The Bozeman courier., 1927-06-17
COURT WILL PICK
COMMISSIONERS
HIGH TRIBUNAL TO SETTLE DISPUTE
OF LONG STANDING IN PETROL
EUM COUNTY
Grain Company to Build Elevators Along
Rail Extension; 10000 Road Maps
Being Distributed; Milwaukee Hearing
Set for June %
(By Our Helena Correspondent

PetrOIeum's five county commission
ers had their day in court recently, and
the states five supreme justices Will
attempt to sift the number of county
dads down to three.
When the county was created in 1924,
three commissioners were elected. At the
election in 1926 candidates appeared Tor
each of the three places. One OF the old
commissioners was reelected so that the
commissioners-elect and the two hold
over commissioners all claimed Office. To
straighten the matter out, the attorney
general brought quo warranto proceed
ings to the supreme court requiring the /
contestants to show under what author |
ity they sought to hold office.
| By agreement, pending court action, |
] the five men have been meeting together. |
| Development of the rich farming coun-
| try in Dawson and McCone counties, eX-
pected to follow extension of the North
ern Pacific railway from Glendive to
Brockway has attracted attention OF the
Andrews Grain company Of Minneapolis.
The company advises the state depart
lment Of agriculture that it contemplates
establishment of a string Of elevators
along the line and asks detailed infor-
of the section to be served.
Distribution of 10000 road maps by the
Montana Automobile association has been
started. In addition to showing ID ma
, tionally known highways through the
state, information is given regarding the
states resources, advantages, game al
lurements and the associations service
arrangements.
In the associations weekly road report
little change in the condition Of the
1 states highways was noted. Dirt roads,
east of the divide, are still in bad con-
dition due to heavy rains passable
route to Great Falls from Helena by way
e of Augusta is suggested. Connection pc
Z tween Butte and Livingston can be made
by way Of Three Forks and between Hell
t ena and Livingston by way Of White
t Sulphur Springs and Townsend.
q Notice has been given by Montana's
state railroad commission Of hearing
q at the state capital, June %, on petition
: of receivers Of the Milwaukee railroad
: for an order authorizing the cancellation
q Of the rule for construction combination
rates applying on classes and commod1-
- ties, livestock, hogs, lumber, shingles, &C.
y ment, plaster and iron.
The Northern Pacific has petittoned tol
y an order authorizing an advance on rates
'e on ore and concentrates worth not more
than $15 per ton, from stations in Mon
er tana to East Helena. Butte and Ana
s. conda, to conform with rates now in ef
le feet under another tariff.
Appointment of livestock inspectors b,
le each county is required under th
er butcher law" passed by the 1927 legis
is lature, in the opinion of E. A. Phillips
IN secretary of the state livestock commits
sion. He has so advised the boards o
al county commissioners.
no The law was passed in an attempt t
or stop automobile rustling. Its sponsor
to explained that there is now a class @
stock thieves who slip out into the coun
try in an automobile under cover c
es night, butcher some animals and brin
% % them into town to peddle in daylight.
Ps The law requires that the hide mus
'1T be exhibited when meat is sold to butch
l. ers and that it must be marked, aftt
sse the sale, so that it may not be agai
a used for the same purpose.
ng Bids for the refrigerating plant whic
- the Montana board OF entomology plal
will make it's new laboratory at Hami
ng ton as well equipped as any in the coul
AT try will be let by the state board Of e,
ate aminers on June "a.
tbs Sixty thousand dollars, appropriated
'he the last legislature for construction al
equipping the laboratory, has been a.
llp pOrtioned as follows: General contraS
th- $50, ,734; enlargement Of the amin
ro- house, 5000; plumbing, heating and ele
is trical contract, $14,754; refrigeratio
der 81, 600; architects fees and supervisic
S3 .0o0; fencing, etc., $500; grading, SIC
and equipment, $3,012.
The general and mechanical contraC
have been let by the board to two M
soula firms.
oir, w. C.. Hall of Conrad, Pondera coun
c. will succeed G. j. McAllister July 1
GO head of the state insurance departmel
rs5 ne it was announced today at the office
ono George P. Porter, state auditor, and {
Te-- officio insurance commissioners.
,ea+ Mr.. Hall is a former assessor Of Pc
49, dera county, was cashier at one time
d. the Montana State bank Of Conrad, a
- for some time was watermaster Of I
- IT'S, ,000-acre Waller irrigation project
,,,t- that county. He is now in Spokane
so insurance matters. Mr.. Hall is a Ger
OF fed public accountant Mr.. McAllis
ny hhas not announced his plans.
- VIII Guide Dawes
-+i,, F. Clatterbuck of Big Arm was in 7
oSaa -. nan recently. MIR. Claterbuck is a gu
o-se and stated while in Roman that he ]
booked a number Of people to be tai
into the mountains this summer, amC
them Vice President Dawes and Or.
Mayo.
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