The Carbon County news., 1929-07-25
STATE LOCALS

The vicinity around Virginia City
again is the scene of considerable
gold prospecting.
Jerome White Eagle, Indian from
Poplar, was killed in fall from a
second-story window of a resort at
Helena.
Mrs. Mary Moran, sister OF Z. I.
Kellv. president of the Anaconda Cop
per Mining company, who died at
HOLLYWOOD recently, will be buried at
Butte. 81
Word was received at Great Falls
of the death at Peking, China, OF
Clarence lie Munyon, formerly bar
her at Helena and official photog-
rapher for the Great Northern at
Great Falls,
The Rev. Arthur J. Atkins of Boze-
man was elected president of the
Montana Christian Missionary society
at ifs convention in Kalispell. Mrs.
Leonard Young of Helena was named
president of the Women's Missionary
society.
The st. Margaret's Catholic churcn !,
- Geraldine has a new bell. The bell
weighs 800 pounds and was presented
to the church by the members Oh ehe
Altar society, who with indlVlduai
gifts and their work made the plac-
ing of the bell possible. ;,
Delegates from Helena, Great FANS
Billings, Bozeman, Roundup and Kali
SMELL heard addresses on technlcaa
subjects at a semiannual session OIL
+be Montana State Association OF
Letter Carriers held in Butte. Inc
naxt convention will be held at Bill
mos next July jointly with the Mon
+ana State Association OF Postal
Clerks. !,
Old-timers were reminded OF the
aarlv days in Sidney when for the
first time in many years young
covote was seen to make its way up
Main street. He did not appear WIG
and citizens treated him to bone'
Soon there appeared on the scene a
man with a chain and collar who IN
formed the crowd that the coyote was
his pet and had run away.
Evidently believing that Montana
grasshoppers weren't large enough
to tempt the big rainbow trout IN
the Big Hole river, Howard Steven
son, member of the customs service
at Palm Beach, Fla, sent a hugh
Florida grasshopper to Butte with
the suggestion that it be used as a
lure to the Big Hole tribe. The south
ern insect was received by K. II
Schroeder. 1t stood several inches
high. with hind legs like a jack
knife.
That water on the east side OF Fiat
head lake flows uphill was the report
made at Missoula by DR.. M. J. Elrod
of the State university after consider
able investigation at the biological
station located at the lake. He gave
two theories for the phenomen. One
was that the deepest part OF the lake
runs diagonally across the body OF
water and under-currents flowing to-
ward it may account for the uphill
flow. The other was that winds may
be forcing the water to pile up or
the peninsula on the south end, ano
to run upward when released. DIR. Ell
rod said he recorded an uphill flow
of three-fourths of mile an houi
on quiet day.
Sam Kahn of Helena, assistant
coach at Custer county high school a
Miles City, will become head mentor
to succeed George "Jiggs" Dahlberf
of Butte, resigned.
Every now and then, especial,
after heavy rain, someone finds
gold nugget in Helena's streets. I
negro, Thad Mundy, toiling with
street grading crew, cleaned" on hi
shovel and glanced downward. HI
took what he saw to a jeweler ant
was told that it was gold nugge
worth SIS. Several "prospectors" be
gan following the grader but the.
have had no occasion to see .eweler