The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-09-07
band with 25 members has been
organized at Plains.

A band with % members has bee
, organized at Plains.
Benjamine f. Bisel, a pioneer VIII
came to Montana in 1864, died at hi
home in Bozeman at the age of
years, on Sunday, August 4. Mr.. Bise
operated the first threshing machin
in Montana in 1866, which was rul
by horsepower, and two years late
was in charge of the first steam rig Ii
the state brought in by Coover an,
McAdoo, pioneer BoZeman millers.
Establishment at Victor, in the Bit
ter Root valley, of Swiss cheese fac
tory, probably the first plant of 1t:
kind in Montana, is the plan of the J
L. Kraft and Brothers company Of
Chicago, one of the largest cheese man
ufacturing concerns in the world. The
factory Is to be an experiment plant
of the Kraft company which recently
arranged through John H. Kraft for
the entire output of cheese from the
Bitter Root.
A narrow escape from instant death
was that Of Miss Amelia Schultz of
Ekalaka, when her Ford runabout
plunged over an embankment, went
down 140 feet and landed in ditch
upside down. She escaped with only
a few slight bruises. Even her glasses
were not knocked off. One wheel Of
| the car was smashed and when a new
one was put on the machine was able
to back to town under its own power.
Resolutions accepting the offer of
Portland bond house to purchase $780,
600 in irrigation district bonds have
been adopted by the commissioners of
the Bitter Root valley irrigation dis
trict. The money will be expended, it
is understood, for a complete rehabili-
tation of the, project structures and
bitches The Bitter Root project is
one of the big undertakings Of reclaim
alton workers in the state and irri-
gates an enormous acreage. The water
is taken from Lake Como.
August Neabaum. prospector living
near Evaro, has struck what he be-
l'eves to be paying vein Of mineral
wool, or asbestos. He has already
made a cut showing the mineral to the
extent of IS feet deep and one foot
wide. Samples taken from three loca-
tons show the wool to be of the short
variety as contrasted to the long,
which is said TO be the best for selling
purposes, but Mr.. Neabaum is of the
nninion that he may find the other
variety. He has sent for equipment.
and will commence work soon. No
company has been organized as yet,
Though several who have seen the
property believe that it justifies fur
Their development.
Mrs Anna BURGESS, who shot and
Filled her former husband, Gordon
at her farm home mile and
4 half from Lewistown, was eXoner-
ated by jurors at the inquest held over
fhe body of Burgess. The testimony
showed that BURGESS, who escaped
rrom the county Jail here last October
While being held on charge of a
assault upon Mrs. Burgess );
L4-year-old daughter by a former hus- /
,and, flod to Canada and recently re- /;
nrnpd to prosecute his wife, who {
titled him while he was trying to force ]
entrance to her home. Il
With a wool clip this year of 1926 [
100 pounds, Montana ranks third in {
PRODUCTION. The United States wool s
lip this year is 22S031 900 pounds, the !
apartment of agriculture has an- f
ounced Last years clip was 22,155,- r
90 pounds, and it was 223,062,000 f
onnds in 1921: 235005,OOO pounds in
300. and 249,95s,000 pounds in 1919. e
he estimate of this years clip by q
fates follows: Texas. 19700,000 n
ounds; Wyoming, 1S,S00000; Mon Ii
ma. 1927 900: Utah, 17.210,000; "
Iahe. 16,500,000: Ohio. 14.313,0OO; V
alifornia, 141S1 600 ahd oregon. 49, L,
100000. No other state his as much G
S 100000 pounds. N
Grasshopper glacier, oneof the most d
lmed of the natural cuiosities of W
-ontana, is really full of gasshoppers D
rcording to recent discoveries. which d
AXE the long-belieyed thory fact sc
his body of ice and snw lies above r
le timber line in regio of startling la
aauty II miles from Coke City d
For a number of yeas there has r:
zen a scientific controversy in prog
,ss as to whether the Millions of in ia
.cts frozen into the iceare actually tic
'asshoppers or some secies of ex- ell,
net insect. The insectsare of great so
lmber and embedded n some in Gil
ances many layers belo' the surface DIS
the ice. Some claimedhev were as re-
odern as the ordinaf species of tee
topper" which has beenlch plague de
Montana crops in the last two VIII
,ars. Still others ideified them as ne.
sort of migratory last, all of the :
agnoses being madefrom more or xii
Sc damaged snecimei nicked up on Tr'
g surface Of the iceseld. of
Dr. William c. Aide of the geologic ant
/ survey, Prof. r. /. Cooley of the brr
departmt of Montana ira
ate college. Natural Skinner of the a P