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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-08
LIEUT.. PALMER
 TRANSFERRED
Capt. Harold J. Adams Will Go to Cable Office
 Tn Seattle

SEATTLE, May 8--Capt. Harold J. Adams, assistant officer in charge of the United States Signal Corps in San Francisco, has been transferred to the post of assist ant officer in charge of the Alaska cable in Seattle, it is announced from Washington, D. c.
 Captain Adams will relieve the present assistant, Lieut.. Glen H. Palmer, who has been assigned to teach at the United States Military Academy at West Point
 Col. Frank J. Griffin, officer in charge of the Alaska cable in &c., attle, will be transferred to Homo lulu in June, his place being taken by Lieut.. Col. Dawson Olmstead now connected with the Chief Sig nal Officers staff at Washington D. c.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-08
BOY DESPERADO
 FIGHTS p 0LICE
 IN LONG BATTLE
Machine Guns, Tear Gas Bombs Are Used-3
 Under Arrest

NEW YORK, May 8-Nearly T. 900 spectators yesterday watched officers battle an hour with ma- chine guns and tear gas bombs and eventually capture Francis Two Gun" Crowley, youthful desperado, and Rudolph Durlinger
 Ignoring commands to surrender, Crowley, whose room contained a small arsenal, kept a big detach- ment of Police at bay but finally surrendered with Durlinger and Helen Walsh, aged 16, Crowley's $ girl companion after he was wound ed in both legs and officers had hewed through the roof of the apartment.
 The Police said Crowley and Dur finger confessed last night to two slayings and the wounding of a detective.
 Miss Walsh was identified as Crowley's companion in motor car with party which fatally wounded Patrolman Frederick Hirsch last Tuesday night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-08

A woman living near New Or leans has seven-foot alligator for a pet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-08

Lieut.. Palmer was recently in Ju neau in connection with the ney radio station here.
Evening star., 1931-12-06

At left: Miss Halle Brooke and
Jacques Paris, attache of the French en-
bassy, who will appear in waltz dance
in the cabaret show of the Junior Leagues
Patchwork Party @ Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1931-12-06

The latest air freak in flight.
1t has been dubbed the back
ward" plane because of its ap-
pearance of flying backward.
c. T. Granville of Springfield,
Mass, made several successful
test flights in the craft there
the other day.
g Wide World Photos.
Evening star., 1931-12-06

fencing exhibition will
be by the Junior League Washington the
Mayhower Hotel benefit charity
Monavan Gibbs W. Sheriff. Jean Dear Seguy
ia
Nogales international., 1931-06-24

"Shoah will said the kid. Prom
ised Nellie he'd go. Somehow it
made bond between them which the
kid would never break. He was going
because Nellie made him promise. And
he WIS going to hunt down the killer,
because it was Nellie's old pappy he
had shot.
Insolence leered up at the kid from
every boot mark behind the tilted slabs
of rock. The killer had not even tried
to scuff out his tracks with a side
wise drag of the foot.
The kids eyes went seeking here
and there Killer as careless as this
and as sure of Poole protection-'pears
like he might leave some sign more
than boot tracks.
Been smoking up here too.
Nogales international., 1931-06-24

him revised itself in certain details
with pitiless accuracy. Babe would
not fall between the stove and table.
He would topple over toward the bunk,
more'n likely.
"Who was it, d'yuh know? Or may
be yuh amt tellin'."
"Old Pappy Murray, shot in the
back"
"Hunh. Well" Babe hesitated s.
he's hester and COW thief. He had
it comm, Tiger Eye"
'He nevah had it comm in front of
his own doah. The killah cached him
se'f behind ledge up avn the hill.
Left his boot tracks theah-and
rifle she'll"
"Yeaf? Welt"
LEFT anotha sign, Babe"
yeah? What signs that2"
left this, Babe" He opened his
palm.
Babe looked, lifted his glance to the
bleak face of the kid, and to that tiger
stare of the yellow right eye. Babes
teeth caught at his underlip. His mr.
gers quivered-but they did not go for
his gun. They did not dare.
interruption came. The shrill,
whistled signal all Poole riders knew.
Babes eyes searched the kids face.
He turned his back. pulled open the
door, answered the call.
"Supper ready, Babc?" The Poole
foreman owned that voice.
Nothing would llappen while he was
there. Flag of truce.
Cards lay as they fell till the fore
man left again. Meant to so, all right.
Didn't unsaddle his l1orse-ncant to
ride on to the Poole soon as lie had
his supper and the storm was over.
Straight, honest man, name OF Joe
Hale.
The foreman talked while he ate
largely of the supper Babe had cooked.
Babe talked too, but not very much.
Knew he'd have to face 1t, soon IS
Joe Hale was gone. Shoah storrning.
So dark inside the kid got TIP ard
lighted the lamp.
The foreman emptied his third cup
of coffee, wiped his mustacfle with his
handkerchief, hitched the box seat two
inches back, and drew his tobacco and
papers from his pocket. Soon as be
had his smoke going, he would get up
and leave.
| The foreman reached thumb and fln-
ger into the watch pocket of his vest,
CROPPED there, taking his time.
| He finally drew a match from his
pocket, looked at it, used. it with little
stabbing motions III the air to point his
meaning while he talked to Babe.
Gosh, did he always talk that-a-Way ?
1t scemcd to the kid that half an hour
passed before the cigarette was finally
lighted. The foreman absently blew
out the match, snapped it III two, drop
ped the pieces on the floor and got
up, reaching for his hat.
/ Babe lifted his head and looked full
at the kid. He saw the kids lips
loosen, saw them culver as the kids
/ eyes met his with shamed understand
ing.
The kid sat down on the bunk. his
arms resting on his knees and his face
bent to the floor. Babe! He would
have shot Babe just on the strength
of broken match If the foreman
hadn't come right when he did, he'd
have killed Babe Garner-the best
friend he ever had in his life.
Babe! Clearing the table scrapirg
the plates just as if nothing had hap
pened. Stopping now to make himself
a cigarette while the kid watched hin
from under his long eye-lashes.
TGsl N~G W~nI.
Nogales international., 1931-06-24

Storm" Babe called cheerfully, as the
kid swung down at the door. Fraid
yuh might get caught out, Tiger Eye.
Coin to be rip-snorter, when it gets
here"
The kid turned and looked where a
grecnish-black cloud mass came coil
ing up from the southwest.
He brushed past him and went in
side, turning to face Babe.
whats the matter, Tiger Eye?
Anything happen?"
eyes, sub. Right snaht happened,
Babe. A nestah got killed"
Babes cold gray eyes scrutinized
the kid. He closed the door against a
puff Of wind, leaned his back against
it. his thumbs hooked inside his cart
ridgesbeits Tie kids vivid picture of
Nogales international., 1931-06-24

lhe KID tnOuSnCS nalleQ dS dD-
ruptly as his body. Even his heart
stopped dead still in his chest or at
least it felt as if it had. The blood
froze in his veins so that his face had
a pinched, old look. He bent stiffiy
with a slow reluctance, utterly unlike
himself, and picked up something here,
over here another something, and he
stood up, looking at them in the palm
Iof his hand.
Two pieces Of broken match Two
pieces fitting together snapped
in the fingers and dropped. Babe Z!
Babe, a Poole killer!
Bushwhacking nesters from behind
rocks; that's what he was doing.
Playing the kid for a sucker. Lay on
the bunk, pretending he was reading
storybooks all evening-hell Lay
there planning how he'd go out next
morning and dry-gulch some poah'
devil of hester, that's what! Babe!
Pecos had to use his horse sense
and take the full responsibility OF
getting back up on Big Bench, tor the
kid Just climbed into the saddle-his
foot fumbling like drunken mans
for the stirrup-and rode unseeing ly
away from that hellish spot, where ne
had seen the fair face of friendship
blacken and shrink to grinnlng
deaths head before him.
He ought to have known, that first
day. He ought to have seen that Babe
Garner had fired that rifle shot not to
save the kids life, but because he
wanted to make certain Nate Whee-
Ter was dead.
Up on the Bench there the other
day, riding over to talk to Jess Mar
kel. Babe lied and the kid knew he
! lied-and then had to go and swallow
what Babe told him about that talk.
Babe more'n likely told Jess all about
Tiger Eye Reeves, and helped Jess
plan how he could get him. Damn
| foo1-let Babe lie him blind. A cold
blooded killer like that!
Kill the kid some of these days,
more'n likely.
He remembered the look on Babes
| face as he stood outside the Poole
mess house, watching Jess Markell go
by with his bandaged hands.
Babe had lighted cigarette. He
snapped the match in two-like these
pieces, here in the kids paln-and
looked at the kid and said he'd rather
be dead than crippled like that.
The kids clenched hand rested on
the saddle horn and his head was
bowed, his cleft chin resting on the
soft folds OF his silk neckerchief. His
eyes were staring. He saw Babe, in a
new and terrible guise.
He was seeing Babe standing by the
kitchen table, looking down at his shat
Babe say, "Put bullet through my
damn brain, Tiger Eye! I'd rather
be dead than like this" He was see
ing bullet hole turn blush in Babes
| forehead!
| The kid started and looked around
like one suddenly awakened from
nightmare. He was on the last slope
of the ridge running up to the tiny
walled-in basin where Babes cabin
stood snugly sheltered against a split
peak.
/ He gave himself little shake, snap
ped back to clear and pitiless think
ing. He lifted his head, pursed his
stiffened lips and whistled the signal
of all Poole riders. Babe pulled oper
the door and stood there grinning as
the kid rode up. The kid grinnee
back at Babe, but his eyes gave then
warning. His blue left eye was squint
ing and the amber right eye wa;
opened full and had the baleful stare
/ of tiger stalking his kill
"Well, yuh made it ahead of th'
Nogales international., 1931-06-24
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Nogales international., 1931-06-24

Bids opened for draining and
grading 13 miles Of Pine -Winslow
highway in Coconino National For
est.
Nogales international., 1931-06-24

Williams Tennis courts planned
.or LEGAL school.
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03
GAS IS READY FOR USE in RI.
HOMES and BUSINESS HOUSES
GAS COMPANY FINISHES.
INSTALLATION OF
CITY MAINS

Work ON the Red Lodge natural
gas system was completed last
week by the Phoenix Utility COM
pany. T. R. Wortham, construc-.
tion superintendent, made a final
check of the job and announced
that everything is ready for the
opening of the city mains and SER
vice taps.
Natural gas was used for the
first time in Red Lodge this week
during the cooking demonstration
conducted by the gas company at
the Elks club, a special service
having been run in from the Dry
Creek tap for the demonstration.
Gas will flow in the city pipes
as soon as the regulating station
is ready for operation. A regu-
lator brought to Red Lodge for
installation in the service build
ing north of town was found to
be unsuitable for use here, and
changes are now being made. The
tieing in of service lines to dwell
ings and business houses, started
several weeks ago, is being con-
tinued, and a crew of service rig
gers will remain here this fall to-
handle the necessary work.
The Phoenix company closed it's
office here and moved its equip
ment out this week, having COM
pleted its part in the moderniz-
ing of Red Lodge. Superintendent
| Wortham goes from here to Hous-
ton, Texas.
Although delays in the construc-
CONTINUED on page Al
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03
ROADS NEAR LUTHER
IMPROVED BY COUNTY
GRADING MACHINERY

County road outfits are active
on several stretches this week,
with improvements on other coun-
ty routes to be made before win
ter sets in this year.
A new power shovel for road
making purposes. recently secured
by the county, has been set to
work near the road east of Luther,
gouging out gravel to be spread
on the road surface. Under di-
rection of J. M. Anderson, COM
missioner for that district, three
road outfits have been engaged ON
the county road on either side of
Luther.
With caterpillar tractors, grad
ers and rooters are being operated.
One outfit has been widening the
road by carving off a section of
the bank, and the bitches are be-
ing deepened all along the way.
Graders and scrapers are laying
the new gravel.
A sixty-horsepower caterpillar,
working with an elevator-scraper,
has been going over the road be-
tween Roberts and Fox.
At the meeting of the board of
county commissioners to be held
next Monday, budgets for the
county roads recently drafted will
be taken under consideration, and
plans for road work will be dis
cnssed. The schedule for all inn
provement to be done on the roads
this fall and next spring may be
arranged next week.
In order to clear up the right.ot
way for the proposed road between
Bearcreek and Beifry, it was nee
essary for the county to file CON
demnation proceedings against
landholders in that vicinity, az
offers to purchase land for th'
road were refused. The desired
right-of-way is a stretch of almos
mile across property of Jaco
and Joseph Olenik and John Sch
lover.
The new Belfry-Bearcreek roa'
will follow the Montana, Wyomin.
and Southern railway for most o
L
it's length, cutting out unnecessar,
distance as well as a number 0
hills and cruves. The necessit
for a shorter and better road 0,
that route has been apparent fo
some time, the present road bein
inconvenient and at times unsafe
particularly when rains have turn
ed its clay surface into slipper
gunbo.
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03
fROMBERG COMES OUT
AHEAD Of LOCAL Nine
IN SUNDAYS CONTEST
PLENTY OF HITS, BUT ERRORS
ARE COSTLY IN CLOSE
FOUGHT GAME

After nine innings played on the
Red Lodge diamond last Sunday,
the score recorded was Red Lodge,
8, Fromberg, 10, the upshot of
the game not having been deter
mined until the last inning ended.
Too frequent errors on the part
Of the Red Lodge team cost the
game. as the local batters outhit
the Fromberg players throughout
the contest. Six two-base hits
helped to boost the Red Lodge
score, but errors and bases allowed
on balls let in at least two From
berg runs that should not have
crossed the plate.
Yanchisin, first up for Red
Lodge, knocked a two-bagger, and
in the second inning Phillips socked
one for two bases, but it was not
until the third frame that Red
Lodge began to score. The first
Fromberg batter was walked, and
then scored on an error and a
single by Pokarney. Runs on both
sides were made consistently
throughout the rest of the game.
The only three-base hit was a
clout by Orler in the ninth inning.
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03

Forest officials of the Beartooth
division have been bearing down
on offenders against the state and
federal forest laws, in order to
impress the necessity of observance
upon the people of the district.
Several men were arrested this
week for violations of the forest
code, one Of which was the cause
of fire that was kept from as
suming serious proportions only
by the fast work of the district
rangers.
Flames broke out on the north
slope of Mt. Maurice last Sunday
evening, after a brush fire set by
Anton Razputnik had gotten be-
yond control. Head Ranger Nc
Lean and Howard Hapin, with
a hastily recruited gang of fire
fighters from Red Lodge, extin-
guished the flames after five
hours of work on the mountain.
No great damage was done, al
though the north side of Mt.
Maurice might have been stripped
bare Of timber had the wind been
blowing from the north Sunday.
Razputnik was taken before the
Justices court this week on the
charge of setting fires without
proper permit (the state laws
holding that no brush or SLASH
fires may be built between the
months of May and October with
out permission Of the forest SER
vice). He was fined $75 and the
costs Of the fire.
Joe Miller was arrested for vlo-
laticn OF the non-smokiAe rule
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03

While Engineer Mitchell and his
crews are continuing to map the
right-of-way for the Red Lodge
Cooke road between the Nordquist
ranch and Cooke, contractors out
fits are moving fast on the actual
job of road building on the two
sections that were opened to con-
struction this summer.
Following the improvement of
the roads between here and He'll
roaring creek, the road camp Of
the Morrison-Knudsen company
has been established. From the
point where the old road ended
near the place of M. E. Martin
at the mouth of Hellroaring, the
trail has been extended mile
further up the Main fork, where
the construction camp is located.
Half dozen frame buildings
have already been erected there,
and more are being built, while
the woods in that section are filled
with individual camps of workers
on the road and hangers-on vino
are seeking employment in the
project. The area at the mouth
of Quad creek has begun to take
the appearance of a mushroom
mining settlement.
The big ccok-house and mess
hall has been completed, and sew
eral bunk houses are being fin
ished. Seven bunk houses-two
story frame structures housing 40
men each-will be built before
employment on the road reaches
its peak. Other buildings are tool
houses, warehouses and stables.
The Morrison-Knudsen company
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03
MODERN SWIMMING
POOL. TO BE OPENED
TO PUBLIC SUNDAY

Opening of the new swimming
pool in Red Lodge has been an
nounced for Sunday, September 6,
by Matt Kovach, who has built
the modern natatorium on the
corner of Grant avenue and Sew
enteenth street.
The tank was given a test last
Sunday, when 100 swimmers tried
out the facilities, but it was de-
cided that additional equipment
would be installed before opening
the pool to the public. More heat
ing coils were added to the hot
water equipment, so that the water
in the tank can be brought to a
suitable temperature, especially
during the winter months.
The dimensions of the pool are
25 by IS feet, with depth that
varies from two to eight feet. The
shallow section of the tank has
been marked off with a rope cable
to make the plunge safe for young
or inexperienced swimmers.
Thirty dressing rooms are pro-
vided, and more are to be built
later. A standard diving board is
to be Installed as soon as the ap-
paratus, which has been ordered,
arrives. Before the cold weather
sets in, the building that houses
the plunge will have been finished
inside and out.
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03
RED LODGE SCHOOL
ENROLLMENTS ARE
HIGHER Than EVER
292 Students at High School
Establish Attendance Re-
cord. Grade Schools Op-
Grating to Capacity.

Registration at both the Carbon
high school and the Red Lodge
public schools has exceeded that
of last year, the attendance this
fall at the high school reaching a
record mark for that institution.
c. R. Schmidt, principal of Car
bon high, announces that 292 stu
dents had been registered as class
es opened this week. In the fresh
man class there are 95 students
who are taking up high school
work for the first time, and 70
sophomores have enrolled. The
Junior class members number II,
and the seniors AZ. Previous to
this year, $50 students have been
the greatest number in attendance
at one time, last year the student
bcdy totalling $50.
The Carbon high school build
ing also presents a better aspect
this year than it has for some time.
Complete renovation of the build
ing was effected this summer; the
rooms were repainted and decor
ated, and the whole educational
plant put in first class shape.
Full time classes began Tues
day, with few conflicts in the stu
dents schedules being noticed.
Gymnasium and first aid classes
were not started Tuesday, but will
be taken up the latter part of this
week.
Enrolment in the grade schools
this year exceeds the number Of
pupils in school last year by al
least %, says H. B. Field, city
superintendent. The Roosevelt
school has 260 pupils this year
and III have been assigned to the
Field school. Ninety-one are be.
ing taught at the jefferson, and
Continued on page 81
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03
Forest Rangers Mean Business
In Regard to Fire|aw vio|ators

in the forest. Miller, who had
been warned several times against
smoking within the preserve, was
apprehended once more last We'd
nesday and taken into custody by
L. H. Mclean, with John Berg
strand, ranger on Rock creek, as
the chief witness. He was bound
over for trial to the federal court,
on bond of $500.
Others who were picked for
carelessness and ignoring Of the
forest rules were Carlo Bruno
and Ralph Lumley, with Hiram
Biretta and Jack Gillen. 1t was
charged that these men, camping
on the Main fork of Rock creek,
left live camp fires when depart
ing from their camping places,
and were otherwise careless with
fire in tn e timbered regions.
Bruno, before Justice of the Peace
E. B. Provinse, last Tuesday paid
a fine of $40.
With the increasing number OF
camp outfits that are noticed in
the Beartooths, especially along
Rock creek, a wave of carelessness
has been endangering the timber.
The danger season in the noun
tains is not yet over, and the pos
sibility of a forest fire in the
Beartooths this fall is great. Ac-
cording to officials, the forest re-
gions are to be watched closely,
and those who continue to ignore
the warnings-conspicuously post
ed on all trails leading into the
forests-will be dealt with sum-
marily and strinigently.
The Carbon County news., 1931-09-03
Road Camp Being Built at Quad
Creek Resembles Mushroom Town

takes up its contract at a poind
above the mouth of Hellroaring
creek, about half mile up the east
mountainside from the Main fork.
In order to put machinery in place
there, it has been necessary to-
clear a trail through the rock and
timber from Hellroaring to Quad
creek.
Last week crews were busy
knocking out timber on the reg
ular contract rout. The line for
the first switchback has BEEN
cleaked, and crews are pushing
the trail further up the steep
mountainside every day. Others
near the road camp have thrown
temporary bridges across the Main
fork to facilitate the movement of
equipment.
The big gasoline shovel thai
cleared the way to Quad creek wad
stabbed for repairs last week at
the camp. After a thorough
grooming by mechanics it will bd
ready to tear into the granite OF
the mountain, assisted by the
smaller power shovels and graders
that are being laid down at tha
camp.
Reports from the other end in-
dicate that McNutt and Pyle have
been demonstrating the efficient
usages of the bulldozer in road
construction, while planning off the
rough ground north of Nordquist's-
The outfits have reached Lake
creek, and within a month are ex-
pected to be fairly well past the
Bears Tooth.