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uVi Apist siOIt III LIVINGSTON. Inc UlO-
tive for the placing of the bomb has
| not been determined.
Z. o. Dunstall of Geraldine has been
| awarded $11,6O0 damages from Sir
Charles Ross, head of the former Ross
Rifle company, for injuries received
while using Ross rifle. The award
was made in Quebec, Canada.
Emil Gronberg, owner of a Butte
meat market, has been arrested by a
special agent of the department of
justice, for violation of the federal
-prOfiteering law. The specific
charge against Gronberg is that of
selling sugar at 20 cents a pound.
An attempt to divert the route of
the Yellowstone Trail so as to include
Helena and exclude Butte was defeat
ed at the Western Montana Highway
convention in Deer Lodge last week.
Il going to take long sleep to-
night" Paul Simonich, held at the
county Jail at Billings as a mental in
competent, informed his five cell mates
upon retiring. About / o'clock the fol-
lowing morning SimOnich's body was
found with the head Immersed in
tub of water in lavatory adjoining
the cell.
Every labor union i'm Montana is at
work except the BARRIERS in Billings.
who struck for an increase from S27. 20
week to S36. according to Stephen
Ely. president of the Montana Fedora
ton OF Labor. Members of the Great
Fails Building Trades council have
harmoniously completed an agreement
with employers for new scale effect
i've March ], and similar negotiations
are going on in Butte between EN-
ployers and the building trades coun-
ell there.
Joseph A. Stewart. % years of age.
unmarried and residing with his par-
ents, was found dead in his small ga
rage at the Stewart home in Lewis |
town. An investigation by Coroner !
Crell showed conclusively that he had
been asphyxiated by fumes from his |
auto.
Hay will be shipped to the elk herds
in the Yellowstone park by the Amer
lean Red Star Animal Relief of AL
bany. n. Y, in the near future, accord |
ing to advices received by J. L. De-
Hart, state game and fish warden.
from Sidney H. Coleman. manager of
the organization for relief of animals.
All whiskey and other alcoholic sub
stances cOnfiscated by federal authori-
ties, and all stills, mash and other
equipment and materials taken by the
federal agents in enforcing the nation
al prohibition law, are to be destroyed
by the United States marshal after the
of persons charged with vi
olation of any part of the national
statute is completed. This is the sub
stance of an order entered by Judge
George NJ. Bourqun in the United
States court at Helena.
Frank Hoell, Jr of Bozeman, charg-
ed with falsifying d draft questionnaire
return. was found not guilty by jury
in federal court at Helena after a
short deliberation.
Jean p. Decker, western trail blazer
and until recent years active in news
paper editorial work in Montana and
On the coast, died last week in a Bill
ings hospital following an operation.
Mr.. Decker was GO years old.
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Grace Peterson, the two-day-old
laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Pc
lerson of Missoula, who was brought
o life by the use of pulmotor after
Ter birth, died of commissions. Ply
;icians attending the case stated that
he shock to the infants nervous sys-
EN- by the use of the machine probably
vas contributing cause to its death.
las arrived home. He is Walter 70.
seiss of Helena. who reached New
-ork last week with the last contin-
ent of troops from France. He is
ow in Camp Merritt and his official
ischarge will officially close the par
icipation Of this state in the greatest
Military expedition in history.
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Alleged failure to deliver four car
Dads of potatoes in October of last
ear is the basis upon which Joseph
vefnstein of the Capital Commission
Dmpany of Butte is suing the c. Fl.
obinson company for $1,673.99, which
le plaintiff claims is the profit he
ould have made from the four cars.
Luke D. Hatch, aged 20, member
the Montana state constitutional
invention, died in Seattle January Z,
to word received in Helena.
e was for years a resident of the
liter Root valley !