The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-15
Treasure State
News in Brief

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in justice court on
charges in connection with a recent robbery
here, Remus w. Tanner, %, pleaded 1nno-
cent and was held in default OF $500 bond.
BILLINGS-Funeral services were held here
for L. B. Heffron. 81. miner. crushed to death
when a boulder fell on him in a mishap at
a Butte NINE.
DIXON-Ten wPA workers are construct
Ing a lo-car garage at tn the ,9 Piasnea ssrv In
employees who are car owners. The project
will cost about $4,000.
STEvENSvILLE-H. s. st. John, Stevensvine
merchant who purchased the wreckage OF
the Thomas block here. DESTROYED by fire Dec.
10 for a loss of $3.50, 900. said the building
will be replaced by a one-story structure,
BnLINGs-vivian Byam. eight-year-cld
was burned painfully in a fire at the family
home, was reported 'out OF danger" at a
hospital here.
BTLLINGS-Henry L. Myers. Billings at
torney and former United States senator from
been confined for several weeks. He was in
jured in q fall on an icy sidewalk near the
postoffice.
MISSOULA-Forest service officials have
seeded Ct acres Of land in the Lo Lo. Cabinet
and Beaverhead national forests with sew
eral varieties Of range Grass as part Of an
experiment to develop an inexpensive means
to rehabilitate depleted range.
BUTTE-Police Officer Eddie o'connor left
q Few Gays ago TO enron IN the lZ-Week course
given by the federal bureau Of Investigation.
Accompanying him was o. j. Shaw, delutJ
sheriff Of Elmore county. Idaho. Officer
o'Connor is the only Montana policeman to
attend the school.
MISsoULA-District Judge Asa L. Duncan,
who retired from the bench here the first
Of the year. was the second Oldest trial judge
in Montana in continuous service, having
is surpassed only by the service Of judge
Il. H. Ewing Of Great Falls.
RINGLING-Afred Skaarland. Al. wa found
dead in a sheep wagon at the John Lucas
ranch near here, apparently a suicide. Off
but could advance no reasons for his actions.
Skaarland had been employed at the Lucas
ranch for the last two years.
BILLINGs-Found on a south side street
stabbed six times in the left thigh. a man
taken to the county hospital here where Sc
stitches were taken to close his wounds. The
man refused to give his home address and
would not discuss his knife wounds with
officials.
BILLINGs-Henry S. Hammond, 10, Of Bill
lings, veteran railroad conductor on the
Billings division of the Burlington line, re-
tired from active service a few days ago
and was entered on the retirement pension
list. He has resided here ~ years. coming
to Billings with the extension Of the Bur-
nngton into this city in 1894.
DILLON-Beaverhead county has retained
It's position as Montana leaQlng livestock
county, according to word received from the
state board Of equalization. The total value
Of all livestock in the county in 1886 was
$2,579. SAT, 1t was announced. Beaverhead
county has been the leading livestock county
since local records have been kept, local Off
cials say.
MILES CITY-Richard Joseph Powers, n.
father Of Mrs. Ed Russell. died at a local
hospital here. A resident Of Prairie county
for the past 80 years. he had made his home
during the last eight years with his daughter
in Miles City. Mr.. Powers was born June II,
1859, at Chicago. and came to Prairie coun-
ty, ranching in the vicinity Of Terry, about
1905.
MISSOULA-James Lynch. relief employee, is
being held in the Missoula county jail in de-
fault Of IS. 900 bonds fcllowin his pleas OF
innocent to a manslauslltnr charge grCwIng
out Of the ALLEGED clubbin;-death Of Ed
Threlkeld. 73-yea--old Mccormick island
proprietor. Lynch is charged with beating
Threlkeld on the head with a club during
an alteration over money Lynch allegedly
owed the aged man.
BUTTE-Oeorge "Jiggs'' Dahlberg, member
of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Butte family of
Dahlbergs and now coaching basketball in
Chehalis. WASH. has applied for the coaching
Job at Montana State university next fall.
from which Coach A. ]. Lewandowski re-
signed to accept an assistant coach position
ct the University Of Nebraska. Dahlberg's
brother. Harry. Is Butte high mentor. "JisEs'
formerly coached at Miles City for three
ysafs.