The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-05-25
THE STATE

maIta-Seeding of spring grain
about completed in Phillips county
Helena-Claude c. Gray has beel
appointed receiver of the Bankini
Corporation of Montana.
Missoula- Drilling in the Bite
Root oil well near Corvallis is to b.
resumed at once.
Great Falls Grasshoppers arr
making their first appearance of tn,
season in Cascade county.
Roundup-Wages of retail clerk!
have been fixed at S135 minimum
the new arrangement averting
strike.
Butte-The first touring party tC
be registered for the season at the
Yellowstone Trail bureau in Butte
was bound for Shelby.
Great FalIs-Dig up your dande-
lions or dig up fine in police court,
| is the order of Superintendent Chas.
Landgren of the Great Falls boule-
wards.
Butte-Stephen DesJardin, 48, one
of the three most seriously injured in
an automobile collision on the high
way south of Butte recently, is dead
of his injuries.
Washington "A second federal
judge for the district of Montana will
not be appointed until congress con-
venes, according to high administra-
ton spokesman.
Boulder-Uncoverin one-foot
streak of ore which assays 281
ounces of silver and some gold is re-
ported by A. H. G. Rex, the we'll
known mining man who is operating
the old Bismarck mining property six
miles from Boulder.
Great FalIs-Members of Elks
lodges in all parts of the country will
attend the twentieth annual state con-
vention of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks in Montana,
which will be held here July 1, 2
and 8.
He1ena-Bids will be received by
the Montana highway commission
June S, for the construction of Al
miles of federal highway across the
Blackfeet Indian reservation on the
route from Great Falls to Glacier
park.
Great Falls-Attention of oil men
swung abruptly to the Big Sandy
district with the coming in of a gas
flow of 100000 feet in the Ohio
test well on the Sherrard No. 1
structure, 35 miles southeast of Big
Sandy.
Butte-Failing to open heavy
safe in it's narrow quarters, burglars
who entered the Haines Tire Sales
office carted it away to a
lonely spot in Missoula gulch, below
Platinum street, and cracked" it
with a sledgehammer.
BiIlings-Rollo Duncan, former
sheriff of Lewis and Clark county, |
Ind now resident of Billings, has
)een selected by President Harding |
lfter conference with Congressman
,eavitt, for the United States mar
halship
BiIlings-Beet acreage contracted |
o date aggregates more than %, 500 /
.cres as compared with 1922 acres
asst season, according to w. P. Ho-
,arty, superintendent of the Great
Western Sugar company's plant here.
here were 762 growers last year,
While this year there will be 1,067
armers growing beets.
Great FalIs-Search for Louise
,aker, alias Ruth Walker, alias
fannie Reed, said to be one of the
lost clever forgers who ever oper-
ted in this city, has been begun by
+reat Falls police. The woman, it
; charged, has during the last two
reeks defrauded local merchants out {
hundreds of dollars. !
Missoula-On Mothers day one +
[issoula mother experienced the !
lost bitter and ironical tragedy that !
an come into the life of a mother :
hen little Jimmie Albert Mabary, !
le 4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. +
/. A. Mabary, was burned to death q
/ dog kennel back of their home n
ere. The baby, playing with matches,
It fire to straw.
Butte-Dragged about 20 feet in :
ont of the wheels of a truck driven :,
7 DR.. G. D. Bryant, and then to have :,
lpported almost the full weight of y
10 machine on his mead for several Z
conds before rescuers could push :
e car from his body was the expe- .
ence of Robert Windmiller, blind =.
,wsdealer, who suffered injuries no -
ore serious than a few bruises and y
,rasions. y
Billings-Chief Plenty Coos, head -
the Crow tribe of Indians, was -
ken in an ambulance to his home =,
| the reservation near Pryor after p
ing in a local hospital since April O.
with broken leg. The 74year- ~
d chief was injured in fall from -
e window of a local hotel while .,
alking in his sleep. He said he y
canned he was chasing a dog. =