Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-12-27

Two thousand and sixty-four jack
rabbits bit the dust In the vicinity OF
Carlyle, when two 28-man teams en-
gagged In the Carlyle Rod and Gun
clubs annual hunt The team cap
Ita'ned by Reese Owens won BY slnugh-
tering 1,063 jacks while G. c. LithIsers'
team %garnered 1,0O1. G.. T. Davis and
ID. f.. Cooper took high honors with 204
rabbits, while r. b. McLeran won the
BOBBY prize by killing two.
At the annual meeting Of the Asso-
ciated Industries of Montana held in
Helena, n. T. Lease of Great Falls was
elected president; George F. Shea OF
Billings, vice president; Frank Bogart
Of Helena, treasurer; and George ]
Martin of Butte was reelected secre-
tary and manager.
The jury In the cases of r. B. Noble,
]. c. Peters and e. II. Funk, officials
Of the Commercial National bank. of
Great Falls. closed, on trial in the fed
eral court for the msking Of false er-
tries in the banks hooks, returned q
verdict finding Noble and Peters
guilty. and Funk not guilty.
Perry lines, eighteen-year-old son or
n. p. lines, of Sidney. has been tp-
pointed a cadet in the West Point mil
itary academy by Congressman Scott
Leavitt. He will graduate from the
Sydney high school lex spring and
will take up his duties in the officers
training academy the following year.
The Roosevelt county ~treasurer's Of
flee a been the busiest place In Pops
lar recently for the reason that a. ma
jority of the taxpayers left their visit
to the office for the last few days al
lowed by the law. Thanksgiving day
a total of S122,JOO came In, while $780,
300 was received the day following.
Ore that runs high In silver and
a small amount of copper is re- /
ported in a new strike IN Jack creek. 1
/ tributary to the Blacktail, about s
wenty-one miles southeast of Dillon. +,
rhe vein near the surface assays as I
high as. l, 100 ounce Of silver with a
mall copper content. s
Damage estimated at $4,000 was Y
lone by a fire, the most destructive in =
history Of Hinsdale, that threat 2
ned the entire town. The flames,
AIMED by a high wind. came near q
out Of control becaLse OF a q
heritage Of water. o
The Bridge above Emigrant known "
8 the six-mile bridge, has been de- :
by fire, supposed to have been :"
aused by some fisherman who built Z
blaze and neglected to extinguish 1t :,
hen he left the scene. The fire cost = :
ark county $4,000. :
Seth Orrin banner, recently SEN u
need to hang for the murder of John Il
. and Florence Sprouse at Central W
ark, was denied a new trial by Judge N
/. Il. Law In Gallatin district court. az
is attorney will appeal to the SUI CT
court.
Forty-flve dollars is the value Of a
lshel Of wheat raised by J. II. Jones
near Pendroy. The wheat was ex-
bited at the State fair. the Coast m
ir. and other places and won preml re
ms to that amount. TO
Lake county's official records are -
mplete, the work of transcribing the ~
cords from those of MIssoula and =,
counties having been finished -,
Four months was used In 10
e work of making the transcription. -
A thief recently robbed a vacant mi
use In Livingston of all door and
ndow frames and plumbing fixtures. OF
a bath tub. He left the wall ag
per on the front room, 1t Is reported. STA
Two months work Will see the COM DO
of the N-Bar ranch irrigation nu
Diect. which will water 5000 acres ISL
land near Roundup, according to re- pa
rts from there. dat
Fifteen hundred dollars was the re-
{ of the first week OF a campaign -.
raise 5000 70 rthe conduct of Boy 49,
nut work in Park county. =