Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-12-25
VALUE OF STATE
LAND Is SHOWN
THOMPSON FALLS SALE BRINGS
MONTANA Snaps, REPORT OF
COMMISSIONER SHOWS

(By Our Helena Correspondent
The state received more than S14.-
600 from the sale of st,ta lands and
town lots ut THOMPSON Falls recent
". 7. NJ. Prard'o lord. state commits
sioner of prb'ic lands and invest
men revealed last week in a re-
port to the press.
There were LII acres of state land
sold for s13126 and 20 town lots in
the townsite of Perma in Mineral
county. for $1,000. The highest price
received was SIG per acre for 3a6 acres
of state land at Lone Pine. One Sec
ton near Mcdonald postofice and 100
acres near Dixon were also sold. All
of the land was in Mineral county.
Ed Harrity, 10. a prospector, was
taken into custody and charged with
an attempt to kill George w. Padbury,
Jr. county attorney. Harrity, Padbury
said, stepped from a Main street door,
way and pressed a gun against him,
and shouted:
I'm going to kill you"
The gun missed fire and Harrity
ran off.
The miners grievance, Padbury says,
dates back several years to q lawsuit
in which he was a witness and an un-
satisfied creditor.
The supreme court has affirmed con-
viction in Sheridan county of S. r..
Collins and his sentence to prison for
a statutory ofTense.
Collins. we'll known OF brentwood,
was convicted of assault in the Sec
ond degree and sentenced to three
years in prison and to pay a S 1000
fine. His alleged victim was a To-
year-old girl. Defense counsel rested
its appeal on an argument that the
complaining witness had enlarged on
facts under threat of Collins enemies
to send her to the reform school. 1t
also was asserted that the testimony
did not warrant conviction. A new
trial was refused by the district court.
A baby beef show. with contests for
All club members and others, will be
a feature of the 1881 Montana State
fair. Decision to add this exhibition
and to press plans for a All club
building was reached BY the state fair
board at a recent meeting.
1t also is possible a clog show will
be added to the state sair attractions.
Kirby Hoon of Helena said suggestions
for such an exhibit had come from
several sources and he expressed be-
lief it would meet with success.
The Great Western Sugar company
has mailed checks totaling S4,686. 585,
representing the final payment for the
1880 beet crop, to growers in Wyoming,
Montana and Nebraska.
The checks will be for beets delivered
during November.
The grand total of the company's
beet payments to farmers in the %
factory districts in the four states this
year will amount to $50. 1923, 900. This
figure compares with $24,215,000 dis
tributed last year.
John w. Mahan, widely known in
World war veterans circles, has re-
signed as attorney for tie state board
of equalization. After three years in
: that position, he has decided To enter
!, general law practice and accept APP
!, pointment as deputy county attorney
t of Lewis and Clark county.
; Increases in smallpox, scarlet fever
t whooping cough, mumps and chicken
: pox are shown in the report of COM
: municable diseases issued by DR.. j. H
Crouch, state epidemiolog ist. Billings
+ reported l6 cases of smallpox.
Seven cases of chickenpox and One
; case Of scarlet fever were reported in
!, Helena. Cases of c~hickenpox and scar
|, let fever were widely scattered through
. out the state.
; Communicable diseases reported fol-
. the past week are tuberculosis 3
, smallpox 16, diphtheria J, scarlet fever
. Al, measles 3, German measles 4
, %whooping cough %, chickenpox SO
. mumps "a, and erysipelas /.
The Great Northern Railway com
!, pany was named defendant in a $33, 00t
! personal damage suit filed in fedora
J court here by Roy N. Hitchcock, dis,
! trict representative of the Commercial
= Credit company.
= Hitchcock was a passenger on {
J train which collided with a helper
= engine at Elk Park, between here ant
. Butte, Nov. IL, 1929. He complained h,
\ was injured about the body in the &C
> cident.
= Arguments of the railroad and com
:, p~lainants regarding Great Northern
y passenger train service between Grea
Falls and Shelby will be heard a
: Great Falls Dec. 20 by the Montana
= railroad commission. Representative
: of communities along the route com
!. planned the service is inadequate. Tn
y Great Northern contended bushes
~ does not warrant running more thai
one train daily over the line.
= The Public Utilities corporation Q
y northern Montana has filed with tn
y public service commission a neV
Il schedule Of tariffs, under which Pablo
:, Roman, Poison dnd St. Ignatius wi
~ receive a reduction in the cost of cleo
&c trio service. For residential lightin