Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-20
DECIDED UPON
LONG AGO FOR
GUARDIANSHIP
Dixon Had Him Slated
for Job Soon as Term
of Occupant Was Up.
Has Long Been Prom
inent in Republican
Politics of Montana.
Special TO The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
F. Helena, July 19.-Jerome Locke of
Livingston will succeed to the position
Of chairman of the industrial accident
board, which was made vacant BY the
death Tuesday morning of y. l..
Spriggs, former lieutenant governor.
There has been no official announce
ment of the selection of Mr.. Locke
and none can be expected until after
the return from Salt Lake of Cover
nor Joseph M. Dixon, but it Is no
secret that Mr.. Locke was selected
by the governor several months ago
to fill that office whenever it should
be vacated by Mr.. Spriggs.
OF course, that was at time when
Mr.. Spriggs was in the best of health
and when it was contemplated that
this office, like many others of 30
litical nature, would be filled by ap-
pointment at the hands of the COVER
nor.
Give Temporary Place.
Moreover the excellence of Mr..
Spriggs' service to the state and the
high degree of efficiency with which
he had administered the affairs of the
industrial accident board made it un-
desirable that his connection with the
affairs of the department. be discon-
tinued before the close of his term, or
until he should ask to be relieved.
Accordingly, Mr.. Locke was tempor
arily given the office Of clerk of the
consolidated boards and the general
understanding has been that he would
be appointed chairman Of the indus
trial accident board whenever va
cancy occurred, but never was such a
regrettable termination of the services
Of Mr.. Spriggs anticipated.
During the time Mr.. Locke has been
in the office of the consolidated
boards he has been engaged in revising
the methods of keeping the records of
the state prison. the insane asylum and
other Of the state institutions which
are under the jurisdiction Of that Of
flee.
Work Well Along.
Some of this work has been brought !
to completed stage and the rest has
been started so that it can be readily |
carried forward.
Mr.. Locke is one Of the very active |
young Republicans of the state and |
took a leading part in the campaign of
1920. his efforts on behalf of Governor
Dixon having been particularly effect
i've during the. primary campaign. He
was an ardent supportes of both Dix
on and Roosevelt during Bull Moose
years. He is a native of Montana, 40
years Of age, and has been largely
in the development Of the
state.
A graduate of the State college at
Bozeman, holding two degrees in civi!
he was engaged in sur
veys in connection with the early work
,f the United States reclamation serv-
ice in northern Montana, at which he
spent three years. He later engaged
n contract work in construction Of irr1-
cation projects and from 1910 until
1914 was United States surveyor gen
,ral for Montana.
Editor and Soldier.
He later located at Livingston.
where he purchased and consolidated
he Livingston Enterprise and the Liv-
ngston Post, developing the consoli- {
lated paper into well edited and sue
.essful morning daily paper, which he {
old in 1917, when he enlisted in the {
rmy. He was serving as captain of
ngineers when the armistice was I
igned. Y
Since the close of the war he has {
een connected with number of en-
erprises at Livingston mercantile and {
anking, and is half owner of the I
livingston townsite. He has devoted {
1uch of his time to the Yellowstone y
axe dam project, being the prime
1over in that proposition, which is be-
1p nushpd before conuracS