The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-03-25
ROAD PROJECTS TO
START YEAR
MAP OF HIGHWAY COMMISSION
SHOWS FIVE PIECES OF WORK
NEAR BUTTE
Hotel Case to Get Courts At
tentiOn; Board Allows WiIIet
Claim; Supreme Court Handles
One Case for Third Time
(By Our Helena Correspondent)

One Case for Third Time
(By Our Helena Correspondent
A state highway map showing what
road work viii be carried out his year
by the state highway commission and the
federal bureau Of good roads has been
received by the Butte Chamber Of Com
merce. The map shows that, in the dis
trict surrounding Butte, a number OF
projects will be under way as soon as
the weather permits.
These projects include: Six miles Of work
in Elk Park; completion of the Butte-Ana-
conda highway and Park avenue in Ana
cOnda; completion of the Butte-AnacOnda
highway from its eastern end to Excelsior
avenue; Vigilante Trail from Lyon north
to Ennis; Jefferson canyon between White
hall and Three Forks.
There is also a project on the Dillon-Mel-
rose road. The new work will avoid the
present railway crossing. 1t is one Of the
conditions of federal aid that grade cross
ings shall be avoided wherever possible.
The break in the Butte-AnacOnda road
will not be paved this year but the COM
mission has made a contract with Silver
Bow county to keep in condition the I'M
finished portion of the highway.
The entire state is divided into districts.
Butte is in district No. 8, which includes
Silver Bow, Deer Lodge, Beaverhead and
Madison counties.
The districts were outlined by the state
highway commission and the work was ap-
proved by the legislature which enacted a
statute covering the amOun of money to
be spent in each district.
The outlay, the law provides, must be on
the basis of the amount of unfinished high
way in each district.
District No. 9 will have the benefit of
IS.1S per cent of the highway fund.
This proportion will continue, unless
some future legislature changes the law
regardless of who may serve as members
of the state highway. commission.
A new effort to determine the ownership
Of the Heilbronner stock in the New Fin
len hotel of Butte will be made, the SUI
preme court has announced. Charles z
=, Meagher, trustee of the HeilbrOnner com
r pany, bankrupt, of Butte, sued Julia Har-
D rington, administrative of the estate OF
l /. A. HeilbrOnner, deceased, former presi.
:, dent and general manager of the company
f to have her declared trustee of the stock
+ for the benefit of the bankrupt estate. Il
r was alleged by Meagher that the stock wa!
e paid for out of funds of the Heilbronnel
company and should be declared a par
of the company's property. The court say
the evidence is insufficient to warrant judg
o ment to this effect, that it does not SHOW
that HeilbFonner had exclusive control owe
the cOmpany's funds. but, on the contrary
n that the company had a treasurer and al
d. assistant treasurer, who signed the check
h which paid for the stock in question, no
e that the company did not purchase tn
stock independent of the Heilbronner trans
t, action nor that the company did not lOaI
d the money to HeilbrOnner for the trans
action.
The Judgment for Meagher is reverse
ana a new trla! ordered.
Frank r. Bossuot and DR.. D. S. Nc
il Kenzie, both of Havre, have been appOinte
n by Governor Erickson members of the eX
Dr. %ecutive board of the Northern Montan
Agricultural and Manual Training schoo
I'd under the provisions of senate bill 90, b
h COwaE.
a While the bill did not fix their term.
the period is fixed by the appointment 9
es four years. The other member, specific
by the bin, is the chancellor, who sha
I'd serve until a president of the institution
ne named.
r, On receipt of satisfactory evidence tn;
in o. G. Willett of Mineral county has bee
placed in the federal leper colony at Cari
IS. vile, La, the state board of examiners wi
liz pay over to his guardian $9.174 provide
Mt by the legislature. Claims for that amour
up presented by his guardian, Teddy Marti
rs have, beer. approved. Willett, a form'
of member Of the state senate, a veteran
the Spanish-American war and before b
k illness very active in railroad circles, h;
been living in isolation with Mrs. Willet
on a farm in Mineral county supported /
his own funds and sOme contributions fro
the railroad mems organizations.
An interesting feature of the new la
providing for assessments Of royalty i
~terests requires that the person hOldiI
the interest on the first Monday in Mare
much pay a tax on the amount paid {
that interest during the preceding yea
regardless of whether the ownersh
changed during that time. Reports
royalty interests must be made to f
state board of equalization before Mar
81, by each operator of a mine or oil we
showing the name of the owner on the fir
Monday in March and the amount paid
the interest during the preceding calend
year.
For the third time the supreme cou
has decided an issue of the contrOver
between e. r. Calvert and others and Jol
Anderson and others regarding damag
from the overflow of an irrigation ditch.
This decision is upon the judgment
the district court for Gallatin county viii
allowed damages to the Calverts and
injunction against use of the Anders
ditch until repairs had been made. T
court afirms the judgment, finding tn
the bill Of exceptions was delayed beyOI
the time limit through reliance on an {
tempted order of the district court, viii
was made before it had authority.
ing every minute I should reach the rivu