The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-10-11
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TREASURE STATE BRIEFS
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According to pitchers who were at
tracted to Helena by the state hors'
shoe contest, the tourney of barnyart
golf this year was the best yet hell
and attracted a great deal of interest
The final result of the Tournament
was: Charles Conklin, Big Sandy
state champion; Joe Duble of Butte
runner up; George f. Wright, Lewis
town, third; r. r. Frazier, last years
champion, fourth Guy Buzzard, Hell
ena, fifth Mike Sullivan, Butte, sixth
George Cook, Helena, seventh; D.. w
Heffner, Lewistown, eighth. Follow
ing the contest the state organization
held an enthusiastic meeting and it is
laying plans to increase the member
ship to 1000 this season. Officers for
the coming year were elected as fol
lows: President, Charles Conklin, Big
Sandy; vice president, Joe Dubie,
Butte; secretary : treasurer, Leigh
Wade, Lewistown contest manager, r.
r. Frazier, Helena. III
A flood along powder river following
recent heavy rains resulted in meal
culable damage, sweeping away
bridges, fences, hay stacks. livestock,
farm buildings and inundating the en-
tire valley from source to mouth, ac-
cording to Tom Barnard Of Powder
vile, who declares the flood is many
ture remembered by even the oldest
residents. Alfalfa fields were flooded
to a depth of Is feet OF the Barnard
ranch, where the river, ordinarily a
few feet wide, swept from side to side
of the valley, a mile and a half wide.
Horses, forced to high ground, were
at last reached by the water, even OF
the tops of high knobs and were com
PEELED to swim to keep from drowning,
Mr.. Barnard says.
According to an estimate made by a
Roundup fruit dealer, residents of that
city and vicinity will have expended
$500 for grapes this season when all
orders are filled. Counting orders
filled and those on the books, there
have been u car loads of the fruit
for this territory, each car having a
capacity of about 10 tons. The price
on the track at Roundup was about
$40 a ton. The dealer, when asked
what was being done with such a large
quantity of grapes, replied with a
ooh, making jelly and SUCH"
1t is generally thought that the "and
SUCH accounts for 80 per cent of the
grapes.
After spending nearly three score
years prospecting in Idaho, Colorado,
Wyoming and Montana, A. II. Shaffer,
made the strike Of his career in the
II miles from Butte, he
asserts. Not far from the Golden Sur
prise property, which he located 20
years age, Mr.. Shaffer says that he
has found g~old-bearing quartz ore that
In n of the o%utcroppings showed
in gold and Sc in silver. An
other assay from the lead was reported
to him, Mr.. Shaffer says, as showing
Of S9,186.5O in gold.
William Cowan, one of the few sur
soldiers Of the regular army
who fought in the campaigns against
the Sioux Indians, died at Lewistown,
aged SO years. He served at old Fort
Maginnis, and was mustered out there
in 1886, remaining near the old fort
and engaging in farming. He was on
he Custer battlefield the day follow
ny tho fight. Mr.. Cowan was a native
If Ireland. A widow and several chill
lren survive him.
Western Montana's first radio broad.
station KFJR, owned and op-
by Ashley G. Dixon and son of
Stevensville, is sending out programs.
The apparatus is entirely homemade,
tut the designing was done by a Butte
engineer. Regular programs will be
every Friday and Sunday nights
s to 9 o'clock.
Waller was chosen as next years
meeting place at the closing session
# the district conference of the Bap-
LIST church in Great Falls. The Rev.
fred McNair Of Waller was selected to
'reach the annual sermon at the con-
erence In 1924.