The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-07-18
TREASURE STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST
BRIEF RESUME OF HAPPENINGS
COLLECTED FOR OUR
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tors.
Except for several detours because
of construction work and few rough
dirt stretches, Montana roads are fair
and good, the latest report OF the
Montana Automobile association re-
vealed.
F. A. Morton of Hamilton, repre-
sentative of the state board of ento-
mology, has liberated approximately
$4,000 tick parasites at four points
in eastern Montana, Forsyth, Miles
City, Edgar and Musselshell.
A box car honeymoon may be all
right, but sheriff's officers at Butte
appeared a bit dubious and inclined
to ask questions when Ben Mahr and
wife and Betty Meske, all of Billings.
rode into Butte in that fashion.
Tourist travel in Yellowstone park
this season shows an IL per cent in
crease over that of 1928, park offic-
ials reported at Livingston recently.
This is-a gain of SO per cent over
1927. Officials reported about ST.
900 persons entered the playground
this year.
Collections under the scent gaso-
line tax during June established an
other record breaking figure o. S492,-
558, the state board OF equalization
reported. The previous record was
$491, O69, set last May. Since jan
uary l, the tax has brought in $1,447,-
All for highvsy building purposes.
Fourteen aliens who illegally en-
tered the United States admitted their
guilt in the federal court at Great
Falls, and were given suspended
sentence Of $50 fine and go days in
jail by Judge Charles N. Pray and
ordered deported to Canada.
Joe Crosley, who has trapped
throughout the northwest for many
years, has returned to Columbia Falls
to visit with friends and prepare for
another trapping excursion that will
take him about 900 miles northwest
| of Edmonton. Mr.. Crosley takes
with him a portable typewriter and
each day writes concerning his ex-
periences.
Roundup mines will supply 95 per
cent of the coal that will be used in
state institutions during the coming
year. This contract was awarded at
recent meeting Of the state board
of education and is the first time that
Roundup mines have had this con-
| tract.
Application of the Montana Power
company to increase street railway
fares in Great Falls will be heard
by the Montana public service COM
mission in July. The company asks
permission to raise general cash fare
from 5 to 10 cents and to sci tokens
at 81 cents each.
Louis Webinger was fined $25 and
given 80 days suspended sentence
If. justice court at Wolf Point for re-
fusing to allow a faster Car to pass
him on the road. 1t is said that Web
niger had received warning regarding
his driving and it's possible conse-
quences.
| Warrants aggregating S27,399 have
been mailed by State Auditor Porter
to firemen's relief associations in n
cities and towns in Montana. They
are the annual payment OF a portion
Of taxes collected from fire insurance
companies operating in the state. The
money will become part of the dis
ability and pension funds of the or
CARNATIONS.
Collections from sale of automobile
license plates during May and june
totaled S206, 899.25, figures from the
state Prison at Deer Lodge, where the
tags are made, revealed recently. The
revenue will be distributed among
Montana counties in proportion tt
their sales of plates. Sales for the
first SIX months of this year have
reached $1,298,204-
Returning to Helena from an inves-
tigation of spinal meningitis in south
ern Montana, DR.. J. H. Crouch, state
epidemiologist, declared the situation
had been exaggerated in reports anC
that he found but three cases of the
disease. The patients, he said, were
isolated in railroad hospitals. One
case had been cured, while another
brought death to its victim. Rigid
quarantine regulations were put intt
effect to prevent spread of the dis
case said DR. Crouch
There's law in Montana declar.
ing it crime to drive motor We
hicle while intoxicated, but to coa9
a team Of mules along the wrong side
of public highway while under tht
influence of liquor may not come
within the sting of that law. Ana
conda officers puzzled over thai
enigma after having arrested Joe
MacIntyre, veteran wood cutter anc
well known character, on charge Of
driving while intoxicated" His We
hicle was a wagon: his motivatine
power, team of mules.
Birch & Sons of Great Falls have
been awarded the contract for paw
ing of special improvement at Havre
This makes 10 blocks of paving thai
will be laid this summer. The con
tractors have started putting in storm
sewer pipes.
Maintaining the gradual increase
pace of the last two years, income
| taxes collected in Montana during the