Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-06-20
THE Carbon
CONF
Condensed paragraphs review
ing highlights OF events during
the week in national, state,
county and local affairs


Anyone who thinks that sheriff
officers live the life of Riley prob
ably hasn't heard the latest trou-
bles of Undersheriff Bill Moore,
Jr. 1t wasn't very long ago hat
the undersheriff was awakened
from his matutinal slumbers at 4
a. m. to investigate a report of a
stolen car that wasn't "stolen,"
and only recently he climbed five
miles up a steep mountain trail to
locate a 16-year-old boy reported
by his parents as lost, only to have
it turn out that the boy wasn't
"lost." The boy, it seems, went to
Basin lake to do a little fishing
for a couple of days. When he
failed to show up after the length
of time designated for his return
home, his parents became worried
and notified the sheriff's office.
Moore found the boy nonchalantly
casting his line into the waters of
the lake with apparently no
thought of time and worried par
ents. The "stolen car" episode
was described by Moore as the do
ings of "some darned fool who
should have known better"
Scenic beauty, everyone will adj
nit, is the most highly praised
feature of the Red Lodge-Cooke
City national park approach road.
Nature was in a generous mood
when she endowed the region
which the route ~traverses with
such magnificent splendor. Now
comes man and his commercialism
to destroy and defaee her handi-
work-with billboards! It's an
old menace and n that has been
fought for years by lovers of ma
ture. Already, before even the
completion of the Cooke route,
signs, blaring forth commercial
messages, are beginning to bob
up along the route like dandelions
on an unkept lawn. The menace is
just getting a foothold and should
be nipped in the bud. 1t probably
cannot be done away with alto
gether, but it could be curbed and
controlled, a suggestion that The
Commentator respectfully passes
along to those that can do the
most about it.
There's to be no race for the Of
fices of governor and lieutenant
governor in the Montana primary
election of July II. The state SUI
preme court decided so Wednes-
day, dismissing the applications
of seven who had asked that the
secretary of state be required to
accept their petitions for the two
offices, and SCATTERING the hopes
of four others who had submitted
nominating petitions for official
acceptance. The petitioners con-
tended that vacancies existed in
the offices through the resigna-
tion of j. E. Erickson as governor,
who later accepted the appoint
ment to fill the unexpired term of
the late Senator T. j. Walsh from
his successor, Frank H. Cooney,
ex-lieutenant governor. Whatever
the actual reasons of the petition
ers were, and some hold that they
were merely "ripples on the sur
face" one fact stands clear in the
fracas: that there are still plenty
of good men and true who would
gladly fill the duties of Montana's
highest offices.
Keeping up with the publicity
extended Red Lodge and the new
Red Lodge-Cooke City highway to
Yellowstone park by various news
papers and magazine publications
is getting to be quite a job. The
latest is the nearly full page de-
voted to this region in the June
issue of Hot Lines, employees pub
LEGATION of the Montana Power
company. The publication gives a
detailed account of the scenic won
ders of the highway, describes the
new municipal tourist park, devel-
opment of the chrome deposits,
the Cooke mining region and the
pea cannery and liquor distillery
here. The article is illustrated
with a view of the switchback
route of the new highway and a
group picture of the personnel OF
tha Montana Power branch office