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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20

"The Flying Buttress": Arches weathered from the con-
glomerate of Specimen ridge in Gallatin National forest. Close
hy runs a typical Montana highway. The Montana Automobile
association is actively engaged in preparing legislation this year
endeavoring to secure larger appropriations for road 0ailing in
Montana. The plan is to issue six million dollars in anticipation
load warrants over a four year period to add to the gas tax
revenues and federal aid SO that appropriation of six million dol
lars will be spent in 1881 for construction of new highways in
the state.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
NOTED PIONEER
DOCTOR PASSES
r. j. MURRAY, LEADER IN MEDI-
CAL PROFESSION, HAD BEEN
RESIDENT as YEARS

DIR. T. J. Murray, of Butte, pioneer
Montana physician and a leader Of
the medical profession, died at his
home in Butte recently at the age
of IS years after a lingering illness
of more than a year. Born at New
port, Tenn, DR.. Murray was gradu-
ated from Jefferson Medical school
after attending Roanoke Medical
school and Vanderbilt university,
and came to Butte As years ago.
He took an active part in profess
sional organizations and presided as
vice president at the American Medi-
cal associations Atlantic City conven-
ton.
Credited with organizing the Mon
tana board of medical examiners, DR..
Murray presided over that body for 10
years. He was a past president of the
Montana State Medical society and Of
the Silver Bow County Medical So
ciety.
Shortly after his arrival in Butte, DR..
Murray was one of the founders Of
the Murray & Freund hospital, which
since has been known as the Murray
hospital.
During his term as president of the
famous Silver Bow club the present
club building was financed and erected.
DR.. Murray, who retired in 1917, suf-
fered a general breakdown a year ago
and since had been on the decline.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
ROAD THROUGH
MCDONALD PASS
S225. 900 SET ASIDE FOR THE CON-
STRUCTION OF MOUNTAIN
ROAD

A checking up of the ALLEGATIONS OF
funds made at the session of the state
highway commission, the bureau OF
public roads and the federal forest
service, showed that a total of S225,00
has been set aside for the Mcdonald
pass road-S100,00 900 allocated by the
service and $125, 900 already set aside.
The added $100, 900 becomes available
in June next year. Work will begin
May / and the road is to be completed
in nine months except for %surfacing,
which is estimated to cost $500 ad-
ditional, to be undertaken in 1882.
On Nov, 7 the state commission will
let contracts for eight new projects,
including approximately 35 miles OF
grading and an equal amount Of sur
facing, with one large and several
small bridges. This probably will be
the last lettings of the calendar year,
not only because funds are again at a
low ebb but because winter will soon
put a bar to construction.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
BUTTE YOUTHS
SENT TO PRISON
SENTENCED TO Is MONTHS AT Nc
NEIL ISLAND FOR IMPERSON-
ATING u. S. OFFICERS

Terms of Is months each at the
United States penitentiary at Nc
Neil Island in Washington we're
passed out by Federal Judge G.. Nj.
Bourquin to two Butte men charged
with impersonating federal officers.
The sentences were the heaviest
meted out in federal court in Butte
in the last Ia years, records show.
The men who received the prison
sentence, together with $500 fines each.
are Stanley Smith and James Murphy
of Butte, both "a years old.
The two pleaded guilty. The pair,
according to police who made the ar
rests, went to a place in the 300 block
on South Main street, Butte, and to a
Meaderville place. representing them
selves as federal officers.
At the Meaderville place they we're
given a quantity Of gin and were told
by the in charge to return the
next day for an amount of money they
wished to collect. The woman, instead,
notified police.
At the Main street address they were
given a small amount Of liquor and
considerable cash. Badges of federal
authorities, which were used by the
youths, were found on them when they
were arrested, police said.
The pair were taken into custody
Aug. Is, according to police records.
Police said they believed the pair had
shaken down" other places about the
city, although no proof Of this was ever
uncovered.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
Western Girl
Made Happy

MANY times a child has every
1Vl thing to make her happy and
still is dissatisfied. This may not be
the youngsters fault. Often it is due
to a condition easily corrected.
Take the experience of Mrs. Ada
Beesley, 1921 West 1st Street, Okla
homa City, Okla, who avs: 'Nothing
seemed to please Christine. She was
fretful, feverish, suffered a lot from
colds. She was constipated.
Mother used California Fig
Syrup so | got Christine some. It
relieved her trouble promptly; made
her bright and happy again. We have
used it for three years"
Mothers by thousands praise this
pure vegetable product. Children
love it. Doctors recommend it to
relieve constipation, feverishness,
fretfulness, headaches: to open the
bowels in colds or children's ailments.
Appetite is increased by the use Of
California Fig Syrup; breath is sweet
ened; coated tongue is cleared; diges-
ton and assimilation are aided; weak
bowels and stomach are strengthened.
For your protection. the genuine
always bears the name California
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20

lacher conceived the bright idea of rid
ing out to Twenty-Mile on the Lavina-
Benton stage route, meet Mr.. Drum
bringing in the returns and then get
back into town ahead of him and place
a few sure-thing bets on the results
of the election. There was. however,
another route which was occasionally
used, especially in good weather, and
Mr.. Drum with his blackboard outfit
had driven that way. He came into
town and everyone had the returns
when the two conspirators, disappoint-
ed in meeting him, e%ndeavored to get
into town quietly in the hopes that
no one would know anything about
their mission. Perhaps they had some
confederate in town for in some way
the reaSon for their trip to Twenty
Mile became known and the men about
town made the most of their discom-
future.
At another time, Gwin Burleigh, who
had been teaching school at Laurel,
was the democratic candidate for su-
perintendent of schools against Miss
Martha Shoemaker. Burleigh and Nat
Carwile, the county clerk and recorder.
came out to the Drum ranch in the
course of their travels over the county
to line up the vote. The evening was
spent discussing politics, and Mr.. Drum,
who considered Burleigh an unusually
able fellow, agreed to support him in
the election.
Burleigh Loses Votes
1t happened that shortly afterward
Charles Bair and S. G. Reynolds, then
with a Billings bank, were out in the
neighborhood hunting antelope. They
had stopped at the ranch to pass the
time of day and started out into the
road just as a group OF cowboys who
had come over to register, as Drum
was registration agent, rode into the
corral. AS they rode out, Reynolds in
a joking way called back, Now any
thing you can do for me in the cleo
ton will be appreciated.
The cowboys we're at once interested
and wanted to know who Reynolds was.
why that is young Burleigh who
is running for superintendent of schools
against Martha Shoemaker" Drum
said, to carry on Reynolds joke.
well he is a fine fellow" one OF
them remarked. Mighty sociable.
Why, he didn't even offer to set EN- up
to us. We won't do a thing to him
when election time comes"
When the cowboys came in to vote
and the ballot sheets were spread out
for a discussion of the merits Of the
candidates for the several offices, the
comments about the unsociable ways OF
BurIcigh were renewed. The cowboys
were OF a chivalrous nature, anyway,
and the position Of superintendent OF
schools appealed to them as a woman's
JOB, but what they supposed was a
slight on the part of Burleigh had
something to do with the unanimity
with which they decided TO vote
against Burleigh. Mr.. Drum decided
that 1t vas best to keep his own coun-
sci in the matter and contented him
self with voting personally for Bur-
lelgn, who was elected despite the de-
lection in Drums precinct.
Drum Explains Joke
Ihe next time that Carwile saw him,
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20

election in Yellowstone county after
its formation in 1883, the Northern Pa
ciflc was alleged to have run a gravel
train which stopped at every town in
the county along its route while the
members of the crew voted, The demo
cratic party being the beneficiary Of
this sortie into local politics.
Another more famous eastern Mon
tana political scandal was the episode
of Woolsey's ranch in Custer county.
In the election of 1882, there were sew
eral hundred votes returned from a
precinct of that name. Later on, when
the returns were Scrutinized, it de-
veloped that no one knew where WOOL
sey's ranch was or how it became SO
populous. The explanation offered was
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
ENGINEERS END WORK AT
MALTA FOR MILK RIVER

The party of engineers stationed
at Malta for the past month sur
veying flooded areas along the Milk
river as part of the army program
for control of the flood waters OF
the Mississippi river tributaries left
Malta last week.
Some of the engineers went to
Havrc where they will be located for
a short time finishing up soine work
there while the others left for Kan
sas City to work during the winter
months. IL. V. Reamv vas the en-
ginecr i'm charge and l.. Lee was
clerk. About eight men were with
the party.
A cross section of the Milk river
valley every six miles along its
course in the Malta area was made
TO determine the amount of land
subject to spring floods. Engineer
Reamy stated that a report on the
findings of the party VIII be made
some time i'm January, probably at
Havre.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
VOTING WAS FREE AND EASY I'm EARLY POLITICAL BATTLES
OF MONTANA, AND DIM YELLOWSTONE COUNTY. RETURNS FROM
DRUMS STOCK RANCH OFTEN BROUGHT UNEXPECTED RETURNS
(By W.. ii. BANFILL)
DOLITICS in pioneer days in some

nOLITICS in pioneer days in some
respects was taken more seriously
than at the present time, while
there was a greater tolerance of what
now would be called corrupt practices
law violations. The laws concerning
residence and registration were lax and
anyone whose name was not on a vot-
ing list could swear in his vote, and
the advice to vote early and often was
literally followed in some instances.
With the advent Of the Northern Pa
cifc railway, accusations that local Of
ficers of the company helped swing
elections in an illegal way were fire.
quent in eastern Montana. In the first
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20

&aR3 ~ hodA
"A tsp. salt, u cup shortening, Ice
water fabouf 5 tbsp.}
Sift -four once before measuring.
Sift -four and salt together. Cut in
shortening. Add just enough ice
water to make dough stay together.
Round up dough on cloth-covered
board, using -four rubbed into cloth
TO keep dough from sticking Divide
doughin half, and roll out one-half
to fit pie pan. Put into pan loosely
to avoid stretching. Cut remaining
pastry into strips u inch wide.
and place lattice fashion over FILL
ing. Bake so minutes, using $50
degrees fhot ovenl for first 10
minutes and then decrease heat
TO $50 degrees moderate ovenJ
for remaining 40 min. Amount.
one 7 inch pie.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
Mink Win at Portland Fair

w. X. Wicks, owner Of WiXona Fur
farms of Denton, has returned from
Portland, Ore, where he attended the
American national western division fox
show. On four Blakross mink he en-
tered he won four ribbons. He also
took along some eastern mink belong
ing to C. T.. Gadsden Of Utica and
brought back nine ribbons for him.
There were more than ITS mink en-
tered in the show.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20

that a large party Of freighters working
for B%roadwater & Hubell and other
firms had established a temporary vot-
ing place at this ranch which was near
their rendezvous on election day.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20

G.. H. Butler of Havre paid a fine of
S25 and surrendered his license for n
year after pleading guilty to selling
venison. The report was filed by Depu-
ty Warden L. c. Clark of Hill county,
the arresting officer. O. G. Hample
of Butte was arrested by Deputy War
den F.. f. Pilling of Silver Bow coun-
ty for shipping muskrat hides without
a permit. He pleaded guilty at a hear
ing in Butte and was assessed $25.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
EX-PRESIDENT TO
PAY BUTTE VISIT
CALVIN COOLIDGE REPORTED TO
BE COMING THROUGH ON
WAY WEST

Reports received recently in Butte
stated that former President Calvin
Coolidge would pass through Butte on
Dec. 6 over the Milwaukee railroad. en-
route to Tacoma, to attend a conven-
ton. MI. Coolidge has never been in
Montana, SO far as is known, and his
reported trip through the Mining City
will no doubt prove Of considerable in
terest. Milwaukee passenger trains
make a five-minute stop in Butte.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20

he took him to task for not carrying
through his promise in regard to Bur-
leigh. Drum explained the joke with
Reynolds and how its sequence had
been fatal to the cowboys opinion of
Burleigh and a S the election had
terminated satisfactorily anyway the
incident ended in a laugh all around.
Time has healed the old political
controversies and old opponents later
became the best of friends. In fact,
most of the political feuds were 500
patched up. To-day, when Mr.. Drum
meets Christian Yegen, Charles Bair
or any of the other political warehouses;
Of either party. they invariably greet
him with the query. Are the returns
In yet from pr1m.x Tnpch2-
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
12R-POUND TROUT
CAUGHT AT COLUMBUS
is 80 INCHES LONG

Frank S. Carleton, carpenter of
Columbus, caught a 12h-pound trout
near the bridge in Yellowstone river
neal Columbus with sucker bait. The
fish measured 80 inches in length and
10 in circumference. 1t was termed by
anglers as a cross between a rainbow
and a Loeb Leven. Its jaws were like
those Of a Loeb Leven while the head
was spotted like a rainbow trout.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-11-20
LEASED LANDS BRING
INDIANS MORE MONEY

The agency office at Browning re-
ports that lease payments are COM
ing in well from many stockmen on
the reservation. More land is now
under lease on the reservation than
at any other period in the history
of this agency. Acre payments are
larger than ever before, bringing
a much greater income to the Black
feet Indians than has heretofore
been received from this source.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-01
Wants Pretty Woman

New York. Aug. CUP)-The answer to the Thomas Edison exam ination question which already has tion' would depend on a ladys looks if Donald ogden Stewart were called upon to decide it.
 Now there's just one thing cer- tain" said the author when asked today to answer the question in himself the leader Of a marooned desert expedition with the duty Of selecting three Of eight persons to be saved while the others were doomed
 Tt is certain I'd never send my flancee, who is a member of the party, away with my best boy friend" he said. My boy friends arc always going away with my girl friends anyway and in this case he probably already would have stolen her.
 My decision would depend on whether the wife Of the scientist, both members of the party, was good looking. If she is my decision would be that she could be saved along with myself and the best of the two guides.
 'In case the scientists wife hap pened not to be good looking, I'd be forced to save the scientists wife anyway, and send her aged husband and their six-year-old son along death than being left on a desert with a scientist and his six-year- old son.
 Anyway, I'd never let my fiancee go away with my friend-especially my best friend"
New Britain herald., 1930-08-01
Rogers scoffs At Question

Rockport, Mass, Aug 1 (UP) - Thomas A. Edison's desert prob lem" one of the questions submitted 10 Edison scholarship aspirants yes terday, has no place in any kind of an intelligence test" in the opin- ion of Professor Roha-t F. Rogers of Massachusetts Ina.hute Of Tech nology
 Professor Rogers, who became nationally famous last year when he advised college men to be snobs, was asked how he would have answered the question, and replied:
 T won't answer the question, but I'll tell you what I think about t,'' he said. Tt is an utterly hypotheti- cal question which under no circum- stances can have any reality. No answer that anybody could make in an examination could have any pos sible validity.
 Tt has no value as test of in telligence or of judgment and has no business in any kind of an exam
New Britain herald., 1930-08-01
On Police BlOtter

The police were notified today of the return of the operators license of Louis Sewick of Al Broad street,
 suspension of the license of E. J. AL bro of SS6 Monroe street, and sus- | pension of the right to operate in
 the case of William Daniels of 226
 South Main street. The police were in receipt today of a circular offering S25 reward
 for the capture of Walter Wisk, 20
 year old New Britain boy who es- caped from the state reformatory
 July 19. Similar circulars have been
 sent by the reformatory superintend-
 ent to police departments about the
 country.
 A. H. Enoch of 36S West Main street reported to Lieutenant w. ,A McCue at 12:50 o'clock this morl [ | ing that as he was driving throua Main street he failed to notice thar ! the gates on the railroad crossing
 were down and his automobile dam- aged them slightly. A fence at 110 Rockwell avenue fell down and blocked the street, Captain Kelly was notified yester-
 day afternoon. He transmitted the
 report to the public works depart- ment.
 Carl Angelo of II Sexton street re- ported to the police last evening that
 while backing his automobile truck at Myrtle and Curtis streets. he col
 lided slightly with the boulevard stop sign.
 Complaint was made to the police today that young men congregate on | Church street late at night and con- duct themselves so noisily nobody in l the vicinity can sleep.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-01

ination which pretends 10 be looking for exact information. That type of question. so far as I can see, is Of no value whatsoever.
 Text Of Question
 The question which the professor criticized read:
 You are the head of an expedi- ton which has come 10 grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost Of civiliza- tion. Tn rest must perish. Your com- panions are: a brilliant scientist, so years old; two half breed guides. 58 and 32; the scientists wife, inter ested mainly in society matters, aged 39 her little son, aged six: the girl you are engaged to marry; your best friend, a young man of your own age who has shown great promise in the field of science. Which would you choose 10 save and which to die :? Your reasons"
New Britain herald., 1930-08-01

ball coach, had been begun after the receipt of an anonymous letter purportine 10 Elye inc raai facts in tha case. Som. Of the information -lrherej by Nl>ou and Mleehan was obtained. the statement said, from Jerry NameceE football capain- feet of tho 1gaQ \. '. |. team and D counsellor at Camp Zakelo.
 According 10 rae \. '. |. version ot the case. Lassman took the three bows. whose names have not been revealed. for q paddle in quiet wa tor or inc afternoon of July 6.
 In some manner the canoe was overturned and Lassman and the aoys were thrown into the water. Tho giant football star, known as q strong swimmer, managed 10 hoi-r two If the boys 70 safety on ton tha overturned canoe. but went down 10 his daarn while trying to saEa the third boy, At this point. Norman Parc@Is. Yale man, who saw the accident, plunged into the Idht anu LdLltt lllf tIiii II 'NS '0 safety. When parcells reached the shore. ho learned for inc first time that Lassman was missing He TO- turned 10 the scene and dove re- paatcdly in a vain "frort 10 locate him,
 Ordered to Keep silence
 The university statement quoted Nemccok as saving that camp au- rhorities had told tha counsellors that night Of tho accident but had ordered them not to discuss the af- fair among themselves or with the boys in the camp.
 Neither Parcels nor any of the thrao boys appeared ar the inquest, the statement asserted.
 Izzy ZaraEov, former Harvard athlete. who is head of the camp, was informed Of tho results of the independent investigation, \. Y. Is statement said, but had made no comment.
New Britain herald., 1930-08-01

home again the light was still Vls- ible but had begun to flicker and was a deep yellow. It was finally lost to view about 1:30 o'clock this morning.
 After daybreak today a more thor ough investigation was made by MT. Peck, and this brought to light the fact that five or six acres of wooded and brush land had been burned over in the mountain section of Berlin at point that would tally with the location in which the light was first seen. His search failed to unearth any signs of the Wreckage that must have resulted if plane had crashed. MT. Peck was of the opinion that the light was from a flare that had been dropped by some passing aviator
 Pilot Reported Safe
 The light appeared directly .n the lane that would be used by aVi- ators travelling from Hartford 10 New York, but inquiries at Brain ard field in Hartford with a view to checking up on the departure Of any planes that might be headed in this direction at the time in ques- tion brought information that the only plane that had left the field between the hours of II and F o'clock last night was one piloted by Gus Graf and he was reported as having made safe landing at the Bethany flying field at an early hour this morning. Officials at the field did not think that he could have dropped any flares, as it was not believed that he had carried any with him.
 The report that a plane was heard in the vicinity of kensington about a quarter before 12 o'clock and was circling about was maie known to the officials at the Hart ford flying field and they thought that Graf had been gliding about after having reached Berlin just prior 10 his leaving the New York lane for the route to the Bethany field