Plentywood herald., 1931-08-06
STATE BRIEFS

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Lewistown.-Dr. j. r. Soltero who has
been living at Moore for some time,
has moved his office to Lewistown and
is continuing practice here.
Lewistown-Plans are being made
for water carnival to be held at the
city swimming pool. Sam Jacobs, in
structor at the pool, is in charge of
arrangements.
Misunderstanding Cavill, for sew
eral years Harlowton's only commercial
| Mooney at Butte. He flew from Bill
lings to Harlowton.
Hobson.-A horse roundup is being
held in southern Judith Basin county.
The territory included is south of the
Middle Fork and Judith rivers to the
southern boundary of the county.
Lewistown.-Represen of the
Federated Community clubs who met
here made plans for establishing
clearing house of information with re-
gard to available feed for livestock,
with the county agent to be In charge.
Bozeman.-The 118-mile natural gas
line which the Montana Power COM
pany will use to serve this part of Mon
tana was completed last Monday. 1t
extends from the Dry Greek basin field,
just north of the Wyoming Montana
line.
Deer LOdge.-FiSh are being caught
in the Deer Lodge river for the first
time in 40 years. They are of the
Rainbow variety of trout and range in
size from one to three pounds. An
glers believe the trout come up the
river from tributaries for 100 miles.
Helena.-Dick holland of San Fran
cisco, arrested by Deputy Warden T..
O.. Peasley for fishing without license,
July "a, pleaded guilty at hearing
in justice court here. He will serve
out a fine of $25 in the county Jail.
The arrest was made on Prickly Pear
creek.
Lewistown. Seventeen crates of
Chinese pheasants from the state game
farm at Warm Springs will be dis
tributed in central Montana soon. Four
crates of birds will be loosed near Lew
istown, three at Hobson, two at Grass
Range, three at Stanford and five at
Winnett.
Harlem.-Art Rusk was arrested and
released on $1,500 bonds. He faces
grand larceny charge, suspected of
having run off horses on the range
north of Zurich in the Cherry Ridge
country. David Collins, also of this
city, is held at the Jail in connection
with the alleged stealing.
Bozeman.-Packing of 10000 cases
of peas, representing the 1881 crop of
Gallatin valley, is under way. This
years planted acreage was about 35
per cent less than in 1880, when the
pack totaled $4,000 cases. The green
bean acreage was cut from 100 to SO
acres Harvesting starts next week.
Lewistown.-Off1cers of community
clubs in Fergus county met at Lewis
town recently to consider stock feed
in areas affected by drouth. Several
stockraisers reported findings in in
vestigating feed sources for stock which
will have to move. Mrs. Tura Oden-
valid was in charge of arrangements
for the meeting.
Hardin.-Because Of the weather
stockmen not located in the mountains
are finding 1t necessary to either ship
cattle to market or find new range
In many parts of this county grass
has practically all been burned and
many water holes have dried and even
springs that have flowed water for
years are going dry.
Lewistown.-J. w. Toney, represent
ing Canadian capital, examined a
structure on the Sam Phillips ranch a
few miles east of Lewistown with
view towards commencing drilling for
gas. No work has begun on the pipe
line between Lewistown and Ar1nelS,
which was to have started some time
ago, under the contract awarded by
the Lewistown Natural Gas company
to a Dallas, Tex, firm.
Notwithstanding to Powder River
County Assessor Blanche Wiley, Pow
der River county has about the same
taxable valuation as last year with
total Of $9,849,922 this year compared
to $9908,118 last year. The ivestock's
lower values pull the total down al
though there are more cattle and sheep
in the county this year than last.
Horses show drop in number. Sheep
number 64,655 this year compared to
$3.50 last year.
LewistOwn.-The Golden Jack Min
ing company has brought suit against
John Lee, known as Golden Jack
Lee" asking that an injunction be is
sued against Lee, who Is charged with
having intimidated representatives of
the company who have been sent to
do assessment work on group of
claims, formerly possessed by Lee, but