer's hall toa good crowd
He made the point that the la-borer's condition had not advancedwith modern methods and inven-tions; that one man today with im-proved machinery could do thework of fifty men a hundred yearsago, but his own condition had notadvanced, in proportion, if at all.
He divided the root of trouble infour subdivisions, which should bebettered-poverty, ignorance, dis-ease and criminality. His remedywas that the means of productionand distribution should be in thehands of producers.
NO CHANCE FOR ACCIDENTW. R. Smith, superintendent of
this division of the Great Northern,takes decided exception to the itemprinted in this paper that an acci-dent was narrowly averted at Eu-reka recently by the prompt actionof the operation there. He informsus that there was nothing wrongwith the order and no accident tobe averted, and in justice to the in-tegrity and carefulness of the dis-patcher's force we give the circum-stances, which were as follows:
On the night in question, No. 44held an order to meet No. 27 and1st No. r at Eureka, No. 44 takingthe siding. The latter train pulledup to the west end of the passingtrack, but on acconnt of Ist No. Ibeing delayed dispatcher sent theoperator out with an order for No.44 to meet 1st No. I at Tobacco,the first station east, Instead ofEureka.
Realty Transfers in County.Lis, of transfer, for the week ending
Jan. 26 -Prepared by the Lincoln CountyAbstract company :
Edward S. Betzer to Ole Broten, w dto lots 22-23-24, hl I, First add to Har-risburg, $r.
J. M. Kennedy et ux to Maude Adams,w d to south 5 acres owned by granteesin sec 10-30-31, $r.
George W. Rouse et ux to ArthurKnudson, 5 acres in ne qr lot 4 sec 4-30-31, $500.
Ida M. Johnston to Frank Craner, w dto lot 4 ql 16, South Libby, $r.
Thos. I). Lodg et ux to Kootenai Pow-er & Construction compnny, deed towater right of ro,ooo cu. ft. per second ofthe waters of Kootenai river at KootenaiFalls, $r.
Aloysius Duchesne to L. H. Bernard,w d to tract of land in sec 15-36-28, $75.
William A. Hillis et at to Libqy Water-works, Electric Light & Power Co.,deed to right of way for its various pur-poses over and across lands in nw qr of:10-30-31, $1.
James Higgins et ux to J. C. Lalon, wd to und I; int. in Way Up q mc andiund int in and to Monta r 1 m c in WestFisher district, $i.
Troy Mng, Power & Imp. Co. to IdaM. Driscoll, w d to lots 4 and 5, blk i,Troy, $55.
CAN SHIP LIQUOR TO 'DRY' TERRITORY.The supreme court of the United
States has handed down an opinionwhich will nullify the work of pro-hibitionists of years standing, bydecidiug that liquor may be shippedfrom any state to another despitestate laws to the contrary. Statesmay continue to pass laws prohibit-ing the sale of liquor and cities mayrefuse to grant licenses, but indi-viduals may have any quantityshipped to them without let orhindrance. In short, the decisionmakes all states "wet" so tar as theindividual is concerned.
RAILROAD RUMORSGOING THE ROUNDS
State Points Believe G. N. toBuild Mondak Branch withLibby Terminal. However,Kootenai Central Best Bet.
State dailies are featuring reportsof contemplated railroad buildingby the Great Northern, which in-cludes Lihbv as one of the princi-pal beneficiaries. It is stated thatthe Mondak line, which leaves theGreat Northern near the Dakotaborder, will touch Lewi tnwn,GreatFall-. the Flathead and Libby, join-ing the main line here. It is alsostated that this Mondak branchwill become the main line, savingiany miles in distance and givingeasy grades.
This dope is very entertaining•. 1out
we refuse to get excited just vet,though there can he scarcely anydoubt the road be built in due time.
What will he of more lastingbenefit to Libby is the building inof another railway line, and wl'rewe are no prophet nor the son of aprophet, we are of the belief this'econd line will be the CanadianPacific's Kootenai Central. Thisis the road now being being builtabove Gateway to Golden on theCanadian Pacific. The chartercalls for the building of the line tothe Montana border on the Kootenairiver, about 6o miles up the valleyfrom Libby.
In this connection a press dis-patch dated Monday of this weekis interesting. J. S. Dennis, Can-adlan Pacific railroad land commis-sioner, being interviewed by amember of parliament, assures himthat efforts would be made to has-ten the completion of the KootenaiCentral and by fall traffic would behandled on the Golden section.
What is a Kilowatt,It has been estimated that the
time and labor wasted by those en-gaged in selling electricity in try-ing to make their customers under-stand a kilowatt would suffice tobuild a string of pyramids fromNew York to San Francisco, says amiigazine writer. And the dis-couraging feature of the task isthat after all this effort the cus-tomer still remains ignorant andchejishes the delusion that themethod of electric measurement isa devious device for concealing ne-farious practices by the electriclight companies.
The average American is per-fectly satisfied to buy gas by thefoot, transportation by the mileand telephones by the month, butwatts look suspicious and kilowattstotally depraved. This difficultymight have been avoided if the em-inent scientists who first adoptedthese accurate and to them conve-nient terms had been willing toshow the rest of the world how tocompute electric quantity in feetand inches or barrels and quarts.
The kilo is an cld friend (or an-cient enemy, if you will) borrowedfrom the metric system.
This leads to the definition of awatt. But in order to know wattsone must first learn about the twoother members of the family-am-peres and volts. Broadly speaking,amperes measure volume, voltspressure and watts the resultingquantity.
In order to get a tangible idea ofthe ampere, electricity may he com-pared with water flowing througha pipe. In this illustration theampere will represent the volumeof water, which is determined bythe size of the pipe, but this shouldnot be confused with the size of theelectric wire, which has nothing to
THE GAME WARDENHAS BUSY WEEK
Files 10 Complaints in 9 Days,from Whitefish to Libby.Nearly All Defendants WaiveAppearance in Minor Court.
Deputy Game Warden Ralstonis about the busiest offcial in hisline in the state, and is of theopinion, in the light of his exper-ience during the past week, that ahalf dozen men could scarcely cov-er his territory properly.
When he left Kalispell about aweek ago, he picked up a coupleof men at Whitefish for violatingthe state game law, Proceeding toFortine he arrested Howard Mars-ton and Roy Nash for havinghunted without a license. Theywere fined $27 each by JudgeThomas.
At Eureka last Saturday he ar-rested Burr Alverson for allegeddeer killing out of season. Hegave bonds to appear in the dis-trict court.
Coming down to Tweed he ar-rested Joseph and Ray Benham,brothers, for deer killing. Hebrought them to. Libby and theywaived examination and will ap-pear in the district court.
While here, on Tuesday he ar-rested J. J. Scanlon, J. H. Frankand J. M. Senieur on the samecharge and they likewise waivedexaminations.
Mr. Ralston went east TuesdaySevening and presumably is campingon the trail of other alleged offend-ers of our game laws.
a Volt, an Ampere?do with the present problem. Theampere then measures the volumeof current flowing in the wire at agiven time. The quantity of ener-gy flowing will depend upon the6thcr factor, which is expressed involts.
The volt may be considered themeasure of pressure or intensity.In the illustration of water flowingthrough a pipe the pressure is com-monly expressed in pounds to thesquare inch. With electric energythe same idea is expressed in volts.It is evident that the quantity ofwater flowing in a pipe of a givensize will increase as the pressureincreases. In a similar way thequantity of electricity increases inexact proportion to the electricpressure of voltage, and this quan-tity is measured by watts.
The quantity (watts) of elec-tricity delivered over a single cir-cuit is the direct product of the;volume (amperes) multiplied bythe pressure (volts). In otherwords, amperes multiplied by voltsequals watts.
Being thus furnished with astandard of measurement it is nec-essary only to multiply the amountemployed (commonly called "ca-pacity") by the number of hoursof use to get the actual quantityconsumed in watt hours. The 16-candle power lamp, with its fiftywatts cauacity, consumes fifty watthours each hour it is used. Thecustomary unit of consumption isthe kilowatt hour (r,ooo watts usedone hour), and the lamp will con-sume this quantity in twenty hours.The ordinary electric meter (re-cording watt meter) record:, auto-matically the number of kilowatthours used, being operated by amechanism which run, at a speedwhich corresponds to the capacityemployed.
THE GENTLEMANFROM INDIANA
Andrew Mock Picks Up Snapsin Libby Realty. MakesFour Investments in Weekand Looking for Others.
Andrew Mock, who came herefrom Indiana a couple of monthsago to look over the town, evi-dently has found things to his lik-ing, as he has made several in-vestments in Lihbv Realty duringthe past week. In South Lihhv hehas purchased the Greelev houseand lot for $400 and the McCorklehouse and half block of lots for$2,000. In business property, hepnrchased the Swanson hbuildingformerly occupied by Bergdahl &Buseth for $r 200 and the Berestromlot occupied by the Switzer build-ing for $165o. We understand thaton this latter site the purchasercontemplates the erection of a brickbusiness building this spring.
TROY BRIDGE LOCATION.Troy, Jan. 3 , 1912.
Editor Herald : The county com-missioners are to be congratulatedby their act of changing the bridgeat Troy from a mile below to oppo-site the town. Following are somefacts in the case :
Seventeen claims already havebeen filed upon the rich fruit landin O'Brien creek basin. The greatdrawback at present is that it hasno outlet. If the bridge werebuilt a mile below town every timea farmer hauled his product to hismarket would require two milesextra, or four miles for the roundtown. Would this not he a grossinjustice t- those farmers?
Another commendable thing isin selecting a heavier steel bridge.I have been on the Kootenai riverfor 30 years and in my time I haveseen the water rise 24 feet abovelow water mark at the presentbridge site. At such times theriver becomes so swift and wildthat the best bridge is none too1good.
There is also an advantage inhaving the R. R. crossing at theeast end of the yards instead of thewest end, as at present, becausenearby is a culvert which alreadyhas a roadway through it, andshould the road be blocked at anytime one can reach town by 5 orto minutes drive, which will begreatly appreciated by those whohave frequently had to wait overtwo hours to get across the trackat the present crossing.
Now, if we can manage to get ahigh tax put upon the unused land,
this will be the most prosperousspot on earth.
Yours for its accomplishment.
Geo. W. Waters.
LIBBY TAKES TWO AT BASKET BALL.The Libby basketball team twice
defeated the Lovola team of Spo-kane, winning the first Friday eve-ning by 'a score of 40 to 25, andthe match Saturday night by 35 to
33. The second game was es-
pecially close and interesting, ow-ing largely to the disability of Dr.Jones, forward, received in the firstgame. The Libby team will playan all-star team at Kalispell Feb-tuary 9 and io. The girl's teamof the Libby high school will playhere Saturday night with the Spokane high.
Idleness never charms anyoneand makes a nobody of all who
practice it,
THOMAS K. COOPER'SART EXHIBITION
Picture Show and Entertain-ment for Two Days, Feb. 2and 3. Is Here Under Aus-pices Libby Public Schools.
The pictures of this collectionnow on exhibition are all takenfrom the originals, and are carbonphotographs or Prints, with somegravures and platinum prints. Thework is executed in the very beststyle, while the selection of sub-jects is well adapted for its purpose.
The portraits, with Washingtonand Lincoln well in the foreground,are well chosen to inspire artisticand patriotic enthusiasm. It iscertainly a welcome thought that.given five years of close associa-tion with such art subjects, thepublic wpuld soon acquire a highart standard. The gaudv chromohas become a thing of the past.-Newark Sunday Call.
At Cabinet hall, Feb. 2 and 3.
WEATHER CAN'T STOP IT.Even the severely cold weather
of this winter has not entirelychecked business opierations inLibby. There are at this time ascore of residences and several bus-iness houses in various stages ofconstruction, while the town isdotted with new roofs denoting theactivity of the fall and summerjust passed.
If the severest winter known foryears in the valley cannotcheck building operations, whatmay we expect when the regularseason opens? We know there areseveral large business bricks plannedfor this year and we doubt not thebuilding of residences will continueuntil the supply will have caughtup with the demand, something wehave been unable to do up to thepresent time.
Our own people seem to takethis activity as a matter of course-as something which we havecoming to us-and the real pro-gress of the town can he best esti-mated by the talk of the drummerswho make this territory and thenewcomer and periodical visitorfrom the surrounding country. Thetown looks good to all of them andthey do not hesitate to say so.
We have made a start in civicimprovements with five miles ofcement walks and graded streets, asplendid water and lighting system,and early additions to the list in-clude sewerage, telephone system,cluster lights down town andparked streets.
The "city beautitul" should gohand in hand with the materialgrowth of Libby, making it themagnet for the very best class ofhome makers.
As the metropolis of Kootenaivalley Libby will hold the samecommanding position in this terri-tory as does Kalispell in the Flat-head. Nature has given us thegeographical position and the re-sources, and the pluck and push ofour citizens will do the rest.
When the Libby fire departmentbrought the Hallowell Concert com-pany here they gave our people adecided musical treat. The largeaudience at the opera house Mon-day evening thoroughly enjoyedthe high-class offerings renderedwith such skill. The dance whichfollowed was provided with an r -piece orchestra, probably the bestdance music ever given in Libby.
Miss Helen Callow of Troy isvisiting here with relatives.
