Montana oil and mining journal., 1935-04-27
Treasure State
News in Brief

aFrcoNR e,TTY-This Fort Peck boom koau
now boasts Of population Of 600 residents
HUTTK-A6ore than 500 Butte business Is
tabiIshments closed their doors from e %
In observance OF Good Friday
BuLINGs-wnuam Jones. s., carpenEe
I and caretaker for the BiIlings brewery afncl
/ 1908. died after an extended illness.
yALTRR-The first shipment Of equipmen
for the new road Job vest OF Waller arrived
recently and It is expected work wih start a
soon as weather conditions permit
RsIssOULA-AGissoula will go western" X
typical manner July and IN revival q
the pony express. DR.. O. H. Stevens Is genera
chairman Of the event.
| HAvRE- Horses belonging 20 Tomilson &
! Arkwright Of Great Fails, who have the con-
tract for the extension or the WIG Horse
tran. were brought to Havre recently.
BULINGg-PFeparatory excavation work fol
the construction Of administration and edu-
cationaI units Of the Eastern Montana Nor
NAL school started recently.
COLUMBIA FALLs-Joseph Imholt, who as q
carpenter worked on the first building erected
on the present site Of Kalispeii, died at his
home here. BE was 81.
RIssOULA-From 40 to so carloads Of hay
are being loaded daily in western Montana
for shipment into eastern drouth counties and
into the Dakotas and Wyoming.
LIVINGsTON-Lillian Carroll has enlisted
the aid Of eastern Montana authorities IN
searching for Charles A. Carroll, alias Moore,
q maker Of artificial flowers
GREAT FALLs-A searchlight which for
years stood atop q business building here
casting its rays far beyond the city limits,
has been purchased BY the city for $500 and
will be installed at the airport.
MIssoULA-Frank Vessel, Grizzly grid and
Tenn, for tryout with the Southern associa-
tion team Of that city. He Is from Round
up
LIvNGsToN-Aayor Walter House an
nouneed he would appoint David Fitzgerald,
Livingston attorney and graduate Of the
State university law school, as city attorney
when the mayor takes office in May.
BILLINGs-Dr. Wendell s. Brooks, OF Bill-
inRs Polytechnic institute. Is the author Of
an article entitled Cabot on the College
Curriculum" in the current issue Of School
and Society" q periodical Of education.
AEAREAEOTH-Low hanging clouds, fog and
genuine poor visibility all throughout this area
have delayed q final airplane count Of the
elk herd in northern Yellowstone park, Of
ficihls announce.
MTssOULA-Mountain lions grow big IN
Mineral county. william and Charles McGee
exhibited two huge animals here. both trap
ped in the Ward creek district, one Of which
measured 10 feet from nose to tail.
DILLON-Approximateiy 200 Geo workers
win be stationed at q camp on Birch creek
this summer. The principal project win be the
construction Of AZ miles Of road, including one
from Birch creek to Elkhorn, another from
Birch creek to the Argenta vicinity.
LIVRGsTON-Five Livingston and Boze-
man young men we're injured when their car
skidded ON ice Of the West Yellowstone route
and overturned John McConville Jr., Of Boze-
man, the most seriously hurt, was taken TO
the hospital.
BILLNGs-Beautificati work has started
on the federal building grounds here. The
program includes planting SO trees and 80
bushes and seeding the entire lawn. The same
type of program Is IN progress at the federal
building in Helena.
BOULDER-At a special election held re-
Gently high school district No. voted to
receive the sum Of $1,000 from the public
works administration. The sum will be used
to repair the roof Of the school building and
tc install q new heating plant.
GREAT FALLs-George Chick" Brown,
Great Falls air pilot, probably won't bother
to have the airport lights turned on when
they are available, for he nov has 100 hours
flying time by dark with a number OF land
ings on unlighted fields.
BUTTE-As the result Of a saloon brawl,
Fred Lammi, "a, is in st. James hospital with
dangerous knife wound just below his heart,
and Jacob Makd is held by police for cues
tioning in connection with the assault. Both
are miners.
GREAT FALLs-Local borrowers from the
Home Owners Loan corporation have been
permitted to make monthly repayments to
state headquarters here as q matter Of con-