The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-02-23
THE STATE

of Livingston is in fine shape, aC
cording to state stock inspectors
There is plenty of hay in the county
it is stated.
Helena-The automobile stag
used between Augusta and Craig il
Lewis and Clark county was com
pletely buried by the heavy snow 0
last week. The traffic is being han
died by bobsleds.
Livingston-New boiler shops ma,
be erected here this spring by thu
Northern Pacific railway at a cost o
said that it had not been definitely
determined whether the shops will be
constructed this year.
Great Falls - The wind-swepr
ranges in the Highwood mountains
still provide good grazing for the elk
that range at the head of Harris
creek, according to Forest Ranger
S. E. Eckert of the Highwood sta
ton.
Butte saw Abraham Lincoln
twice, once while he was delivering
an address and again when he was
cold in DEATH" says Bailiff E. Sper-
ling of Judge CAROLS court. Mr..
Sperling is SO years old, came to the
United States in 1859 and has lived
in Butte for 35 years.
HeIena-Among the loans for live
stock and agricultural purposes an
nounced by the war finance corpora
tion as having been made February
Gil, yer $4,000 in Idaho, $685.
600 in Montana, 100000 in Oregon,
$159,000 in South Dakota, and $270,-
900 in Wyoming.
Helena-March 81 was set for the
beginning of the suit of accounting
filed by the state against Frank Con-
ley, former warden of the p%eniten-
tiary. The tentative date for the be-
ginning of the hearing was fixed by
Judge w. H. Poorman, department /,
district court of Lewis and Clark
county.
Helena-R. E. Towle, cashier of
the Helena branch of the federal re-
serve bank, vas appointed manager
of this institution at a meeting of
the dirtrict directors at Minneapolis.
He succeeds o. A. Carlson, who re
Gently resigned to accept the position
of vice-president of the Commercial
ANdbiOiol Oohh VI diCaI oi1os
HeIena-The senate judiciary COM
mittee in Washington last week put
back into the omnibus judgeship bill
the provision offered by Senator
Walsh authorizing the appointment
of one additional federal judge for
Montana. This is to relieve the con-
gestion in the federal courts, the
amount of business being greater
than one judge can handle.
Helena-Assad Juhray, under SEN
tence to be executed in Butte, Feb.
IT, for the murder of Hugh Gibson,
has been given another lease on life.
Preparatory to the recommending of
Communication of his sentence to life
Imprisonment, Governor Dixon grant
ed Juhray a respite of 80 days, dur
ing which time the proceedings in
connection with Communication will be
carried out.
Butte-Chief of Police Jere Muir
ply states he has been advised that
officials of the Hip Sing and Bing
Kong tongs are expected in Butte
from San Francisco to attempt to
harmonic differences which caused
the shooting here recently of Him
Mon Sing, Chinese merchant here. Six
arrests have been made in connec-
ton with the killing.
Circle-A half dozen families are
quarantined and the local schools are
closed as a result of an outbreak of
scarlet fever. Pink-eye, mumps, and
German measles have all had their
turn, and a few struggling cases of
the last two still remain. A small
child died from d%iphtheria four miles
out in the country this week, but nc
diphtheria has appeared in town.
Helena-The county assessor is
The most important official connect
ed with the states revenue system,
according to John Edgerton, assist
ant to the state board of equalization.
Upon him, says Mr.. Edgerton, rests
the entire responsibility of seeing
that all property pays it's proportion
Of the total tax to be levied. This is
determined or measured by it's true
ind full value along with the true
Ind full value of all other property.
Helena-Secretary of State c.. T.
stewart has received from the pub
ishers copies of Volume /, Revised
Political Codes of Montana for 1921,
md as soon as the books are brand
ID they will be forwarded to the dis
riot judges and the various county
.'fficers Of the state. Copies of the
.921 Revised Political Codes are not
old to individuals by the secretary
# state. The law does not provide
a sale. Those desiring a copy
must obtain it direct from Bancroft
Whitney, San Francisco, the publish
rs, at the flat rate of s24 a copy.
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