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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
REPORTS FROM OVER STATE
INDICATE H0PPERS ARE DUE
FOR ANOTHER VISIT DM 1880
From MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)

From MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)
DEPORTS from the eastern half Of
Montana indicate that there is a
~ possibility of another outbreak of
grasshoppers in 1880, says w. B. Ma
bee, extension entomologist at Mon
tana State College.
Reports of damage to seed alfalfa
in Valley county and the continued
reports of a large number of grass
hoppers has prompted a survey of the
state. Mr.. Mabee will conduct the sur
vey as SOC as the egg-laying period
has advanced sufficiently to give an
indication of what TO expect next
spring.
The fairly recent outbreak Of grass
hOppers that took such a toll from
Montana crops has led Mr.. Mabee to
believe that farmers are apt to be I'M
duly alarmed and Overestimate that
number. He is of the opinion that no
alarm need be felt until next spring
after the Matching period is over. Gil
matte conditions between now and the
next crop may hold the insects in
check.
The egg-laying period ONE in the
fall. In order to promote egg laying,
the weather must be warm and dry. If
a period Of cool damp weather should
set in during this period, the number
of eggs laid would be reduced con-
siderably.
The Matching period in the
spring and requires the same climatic
conditions as the egg-laying period.
Cool, unsettled or stormy weather fol-
lowing this period would leave the
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
NUGGETS OFFERED
IN PAY TO STATE
STEYENSVILLE MINER LEASING
STATE LAND SEEKS TO PAY
RENTAL IN GOLD
Bottle of Nuggets Worth Between $40
and $50 Sent to State Land Board
to Renew Permit Recalls Early Day
Custom.

In the palmy days of the early
placer diggings placer gold right out
of the Sluices was legal tender for
everything, and goods were bought
and debts liquidated with it.
1t is rare, however, that nuggets
from the gulch" are offered in pay
ment Of debts today. An exception to
the rule was encountered by /. M.
BrandjOrd of the state land depart
ment when he received a small bottle
Of nuggets from a permittee of the
state who is prospecting on state land,
tenCered in payment of the states
royalty and for a renewal of the per-
nit.
The gold came from E. j. Hack of
StevenSville, who is working a claim
on state land six miles from that
place, and was accompanied by a letter
and a report of operations, expenses
and other data, including the state
ment that the gold weighed two ounces,
two pennyWeights and 10 grains. The
permit covers land in section SO, town.
ship nine, and the gold was taken
from an open cut 200 feet long.
The metal vas in the form If small
yet coarse nuggets, the large size of
which was notable, as pointed out by
Mr.. Inc letJer contained
the following interesting account of
operations on the prospect and the
prospector's plans and hopes:
Traced to Mountain Side
AN sending you final report on
prospecting permit No. 4. You may
dispose Of the gold the same as you
did last year. Hold out YOU royalty
and $40 permit fees for another year
and send me the balance. We didn't
do as well this year as we expected
on account of shortage of water. We
didn't try to mine the ground for the
placer gold, but ran an open cut for
the ledge.
1--WE have a good showing and should
tap the lode in the course of a year
or so. We have practically traced the
gold to where it slid from the mountain
side.
We expect to start a tunnel in the
slide about September 10, and hope to
tap the main ledge within 100 feet.
On account OF water shortage we failed
to clean up, except a part Of the open
cut, but will try to clean this out
next spring."
The gold in the bottle was worth
between $40 and $50.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
MAN
SUCCEEDS KURTZ
From MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)

JAZZ
7 d. KURTZ, extension agronomist
at Montana State College, has re-
~ signed to accept a position with a
prominent seed house located in New
York. announces J. c. Taylor, director
of the Montana Extension Service.
Waldo Kidder of Fort Collins, Colorado,
has been appointed as his successor.
During his stay Of nearly two years
at Montana State College Mr.. KurtZ
has aided materially in the develop
ment of a better agricultural program
in the state. AS secretary of the Mon
tana Seed Growers Association he has
played an important part in the de-
velopment of seed certitication work.
He has also contributed to the crop
standardization work in the state.
Mr.. Kidder has had practical expert
ence on several types of farms. He
worked on farms in irrigated, humid
and dry land areas. spending practically
all of his time in this work, except
while going to school. He is a native
of Iowa, where he obtained his early
education. Later he went to Colorado
and completed both his high school
and college work. At college he re-
ceived a bachelor of science degree in
agriculture with agronomy as his major
and animal husbandry his minor sub
iect.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
Second Skeleton
Human Found
in the Dearborn

NINDING Of a second human skele-
ton in the burned over section of
the Dearborn river country has been
reported by Leon Lake, forest ranger
OF the Castles district of the jefferson
forest, who IA serving on fire detail
in the Dearborn. The skeleton was
found by E. r. McDougall of Spokane,
at the head of Blacktail creek.
The skull was that of an Indian.
The bones were bleached and stained
from the weather and it is believed
that the Indian died many years ago
while with an Indian party that was
trailing up the Dearborn across Sun
river pass into the big game country
beyond. The skeleton was found about
four miles beyond that of the white
trapper found earlier in the week.
Further investigation of the finding
of the white trapper's skeleton by Leon
Lake, and H. j.. Reissing, foreman of
the pumping gang under whom Willis
Pierce was working when he discovered
the bones, has led to the belief that
the trapper's death was one of the un-
explained mysteries of the early DAYS.
1t is almost positive that his death
was a tragic one, perhaps through an
encounter with a grizzly bear. Or he
may nave 1lOZCIl W OcdlIl, Slice DltS
of heavy overshoeS were the only pieces
OF clothing found with the skull. The
rib bones were badly weather-stained
and charred, according to Mr.. Lake.
The JaWbones were missing and the
ribs were found SO yards up the noun
tainside from the skull, indicating the
extent of devastation by predatory
animals. The skull was found about
1000 yards below the Devils Glen
camp and about $50 yards from the
Dearborn river. 1t was lying in a little
coulee that had been densely timbered
and near it were several large boulders.
An old blaze on a tree down the
creek, about $50 feet below where the
skull was found, is thought to have
been used as a trail marker by the
trapper. A study of this blaze by Mr..
Lake and other forest officers has re-
vealed that it was made about 20 years
ago. Several broken bottles were near
the skull and piecing n Of these to-
gether revealed the manufacturers
name Preston" and the city where il
was manufactured in New York. Among
the things found near the skeleton was
q small pocket compass with the crys-
tai broken but the cover intact. 1t was
badly discolOred SO that the make has
not yet been determined. All of these
articles have been turned over to the
authorities at Augusta, where further
Investigation will be carried on in an
effort to establish the identity Of the
victim.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
BULLETIN ISSUED
ON BITTER ROOT
From MONTANA STATE COLLEGE,
mHE MONTANA Experiment Sfaflnn

NJ L So4
announces the release of a new bull
letin, IAN Economic Analysis of
Production Problems in the Bitter Root
Valley" This bulletin is a result of
a study Of the Bitter Root valley made
IN the summer of 1926.
Agriculture in the Bitter Root valley
has been affected, not only by national
economic conditions, but also by an
artificial stimulation of land develop
ment and land values in the period i'm
mediately preceding the World war.
This combination cf circumstances
made postwar adjustment more criti-
cal and prompted the study conducted
in 1926, according to the bulletin.
successful farmers in nearly every
region have realized the necessity of
making adjustments in their systems
OF farming in order to meet the chang
ing economic conditions of the wears
following 1920, the bulletin states. In
the Bitter Root valley this realignment
IN agricultural production has meant
that the individual farmers have, in
certain instances, changed to entirely
new lines of production and in other
cases have expanded enterprises that
previously were minor side lines into
the major lines of production. Changes
i n methods of conducting the individu-
al enterprises in an effort to reduce
costs, have also taken place. The bull
letin cites examples of the readjust-
ments that have taken place and sug-
gests ways of meeting the new condi-
tons.
A large part of the bulletin is of spe-
cial interest to the farmer who has
found it necessary to make important
changes in his production program and
is confronted with the problem of de-
veloping a market for his new products.
Copies Of this bulletin may be OBJ
tanned through the Montana Expert
ment Station, Bozeman, or through To-
cal county agents.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

feeble young grasshoppers exposed to
adverse weather conditions and only
the strongest would survive.
Farmers are urged to study condi-
lions this fall and next spring. BY do
ing so they will be prepared for what
ever grasshopper situation may de-
yelop.
Mr.. Mabee suggests that poisoning
is hardly necessary this fall, although
he does expect a slight damage to WIN
ter wheat. Only in exceptional cases,
where the damage is severe, will it be
necessary to poison. If the egg-laying
period and Matching period are ia
vorable to the grasshoppers, then it is
time to lay plans for the poison bran
mash campaign.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
Can Stand 1t Then

Fortune-Teller You will suffer pov-
erty until you are IS years old.
"And then?"
by that time you have got used to
it.'-Ulk, Berlin.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

In 1923 approximately $4,000, 900
pounds of skim milk was used in the
making of concentrated sour milk that
was mainly for poultry feed, according
to the United States Department of
Agriculture.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
About Farminq-

From MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)
4 HAMPSHIRE am, owned by the
u Mt. Haggin Land and Livestock
Company of Anaconda, sold for
$625 at the national ram sale at Salt
Lake City August %.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

tiles Of war. The whistling, screech-
Ing, thudding, din and roar of the
bursting shells over the trenches will,
with the smoke and flashes of binding
light, unite to make this feature won
derful, unusual and awe-inspiring.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
STATE FAIR OPEN
in A FEW DAYS
ONE CAN EITHER GO THERE TO
LEARN THINGS OR TO BE
ENTERTAINED

Advance Sale of Tickets Greatly Ex-
ceeds Sales of Past Two Years; Most
Interesting Program Of Amusement;
Pari-Mutual System of Wagering on
the Races.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12
Missed The Whisky

Friend. Well, did you follow my adj
vice and drink a stiff whisky after a
hot bath?
Invalid: I did my best, but / couldn't
finish drinking the hot bath.-The
Iumorist.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

We are all excited by the love of
praise, and the noblest are most in
f1uenced by glory.-Cicero.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

One of the big losses of the dairy in
dustry is the disposing of bulls before
the age of five years, says j.. O. Tret-
sven. extension dairy specialist at Mon
proved.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

Miss II. E. Cushman, extension poul-
try specialist at Montana State Col
lege, urges turkey producers to exer-
else the greatest care in dressing their
product as the labor Of dressing brings
a return of from Is to 20 per cent OF
the value of the turkeys.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

Beet pulp is a good food for dairy
stock, beef cattle and sheep and one
ton of wet beet pulp equals 139 pounds
Of barley or 351 pounds of alfalfa, says
R. E. Ward, county agricultural agent
for Lewis and Clark county.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-12

The United States Department OF
Agriculture has made arrangements
with the National Broadcasting CON-
pany to broadcast a All Club program
over a chain OF 81 stations on tho
first Saturday OF each month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
SIGNS TO BE PLACED
ON COUNTY BRIDGES

Ton-Limit of Carrying Capacity to
Be Set Forth as Safeguard
to Trafic.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, June IS
Acting to safeguard trafic over county
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
PROFESSOR ADMITS
POSING AS HUSBAND
OF MURDERED COED

tives discovered that in spite Of the
warmness of the day, o fire was burn
ing In the furnace. The knife and
shirt were to be analysed for possible
blood stains.
At the same time, police privately
were questioning the veterinary profess
Sor q second time.
DIR. Shook and Marion r. Myers,
graduate student ut the University do
ing corn borer research work, were ques-
toned in the death this afternoon and
taken back to their cells for further
questioning.
Miss Hix'S battered body was found
on a rife range near here yesterday.
DR.. Shook, former holder Of the world
record for pistol shooting, was taken
into custody at the rife range. Myers
was arrested at fraternity house after
he had called at the undertaking es-
adjustment, where the girls body lay
and had talked to coroner James
Murphy.
The girls friends had told police
she recently had been in company with
a man Of Myers general description.
Fraternity Brothers Back Myers.
Fraternity brothers Of Myers veri-
fed his statement that he had been at
their fraternity house all night Thurs
day except for q brief time to mail some
letters. He denied having frequently
seen Miss Xix recently and added that
a warm friendship with her had cooled
two years ago.
DR.. Shook was practicing at the
rife range when arrested. He had o
bandage on his left hand and told po-
lice he had been hurt while repairing
his automobile.
His story was that he had been II
his office Thursday evening between
and 8 o'clock, the approximate tim,
Miss Xix had gone to the university
hospital to make arrangements fol
Summer work at q telephone switch.
board to help her through medica
school.
Before she left she said she had IL
o'clock. according to Miss Bertha Dill.
Ion, the girl she was to succeed. Tha
was the last Miss Xix was seen until hel
body was found.
The girls head bore marks Of wha
are believed to have been blows from
q ball-headed hammer and cuts from
| some sharp weapon.
Myers denied he had had freuuen
| appointments with Miss Hix recently
and told police that formerly warn
| friendship between him and the girl hac
| cooled about two years ago.
Where the girl went after she lef
the hospital was the chief point Of tn,
investigation.
DR.. Shook told police he had known
Miss Hix several years and that at ont
time she had been q student in one Of
his classes ut the university. He ad
mitted that he had taken her for AZ
automobile ride several days ago. Elk.
planning that he had been negotiating
| with her RI TYNE n h00k he vnrfftvaS
| on veterinary medicine.
Miss Hix was q second-year medica
student at the university. Her HON,
was in Bradentown, Fla. Her body wa!
held tonight at an undertaking estab
lishment here pending arrival of he
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Xix o
Bradentown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
CUT VANDERBILT STATE
EARNINGS TO $3.50, 600

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Surroeate
Foley today instructed the executors
and trustees of the estate Of Cornelius
Vanderbilt to reduce the gross earnings
Of the estate to $4,000.
Trustees and executors Of the Al
fred q. Vanderbilt estate. residuary
legatee, recently had contended that the
trust fund was unnecessarily large and
asked that the surplus securities be
transferred to them.
The capital of the fund is 1854, 703
too large, Surrogate Foley ruled and
ordered securities in that amount
transferred to the Alfred q. Vanderbilt
estate.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt receives an
annual payment of $250.000 frcpn the
fund and the extra $4,000 ~as al
laRed as margin Of safetN."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
ROBBED Of $500
BY COLORED PAIR
a IL Street Grocer, Sol
Snider, Held Up on
Way Home. M

Sol Snider Of 4lS Oglethorpe street
reported to police last night that he was
held up at the point Of pistol by two
unidentified colored men and robbed of
nearly $500 in cash. The money repre-
scented the days receipts from q grocery
store which he conducted at 229 Four
and-a-half street southwest. He was on
his way home when the robbery oc-
Cured.
Snider said that he was driving his
automobile and at the intersection OF
Eighth and Taylor streets another ma
chine in which the two colored bandits
were riding drew alongside Of his car
and forced him to the curb. The men
then got out and one of them held him
up at the point Of pistol while the
other rifled his pockets.
Snider furnished police with q de-
scription of the men and Headquarters
Detectives Howard Ogle and Charles
Weber were assigned to the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
HOSPITALS SEEK RELIEF
FROM CAR CRASH BURDEN
Need Of Remedy for Abnormal
Charity Work Involved in
Wrecks Is Cited.
BY the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOCIATES sPreeS.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 15-
The need Of o remedy for the abnormal
charity burden forced upon hospitals in
admitting and caring for automobile
accident patients was presented before
the Protestant Episcopal Association to-
day in convention here, by j. b. Frank
lin, superintendent Of the Georgia Bap.
tist Hospital, Atlanta, Ga.
Stating that hospitals generally
throughout the United States, are chat
ing under the burden placed upon them
of service without pay to so many vic
Tins of accidents. he suggested that the
automobile industry in some way share
the burden, as industries do, by means
OF their workmen's compensation law
and that there be engineering improve
ments Of roadways, elimination Of rail-
road grade crossings and compulsory
drivers examinations in every stage
Michigan's idea Of using the license
fees to defray the expense Of accidents
he believed to be an approach to the
solution Of the problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
TWO DROWNED IN SPITE
OF EFFORTS OF GIRL, 13
Goes TO Rescue of Boy Scout and
Master Who Ventured Too
Far From Shore.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 15.-AA o-year- old
Boy Scout and his scoutmaster were
drowned at Rockaway Beach today de-
spite the efforts OF q 13-year-old girl,
who was almost drowned herself
Leon Splitter had ventured too far
out, and In answer to his cries for. help
Joseph 5anbafer, -, swan to his side
and began to pull him toward shore. San
bafer, however, was forced TO cry for
aid, and Paulina Kahn, residing IN .
nearby bungalow, swan out to help the
two. She became exhausted attempt
ing TO tow the boy ashore and called
for help herself Life savers rescued
her. but the boy and Sanhafer both
sank -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16

those States where the per capita wealth
is larger than the average for the United
States the birth rate Is lower. In States
where the per capita wealth is smaller
than the average the birth rate Is high
err" This, DR.. Baker remarks, suggests
that our population may cease growing
long before the limits Of subsistence are
reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16

French coal mines are maintaining a
high level of production.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16

bridges. the Prince Georges County COM
missiorers have ordered 100 embossed
signs to be placed on SO such bridges
which need posting" James c. Black
well, county clerk, has announced.
The bridges viii have the ton-linnit OF
their carrying capacity piaced on the
signs. The action was taken after one
Of the small county bridges collapsed
under o heavy truck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
|DAWES-M'DONALD
TALK GRIPS PRESS
British Newspapers Devote
Editorial Columns to WISH
ing for Great Success.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 15-The Sunday
newspapers of the British capital devote
columns of news and editorials to the
coming of United States Ambassador
Dawes and to his projected meeting with
described as q momentouS move toward
world peace and apparently few events
IN recent years have so stirred the i'm
agination Of the writer's and public
Ambassador Dawes himself is given
. hearty welcome to his new post and
the purport Of most editorials is that
the hearts Of the British people 90 with
him to his conference in Forres.
Weird Peace Move In Seen.
The Sunday dispatch, speaking of the
meeting between Gen. Dawes and Mr.
Macdonald, says: "On the success OF
the joint work that lies before them the
best interests Of two continents depends
The times are propitious. Good viii
between the British and American
peoples, which ever since the war has
run strongly beneath eddies of occas-
1onal superficial differences, is TO-DAY
more vigorous and active than ever.
There is no lack Of scope for def
mite achievement. The chief problem
to be- under immediate discussion at
Forces, that Of disarmament, cries out
for wise and reSolute handling. We
hope that no more opportunities will be
missed"
The observer says: above all. we
have seized the chance of wishing the
Ambassador well in the great work to
which he Is at once setting his hand
Much turns on his first talk with the
prime minister. It's success will pre-
pare the way for . meeting In Washing
ton memorable in the DEVELOPMENT OF
empire and in organization of q world
order. These are strong words At for
tremendous issues. We believe that q
OF the council of three. The mother
country and the Dominion (of Canada)
cooperating side by side with the Re-
public can give the world q peace and
o security which 1t has never before
enjoyed"
Comes ut Critical Hour"
The Sunday Times declares: 1.-THE
arrival of the new American Ambassa-
dor on Friday was . momentous occa-
sion,' He comes at q critical, but pro-
pitious, hour in the relatios between
the two countries" Discussing the dis
armament problem, the Times says
there must be mutual appreciation of
the particular needs and circumstances
of each nation and Of the desire by the
other to respect them. II these prin-
ciples are observed, the next few months,
which will be critical in world history,
may see such work for peace rs the
world has not vet known"
The Express says: Gen. Dawes will
today, ut q meeting which will make the
almost unknown Scottish town Of Forres
historic, invite Mr.. Macdonald to a tri-
partite conference with the President of
the United States and the Prime Min
lister of Canada. This meeting should
lead to world peace, provided the war
experts are not allowed to interfere I'M
duly"