The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-07-23
Treasure State
News in Brief

HAvRE-Excavation of the stilling basin
below the spillway on the Fresno dam has
been completed and preparations are being
made for pouring spillway concrete.
WHITEFISH-J. A. Monk. 80. W
and cabinet maker. died at his home here
Saturday Of a heart ailment. He was a pioneer
of this section.
BUTTE-Butte's police officers laid aside the
trim military caps of their uniforms a few
days ago and donned 10-gallon sombreros to
advertise the seventh annual Butte champion
ship rodeo.
manufactured for construction Of a pro-
posed gas distribution system in this city has
been awarded formally by the city council to
the J. L.. McLaughlin Construction firm, Of
Great Falls.
HELENA-With many new accounts created
by the 1897 legislature. the office Of the state
auditor has set up books to handle added ap-
propriations totaling 5,s7s.4o3 The books now
contain 467 separate accounts:
WIBAUx-Two cases of typhoid fever have
developed in Wibaux county, the patients be-
ing Laura Reed. who is at the Glendive hos
pital and AL Ley. who is at the Dickinson
hospital.
THOMPSON FALLS-Contractors for the
Clarks Fork rural Identification line conferred
here with George Graham, president Of the
association sponsoring the project, on plans
for start of construction. Engineer Dwight
Henderson also attended the conference.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS has a woman justice
Of the peace-something new in Montana ju-
dicial circles. She Is Mrs. Ray Henroid, ap-
pointed to the post by the county commission
ers to complete the unexpired term Of her
husband. Ray Henroid. who died June S in
the Veterans hospital at Fort Harrison.
show effects of the hot weather until a few
days ago when several showers fell. Farmers
in the vicinity have started to harvest their
first cutting of alfalfa and report harvests
below normal but almost equal to that prO-
duced last year.
BIG TIMBER-St. Joseph's Catholic church
of this city is making improvements to the
church here and will build a 22-foot addition.
Shue Of Columbus. is the priest in charge
here and the work is being done under his
supervision.
MISSOULA-c. G.. Polk of Portland. Ore,
has arrived here on ASSIGNMENT as associate
highway engineer for the Montana district.
bureau of public roads. to succeed the late
E. M. Hulce. Polk has been with the service
since 1916. working mainly in the Pacific
coast territory west of the Cascade range.
BUTTE-Bitten by a woodtick. Clarence o.
Martin. So. a signal man at Willow creek for
the Milwaukee railroad. is a raticnt at st.
James hospital. suffering from spotted fever.
Hospital attendants expect him to recover.
Martin was bitten June 81. but was not
broueht to Butte for several DAYS. His wife
is in constant attendance at his bedside.
BIG T1MBER-At the last regular meeting
Of the Carnegie library board. Arthur Schimp
was appointed to fill the unexpired term of
J. B. Kinds who had resigned. Mr.. Kinds re-
SIGNED when he found he was leaving Big
Timber for the west coast. Mr.. Schimp is
connected with the Sweet Grass count. high
school here.
RELATIONSHIPS by a truck driven by
Ralph Dougherty of the Big Hole road, a COW
moose received three broken legs and had to be
killed, it was reported here. Melvin Larson and
G.. M. Grandbork went to the scene of the
mishap and buried the COW which had been
shot. Efforts were underway to locate a calf
thought to have been hidden in nearby bushes.
Dougherty escaped injury in the crash.
MILES CITY-Three Minnesota youths are
in custody here. two charged with burglary
and one with being an accessory. Police head
quarters announced Officer Vern Handley cap
tured Vern Allyn, 10, of Minneapolis and
Harold Rodman, 10. of Brainerd. in the Custer
Motor building, allegedly in the act of rob-
bling. The third member OF the trio. Anthony
First Of Red Wing, was taken into custody
later in a car owned by the two.
LIVINGSTON-Deputy Sheriff Albert Nickel
son shot the gun from the hand of a suspect,
in a pistol duel at night in the Northern Pa
cific railroad yards here. AS the officer ap-
preached the man for QUESTIONING. two shots
rang out and a bullet cut through the officers
shirt, passing between his right arm and
body. The officer drew his gun and fired
twice. When he arrived ut the spot where the
shots came from he found a blood-covered.
badly damaged gun apparently shot out of
the mans hand.