The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-05-27
STATE BRIEFS

MissOuIa-m health caused Lieut.-Col.
Frank Kobes to kill himself here recently.
AnacOnda-Ulysses H. Demo, pioneer of
Montana, died here suddenly a few days
ago.
DiIOn-Preparations are well in hand
for the staging of the Wise River rodeo
to be held May 20.
Wolf .P6int-Wolf Points seventh an
hual stampede and wild west rodeo will
be held July IA, is n 16.
MartinsdaIe-W. w. Flatt of the Smith
Brothers ranch reports an average 1927
lamb crop of 112 per ent
MissOuIa-Fifty thousand sheep from
Oregon and Washington are to Craze in
Montana forests this summer.
COrvalIis-Shipments of day-old chicks
have been arriving by express daily at
Woodside. In one day 1890 arrived.
Great FaIIs-A Gibson Memorial society
has been formed here for the purpose of
financing the new Gibson monument.
Fort BentOn-The steel ferry pur-
chased by the board of county commits
sioners will be operated on the river at
Iona.
Massachusetts, have been asked by the
bureau of public roads on a forest de-
velopment DAD project in the Kootenai
forest.
Helena - Sheepgrowers with 5000
feeces have joined the Lewis and Clark
County Sheep and Woolgrowers' associa-
ton.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has been
made that dedication services for the
new EVANGELICAL church here will be held
June 10.
HamiItOn-Mrs. Ellen Randall Rouse,
; Montana pioneer, died here recently. Mrs.
! Rouse came to Montana in the early
seventies.
StevensViIIe-Dried milk, a new prod
uct of the Bitter Root valley, is becoming
an important b~y-product Of the Bitter
Root creamery.
Miles City-The annual roundup cele-
bration will be held here July 2, 3 and 4,
according to a recent decision Of the
roundup board.
MaIta-Phillips county boys and girls
are taking a keen interest in All club
work. There are now 10 clubs with a
membership Of "a.
Observation-Disclosures tourist park is to
I have six new cabins according to a re-
cent agreement entered into by the local
I chamber of commerce..
: : Great FalIs-ApproximateIy $4,000 will
be expended in adding a 200 000-bushe
wheat storage at the plant Of the Mon
tana Flour Mills company here.
Q Deer LOdge-A representative of a bee
sugar firm has been in this city for sew.
r eral days in an endeavor to interest loca
e people in the beet sugar industry.
HamiltOn-Emmett Blair, 81, was in
stantly killed a few days ago When
large boulder plunged down III noun
tainside and hit him in the back.
st. Ignatius-Word has been receives
that rates for water service for the Flat
head irrigation project for the year 1872
will be the same as those paid in 1926.
= Massachusetts, and one-half acres O
r land south of the military reservatio.
: have been purchased for the site of
e new clubhouse of the Missoula countr
= club.
d POlsOn-A large amount of aquati
e plants were placed in FIathead lake an
other bodies of water near here recent
- to provide attractive feeding grounds fc
: wild fowl.
BrOwning-Jack Galbraith, old tin
cattle king of the Blackfeet reservation
is building a new home north of hel
and about three miles south Of the Cans
dian line.
BeltOn-Warm weather is melting tt
snow very rapidly on the Logan Pa
highway in Glacier National park so thi
long delayed road construction is begin
ming in earnest.
COrvaIIis-W. E. Pollinger, horticultu
ist, states that the damage to fruit but
as the result of recent frosts is varie
apples being hard hit in some distric
of the Bitter Root.
MissOula-Jack Dimond, of Havre,
senior at the state university, was a
rested and placed in Jail recent
charged with the theft of automobile a
ceSsorieS from a car.
VaIier-Sugar beet acreage will il
crease rapidly on the Waller irrigati,
project provided sufficient loading dunn
are installed and other improvement
added, it has been stated.
DillOn-President S. E. Davis of t
Montana State Normal school has a
nounced that there will be three I
gional summer schools this year: at Mil
City, Billings and L~ewistown.
MiSSOula-All Montana business m
and everybody who ships goods, or has
vital interest in railway transportatic
are invited to attend a shippers meeti
to be held in this city Jun 10.