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BOZEMAN, MONTANA. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2, 192-1.

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MERS’ WEEK TO NUMBSK 3.

CARTOON REVIEW OF 1923 VICTIMS OF DOUBLE TRAGEDY ARE LAID SIDE BY SIDE IN CEMETERYBE HELD JAN. 7-12 =*B\\ .

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a Byi.:/ mS'\ i FlWERALOF AND MRS. STEPHEN R. MAGGARD HELD LAST SUN DAY MARKS CLOSE OF SADDEST

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Coroner Holds InquestDeath of Maggard Last Thursday Afternoon Following Verdict of

Coroner s Jury to the Effect That He Had Caused the Death of Wife on the Day Before Christmas, Results in Decision of

tendTunei ‘° *" A"°ther ,m,ues‘-| aundr-' Workers At-

t" m 3P-'ciid£ VDuring the Seven-Day Meet ' t row tied With Eventa of

• and Profit to Delegates on and General Farming

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• Co-operative Extension• tontana State college, and nected in various ways with

. s the annual Farmers' Week > 'l the college, which opens

n iay, January 7 and closes Saturday, Jan. 12,

ubt be the most interesting “ ■ livt- and best attended *-■ kind ever held in this city,

railroads entering Boze Northern Pacific, the Great and the Milwaukee—have

*o give reduced rates of a ’■“-half for the round trip,

-*;1 if irate plan. Those at- •>nt from out of town

the full fare one way, at • of purchasing their ticket,

: ask for a certificate. Af- tificate is countersigned

'. th« holder then purchases n tick t at one-half the reg-

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Lying side by side in a lot in the Bozeman cemetery are the bodies of Mrs. Virginia Belle Maggard and her husband, Stephen H. Maggard, this city, the victim and

antT^arrimmp .“ri™! °f ^ 3fdde,t 'Twrat',r *"<) «here she was held inand trimmest Christmas trage-Hes in the highest"esteem.

Mato "j °h Ga!la,t'I’ f°unty‘ 1 workers presented a number of beau-shonh !t>eShtb s d MS W‘fe'tiful fioral tril,u“-s ««1 some of the

rta Wrnl, ,.,n022 T Mon ima,o employees aete.1 as pallbearers.Christmas t ' 6 day bef0re TKe d—<* Cnu'dy •« »reived

dtnstn.as, h mme the uun on him- j by one daughter. Mrs. Levi Cubbage.hid r 3 WVmnd ,n the an<‘ hy two sons. Chester and Fredhead from the effect, of which he, Maggard. the latter being JH

died last Thursday evening at 6:15 o clock at the Deaconess hospital, af­ter being unconscious for at least 4« hours.

' Besides the relatives, the ser- were attended by a number of

employee» oi the Gallatin Laundry company, for which Maggard had worked

grave.vices

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j survived by two married sisters, ; E. E. Dinsmore and Mrs. Min-? rie Friel.

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Js.y Mrs. Maggard ist

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v u«.' ya ■It»r Double Funeral Held. iMii The Ma.Tgards came orig-

A double funeral was held Sunday j inally from Oklahoma exactly si afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the

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years ago this Christmas, and resided Harland Undertaking parlors on. for some time on a rented ranch

raejr a\enue, south, the Rev. E. R. j near Belgrade. Several months CJJfn7'’ past»r of the Baptist church the couple decided to separate, Mrs. officiating at the services at the Maggard renting the Bozeman av- chapel, the weather being too cold to j enue home and her husband permit of services being held at the \ ing on the ranch.

S> new\0/OvciuTifon Served on Campus b-siiing rooms reserved for

. -s or families should write 1 < Wilson, registrar at the col

•bat suitable accommodations ecurcd. Lunches will be

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remain- »l *4Deed Was Premeditated

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I IlflCLI I II U lUll ; meditated vvas brought out at thej coroner’s inquest, held last Thursday

TUC T A Y D 4 VCDC * afternoon b*v r°roner E. W. Harland

1 HL 1 1A I A Î Lilljl [n lhe district coyrt roonb through aI statement madê^fjV T oûhty Attorney. E. A. Peterson who testified that he

ascertained that Maggard had ! purchased the pistol, with which the

Every single person whose net in-1 murder and suicid° were committerl, come for the year 1923 was SI,000 a* 1^:30 o’clock on the morning of the

j tragedy, from the Ovvenhouse hard­er more, and every married | Ware store. According to the testi-

couple (living together) whose net in- ! mony of witnesses, the tragedy

come was $2,000 or more or whose ! result of jealousy on the part ofmore, j who objected to the

j ence, in the home of his wife and

Broadly speaking, gross income is j y°un^°r son, of one John Neeby, a all income received by the taxpayer j rancb han*T wbo occupied

during the year from salary or wages, • and OCcasional4' ate his meals there, business, trade, profession or voca-1 aru* wboSe rent nioncy helped Mrs.

tion, dealing in nrooertv interest *,Ia2rftartl consideranly in maintaining rent, or dividends, or from’ the transrt th* Re­

action of any business carried on for; ^laggard was known to have teen profit. Net income is gross income, j drinking considerably following the

Her death ^ess certain specified deductions for separation of himself and his wife.^ or more bank robberies j occurred only twelve days after the business expenses, bad debts, taxes; an<- although there was a conflict of

peipetiated during the past two years : {loath of her husband, who passed e^c- testimony as to whether he had beenin Montana ana other Northwestern awaX Decemebr 18. She was a pa- The exemptions are SI OOrt for sin-! drinkinp OR’the morning of the tra-

recent years poultry production in ,1';”.* ordCTad released from eus- tient at the hospital at the time and gle persons, $2,500 for harried cou-! B<“dy' n'>ne "f officials,Gallatin county has'not had the im- i "r.’„d!ty mormnf- * 13 thought that the shock of his pies (living together) whose net in- the nurses at the hospital, could depetus that a good show gives the in I thA/T. m”"edlat<dy «-«ested, «eath weakened her and hastened her come for 1923 was $5,000 or less, and

. the charge be- '•»»try, and, as a result, poultry pro- fore he had a hhancTT* °"..hlm be‘ d®mlse- ?2-000 for married couples who-Velfow busses leave i Joction has not made the develop-1“ * T, char'ce ta leav;e the court-1 The funeral was held yesterday af- income was in excess of $5.000.

for the college, the! >»™t which the industry warrants. 1 1-“f Wf I «TT? 8t 2. °'Cl<K'k from the «• P- aJ<htional credit of $400 is allow«!>ng 15 minutes be-11" the future a large percentage of “ ' comnl!t?f J,"Sm,‘h- ^St fa^al chapel, the Rev. A. L.jfor each

Returning, they leave!‘he farmers bills must be paid out *0‘X fa wWch r Granite Chapman off.e.atmg. Interment■ hour from S o'colck of the receipts from eggs and other | ”th thè aUeged oar«0" « cnar«cd , ,n bhe Bozeman cemetery.

! poultry products, A well-managed I Zk rohbbe^Tn thaPt ooum; ,“offnrona i Aug 19 1889

I Poultry show in chai-ge of a compe- i„ Kpmo- jofo- Q> . * . , t .. * *e -h.ns of the Mon- tent judge will greatly stimulate in awaltiJf, the âreival M a , vT* °b 8 9™ BelKrade

the production of profitable poultry. from phili.v h,,/ sheriff j but had made their home in Boze-* tîom I hilipsburg. ! man for the past four vears. De-

Those in charge of the Gallatin While in Bozeman, Lawyer Levin- ceased is survived bv three children County Poultry show insist that it will ski visited his brother, who is be a practical utility show. Empha- ducting a clothing store in this city, sis is placed on production quality rather than on fancy characteristics Every effort is being made to en- 1 courage the amateur breeder and . ti, x j-farm poultry raisers. Great stress , ‘ ° * an mg only eightis being placed upv>n the educational . f ln ,ervt ne ore -value and advertis'ng which a good ! ‘ anting hi t e county jail, on the: huneral services for little Don Clin- show w-ill bring to the entire coun . ° u a^» ^an- D, ^eth Or-! ton Roan, son of MT. and Mrs. J. B.try. Poultry raisers are urged to | an^er> convicted in October.by , Roan, of Saleaville, who died of pneu- bring their beat birds, even though ,, ,\S court °f the murder of monia, were held last Wednesday aft-they may not be of strictly show cal-1 iqoo ore”^e/’Pro^se$ on Nov 14, temoon at the H. F. West chapel, iber, because they will "have an op- ! t ’ ear. n. a t axfK’ aPP€ars to j The Rev. A. L. Chapman officiating, portunity to loam the defects of I - f aS, °J>e u 0 bls u^imatc re- ' The singers were Mrs. William Cow

their poultry, and receive instruction!] -G ?S tv.er en* He stout-1 an and Mrs. Harry Williams, withwhich will help them in correcting | t . JV 15 I"no^®nse says Mrs. A. M. Brandenburg at the piano, these defects in their breeding op-} • - 1 ,)^>f s * ^ er ^ e A large number of friends of theorations. I * reV*fW of tbe case by the family attended the services, and

Breeders having high class stock j by Governor Dixon of - ^ e TTIany Pretty floral trib-of good characteristic« which are so ! f * ! . e sent- utes. Interment was in the Bozemanm gooa enaracteristics wmen are so , ence to one of life imprisonment. cemetery.

Danner shows none of the signs of'weakening or nervousness over hisfate, as are usually shown by

1 lie of dates of convention Ik renews, Bozeman, Mon-

' i-ing Farmers’ week, Janu-

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ion Workers—January 3-8 Dairymen’s Association *\ana

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K K11. No. 2(Continued from la>t week;

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Vocational Conference for p—January 14-17.

tana Farm Bureau Associa- — January 7-9.

• tana .Shorthorn Breeders’ As­sit in;-January 10.

J ana Soed Growers’ Associa-January 8-9.

r.a Potato Improvement ion—January 10.

nd China Swine Breeders’ g January 8.

) tana State Beekeepers’ As- January 9-10.

1 »tin Sheep Breeders’ Asso­it January 9.

Breeders’ Association—

X.cyB'x TendimöHIM OUT

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7 or more or whose gross income i $5,000POULTRY SHOW WILL

BE HEED JAN. 22-24

wasr BILLY COFFRON RELEASED

ON HABEVS CORPUS WRIT WIDOW DIES AFTER DEATH Of HUSBAND

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. As the result of Habeus Corpus pro- j ce^ings brought last week in the dis- ! trict court by Henry Levinski, a Butte lawyer, and to whichwere filed by County Attorney E. A. AIrs- Naomi B. Hoffman, aegd 34Peterson, Billy Coffron, alleged Cana- ->ears, 4 months and 10 days, widowdian bank robber and one of the 16 of the late Joseph P. Hoffman, died

men and women arrested in raids con- j last Saturday night at 11:15 o’clockducted last month in Havre, Salt Lake j a^ Deaconess hospital, where sheCity, and several Pacific

raising. and chargedc >n of more than six two dozen

mindii entries have been put I which î

I gross income was $5,000 j must file an income-tax return.

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no objections a room1 he Gallatin County Poultry asso­ciation will hold a poultry show in Bozeman, January 22, 23,Splendid shows have been held in the

past few years, and a g*reat deal of be; fit

t urn and 24.

v: s ierived from them to farm poultry coast cities,; was stricken with pneumonia follow-

with complicity in the1 a severe operation.em o raj e Sh >vHolstein

January 12.Friesians na

onfavorably with the

best in the state at this tiunnare-i

th«* state college campus ■ach day during Farmers*

H »me Economics (le­

rne. Innor even

t-ect tin ofior of liquor on his breath. 4 erdict of Coroner’s Jury

The verdict returned by the jury, called Thursday afterm

by f oroner E. W. Harland,Mrs. Maggard

>n the second floor of the’ buildi >e neti

An coron-! er s oon

was thatperson (other than husband was or wife) dependent upon the taxpay

1 for chief support if such person is under 18 years of age or incapable of self-support because physically J

mentally defective.

nur- tp.. came to her death* as

the result of gun shot wounds at th« hands

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Mrs. Hoffman was born in Iowa, She and he»* husband

of one S. R. Maggard. hei• ° " k. p. m.1 Opening Sessions or i husband.” The members of the jury

John M. Arnold foretiwere:P. MT

i; HGecamonte, :

Finch, farmer; A. M. Johns, salesman; F. H. Caven,T. Getchell, city coal

i eral hours aft

The normal tax is 4 per cent on the î fi?>t $4,000 of net income in excess

of the exemptions and credits and 8 per cent on the remaining net in come.

P.mu Association, Mon- ; t 10 o’clock will be de-

tion and report 1 the appointment of

which an address 1 !, at 11 o’clock, by

f's«\ of Washington, D.

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creamery man, and M.sale-man. Sev-

th- veidict was re­tired

‘^4Francis, aged 15; Ida May, aged 11, and Edward, aged nine years; her mother, Mrs. Loraine Durham, Bozeman, and by one sister. Mrs. Eu­nice Holderman, of Belgrade.

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tfter ■

. turned by the jury, Maggard i at the hospital at 6:15 o’clo« j had been unconscious for two days.

Word was received in Bozeman last hu condition of'■Vyk',f deat!>. ™ D“- «. of Rich-! beimr such that it ard Franklin Pecina, six-year-old scof Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Pecina, at theh* home in Los Angeles, Calif.

of (Continued Next Week)DANNER STILL HOPEFUL• f . i Hor.

I. r>(-Vt semi-consciousness

was impossible to >n ! get him to make a c oherent state-

a, a report of organ- ill or read by W. L.

d by addresses by Washington, D. C„

r M. A. Brannan, of mversify. At 4 o’clock,

legates will he read, he held at 8 o’clock Director Cooley.

Program

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DON CLINTON ROAN FUNERALsvork

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ment.i Following the tragedy, John »e- ; by was ordered detained p nding *he

Almost half a hundred needy fam- result of Maggard’s injuries ami thedies in Bozeman were provided with holding of the inquest. He was le- a fine Christmas dinner by the Sal- leased following Magg»rd’s dea^h hut vation Army, under the direction of aaked to be allowed t«^ remain in the

jail until the following morning.f uesdav’«?

Captain Fred Stevens.I>r' gram at 9opens• ’ A reading of reports

s «11 owed bv addresses T" Bumson. President

j At the inquest he told a straight a u.fi ___ . . , forward stoiy of his innocent connec-

filed Saturday in district court bv ‘7 îh* *1

Evelyn Harvie, ayainst her hu.hand, J ""'™rd <*>***Thomas Harvie. The plaintiff chareeJ ÏLT’?’“ P,‘ f ..

____________________ • , cruelty and failure to provide. The ,h.aî Ï? had ta'kod **•? 7*tL*r. °T.

The condition of Miss Marv Hamp- defendant operates a pool room at ” ■ la^trard and she ha-1 toldton. of Belgrade, who was taken to Three Forks. h'm =*‘a> - a? he had]T“dthe Deaconess hospital the day before____________________h'S T°‘'m ’ T' 2rVireAcfrv,-,.- j ^ ! money w*as n^essarj* to help him pay

and wh°, waa ,, Th* Land Settlement c.n-, the household expenses.ÎTon £ now aid htr.. yess, which wa. to have been held, She also told him that if he left

»loved and her e«rl y ("2 J"_ <dc“*’ •»anoary 14 and 15, has; she would be compelled to rent therc:nV«'- t:h and complete ; been postponed until next month, the room to someone rise, poasihlv a

h™y frieX y ^ f°r dïte* 40 determined a"d « ^>d •"««"« to the

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u and Prof. F. M. Har-i

familiar with them as to seem com- j ‘here will be ad-|nion place are often not Y. F. Cogswell, James! known to the buying public.

so well îA show

and E. J. Iddings. enables a good breeder to advertise wed by a business his produce, and equally great ser

f»f officers and a ta­

rnen con­demned to death, which fact may be

‘ accounted for by his Indian blood, he vice is rendered the beginner who being a part Cherokee Indian, wants to buy foundation stock. A good pwltry show stimulates

r U rOL»W Ml

: f k••'>n (ration. The Farmers’ • He eats three big meals each day

the and appears to sleep well at night and j production of more and better podl , has so far been a model prisoner,

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lryn Workers* banquet will v<*d at 6:15 o’clock.(Continue*! ac-cn page 12) J try.

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