Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-28
Treasure State
News in Brief

BOZEMAN-State AAA executive Of
ficer, A. j. Borton, said flax matches
by a good stand of grasses or legllme
would not be classified as soil depicting
In class A Montana counties.
BOULDER-Francis Carey, son o
| Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Carey suffered
a broken rib when he slipped from {
load Of hay he was hauling. He wa.
rushed to st. James hospital in Butte
MISSOULA-walter CWally) Brad
4 shaw, 32-year- MisSoula bartender
! died at a local hospital from injuries
believed by officers to have been SUI
fered when he fell down a stairway.
HELENA-Gov Roy E. Ayers an
nounced the reappointment of J. c.
Miller Of Musselshell county as state
grazing administrator for a one-yeaI
term ending Dec. 81, 1889.
BUTTE-Otto Biastovich, 40, Butte
butcher, was killed here when he was
struck by an automobile while walking
across Montana street. The driver OF
the car was not held
LEWISTOWN-The lodge committee
In charge of the Elks-sponsored girls
NYA training center was notified
through the local NYA office Of ap-
proval Of Mrs. Pearl Roll Of Bozeman
as the director for the center.
LEWIsTOwN The annual state
conference of the Montana depart
ment, Daughters of the American Rev
olution, viii be held at Kalispel1 March
Is. 10 and II. Mrs. A. J.. Rain, state
regent, announced.
HELENA-An early decision on the
Broadwater- Missouri irrigation project
was indicated by the public works adj
ministration, attaches of the Montana
water conservation board implied after
a meeting.
HARLOWTON-Assembly Of a 10
foot diameter multiple steel pipe sec
tional culvert In the coulee just north
Of the old "iawbone" railroad grade,
Is completed. It Is the first culvert Of
its kind installed under a highway IN
this state.
LIVINGSTON-A $4,000 appropri-
alton to construct a fish hatchery on
Bluewater creek near Fromberg, has
been asked of congress by Represen-
tative O'Connor. He also has submitted
bill to provide $4,000 for hatchery
In Glacier national park.
LIBBY-Telegrams from both Sem
dtOIc WAECACA dAil murray SJdtC bAtdb
a WPA project had been approved by
President Roosevelt which would set
aside $i1 $50 for improvements at the
state fish hatchery near Libby A water
supply and rearing pond are planned.
BOULDER-Swan Swanson, II, died
at the county hospital from a para
lytic stroke. Born in Sweden, he came
TO this country when a young man,
Vaci1fTaoy of AEOrfoNn T4fu ru0nrn he
engaged in ranching until four years
ago when Ill health betook him.
BUTTE-The Leonard mine has been
closed, throwing $50 men out Of work.
The move was necessary, Anaconda
company officials said, because of an
increasing domestic copper surplus and
"the necessity Of curtailing production
in line with market requirements"
BOZENAN-Stricken with paralysis
on the right side of his body while
hunting elk on the flats south of Cor
win Hot Springs, John Berninger, IA,
Of Manhattan, slowly inched his way
over the snow-covered terrain for about
mile TO his hunting camp. Compan-
ions brought him to hospital here.
BOULDER-Arne Mackey, 80, Of
Basin, is a patient in st. James hos
pital In Butte where he was taken
after he was blasted in mine explo-
sion In q small mine near here where
he was doing some developing work.
Mackey suffered the loss Of one eye
and severe injury to the other.
LTBBY-Lefty Ed Brandt, Pittsburgh
Pirate pitcher, was fined $25 after he
had been found guilty of Illegal pos
session Of venison IN justice court here.
Pete Davis, caretaker Of the Brandt
hunting lodge near here, was found
guilty Of killing deer out Of season
and fined $50.
MISUNDERSTANDING state highway
commission deferred sale of 81 500 900
Of the 100000 debenture issue voted
at the last general election, pending
a further investigation of legal techni-
calities by representatives Of bonding
houses. No date was set for opening Of
bids later.
LEWISTOWN-Ina David Of Lewis
town, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. j.
David and freshman secretarial stu
dent at Montana State college, was
among campus beauty queens selected
by students to reign at the annual
Montanan bah, sponsored by the staff
Of the student yearbook.
ROUNDUP-John w. Johnston, "a,
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
A. w. Eiselein, wife of the publisher
Of the Roundup Record Tribune. He
had been in III health for q number of
He was born In New Vernon,
Ind, April i, 1854. John w. Johnston
was an old-timer, coming to Roundup
~ years ago. having settled on his
ranch home in the Snowy mountains.
MALTA-Dave LaFond, Exeter farm
er and Stockman, has purchased the
Kid Curry inn at Exeter from Mrs.
Marie Carstens. The inn is located
near the spot where the Kid Curry
gang, back in 1904, held up a Great
Northern train, blew the safe In the
express car and escaped with large
Of money.