The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-08-15
STATE LOCALS

Fred A. Brlnkman OF hailspeii was
appointed to membership on the state
board of architectural examiners by
Governor Erickson.
Matt Kansala, "a, farmer living
near Roberts, Carbon county, was
drowned in the Boulder river While
fishing.
Nick Valdamis and James Lafontlse
were arrested at Butte for alleged
sales of borax as dope. Authorities
said they did business on Butte
streets and received $50 an ounce Tor
the product.
Ninety eight thousand dollars
worth of bonds of the Kalispell school
district for erection of school build
ing were sold to the state investment
commission.
While some construction detours
are necessary and though highways
are rough in sections, Montana roads
are holding up we'll under the heavl-
est traffic to which they have ever
been subjected.
A still of 500 gallons daily capacity,
described as the largest ever found IN
the state, was uncovered at Great
Falls by prohibition officers, and
Nick Baatz was arrested on charges
of manufacturing and possession.
Toiling with bona fide workers in
carrying property from the Harvey
hotel at Helena during the recent
fire, thieves looted rooms and
hauled personal e fects away in
truck, County Attorney Padbury said.
Because of harvest work, Montana's
flying farmer, Senator j. W. Schnitz-
Ter of Froid, has cancelled his reser-
walton for the eastward trip OF the
Graf Zeppelin, he told the Fargo
North Dakota) Forum.
Crow Indians protested again in
action in the Soap creek oil field, on
their reservation, and beet growers
of the Billings area against the pro-
posed sliding scale sugar tariff, be-
fore the senate Indian affairs COM
mittee at Billings.
Montana's fire loss from 633 blazes
was $1,655, 702 during the year end
ing January /, 1929, the annual re-
port of State Fire Marshal Brooks
shows. Helena had the most fires,
with Butte second and Great Falls
third.
Seven carloads of lumber and the
Isaacs Lumber company planning mill
two miles west of Kalispell were de-
stroyed by fire caused by spontan-
eous combustion or a spark alighting
in a pile of sawdust. The loss was es-
timated at from $4,000 to $4,000.
Prison sentences of 20 years each
were given Martin Jensen, 10, of
Helena, and Harlow Robert Busby,
alias Robert Bowers, %, in district
court at Great Falls after they
pleaded guilty to robbing the Green
Mill inn near that city. They also
admitted participation in robbery of
the Great Northern ticket office at
Helena.
The water supply for White Sui
phur Springs had become so insult
ficient that the lawns and cemetery
grounds were in danger of being
ruined. A committee consisting of
Ralph Schafferzick, Frank P. Ed
wards and John Potter visited Mrs.
Arcelia Smith, whose irrigation ditch
is situated above the town intake.
Mrs. Smith Immediately gave orders
that the water into the ditch be shut
off, thus giving an ample supply for
the town.
Federal expenditures on forest in
Montana and Idaho during the IL
months ending June 30, totaled 49,
100000, figures at district headquar-
tiers in Missoula reveal.
Contract for fencing the new school
athletic field has been let by the
school board at Billings. The contract
calls for an expenditure of $4,360.66.
Only one bid was submitted for grad
ing the field and it was rejected, the
board deciding to endeavor to get
competition for the work. The new
athletic field adjons Pioneer park
and is intended for use Of the grade
schools as we'll as the high school.