The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-06-04
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

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jumpers, instead of the customary blue
uniforms according to information re-
ceiyed in Missoula from the general
superintendent office. Brakemen on
the Rocky Mountain division have ask
ed permission to don the same APP
parel under similar circumstances as
granted on other divisions.
Iony Deidtman, one of the Helena
men tried and convicted during the
world war on a charge of seditiOn I'M
der the Montana law, was released
from custody following an order from
Judge Il. Lee Word dismissing the
case, on motion of County Attorney J.
K. Wine. The motion was based pri-
marily on the ground that the find
ings or the state supreme court re-
yersing the district court, would make
second trial absolutely futile.
Forty gallons of confiscated whiskey
were poured by the Billings police into
gutter before a large crowd whose
eyes were sad even as their lips tested.
The "hooch' was seized in recent boot
logging raids. The police convinced
the onlookers that real whiskey was
being destroyed by occasionally pass
ing bottles and jugs to individuals to
be smelled After the first sniff the |
officers invariably and quickly regain
ed the containers.
Two Great Falls railroad switchmen |
were badly injured in the yards of the |
b. q NJ. smelter when a terrific gale |
tore the top off a box car on which |
they were riding and hurled them to |
the ground.
Z. w. Burns has been elected bishop |
of the Helena district of the Methodist |
conference at a meeting just closed in
Des Moines. Inquiries among Helena
Methodfsts in regard to Bishop Burns
former connections were made without
enlightenment. Helena was again man,
ed as the principal residence for the
bishop. This is the third consecutive
time that this city has been chosen.
An alleged 'boy bandit ring. men,
bers of which are said to have had
headquarters in shack they built on
a vacant lot in Laurel, and who are
reported to have confessed to a long
list of depredations, including break
ing. into warehouses and stores and
daylight pilfering. in Laurel shops, is
believed by officers to have been brok-
en- up with the arrest of % Laurel
years, and including the son of a min
lister and youthful scion of prominent
Laurel banker.
Big Timber bee man sent to Texas
for large consignment of the insects.
While still some miles from their des-
tination case broke and the inhabi-
tants sailed forth and took posses
sion of the baggage car, holding 1t
until the arrival of the train in Big
Timber. Luckily the bee man was on
The station platform, waiting for his
pets, and he soon rounded them up.
The Billings city drainage ditch.
which has protected the city from ir-
'igation flood waters for 26 years,
claimed it's first victim last week {
when Donald Kennert, the two-year-
I'D son of w. H. Kennert, deputy
county clerk and recorder, was drown
ID in. the stream. The ditch is to
,e closed this year.
For many months punch boards and
ticker cards have been operated in
igar and confectionery stores and
'ool halls in Great Falls. Last week
hat mild type of gambling was put
nut Of commission under an order
rom Sheriff J. P. Burns. The boards
and arrests will follow In
he event of any temperance.
While running disk harrow south
f Malta recently Miss Allie Hughie
yas severely cut by being thrown in
ront of the disk when the team ran
way. She was brought to the Malta
ospital and is recovering.
Swan Hanson of Billings has filed
nit against the Montana Power COM
any for $4,000, charging that the
dam near his ranch was
perated so that in the spring OF
very year it ruined crops and dam
ged improvements. The dam is not
luipped with proper facilities to pre-
snt flooding, he alleges. In 1917,
rs and 1919 water spread over the
nd, causing $1,000 damages to crops
I'd $4,000 improvement damages, he
lys.
Cut worms are at work in northern
ontana and have already done con-
derable damage in some localities
t Joplin Verne Sauer reports the
IS Of 20 acres of grain and other
rmers report smaller losses.
Secretary of State G. T. Stewart has
ceived complaints from all parts of
ontana regarding a tendency on the
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