The Montana courier. [volume] (Shelby, Mont.) 1922-192?, 1922-09-13
MONTANA NEWS notes.
TerseIy Told Tales Concerning
the Treasure State and
M0ntananS

Fire set by sparks from a passing
train burned IS acres of shocked wheat
Oh the farm of Frank Sites near Den
ton.
position as head of music department
of Montana State college at Bozeman
to accept a position in Boston.
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Sixteen hundred bushels of wheat
received at the Miles City mill weighed
81 pounds per bushel and yielded at
the rate Of 25 bushels per acre.
Heavy rainfall at Mountain juno
ton washed out several portions of
the Great Northern track and caused
a slide of earth which delayed trains
for more than a day.
The Carpenter creek coal mine near
Milestone opened September 1. The
mine output is 1900 tons daily, the
mining of which gives employment to
several hundreds of workers.
Petitions are being circulated in
Dawson county requesting the county
commissioners to reconsider their ac-
ton of disseminating the services OF
the county agricultural agent.
AiccorIo oo1ptxy will roooiuo fron
$4,000 to 100000 in federal aid
funds to be used on the roads. A
like amount will be raised by the
county to match the federal money.
Joe Adams of Livingston, Montana
junior w~elterweight, has signed a con-
tract to box Muff Bronson of Port
land, Ore, in Helena during state fair
week the latter part of September.
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A case of anthrax, n of the most
contagious infections known, has been
reported in Great Falls. The disease
is very rare, but one other case has
occurred in Montana during the last
year.
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For shooting up" the town while
enroute to Boulder Hot Springs, Her
bert B. McNair and Sam Russell, both
of Helena, were arrested and upon
entering pleas of guilty, were fined
$3.50 each.
The Teigen community hall, near
Grass Range, was burned to the ground
recently and a day or so before the
Slack schoolhouse was also burned.
1t is thought the fires were of incen-
diary origin.
George Ray, who was shot at SUI
perior during an attempted burglary
of a store there has confessed to the
robbery of the postoffice at Bonita
July Both. A special guard has beer
over him.
Hiking 20 miles into Anaconda to Sc
a grubstake and then carrying it
back on his own back is the feat ac-
by Frank Travis, veteran
IoSptCtOI- beSpitt hHS * yCuiS, tHC
'old timer thought nothing Of the trip.
By an executive order from Presi-
lent Harding the land within the orig
nal boundaries of Fort Keogh mill
AIRY reservation, near Miles City, and
east of the Tongue river has been
transferred from the war department
o the department of the interior.
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Plans have been completed to build
additional bunkhouses in the Living
'ton yards of the Northern Pacific
'ailway to care for new shop workers.
1t present 100 new men are employed
md the new ~bunkhouses will care for
N additional 100 employees. Work on
he structures will start at once.
United States Senator L. j.. Walsh s
will hold a competitive examination +
N October %, 1922, to fill three va s
at the naval academy at Ann
polls. Boys between 10 and 20 years Z
f age are eligible. Further informa-
ion will be furnished to those COM
lunicating with Senator Walsh, United $
senate, Washington, d. G.. q
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Harry G. Ketcham, formerly editor e
f the Sidney Herald, has been named
Y Governor Dixon as secretary of the S
consolidated board, to replace William n
wathouse. The appointment is for i
term to end June I. 1925. The con e
olidated board consists of the board
f pardons, the board of prison com
l%issioners, the state board of equaliza-
on and the board for the insane. \
Selection of a new chancellor of the n
University of Montana to succeed DR.. f
(. G. Elliott, who became president of S
urdue university, Lafayette. Ind. the {
rst of this month, will be taken up c
V the state board of education at a 7
Getting fixed by Governor Dixon and a
ice Nov Trimmer state SuD~printnn1. r