Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-11
Treasure State
News in Brief

, moving automobile driven by Eugen
Robinson, II, of Conrad.
BIALTA-Ernest Paynter, 10, was in
staptly killed on the highway nea
Lakeside when he stepped in front o
a car driven by Paul Merkowitz o
Malta.
LEWISTOWN-Ackley lake has beer
the mecca Of hundreds Of visitors re-
Gently to watch the flow Of water intC
the lake structure which was completed
last fall
TOWNSEND-The American Mining
Co. has sold its interests in mining
/ property located in four Montana
Il counties and the state of Idaho to
Amelia H. Kleinschmidt Of Helena.
ROY-Chicken pox has been spread
ing in Roy for two months. About half
Of the enrolment of the grade and
high schools contracted it. The cpl
demic was at its height just after the
closing Of school for vacation.
HELENA-James E. Kreigh was
/ elected commander of Lewis and Clark
/ post No. 2, American Legion, here. He
/ succeeds George A. Davis, who has
I served for the past year. Kreigh has
been active in the affairs Of the post.
HARLOWTON-Joseph CPaD OHal-
loran, while patient in a local hos
! pital, committed suicide by slashing
/ his wrists with a safety razor blade.
A bridegroom Of six weeks, he was
separated from his wife.
FORT BENTON-A community rec
reational center is being planned for
Fort Benton in the old high school
gymnasium building. Quite a bit Of
work has been done already on the
building by relief labor.
ANACONDA four-pound willow
grouse's venture into educational realms
ended fatally here. 1t plunged through
the heavy plate glass window of the
county school superintendent office
and slid for 80 feet along the floor,
its neck broken.
GREAT FALLS-The Missouri river
reached its highest stage at Great Falls
since 1888, with an average flow of
$500 cubic feet a second. One family
of seven was forced to abandon their
home situated on Walker island about
II miles south of the WaterWorks.
neutrality-suspicious. of the Mon
tana state prison at Deer Lodge de-
creased 10 during May, Warden Theo-
dore r. Bergstrom reported. He said
the total number of inmates at the
institution on June l was $50, COM
pared with 578 on the first day OF May.
GREAT FALLS-Local precipitation
for the first four months of 1888 tOtaled
sol inches as compared with the 40
year average Of asa for the like months
from 1892 through 1887, Dan Thurber,
county agent, finds. February brought
Sc of an inch; March, As; April, .27,
and May, 3.72 inches.
BUTTE-Judge J. j. Lynch Of the
Silver Bow county district court dis
missed a 4l-year-old suit to quiet title.
The action, filed Mar. 6, 1897, by A. j.
Davis against Charles E. Dickerman
and others, asked the court to de-
termine property title following a
judgment in 1890.
HELENA-Injuries suffered when
struck by an automobile caused the
death here Of Mrs. Edna G. Palmer, 20.
Mrs. Palmer was daughter Of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Hedges, Helena
pioneers. Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Paul Brazier of Helena, and a
brother, Henry Hedges of Saco.
HARLOWTON-Wor on the upper
MuSselsheu project is in full swing
with $50 men employed on the project,
drawn from the unemployment service
lists Of Wheatland and Meagher coun-
ties. Relief clients have been given first
call. Marginal cases will soon be given
employment.
HELENA-The state supreme court
denied a petition for q rehearing of
the case Of E. G.. Toomey against the
state land board to prevent entrance Of
the state into cooperative working
agreements with private companies on
state owned oil lands. The attorney
generals office requested the rehearing.
BUTTE-Butte police made 444 ar
rests. during May, resulting, in revenue
of 81 35350 from fines and bond for
FIXTURES, according to a report sub
mitted to the city council by Jack
Duggan, acting police chief. The larg-
est number of arrests, 122, were made
on drunkenness charges.
CHOTEAU-John Healey of Belt,
who for many years has been active
in the American Legion, was chosen
commander of the Three Rivers district
No. of the organization for the en-
suing year at the district meeting held
at Choteau. Healey succeeds Frank E.
Flaherty of Great Falls.
CHINOOK-Paul Belts, 20, was in
stantly killed at the edge of the
Chinook city limits when he was
crushed by a truckload of gravel as 1t
he was passenger. Charles Doughton,
riding beside him, and two other pas
sengers escaped injury.
MISSOULA-F. E. Buback, veteran
Northern Pacific brakeman, ended
nearly half a century of railroading
when he retired recently. His first rail-
road job was with the New York Cen
trail lines, at Cleveland, o., in 1889. He
joined the Northern Pacific in 1906.
He is SO years OF age.
BOZEMAN-Home economics stud
ents at Montana State college have
again been asked to staff the dining
room of the Gallatin GATEWAY inn this
summer, announces Miss Bertha Claw,
acting head of the home economics de-
partment who has named Is for the
work. She also has selected two men
students for summer work at the inn.
GREAT FALLS-Robert M. Schaef-
fer, %, Montana Power company work.
er, was drowned in swirling floodwaters
below Rainbow dam on the Missouri
river when he lost his balance and was
washed over the top Of the dam into
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