The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-05-20
THE STATE

outte-Bernard McGrade, former
Silver Bow county commissioner,
died at the emergency hospital
where he had been taken following
a fainting spell in the business dis
trict.
Helena - The famous Diedtman
sedition case, one of the first to have
been tried in Lewis e Clark county,
has, under an opinion Of the supreme
court, been remanded for a new trial.
Diedtman was convicted in 1918.
KalispeII - Flathead county has
made requisition upon the state high
way commission for six trucks and
one caterpillar tractor in addition to
IA trucks previously obtained for
road work.
Great Falls-Found guilty of a
statutory offense against the ~15-year-
old sister of his deceased wife Allen
e. Watson, a former restaurant man,
was sentenced here to a term of not
less than six nor more than ~ years
IN the penitentiary.
Vaughn-Drowned Dec. 28 near
this place by breaking through the
ice of the Sun river when he went
to secure a bucket of water, the body
OF. William Raper, an aged rancher,
has been found about II miles be-
low this place at Sun river park.
Butte-Teachers of the Butte pub
lie schools have been granted a flat
increase of $500 per year for the
coming school year, the school board
eliminating the summer school il
order to conserve it's funds to meet
this raise.
Butte On instructions of the
court the jury in the case against
Policeman Andrew Brady found him
not guilty of participation in the
murder of Sylvester J.. Prenatt for
whose killing four men had already
been adjudged guilty.
Glasgow-For the purpose of en-
couraging the cultivation of corr in
Valley county al a forage crop the II
banks of the county have each donat-
ed $25 to be offered as prizes. The
county will be divided into four dis
tricts and cash prizes of $50, $50
and $40 will be awarded in each.
DilIon-Frank Nelson, 81, the old
est member of the American Legion
in Montana, is dead. Nelson en-
listed as an engineer at the outbreak
of the war, giving his age many years
less than the actual figure in order
to get into the service. He served in
France.
KalispelI-Robert w. Main, who
came west in the 70's and served the
government as a courier and dis
patch bearer and who engaged in
Indian campaigns under Generals
Crook and Miles, died recently at
Columbia Falls where he had resided
for nearly 80 years.
Missoula-A standing army of III
900 men will be maintained by the
federal forest service in guarding the
forests of Montana and Idaho against
fire during the coming season. OF
these 625 will be patrols or smoke
chasers, the balance to be made up of
trail and telephone crews.
Sand Coulee-Twe masked ban
dts, believed to be the same as had
been operating in Great Falls, lined
up the proprietor and four customers
Of Morals soft drink saloon here and
secured 1923 from their persons and
The cash register. They could not
be identified.
Belt-William R. Lewis, 10, a high
student, was killed or drown
I'd when the automobile carrying a
party of Belt young people went off
he road into Belt creek. His body
vas found two days later lodged
a beaver dam a half mile be-
ow the scene Of the accident.
KaIispeIl-On the farm of G.. w.
hyde, near Kalispell, has just been
installed the largest private irriga-
ion plant in the Flathead. By
means of a 40 horse power electric
motor a centrifugal pump raises /;
from the Whitefish river a dis
ance of los feet and throws an
ight-inch stream upon the land.
Big Sandy-Explosion of gasoline f
While he was engaged in cleaning {
ONE clothes caused the death near I
ere of a rancher by name Praeter.
toys working in a nearby field, see 4
ng smoke, ran to the farm house |
vhere they extinguished flames
tarted by the explosion and found
dead.
Great Falls-Officers of Cascade
ounty are endeavoring to locate A.
!. Woodruff, former secretary of the /
ascade County Trades & Labor as \
emily and financial secretary of the h
I'LL & Smeltermen's union upon a '
omplaint filed by other members of +
he union charging him with the a
lisappropriation of $1,360 of the
MONS funds. f