Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-02
Treasure State
News in Brief

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\ Winklemans proprietor OF the Malta
4 bakery.
BOZENEAN-Gary wynne Kravik, Is.
month-old son OF Mr.. and MRS. Car
Krayik, was drowned when he fell into
an irrigation ditch across the road
from the family home near here.
GREAT FALTS-John Powers, 81, OF
Hot Springs was found dead IN the
mountains near Neihart. Death was
attributed TO q heart attack. Powers
operated mine near Neihart.
Observation-Disclosures at Mon
tana State university for the first week
of the summer session bore out ad-
vance predictions for a record-breaSing
figure when $40 students were counted.
CONRAD-Mrs. Joe Stanton, 90, was
drowned in a reservoir near the family
ranch home south Of Conrad. Relatives
said they believed she became III and
fell into the water while sitting on the
bank bathing her feet.
FORT PECK-The lake forming be-
hind the Fort Peck dam has claimed
its first drowning victim Howard
White, %, Of Fort Peck, government
truck driver, sank In 20 feet Of water
near the edge Of the lake and drowned.
BUTTE-Timothy J. Sullivan, SO,
Butte, was drowned while crossing the
Big Hole river on barge, near Dewey.
Sullivan, proprietor of a sheet metal
and radiator works here, had taken his
family on fishing trip.
LEWTSTOWN-The board Of county
commissioners appointed John Kalal as
county weed commissioner. He viii
supervise weed control and promote
the destruction Of noxious weeds
throughout Fergus county.
CHOTEAU-Frank LaRoque, SO, died
from injuries received when he was
struck by lightning. LaRoque, employed
as a sheepherder on the Hamilton Tay-
lor Sheep Co. ranch, was found un- |
Of Birch creek.
HARLEM-Jack Butler, superinten- |
dent Of the Chinook sugar factory, was
killed here when wing OF the plane he
was plotting crumpled and the ship
crashed to the ground. The accident oc-
CURED about q mile north OF this city's
airport
BUTTE-Albert j. Ball of Anaconda
was sentenced to life imprisonment in
the state penitentiary at Deer Lodge
by District Judge ]. j. Lynch after
he pleaded guilty here TO first degree
murder charges. Ball was accused OF
Staying his wife, Nina Daniels Ball,
here April IA.
HELENA-The state land board has
purchased $4,000 in refunding bonds
of school district No. 8 at Browning,
$I7,5O0 worth Of waterWOrkS improve
ment bonds of the city OF Townsend
and S. 600 worth of improvement bonds
issued by Sanders county high school
district No. IA Of Hot Springs.
NA-Administrator L. M A.
Wass of the Montana liquor control
board ordered enforcement officers to
investigate reports brewers have fur
nished Montana retailers with fixtures
and equipment. The administrator said
such practice was violation OF the
states beer law.
HELENA-The state liquor control
board declared another dividend Of
100000 from the profits OF the state s
bringing the total declared
for the year TO $500, 900. A 100000
dividend has been declared by the
board at each Of its monthly meetings
during 1888.
KALTSPELL-A caravan Of teachers
and students from the Nebraska State
Teachers college at Chadron, Neb., on
a study tour Of the northwest VIII visit
KalispeI Aug. IL, according to word
received by Chief Levi Gaustad from
Or. Calvin McKim. head Of the depart
ment Of geology.
HELENA-F1nal date In Montana forl
the acceptance Of farmers appica-i
tons for crop insurance to cover the
1899 winter wheat crop has been fixed
as Aug. 20 by the board Of directors Of
the federal crop insurance corporation
Roy M. Green. manager, has an
nounced.
KALTSPELLr-In cooperation with
the city, the Flathead Pioneer aSSo-
citation Is planning erection Of q monu-
ment to Charles E. and Alicia Conrad,
F1athead pioneers, in Woodland park
n commemoration of their gift of thel
site to the city Dedication has been
tentatively scheduled for Aug. 7.
BELGRADE-By vote OF 2Ss to 46,
the Belgrade high school district ap-
proved q bond issue for the construc-i
lion and equipment OF q new hight
school building at a total cost Of
s60, 600. Word was received by the
school authorities that q $4,000 PWA
lllocation had been approved.
BUTTE-Surprising the court and
tate, Albert j. Ball pleaded guilty to
! charge OF murder in the first degree.
fudge J. J. Lynch sentenced Ball to
life Imprisonment at hard labor in the
tate prison at Deer Lodge. Ball pre-
viously pleaded not guilty to the murder
4 his wife last April.
KALTSPELL-Voters Of KaispeII
ichool district No. approved, by a
yote of 686 to SO, an $50 800 bond issue,
]roceeds OF which will be used for con-
truction of two new school buildings
lere. The public works administration
las made a. grant of $67, 500 to the
chool district to aid in financing the
program.
LTBBY-The st. Johns Lutheran
hUrch congregation celebrated its 25th
anniversary recently. Two visiting min
sters, the Rev. e. Ziegler of Helena and
he Rev. p. e. Rohlfing Of Omaha, had
,arfe in the servina THE first. SERVICE