The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-12-18
News Of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning tho
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tOAl&t IL t1AS - 49,
and cities have been advised to be on
the lookout for three safecrackers who
operated at Miles City Wednesday
night, Dec. 3, knocking off the dials
of a couple of safes in local business
houses. A fruit house and a lumber
concern were visited by a trio of men
who have been in the city and are be-
lieved to have driven through Forsyth
early Thursday morning, according to
information received by Sheriff Hi
Farnum.
Charged With Stock Poisoning
Charged with attempting to poison his
neighbours livestock Lewis Kline,
Sinnms farmer, was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff H. L. Hansen. The arrest is in
echo of a long feud over land between
Kline and e. f. Oxley, the neighbor
whose cattle Kline is charged with at
tempting to poison, officers say. Ok
ley complained to the county attorneys
office that Kline dumped large guam
titles of gophher poison yer the range
in places where Oxley cattle would be
likely to eat it.
Teacher Wins Judgment.-After be-
ing out but a few minutes a district
court jury at Poison awarded Cecil Lee
Claire a judgment against school dis
trict No. % for salary up to May 81,
1923, and interest at s per cent since
that time. The case arose over the
action of the school board filling Miss
LeOlaire's position without notifying
her in the fall of 1922. When Miss Lee
Claire returned from her vacation and
found she had been %summarily dismis-
sed, she brought suit for her salary.
Reducing Delinquency.-Musselshel
county is gradually reducing its de-
~linquent tax total, the receipts from
this source in November, the b est
month, totaling $17,542. Since August
of this year more than $4,000 has been
paid to County Treasurer Oscar Jen-
kins and he predicts that few taXpay-
ers will be delinquent this year. An
other indication of returning prosper
ity is the fact that a large percentage
of taxpayers are satisfying their tax
bills in one payment.
Montana Defeats Oxford.-The Uni
versity Of Montana defeated the team
representing the University of Oxford.
England at Missoula Dec. s in debate,
Montana taking the affirmative side
of the question, Resolved that the
referendum is an essential part of rep
resentative government At the close
of the debate a vote Of the audience
was taken to choose the winner, 581
voting for the affirmative and 185 for
the negative.
Five Years for Stealing CattIe-Ken-
meth Bramblet, when arraigned in the
district court before Judge H. j. Mil
Ter at Big Timber, entered a plea Of
guilty to the charge of stealing four
head of cattle from the John Weirsma
herd, at Rapelje. He was sentenced to
serve from five to 10 years in the state
.penitentiary. Bramblet had no attor-
ney and waived time for pronounce
ment of sentence.
Dies in Mine Accident.-Alfred An
stey, 81, was instantly killed Dec. 5
a cage and skip full of ore,
was being hoisted at the Noun
tain View mine of the A. C. M. COM
pany, pulled into the sheave wheel,
broke loose and crashed through the
roof of the ore chute in which he was
working. Anstey was unmarried and
lived at the home of his mother.
Five to Ten Years.-After having
been found guilty of ~manslaughter,
Collins, confessed slayer of
LeClaire, a breed Indian, was
sentenced by Judge Theodore Lentz at
Missoula to not less than five years
1or more than 10 years in the peniten-
larry at Deer Lodge. /.
Bonding Company Pays-With the (
Of $35,443.44 to Park county
it's board Of commissioners by
he Royal Indemnity company, the {
mount Of the deposit of the county
n the Northwestern bank has now
,een made good and the %county's in
crest is now the property Of the bond
ng company. I
Rosebud Taxes Paid.-Taxes were |
,aid up in Rosebud county this year |
etter than last year, according to G. G. 9
Davis, county treasurer, although the t
majority Of the taxpayers waited until |
he last week Of grace to settle their
Iccount. More than 100000 in taxes t
as been registered to date. t
Killed BY Falling Tree.-L
G 35 years, was fatally in
ured at a logging camp west of Mis-
oula Dec. Z when his skull was frac-
ured by a falling tree. He died on the ]
7ay in to Missoula when being brought
o a local hospital. a
Simpson At New Post.-Alva A. n
impson, successor to j. G. Whitman '
S superintendent of the Custer nation a
| forest reserve with headquarters in
lilies City, has arrived from Missoula
nd assumed active charge of his new
uties. u
Two Die in "Freezer."-Two uniden- V
fled men were found dead in refrig- q
rator car on the Oregon Short Line "
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