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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
FOREST ENGINEER HAS
VERY NARROW ESCAPE

H. A. Calkins, an engineer in the
Forest Service from Missoula had a
narrow escape from death Saturday
evening when the car in which he and
Forest Ranger Fred Anger were rid
ing slipped off the road in Flathead
Pass and rolled so feet to the creek
bottom. Anger was thrown from the
car when it first went over but Cal
kins remained in the machine until it
hit the creek, sustaining two broken
collar bones, a fractured rib, two
sprained ankles and numerous bruises.
Anger was stunned for a few seconds
after being thrown from the machine,
but aside from a few minor bruises
was not otherwise injured.
Mr.. Calkins came over from Mis-
soula to inspect road project through
the Flathead Pass and was riding with
Forest Ranger Anger. AS they were
going along the soft grade the car
slipped and started down the hill,
rolling over and over and finally land
ing upside down in the waters of the
creek, small tributary to the Six
teen Mile.
When Anger recovered his senses
after being thrown from the car he
saw Calkins trying to get out of the
creek. He helped Calkins to as COM
Portable position as possible, walked
to the nearest ranch, some three miles
away, where he got a saddle horse
and rode to his ranger station. There
he secured his own car and some help
and went back for Calkins, who was
Immediately brought to the Deaconess
hospital in Bozeman.
Mr.. Calkins is getting along nicely
at the hospital but naturally suffers
great deal of pain and it is expected
that it will be some time before ht
is able to be about again.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
NEGOTIATIONS OFF
CITY WILL COLLECT
Commissioners Decide to Collect
Licenses When Protestants
Do Not Pay

The negotiations entered into some
time ago whereby it was arranged that
the protesting merchants should pay
their licenses under protest until such
time as decision on the validity of
the city ordinance could be obtained,
have been declared off by the city
authorities and the city will start in
collecting the money due it. The
reason for this lies in the fact that
the people protesting have refused to
make payments, even under protest.
This decision was reached by the COM
missioners at their regular weekly
meeting last Thursday.
The list of the walks in the CITY
that needed repairing or rebuilding
was filed with the commission and
notices will at once be sent the pro-
perty owners that the work must be
done. The property holders are al
lowed thirty days to begin the work
and if nothing has been done by that
time the city will have it done. The
city has, contract with the Standard
Constructing Company for doing this
work.
The commissioners rejected the petit
ton of the property owners on Grand
avenue north, from Main to Willard,
for a special improvement district,
which asked for paving, etc. The GER
titled check covering the cost of the
preliminary work was ordered re-
turned.
The following is the report of F. W.
Bull, superintendent of the tourist
park, for the month of June.
''My records show that 374 cars con-
tanning 1,107 occupants stopped at
Bogert's park during June, and the re-
ceipts, $246, turned into the city treas
ury.
The improvements are progressing
slowly, but through those contemplate
ed for this year, which will be COM
pleted in the next ten days, we shall
be able to care for the increase in
travel very well.
When our patrons look around and
see the improvements being made and
those contemplated they say we have
the finest tourist park, east or west
outside of the largest cities, such as
Seattle, San Francisco and cities OF
like size in the country"
The cemetery board reported $979. .6E
received during June.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
TWO CONFISCATED CARS
TO BE SOLD BY SHERIFF

The confiscation Of two of the cars
seized when bringing booze into Gal
latin county was ordered by Judge
Law last Thursday and the cars will
be disposed of by Sheriff Jim Smith
at public auction.
One Of these cars is a Haynes sedan,
captured by local authorities when J.
Cleve Beckwith was arrested. In the
car at the time of the arrest were so
gallons Of moonshine whiskey which
Beckwith was bringing into Bozeman.
In seeking to recover the car Beck
with brought the name of G. J. Nc
earthly as the man who was to get
the booze and also said that the car
did not belong to him, but to the Yel-
lowstone Trail garage at Livingston.
He claims to have bought the car on
contract, the title to the car to re-
main in the name of the garage until
it was paid for. 1t was learned that
the garage company had a bona fide
lien on the car amounting to S342.23.
In deciding to sell the car at auction
the court instructed that if there re-
manned any balance after the sheriff S
expenses were taken out, this money
was to be applied on the lien.
The other car to be sold is a Ford,
captured with Fred Gertson and a
man named Ogden when bringing
whiskey into the county from the
Madison. The men pleaded guilty
Gertson's father claimed ownership of
the car and tried to get it, but Judge
Law. decided that the elder Gertson
had knowledge of the use the car was
being put and therefore ordered il
sold at auction.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
Farm HAND KILLED
IN RAILWAY YARDS
Edmund MARITIME, Itinerant Farm
LabOrer, Goes to Sleep on
Wrong Track

At 1:45 o'clock Sunday morning
man, later identified as Edmund Mar
tino, farm hand, was killed in the
local Northern Pacific yards by being
run over by an engine. Apparently
MARITIME sat down on one of the little
used tracks for a rest and fell asleep.
An engine backing into the round
house ran over him, the train crew
not seeing the man until the engine
passed over his body.
Coroner Harland was Immediately
notified and soon reached the spot.
Every effort was made by him to as
certain the mans identity but there
was little among his possessions to
prove who he was and it was not until
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Powell, living
north of Bozeman, whose curiosity
was aroused by the mans description,
came in and identified the body that
it was known to be MARITIME.
A dunnage sack containing working
clothes and few cooking utensils was
found near the body and there were a
few papers and fragment of a diary
In the pockets. A letter was found ad-
dressed to Mrs. o. G.. Swetman and
Charming Daughter, Enroute Western
Tour, Care Plaza Hotel, San Francisco.
This was from Biloxi, Miss, and was
signed Daddy" The diary told of
trips in the south near San Antonio
and New Orleans and was merely
fragmentary. Coroner Harland wired
Mrs. Swetman at the address given
but received no reply.
According to Dave Powell, Martino
was Frenchman between 45 and SO
years old who has worked as a farm
laborer in the valley. It was his
custom to work north in the summer
and go south in the winter time. He
was careful of his appearance, avoid
ed anything that would make hom
appear as hobo and was a good
worker. He was a lover of nature
and when travelling always carried a
small camp equipment with him sim
liar to the one found beside his body
Martino's clothing was fairly good
and the writing in his diary is that OF
a fairly well educated man.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
COMMISSIONERS
APPOINTED BY COURT

Following the recent dry weather,
the old worry over irrigating water
is being renewed, and as a result
Judge Law has appointed the water
commissioners for the different
streams supplying irrigating water
in the valley. Some of these COM
missioners will be on full time and
others, on the smaller streams, will
do only the work required of them.
Fred Brown was named as the COM
missioner for the Gallatin river; Tom
Fowler will look after Middle Creek;
John Walton will govern the supply
on Ross creek, and Conrad Erickson
will take care of Willow creek. The
men will begin work this morning.
In seasons just past it has been un-
necessary to appoint commissioners
and ditch riders early in the year.
but the continued rains in May and
June have made the irrigating water
go so much farther that commission
ers would have been a needless ex-
pense earlier in the season.
The duty of the commissioners is
to regulate the water according to
the water rights of the different
ranches, allowing for both priority
and the amount of water right. As a
considerable irrigating has been go
ing on for a month or so. the duties
of these men will not be heavy dur
ing the balance of the season, though
with short water their presence is
an absolute necessity.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18

loaded and Tailed out correctly,
whereupon Thorndyke transferred the
money as instructed Later it was
learned, according to Mr.. Peterson,
that Burnstad only purchased 553
head, and that these were worth not
over $4,000. The remainder of the
shipment are said to have belonged
to Basil Tinsley and A. L. Martin, of
Willow Greek, who made arrange
ments with Burnstad to take the cat
tie to North Dakota with his ship
ment and pasture them until ready for
market.
It is also claimed that the cattle
were detrained at Bismarck, N. D.,
and turned on the reservation to fat
ten When the sale was finally made
at the market, the loan company dis
covered they had claim to but 553
head and no claim whatever on the
cattle of Tinsley and Martin. The
loan campany got back $4,000, but
allege the remainder of the $45, 900,
or $4,000, is still wrongfully held by
Burnstad.
At Hunters Hot Springs. Mr. Burn
stad's attorney, A. B. Atkins, Of Ma
poleons n. D., joined the party.
Burnstad was arraigned in the dis
trict court on Friday to answer to
the charge Of obtaining money under
false pretensess and pleaded not gail
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18

storm and even the alfalfa was al
most totally destroyed. William But
tleman lost 125 acres of wheat, so
acres of rye, 80 acres of oats and so
acres of alfalfa, and of this latter
even a part of the first crop, already
in the stack, was damaged.
After leaving Three Forks the storm
swung north through the hills. Slight
damage was done in the Menard coun-
try and more severe injury wrought
in the farms of the Sixteen Mile can
yon, though the Willow Creek and
Three Forks farmers suffered the
worst.
John Walton of Springhill was in
Three Forks during the storm and he
said it was the worst hail he ever saw
and that scarcely a window in the
city was left uninjured save where
they were protected by screens. The
wind was so severe that it literally
blew rain through the walls of the
hotel, the plastering showing damp on
the inside. A barn was unroofed and
more or less other damage was
wrought by the wind, while the gar
dens of Three Forks were a total
wreck.
A trace Of the storm was felt at
Central Park but this was slight. The
cool temperature following the hail
was distinctly felt in almost every
section of the valley. Some rain fell
in Logan and Manhattan but this was
not severe.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
HAIL. Wind And RAIN sweep LOWER
END Of VALLEY IN MONDAY STORM
Hail Willow
Sixteen Mile Country
and Three Forks Path of Storm Three
Five Miles

A hail storm lasting but some 20
yet with a force and velocity
seldom seen in these parts, was ex-
perienced Monday afternoon in the
lower end of the valley: and as a result
a good many ranchers near Willow
Greek, Three Forks and the Horse
shoe Hills witnessed the almost total
destruction of their crops. Wind and
rain accompanied the hail and COM
pleted the work of destruction. Scarce
ly window that was not protected
by screen remained in Three Forks
and the force of the wind was so great
that it literally blew the rain through
the sides Of the buildings.
The storm began at four o'clock
Monday afternoon near Whitehall and
swept east towards Three Forks,
from there swinging north through
the Horseshoe Hills and the Sixteen
Mile canyon. The path of the storm
was from three to five miles wide and
in this area it worked almost complete
destruction to the growing crops and
hay. Further reports are to the eff
feet that the storm continued beyond
Ringing.
Most of the damage to Goliath
county farmers was wrought in the
bottom lands between Willow Greek
and Three Forks on the ranches OF
VIM. Buttleman, Lane, Harwood
Murray, Parker, Maudlin and Mon
gold. All the standing grain, wheat
oats and barley, in the path of tn,
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
Report OF Past School Year GiUen
to Board by Local Superintendent
Schools During the Season Discusses


rolled during the year, boys 584, girls
556; total 1,104. The average daily
attendance was 920.8 and the average
number belonging was 1894. Of the
pupils who entered during the year,
1877 removed from the district, 80
were dropped because of illness, and
l was suspended near the close of the
school year, leaving 904 pupils in at
tendance on the last day. There were
181 days in which school was in ses-
sion, and the average number of days
attended by each pupil, based on the
number belonging, was 1885. The
percentage of attendance was 96. This
is based on five days Of absence in
stead of three days before pupils are
dropped. If three days had been
used as the basis, as it was up to
three years ago, the percentage of at
tendance would have been 97.5.
There were 26 cases of truancy
during the year, % cases of corporal
punishment and $50 cases Of tardi.
ness. There should have been no trl1-
ancies, the number of tardies should
have been much fewer, and the case.
of corporal punishment-well, i
would depend upon who had the say
for some parents say more, some say
reduce it to the least possible num-
ber, and some say none. The boys
and girls agree with the latter. It il
interesting, in studying the numbel
Of tardies, to see what this nigh
/ Continued on page Twelve)
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18

At the regular monthly meeting of
the school board, Superintendent Cum
ningham of the local schools filed his
annual report, and the same was ac-
cepted by the board. The report Of
the cost of school supplies for the last
year, except coal, together with the
incidental expenses, including general
supplies, salaries, light, water, re-
pairs, insurance, equipment, janitors'
supplies, was also submitted. With
out going into detail, the total cost
was distributed to the different build
ings as follows: Emerson, $40
931.77; Hawthorne, $12,201.27; Irv-
ing, S15,251.28; Longfellow, $11,-
261.70; Fort Ellis, $3,593.71.
Two new teachers have been select
ed to fill vacancies in the local schools
and their names were submitted to
the board. Miss Mabel Nordstrom,
who has taught for the past two
years in Billings, and Miss Ethel Wo-
dell, of Fairbury, Neb., who has held
position in Toledo, Iowa, will be SUI
pervisor of art and music in the local
schools.
The board has employed Bernard
Coping to audit the books Of the
school for the year.
In discussing the attendance at the
schools, the tardines, the punish.
ments administered and other matters
of interest, Superintendent Cunning
ham had the following to say:
Number of different pupils en-
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
EVERYONE Is GOING
TO "GALLATIN DAY"

In this commercialized age we are
apt to neglect the finer attributes of
friendship. Most of us are so busy
we don't take time to visit one with
the other. Quite often farmers do
not know their neighbors, or the busi-
ness man does not know the farmer.
Recreation these days comes in such
form that we don't visit while we
play. It would be better if we could
visit more and get better acquainted
with each other, for if you learn TO
know the other fellow you will usual
ly learn to like him. We are all hu-
man, and almost universally there
is more good than bad in a man.
Our third "get-together, get better
acquainted day" will be Saturday,
July %. An unusually attractive pro-
gram has been provided, beginning
at 10 a. m. and extending to $3.50 p.
m. Two ball games, two speakers OF
national and state reputation, all the
watermelons, ice cream, lemonade and
coffee you want, band concert, and
a spectacular two-hour military dem
onstration are the chief features.
One distinguishing feature of the
two past celebrations has been that
every step in the program is pulled
off at the exact time scheduled. This
will be followed again this year.
Don't bring any money, because
everything will be Cree. All the com
mittee expects of you is that you be
Continued on page Twelve)
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
CANADA thistle
CAN BE CONTROLLED
Experiences of Gallatin Farmers Show
That Summer Tillage and Legume
Hays Will Keep Pest Within Bounds

The greatest menace to heavy grain
production in the Gallatin valley is
generally conceded to be the Canada
thistle. It's spread has been xapid
for a number of years. Farmers that
five or ten years ago had only few
thistles now have many acres, while
occasionally one finds a farm with a
smaller acreage of thistles today than
it Rad in years past. Generally
speaking, we have been drifting along,
contenting ourselves with more or less
feeble attempts at control; meanwhile
thistles have spread to canal and
ditch banks, roadsides, railroad rights
of way, and in a few instances have
practically taken cultivated fields.
Beginning a year or two ago, no
ticeable percentage of our farmers,
who had been watching this growing
menace, began a systematic attack in
aeradicating the Canada thistle. On
the whole they have been very sue
cessful. N. L. Towne, w. Z. Harmon,
o. l.. Ward, r. A. Walton and Clar-
,enca Mathews are few of the farm
ers who have been successful in COM
batting the thistle by thorough culti-
vatiOn in summer fallow fields. W.
H. MOnfortOn, Simpson and Truitt,
and many others have had excellent
success with alfalfa or clover in
crowding out the thistle. Their sue
cess has demonstrated that the Can
ada thistle can be effectively eradi-
Gated.
A trip around to these various
places will lie arranged for later this
season if sufficient land owners show
an interest. Such a tiip will enable
any interested farmers to see just
what has been done and can be Gone
along these lines.
IF you care to go, call up or crop
a line to County Agent Bodley. II
will help him in arranging for the
trip. and he will be able to give you
the date or which it will be made.
These expensive means of eradica
tion will not be generally employed
Unless the spread of the weed is con
trolled. A field is cleaned up this
year, and next year more seed comes
down with irrigation water, or i:
blown from adjoining ranches by thr
wind, and gradually the clean field il
reinfected. This can never be entire
ly prevented, but can be remedied tt
a large extent. AS a first step tn,
canal companies should cut all this
ties on their banks within the mex
ten days. Owners Of private ditche
should do likewise. All thistles OF
railroad rights of way should be Gu
before seeding. The proper official
have been requested to see that this i
done. Finally, the ones who hav
most at stake, each farmer should b
responsible for thistles on his owl
Land and adjoining rights of way
and cut them before they begin t
set seed, which will probably be with
in ten days. 1t will be hard for tn
already busy farmer to take the nee
essary time to do this, but in the lon
Continued on page Twelve)
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18

Thomas Gentry, employed on the
Chas. Waterman ranch south of Bel
grade had narrow escape during an
electrical storm mast Tuesday. In the
field when the storm broke, Gentry
unhitched his team and made for the
barn. He was leading his team by the
brides, walking between them, when
a bolt of lightning killed both horses
and knocked Gentry down between the
animals. Gentry's hands had to be
rrIed loose from the metal bits, but
aside from bad hurns on his hands he
IS little the worse for his experience.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
North Dakota C0ttlenon Held Here
Charge Is Wrongly Getting Money
Face Charge in Local Court. Held
BOnd

Chris P. Burnstad, at one time the
owner of more cattle than any other
man in North Dakota, is held in the
county Jail on $1,000 bail, charged
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. Mr.. Burnstad was brought
to Bozeman from Burnstad, N. D., by
Sheriff Jim Smith on last Thursday,
upon extradition papers issued by
Governor Dixon and honored by Gov
ernor Nestos of North Dakota. Mr..
Burnstad made no objection to COM
ing to Montana.
Burnstad is charged with having
falsely obtained $4,000 from the
st. Paul Cattle Loan company, of
South st. Paul, MINI, in August,
1919, with which to pay fer ship
ment of cattle obtained near Willow
Greek. 1t is alleged that the cattle
were diverted enroute to their des-
tination and that the loan company
never received the full amount loaned
for their purchase.
According to County Attorney Pc
terson, Burnstad came to this part of
the country in August, 1919, and ne
gotiated for the purchase Of 1000 2
year-old steers. Previous to his com
ing here he had made arrangements
with the St. Paul company for a loan
of $45, 600 to pay for the cattle, Eu-
gene Thorndyke, Of Willow Greek, act.
ing as the agent Of the loan company
and tallying the cattle.
Shortly kfter this the cattle wers
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-07-18
-HUFFINE LANE IS
NEXT ROAD PROJECT
Arrangements Being Completed to
Start Permanent Improvement This
Summer. Necessary to Raise $l,25O

After nearly a quarter of a cen
tury Of spasmodic effort, criticism
and complaint, the Huffine lane, one
of the leading highways into BOze-
man, is to be permanently surfaced,
so that by the end Of next season the
entire distance from Bozeman to the
Gallatin canyon will be in excellent
condition. This decision came as a
result of a meeting between the Re-
tail Merchants association and the
county commissioners Friday after
noon. when the commissioners an
noon when the commissioners an+
$1,250 to start the project, and the
merchants went on record as favor
ing the raising Of the amount. Two
committees were appointed by the
merchants, one to make a list of the
available subscribers to the fund and
the other to collect subscriptions.
The surveys and estimates of the
road work have already been done and
the data sent to the highway COM
mission at Helena. The next step is
for the commissioners to notify the
highway commission that the cost of
the improvement is forthcoming and
T. cive 4 guarantee. The highway
commission will then advertise for
bids, as this is a federal aid project,
and as soon as possible after the
awarding of the contract the work
will begin. Thus work will probably
/ Re started this summer.
Chairman J. E. Moore anc the other
members Of the board, George Dar-
linton and John Aaker, explained the
difficulties which have inte1fered with
the progress of the work in past
years. All attempts up to the pres
ent time to put the highway into
proper condition have been fruitless.
Now, they say, there is a chance to
do the work with a little cooperation
on the part Of the people.
1t was explained that there was
available in the hands of the commits
sioners at the present time $4,000,
which must be used on two projects
the one from Salesville to the Huffine
/ 1diSs anu the OIneE IEOm the DOIe-
man city limits to the Huffine lane to
the Jackrabbit boulevard, which will
be the intersection Of the two pro-
jects, as well as the end of both.
Both of these projects are subject
to federal aid, which can be obtained
if the work is begun this year. The
money in the hands of the commits
sioners-that is, the $16,000-is Gala
tin county's proportion of the state
automobile tax, and therefore not a
part of the general road tax. With
the raising of $4,000 more, which will
be $4,000, the federal government
has agreed to permit the beginning of
the work, and also to furnish a slight
ly larger amount to go with it. The
government allows SO per cent of the
total if the county pays AT per cent.
A canvass of the property owners
along the right of way on the Huffine
lane resulted in subscriptions amount
: to $1,225, and Salesville property
Continued on page Twelve)