The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-05
Treasure State TahIoids


Quick work of the fire department
saved Deer Lodge from what would
have probably been a disastrous fire,
recently, when two frame buildings
back Of the state prison caught fire
and an 5000 gallon gasoline tank in
the Continental Oil Go. station was
threatened. The tank and its con-
tents were save although all the painS
was scOrched from the tank by the
heat.
Three big grain freighting outfits
with is horses, were mixed up in a
bad runaway accident at the railroad
crossing in Harlem when the horses
became frightened at a locomotive
whistle. One of the horses was killed,
five were badly crippled and one OF
the drivers had his leg badly hurt
when he jumped to the ground from
his high wagon.
Four hundred gallons Of mash, two
stills of ~S0-gallOn capacity and a guam
tity of other Illicit booze manufacture
ing paraphanalia were conflscated
when officials Of Valley county arrest
| ed Jesse Fisher and George Brown at
their ranch in the badlands Is miles
southwest of Glasgow. This is n OF
the largest moon plants ever taken in
| the northern part Of the state.
The territory south and southeast
of P~IentywOod will be served by two
tri-weekly mail routes to be estab-
lished from the P~lentywoOd ~postoffice
after January first, according to adj
vices from Washington. The new
routes will serve 1877 families and are
the first to be established out Of that
~postoffice.
Thirty head of range horses were
sold at public auction recently at the
Dome mountain ranger station near
CarbelIa by United States Deputy
Marshal w. G. Packer, of Helena. The
horses were rounded up by the forest
service t~respassing on the government
national forest, and were sold under
an order of the federal court.
Miss Bertha Rich has been appoint
ed pastor of the Methodist church al
Sumatra and Ingomar by the Rev. R.
@. Edgington, district superintendent
Miss Rich is a graduate of the Chicago
training school for home and foreign
missions, is a licensed minister, and
d~eaconess Of the denomination. She
has also had experience as a teacher
AS the result of the explosion of
55-gallon barrel of gasoline, which was
ignited by a spark, or heat generated
by trying to drive In the drain-pip'
plug which was stuck, John Grady o.
Conrad is dead. Death followed in
juries which necessitated the amputa
ton of the deceased's limbs.
The telegraph line from Dixon t
Poison has been completed and tele
graph service begun. Constructio,
was started November 3 and the worl
rushed, the crew averaging 10 mile
a day. No new poles yer set, tn
wire being strung on those of tn
l Northern Pacific.
= To purchase a carload of high grad
! Guernsey cattle for Hinsdale dairI
men, George H. Webster, chief of tn
divisiO nof dairying of the state d.
partment of agriculture, has gone t
u Eau Claire, Wis.
2 Mrs. Emma Ennis swallowed til
contents Of a bottle of poison and die
in the arms of her husband a few mil
utes later when he returned to tn
c farm home near Gut Bank, follOwin
: a dance at a country schOOlhouse.
The sixteenth annual convention
the Montana Implement and Hardwal
. association will be held in Billing
IS February 6 and z, 1924. 1t is expectt
IS 100 representatives Of the associate
will attend.
Recently the Sidney school board r
mitted $4,000 to the state land boa
for the redemption of bonds issued
1915 and due In 1925. A year al
$4,000 worth of bonds were redeemI
~ a year ahead of maturity.