The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-06-20
Treasure State Locals


The tunnel of the Montana Premier
Gold Mining company at Plains, has
been advancing at lively pace since
the installation Of compressor.
Mrs. w. w. Andrus Of Miles City
will represent Montana at the annual
convention of the National Fedora
tion of Music clubs in Boston, June
7 to II.
Request of Erie county, New York,
officials for return of Tom Malone,
who was sentenced from Park county
for grand larceny, to re-enter prison
for theft of butter and eggs was
granted by Governor Erickson.
The accurate aim of youngsters
and others cost the town of Deer
Lodge $287 for electric light globes
during March, statistics revealed.
Electric crews were sometimes kept
busy replacing broken street lights.
DR.. and Mrs. H. 7. Ramsey, form
erly with the Moore hospital and lately
with the Harlowton hospital, have
sold their holdings in that institution
and are locating in the newly-erected
hospital just opening at Jordan.
Without gun Guy Delman, Hunt
ley restaurant man, got into car
with Gus Clock, overlook three men
who are alleged to have robbed Clocks
pool hall and compelled them to drive
to the police station at Billings.
Sylvia Thurston, acquitted last
summer of numbering girl compan-
ion on an automobile ride, will go to
trial June 20 in district court at Mis-
soula on a prejury charge arising
from the murder trial.
Three of the cars to be carried on
the Empire Limited, the Great North
erns new fast transcontinental train,
will be named after G. A. Broad
water, Marcus DAILY and Paris Gibson,
it was announced at Helena by Ralph
Budd, president Of the line. A diner
will be called the Montana.
The 1929 citizens military training
camp at Fort Missoula is to be named
in honor of the late Lieut.. Col. Robert
j. Maxey, to whom was made
posthumous award of the distinguished
service cross for his service to his
country.
Two hundred young men and wo
men were graduated from Montana
state university at Missoula this
spring-eight of them with masters
degrees. The commencement address
was delivered by DR.. Henry Neumann
of New York university, who spoke
on the subject of making a living
and making life"
John I. Barker, former city treas
urer of Helena, who is charged with
embezzlement of $4,000 from the city
treasury during his incumbency, has
been given time to make. restitution
of the funds, should a shortage be
proved. In an affidavit filed in dis
trict court, Barker declared he was
obtaining money from relatives in
England to meet the alleged shortage.
The Glendive chamber of commerce
anu tU6 ClLy SOuiiSli clC OPpOoSu w
the designation of Glendive as the
point where change in time between
central and mountain time will be
made. Last February the legislature
of North Dakota enacted law pro-
viding that central time should, after
July 1, be used exclusively through
out the entire state of North Dakota.
Gates at the state prison in Deer
Lodge opened for the release of 81
prisoners during May and the en-
trance of 38 others, report by War
den Austin Middleton revealed at the
state board of examiners office re-
Gently. Population at the prison on
June 1 was 545. Seven of the inmates
were women. Warden Middleton re-
ported that of 1854 prisoners paroled
since 1918, when the indeterminate
sentence law was enacted, only 1853,
or Al per cent, were taken back to
finish their terms. The indeterminate
sentence law was repealed by the
1929 legislature.