Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-05-31
MONTANA NEWS NOTES
Iersely Told Tales Concerning
the Treasure State and
M0ntanans

I0BA4a~cI Aac tEtA QBuCt ~
struction for several months, Is nov
nearly completed.
Crop conditions were never better a
this season of the year In Big Hori
county and oil the Grow reservation
according 10 @. III. Asbury, s~uperintend
snt of the Crow reservation.
In the Jefferson national fores
landing Is running more than so pei
rent. and many OF the bands have com
pleted iambing. according to w. b
Wiley, forest supervisor, with head
quarters in Great Falls.
One of the longest freight trains te
pass through Miles City was that OF
May D. The string of cars was q mile
and a half long and the cars were
loaded with lumber for eastern points.
It required two locomotives I pull the
train.
The class of 80 to be graduated May
81 from the Flathead county high
school at Kalispell will not only be the
largest In the history of that institu-
tion, but will include the largest num-
Der of high honor students of any on
record there.
County agents work In northern
Montana this summer win follow up
the general plan of the Great Northern
success special which made the trip
over the thigh line" and the northern
communities early this spring, accord
ing to j. C. Taylor, state leader of
county agents.
Plans are being made by farmers OF
the Cottonwood community, north OF
Havre, TO set aside a day on which all
fields containing weeds, last years
stubble or grass. will be burned over in
an attempt TO destroy the grasshoppers,
which are making their appearance In
alarming numbers.
Arrangements are being made by the
Northern Pacific for the construction
Of the new ~roundhouse in Missoula.
Under the plans % stalls are to be In
Guided In the building, which will be
at a cost of about $4,000. Two
new boilers will be Installed In the
boiler plant to care for the new struc-
needs.
On the Musselshell river about two
niles below the Ross postoffice resides
/ mar who no doubt is the oldest per-
ION living In Garfield county today. On
he twenty-ninth day of May this old
William Thomas Coon, will
reached his one h%undredth. birth
lay. Mr.. Coon was born at Circlevllle,
ohio, May %, 1923.
Curley, the Crow Indian scout who
irst brought the news of the Custer
massacre July 25, 1875, and one of the
wo remaining survivors of that battle,
led at Crow Agency and was buried
With military honors at the Custer bat
according to advices received
there. Curley was 6S years OF
ge and had been Ill for some time.
To the creditors of the Moore Farm
RS Elevator In Fergus county, an ele-
ntor which wns declared defunct last
december, will be prorated so cents on
he dollar On claims In the form of
tickets totaling more than &c.,
20. according to John M. Davis, chief
I the division of grading and grain
-andards Of the state department of
George H. Mushbach, District United .
game warden, has recently been |
Jagged In checking up On the game
In eastern Montana, includ- !
the extent Of game violations and !
Ie amount of game In that section. '
e a y that an effort will be made by
Montana S~portsmen's association
conjunction with the national for q
It's OF the state to get an accurate $
eek on the number OF antelope In the Il
ate, the number of deer outside of a
g reserves and the number of sage 4
,ns. Il
Through the cooperation of the
hool children of western Montana, Il
cd progress is being made In the o
lIte pine blister rust. This is the e
81 campaign probably TO be launched a
time TO save the stands of timber II
at are threatened by the disease. a
IL is also the last oppor- "
nifty for such work, as the white al
he timber OF Montana, with that In re
Washington and Oregon. COM X
Ises the only large body Of its kind II
the world.
rhe Buffalo Rapids project has been h,
I over. II Is said on good authority 81
It a deal has been made whereby the sh
rthern Pacific railroad has put up 10
of acres Of land as an aid Oh
bringing. the project to reality. This co
d will be reclaimed by the Buffalo Pr
pids project and Will be the means so
bringing great numbers Of farmers de
0 that section of Montana, and es- du
daily along the proposed irrigation he
III IL Is claimed that work Will ne
TT at once on the powefplant at al
'falo rapids near Miles Cify.> col
mother member of the animal king
arrived recently TO make It's home w
he o at Washoe park, Anaconda. fer
he form Of a baby buffalo. and has sp'
n the principal source Of attraction wo
the many visitors at the pleasure at
'rt since that time. az,
Don creek farmers are studying d. {
of rwnpe and uxo ufaufTuo mn