The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-01-09
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSElY TOLD

CltleS that have armOrteS Will get
first consideration. 1t Is announced, in
| organization of the Montana national
guard. which now is proceeding under
Adjt. Gen. Phil Greenan. The state
now is entitled to eight companies.
and after June. 1920, may organize
four additional companies. General
Greenan is giving ex-service men the
preference.
Plans to eliminate the Marshall
grade. two miles east Of Missoula, a
federal aid project, have been apIrov-
ed by the state highway commission.
Approval Of the bureau of public roads
at Missoula is now awaited.
Beaver. which are protected by law,
are eating away the piers of Il bridge
near knowlton, in the eastern part Of
the state, and dragging the tinbers t"
their dams. according to Il rancher OF
that vicinity. He has asked the state
game warden whether, under such cir
cunstances. it would be lawful to kill
the animals. Before aSSaulting the
bridge piers the beaver colony, which
is large and thriving one, felled hun
dreds OF cottonwood trees.
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G. A. Spaulding, an attorney Of Hell
ena. chairman Of the Montana board
OF law examiners, has filed his resig-
nation from the board in the supreme
court and the court has accepted it.
He resigned. he said, because he was
not in sympathy with others on the
board, and differed widely from their
views.
M. H. Gerry, Jr.. state fuel admins
traitor. has been promised by the ma
tional railway administration 25 cars
OF coal daily from stocks held in Utah,
until further notice. The Great Lakes
Will send 100 more cars to Montana,
Mr.. Gerry continues to urge the need
OF conservation and warns the public
that the crisis is by no means past.
The report of Sidney Miller. register
OF the state land office. for November
shows that on the last day of that
month the state had invested in farm
loans 1926, $50.
| Opposition to the Townsend bill in
congress. much greater work in road
construction throughout the nation
next year, better methods for distri-
button to counties by states of surplus
war equipment, higher prices Of road
construction and scarcity of competent
road contractors were among the SUBJ
1ects taken up at the recent national
meeting of representatives of state
highway commissions of all but three
states in the Union, according to John
Edy, engineer for the state highway
commission. Mr.. Edy has just return.
ed from Louisville. n.y., where he at.
tended the meeting.
The official government crop report
for December shows marked de-
crease both for Montana and the Unit
ed States in the acreage sown to WIN
ter wheat and rye during the past fall.
The winter wheat acreage sown in
Montana the past fall is estimated as
~ per cent of the 1913 acreage The
acreage seeded in 1919 is 4o5,OOO acres
and the final revised acreage shown in
1918 is 6O7OO acres. The decrease is
general throughout the state, but the
greatest decrease is confined to the
Yellowstone valley and the western
part of the state. The winter wheat
acreage sown in the United States for
the past fall shows u decrease Of D.
per cent as compared with the acreage
soWn in 1913.
Guy Fitzpatrick. former Montana
field agent of the bureau of crop e>-
Inmates ut Missoula, has announced
his resignation and the appointment
of Fred ID. Beier of Missoula as his
successor. Mr.. Fitzpatrick has become.
connected with the General Motors
corporation.
| Alderman Gus H. Hess of Butte may
lose the sight of both eyes as IL result
OF an accident ut the Black Rock mine
MIR. Hess is boss pumpnan at til.
mine. In some manner an electric
light globe burst While he was stand
ing beneath it. the glass entering his
eyes. cutting the eyeballs. He is con-
fined /" his home and the seriousness
III the injury has not yet been deter
mined
The state sanitary board. in Cooper
alton with the state office of the fed
eral bureau of animal industry. carried
on II great work in prevention of con-
tagiou> disease in Montana. and in his
annual report to Governor s. V. S,eW-
art. DIR. W. j. Butler, secretary Of
the board. said the state is practically
free of all contagious diseases. Some