The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-09-10

Treasure State
News in Brief
clock in the city hall belfry is being renovated
and repaired. and will soon be in service
again. Funds to repair the clock were raised
by popular subscription.
LIVINGSTON-Worms used as bait by many
fishermen in Yellowstone national park come
all the way from California. Local express
company officials report one shipment. the
seasons largest. weiehed $50 pounds.
MISSOULA-Adam Stein. prominent Mis-
Soula tailor since 1908, died suddenly at his
home here. an hour after he had said good
night to friends with whom he had spent
the evening playing cards.
WHITEFISH-Two members of the Wnitefish
police force. the cashier of the city water
office, the caretaker at the municipal SWIM
ming beach and the custodian of the city
dump have received raises in pay. The in
creases we're voted recently by the city council.
DILLoN-Sacajawea park, roadside memoir
ial to the Indian woman who guided Lewis
and Clark through. the northwest, is nearing
completion near Armstead on highway No.
81. The date for formal dedication of the
memorial had not been set.
BILLINGs-The fourth Montana field office
of the United States social security board will
be opened here soon. with Miss Olga Stromset,
formerly of Miles City. in charge. Other Of
fices of the social security board are located
at Helena, Butte and Havre.
DILLON-A peat bed fire burning in waste
land on the Ike Rife ranch in the Medicine
Lodge district IS miles south of here was
eXtinguished by a crew of CCC enrollees after
it had covered an area of approximately 20
acres. Little actual damage was caused by
the fire. it was reported.
ANACONDA-More than 1855 Of Anaconda's
estimated 1900 school students have been vac
cinated against smallpox since the state board
OF health ruled pupils in Silver Bow and Deer
Lodge counties could not enter school this
fall unless they had been vaccinated, DR.. J. l..
O'Rourke, city physician, said.
GLASGOW-Ffve Glasgow sportsmen. M. F.
Gould said, would invade the wilds of the
Hudson Bay shore in northern Canada for a
month of hunting and fishing soon after
Sept. l. Gould, who made the same trip two
years ago. said the party hoped to obtain a
polar bear.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK-An un-
identified youth escaped with a bad scare
and soaked clothing when he slipped into the
river while walking near a trail
extricated himself from the predicament with
out aid.
GREAT FALLS-In an effort to curb petty
crime in Great Falls, the police department
has commenced taking fingerprints Of all sus-
poets arrested. Chief Of Police Harold M. Mady
said. A large percentage of the persons finger
printed, he said. have been found to be
transients.
FALLS-Robert c. Bates. one of
two Rhodes scholarship winners from the
section of the United States,
left Great Falls for New York, from where he
will sail Sept. 28 for England to enter oxford
university. The other scholar chosen from the
northwest was Wallace Brooks, of Helena.
HAvRE-R. H. (Gus) Wylie will return to
Havre high school this fall as director Of
athletics and coach of the football and bas-
ketball teams, school officials announced after
previously having said Wylie had resigned. He
has been employed during the summer by
the United States department of the interior
at Holbrook. Ariz.
HAvRE-Dr. Keith M. Seymour, Of Reed
college, Portland, Ore, will be in charge of
the chemistry department at Northern Mon
tana college during the coming school year.
He will replace DR.. I. 3. Douglas, department
head, who has obtained a leave of absence
to do advanced work at Harvard university,
where he has a research fellowship.
MISSOULA-Forest fires during 1887 in the
national forests of the northern Rocky noun
tain region have burned over less than one
tenth as much acreage as did blazes in 1896,
forest officials announced. Total acreage
burned over this year was announced as
about 1000 acres compared with 30,970 acres
burned over at the same time a year ago.
GREAT ~FALLS-The first Montana women's
state softball tournament held here, was won
Hi-Powers in second place. The Great Falls
team defeated Missoula in the final game,
40 to 10. The local squad Is now eligible to
participate in the national tournament in
Chicago Sept. 10. II and IL.
BUTTE-Joseph Miller Jr.. IL. was reported
in q fio rNp|iftNr - n ~ h1.~st
as the result Of losing both legs when run
over by a Butte, Anaconda & Pacific ore
train. Trainmen flagged a passing motorist
and the boy was taken to the hospital. He
is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Miller of
this city.
chauncey Miller. escaped Montana state
prison inmate. meant two more years added
to his term. Miller, who escaped Feb. l and
was recaptured is days later, was sentenced
to serve two years for breaking Jail by Judge
R. E.. McHugh in the district court. He was
serving a 10-year sentence for forgery i'm
posed by the Richland county district court.
STANFORD-Live millers have proved the
undoing of trout in the south crater lake Of
Old Badly. Ralph Jorgenson. fire guard on
Old Badly. telephoned to Stanford that seven
trout were taken by Clarence o. Westman
and Fred Coleman, miners in Elk gulch. The
%. They were native cutthroat and were
cought late in the day. The men stayed all
night in the crater.
MILES CITY-Returning from the north
where he negotiated for a big bunch of horses,
J. M. Venable Of this city indicated that when
he trails them south to the Yellowstone it
may be that he will swim the horses across
that stream. Il am not sure about that, how
ever said Mr.. Venable. land it all depends
on Just where We strike the river when we
get the bunch down. We plan to follow the
grass as much as possible In order to bring
| the animals in in good shape"