Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-08-16

O<uiAAsius r. Oise1s pioneer 1ho
came to Montana 10 1884, died at his
home In Bozeman at the age OF 81
FeArs, on Sunday. August 4. Mr.. Bisel
operated the first ~threshing machine
In Montana in 1865-66, which war run
by horsepower. and two years later
Tas In charge Of the first steam rig in
the state brought In by Coover and
McAdoo, pioneer Bozeman millers.
Establishment at Victor, In the Bit
ter Root valley, of a Swiss cheese fac
tory, probably the first plant Of Its
kind In Montana. is the plan Of the j.
/. Kraft and Brothers company of
Chicago, one of the largest cheese man.
ufacturing concerns In the world The
factory is to be an experiment plant
of the Kraft company which recently
arranged through John III. Kraft for
the entire output of cheese from the
Bitter Root.
A narrow escape from instant death
vas that of Miss Amelia Schultz of
Ekalaka, when her Ford runabout
plunged over an embankment, went
down 40 feet and landed In a ditch
upside down. She escaped with only
a few slight bruises. Even her glasses
were not knocked off. One wheel of
the car was smashed and when q new
one was put on the machine was able
to~4aSk fo~town under its own power.
Resolutions accepting the offer of a
Portland bond house to purchase $780,
600 in irrigation district bonds have
been adopted by the commissioners of
the Bitter Root valley irrigation dis
trict. The money will be expended, II
is understood, for a complete rehabili-.
tation of the project structures and
bitches. The Bitter Root project is
one of the big undertakings of reclaim
alton workers in the state and irri-
gates an m acreage. The water
Is taken from Lake Como.
August Eeabaum, a prospector living
near Evaro, has struck what he be-
lieves to be a paying vein of mineral
wool, or asbestos. He has already
made a cut showing the mineral to the
extent of 1S feet deep and one foot
wide. Samples taken from three loca-
tons show the wool to be OF the short
variety as contrasted to the long,
which is said TO be the best for selling
purposes, but Mr.. Neabaum is of the
opinion that he may find the other
variety. He has sent for equipment,
and viii e work DON No
company has been organized as yet,
although several who have see the
property believe that It justifies fur
Their development.
Mrs. Anna Burgess, who shot and
killed her former husband, Gordon
Burgess, at her farm home a mile and
a half from Lewistown, was exoner-
ated by jurors at the Inquest held over
the body of Burgess. The testimony
showed that Burgess, who escaped
from the county jail here last October
while being held on a charge OF a
criminal assault upon Mrs. Burgess
.14-year-oid daughter by a former hus-
band, fled to Canada and recently re-
turned to prosecute his wife, who
killed him while he was trying to force
entrance to her home.
With a wool clip this year of 1925
600 pounds, Montana ranks third in
production. The United States wool
clip this year is 22s.031.0 600 pounds. the
department of agriculture has an
nounced. Last years clip was 22,155,-
300 pounds, and 1t was 223,062,000
pounds In 1921 235.O 05, 900 pounds In
1920, and 249,95s,0o0 pounds in 1910.
The estimate of this years clip by
states follows: Texas, 100000
Wyoming, 1s.s0O,OOO; Mon
ANA, 1926 900; Utah, 17,210,00O;
IDAHO, 16,500,O00; Ohio, 14,313,000;
California, 14,1S1. 900 and Oregon, 49,
100000. No other state has as much
Is 100000 pounds.
Grasshopper glacier, one of the most
AIMED of the natural curiosities of
Montana, is really full of grasshoppers
according to recent discoveries, which
the ~long-believed theory a fact. !,
his body of ice and snow lies above
timber line In a region Of startling ,
,eauty u miles from Cooke City F..
For a number of years there has +,
cen a scientific controversy In prog +,
ess as to whether the millions OF In ,
ects frozen into the Ice are actually :
ra sshoppers or some species of ex- /.
met insect. The insects are Of great /,
lumber and embedded In some In 4
tances many layers below the surface .
Z the ice. Some claimed they were as /,
as the ordinary species OF :
hopper" which has been such a plague :
o Montana crops In the last two =
ears. Still others identified them as =
sort of migratory locust. all of the 4
iagnoses being made from more or 8
,ss damaged specimens picked up on a
ne surface OF the ice field. +
DR.. William G. Alden OF the geologi- Ii
survey, Prof. r.. A. Cooley OF the
Entomology department Of Montana
tate college, Naturalist Skinner OF the II
ellowstone park and other scientists b
no have investigated G~rasshopper :
Iacier explain the freak as being
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