The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-08-14
Treasure State
News in Brief

drunken driving and was fined $50.
NANHATTAN-Mrs. Minnie Decker. 80. for
mar Belgrade hotel operator. succumbed to
Illness q few days ago in Oregon.
vALIER-Edward Hostetter. IS. a resident
Il the Waller vicinity since 1916, died at his
ranch home a few days ago following an
extended illness.
he other day peacefully feeding at the Frank
Aarchesseau ranch in plain view Of the
highway.
LIvINGSTON-Dr. L. H. Huber, prominent
en-. enr. nose and throat specialist, died at
Es home here a few days ago. He was SIS
and had been in falling health for some time.
ANACONDA-Seventy-ei ght men and women
IN Deer Lodge county received their first old
age pension checks a few days ago under the
Montana pension plan.
BILLINGS-Funds aailable for water con-
servation projects in Montana under the
bureau of reclamation for the fiscal year of
1o36-1937 amount to So. 1875 900.
H. 'tScotty" Martin, formerly
Of the GLASGOW Country club, has been named
professional and caretaker of the Havre
Country club.
BHLINGS-Harry Alexander Milohov. in
FAINT son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Milohov,
q Billings, was drowned when he fell into
an irrigation ditch on the George Milohov
farm five miles east of Pompey's Pillar.
LvINGSTON-The chief Yellowstone park
ranger's daily travel report the other day
showed an increase of 10000 visitors to the
area this year as compared with the same
date last year.
BUTTE-Joe Heimes was named Great Nor
them railway general agent for Butte. sue
.ceeding the late w. L. Rooth. c. F. OHara, as
sistant general freight and PASSENGER agent
for the road, announces.
MISSoULA-Dr. George Finlay Simmons,
president of Montana State university. left
for the middle west to study courses OF in
structioin at various universities ana COL
leges.
BUTTE-United States secret service head
quarters here will be moved to Spokane, Wash.
The office has as its territory Montana,
northern Idaho and eastern WaShlneton ana
was moved here 10 months ago from Spokane.
DUTToN-Breaking all past records for
maturity. wheat crops in the Dutton area
were ready for harvest in exactly 80 days
from the time of seeding. The usual length of
time necessary to brinG wheat to the harvest
stage is estimated at lis to lei days.
BUTTE-First aid teams from the Anselmo
and Leonard mines tied for first honors IN
the annual first aid contest sponsored by the
United States bureau of mines and the bu-
reau of safety Of the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Co.
LIvINGSToN-Northern Pacific officials
said the job of removing abandoned tracks
from Butte to north VAUDEVILLE is nearing
completion and 100, 900 pounds OF steel rails
removed will be exported to Japan for use as
scrap in japanese mills.
HELENA-The 1896 lamb crop in Montana
Is estimated at 2,219.0O0 head, slightly under
the crop of last year and 10 percent less
than that of 1894, in the July report issued
By Jay G. Diamond. statistician Tor the OIL
vision Of crop and livestock estimates.
COLUMBIA FALLS-Eisht CCC youths were
injured. two of them recurring hospital treat
nent, when the truck in which they were
riding from the Olney camp to Bolton Tor a
baseball game overturned about a mile south
Of here.
BUTTE-Walter Hayden. arrested for vag-
rancy, went through the pockets Of six other
occupants of a police patrol car on its way
to the station and had removed from them
among other things. army discharge papers
Of one OF the men.
HARLEM-Lewis Stone. 20, Of Fort DODGE.
La, suffered a serious foot injury when ne
fell from a freight train in the yards mere.
He was removed to a Havre hospital. Stone
said he had been at work IN the 1oano
woods and was enroute to Michigan.
COWS bound for market
were killed, IT other animals were dumped
ont to roam on the highway and a truck
belonging to Harold Lindstrand Of Grass
Range was badly damaged in an accident q
short time ago on a highway Is miles west
Of here.
WHITEFISH-The first convention Of the
International Four States Highway associa-
,tton will be held at Whitefish, Sept. 10: the
association was organized at Las vegas
NCv.p Hi IlAo SCdA W %
.provement and betterment of United States
highway 90, traversing the states of Montana,
Idaho, California and Nevada.
'~RONAN-Roy Downs. whose farm is To-
Gated four miles southeast OF st. ~1gnatius,
was in Roman the other day displaying some
alfalfa that measured "a inches without the
root. His peas were also Of exceptional quail
tty. some pods being three inches in length.
filled solidly and with an average of eight
peas to the pod. Alfalfa throughout the valley
= very good this year. 1t is more free from
weeds than for a number Of years.
YELLOWSTONE PARK-George wilderspin,
Fort Worth, Tex. cowboy, made a wilder spin
With his lariat than he expected when he
roped q cub bear in the national park. The
bears mother objected when Wilderspin,
VINO had been camping at Madison Junction,
dropped a moose neatly over her offspring's
head. The cowboy dropped the rope when
mamma bear started toward him. The rope
became entangled in a tree and the cub
was choked to death. Park rangers arrested
Wflderspin. !