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18 THE HELENA DAILY INDEPENDENT. SUNDAY, MAY 11. 1930 Latest Happenings of Interest From Over the State SWEET USS 1ST DO 60 DAYS IN JAIL ROOSEVELT PASS WILL OPEN JFHSflll StlCE. NORTH ROUTE TO TOURISTS Great Falls. May Ever ett Knauae, former mayor of Sweet grasi, today heard the U.

district attorney characterlic his hotel as the moat notorious place on. tho border and learned that he must serve 60 days In jail and pay a 12R fine for possession and sale of liquor. He also was given four months' suspended sentence and placed on probation for four years. The hotel Is known an the Thompson. C.

J. Qulgley, his bartender, waa sentenced to serve 30 days In -Jail and pay $50 fine, given a 00-day suspended sentence and placed on probation for throe years by Judge C. N. Pray. Charles Deroche, Blackfeet Tu- who does not speak the English language, waa sent to McNeil's 'Island for two years Cor stabbi wife.

Ho explained to court, through an Interpreter, th ihe attacked his wife because would not let him take their children to a dance. The Stabbing He said they compromised an took one child. On the way to dance, ho stabbed her and went to the dance nlth the child. An Indian bureau official tesi fled the man was feared by otb members of his tribe- because of violent temper. His wife did 'die.

Last Resident of Blackfoot City Has Arm Broke Deer Lodge, May 10. Mr James TV. Allen of old BlackfO' City, had the misfortune to fa and break her left arm above tl elbow on April 2S. She wa brought to Deer Lodge Friday fo medical attention So long a tlm having elapsed between the tim of the accident and the plafcln of the patient under the care a physician, that the arm has come greatly swollen and It will a few days yet before the arm wl he in condition to allow the frac ture to be properly reduced tho bone aet. Mr.

and Mrs. Allen are th only residents oC that famou mining camp, and have live there -continuously for tho pas 6 0 years. "Dillon Airport to Be Reconditionec Dillon. May call for bid 'for the conditioning of the Dillon Intermediate field on the Sal Lake-Great Falls air line has been issued by tha airways division the department of commerce. Thi bids are to bo opened In Salt Lak City May 17.

The work, the call for bids states, will include leveling of th entire area of 83.65 acres, ot vegetation and stones more than three Inches In dla -ameter, the extermination of ver mln and filling of all holes. The field is In good landing condl tlon at the jireesnt time. It Is stated, and the only extensive work required will be In th southwest corner of tho field where a few slight ridges run diagonally, and on the extreme east end, where aome roughness exists. MARYSVILLE NEWS Maryirllle, May 10. Mr.

and George White of Helena vis. ited friends here Sunday. Mrs. Carl fiaurabauer and Mra. Agart ot Helena valley, called on friends Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Murphy ot Deadwood, have returned from Spokane. Mrs. Herman Ingban a call cr In Helena Thursday.

Mrs. Ben O'Connell and family of Helena visited here Sunday. Marrirllla school closed Friday. On account of several Inches of snow the picnic was held at the house. Nick Zimmerman of Townsend railed on friends Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Harris of Helena, visited Mr.

and Mrs. George Surman, Sunday. Zig SmlgaJ of Uloster, spent several days In Helena with bis family. Mr. and Mrs.

George Jackson of Helena called on friends Sunday. S. A. Brown was a business caller In Helena Friday. Tbe following attended a birthday party Wednesday evening for Miss Dorothy Baumbauer at her In the Helena valley: ftuby Vtactnt, Jessie 'Williams, Shirley Wilholt, Twlla Kortlng and Myrtle Colar, i Iso Rny Dyvlg, Ernest Honing, and Ralph Williams.

BURGLARY IN 'GLASGOW Glasgow, May were broken irom two doors and Quantity of narcotics and some cash itolen from the Hall Drug store last night. A man who purchased a hypodermic needle and who was loafing nil yesterday. tat cutitlonlng. Great Falls. May vlsi of a few but a fow years ago transcontinental Roosevelt big way.

reaching from Portland, to Portland, a distance 4,060 miles, will soon be com pleted and all Montana Is prepa Ing for the gigantic cclebrati that will mark opening of t' Roosevelt pass across the southei boundary of Glacier park, July 1 It will ho a gala day since com pletlon of this short hut mo difficult of construction mounta pass road permit a flood tourists to complete their westwar journey without shipping cars railway or detourlng to the south ern route over the Yellowston and other trails. Several years ago a handful far vislonod men, desiring that th northern border ot this country made accessible to motoring ton Ists, conceived the Idea of a high way to span the entire distance Investigation convinced them tba such a project would be feasible The Theorore Roosevelt Hlghwa association was created and move was started to organlz groups In every state throug which the thoroughfare pass. Those first years were dlfflcul ones. Not all automobile or clvl PLAil PRIZE CROPS Townsend. May 1.

Reallzlni that now Is the time to plan the "punkln" the State fair com mittees named by the Townsem Chamber of Commerce and th' Broad water Farm union met in sion on Wednesday night lay plans for the exhibit of the county next August at the State fair. TIio committee In charge 1i desirous of raising the standard of the exhibit a few points that can take first honors Last a second place was given tho county booth at the fair which was tho center ot attraction to nil who viewed the exhibit, and more than $20 awarded in prizes Tho job Is unsalarted and the cooperation of everyone Is asked In his matter. Plant with the idea of prize vegetables In view. committees aro composed of he following: Townsend Chamber, 'lugh Rroderlrk, J. TV.

Bequette, R. N. Lodge, Farm Union, W. J. Merrill.

Mrs. A. C. Carson and Bill Young. Hugh BrodeHck was appointed chairman of tho committees and will have charge of he agricultural part of tho cx- Iblt assisted by Bequette and 'oung.

Mrs. Carson will have harge of the school exhibit, arts, anntng and fancy work. R. N. odge will be responsible for tho ndustrfal exhibit.

lut Bank Gets First Heavy Rain of Year Cul Bank. May ain approached Iho soaker stage, fter hut a few minutes duration, was tho first real hard rain the year at this point and ring the 30 minutes, about a alf Inch of moisture fell. IIow- ver, this rain WHS very spotted this area. It was hardly more han sprlnklp, and west of town, Tom Crook's place, only .22 of Inch fell. Further east and orth, the rainfall was heavy and he fields were shallow lakes for cveral hours following the storm.

arm Dwelling Is Dynamited at Pray Livingston, May 10--Local peace fflcers were informed Friday that dwelling had been dynamited on he former Fritz Krautschan ranch ear Pray Sunday or Monday night, fflcers working on the case, it Is aid, found no clues upon which to ase the Identity of any person or ersons responsible for the dyna- illng. The property was owned by the ardlner State bank and It Is said, ad been leased. This wan not verl- ed, however. The dwelling was aid to he of the average farm type. wag completely destroyed.

I organizations could see at once advantages of undertaking. Group by group, state by state, they were convinced, until finally every segment of the highway waa being sponsored by an organization related to the International association. Eventually the entire highway' was opened, except for the stretch through Roosevelt paps. Mountainous country through which no road had been previously projected made work slow. For a considerable parr of this distance the roadbed had to be blasted out of solid rock.

In July this work will be completed and a new, continuous thoroughfare will link the Atlantic with the Pacific. Elaborate plans are being made for a celebration of the achievement. The motoring tourist will soon be able to start from Portland on the Atlantic, tour through New Hampshire, Vermont and New York, drive to Ontario for a glimpse of Canada, through Mich- gan, Wisconsin. North Dakota into then icross through Idaho and Wash- ngton into Oregon, finally arriving at Portland on the Pacific. If the wanderlust Is still urging, tourists may take the lower Columbia river highway to Astoria and traverse virtually the entire cngth of the Oregon roast over a highway which has also taken he name of great Rough Rider.

The occasion of the completion of the new transcontinental span rill be a momentous one for ilontana for it (R the Treasure tate that the Roosevelt highway ravels for a greater distance than other commonwealth. 746 nlles. It Ii also in the Treasure tate that the climax of the con- irs 12 nuns MlssoulR, May 12 caterpillar type tractora, bid for which have been opened at the forest service headquarters here constitutes tho largest single Item In the district's annals. The ma i will cost approilmatelj 964,000. The new tractors, which aro 1o be used.

In the construction anc maintenance of forest uprvice roads In the district, will than double the a of equipment of this type. The Petrie Tractor company of Mlsfioula submitted low bids for five fid-horsepower and two horsepower tractors, and will furnish this equipment. It appears that the low bid for five 30-horsopowpr tractors was submitted by'the- Northwest Equip ment company of Springfield, 111 at approximately $11,052 at that point. Another low bid wag BO closb that It will be necessary for the federal traffic board to pass on the question of freight costs for bringing the equipment to Mlssoula finally to determine which concern will furnish the tractors. inental tour will be reached.

Chinook to Buy New Pumphouse on Time Chinook. May 10. Chinook will have a. new fireproof pump- ouna built this spring. It will be heavy concrete foundation, with concrete wall to about high war level The upper portion of he building will be of hollow tile nd stucco, with a steel roof.

The Fairbanks-Morse company 'ill furnish pumps and will be aid 11.250 In cash by the city or new equipment and Install- on and the balance -will he palfl six semiannual Installments of 650 each, without Interest. Bids 111 soon be railed for construe- on of the building. Butte Carmen Will Cut $1,200 Bonus Butte May 10 --As a toward for excellent service and a record free of accidents, bonuses in tbe sum of $1,200 will be distributed among the car employes of tho Electric Railway company during the next few days. Manager 13. J.

Hash announced last night The period for bonuses IB between Nov. 1 and May 1. In Epltc of the fact that the period covers the winter and spring months when the rails are covered with water. Ice and slush at times and accidents arc more liXely to occur, the record made by the DISCUSS STOW RESEHVOII) Fi Bozeman. May medium sized storage reservoir In the Gnl latin canyon would prove of 1m measurable benefit to the farming sections tho Gallatln valley Lieut.

J. Young, of the hydraulic-division of the V. 3 engineers' corps, said yesterday fter ho had heard the views of representatives of the msnj irrigation projects at an Informs bearing at the courthouse. About SO or fiO thousand acre feet would be tht slzo of the reservoir, he says, that should be constructed there. An acre-foot unfamiliar to Montanans because most of the water claims were de for placer purposes and are Pleasured In miners' Inches, the leutenant explained.

Is the amount of water which will cover an aero a depth of one foot. Thus 0.000 acre-feet reservoir would contain 113 million gallons. Congressmen Urged to Support Tariff Dillon. May thaf. no upport be given any conference eport that does not provide pro- rtlon on silver, a resolution dopted by the Beavcrbead Mining isoclatton has been wired to all estern senators and the Montana epresentatlves at Washington.

he wire earnestly requests that 10 proposed duty on silver, which as defeated In the house but olert upon favorably ly the sen- be given active support by otb senators and representatives. amendment la now in the anda of the conferees, Who have ot made their report. ALLEY COUNTY 8HOAYS A II IX CENSUS Glasgow, May ut of flvo Valley county districts which population figures are leased show gains in population. district Including the commu- ty of Hlnsdale lists 563 persons, with 560 in 1920; the strict including Vandalla num- ers 115 residents, compared with 0 In 1920; the three other dis- Icts, all small, represented a net ss of six. In Daniels county, tbo district clu'dlng Flaxvllle Is tentatively edited with Slit population and district including White tail Ith 490.

Ko figures are avail- lie for 1320. Migrating birds, according to elr variety, average a speed of om 30 to GO miles an hour. Classified Business Directory FIRMS LISTED HERE SPECIALIZE IN PHONE ORDERS AUTO PAIXTIXG Paper Hanilm end Deeortllni. P.lnt Shop. Phent 113.

BATTERY SERVICE Bttlerr Bervlci, ehirjlai. rentil, reptlflni. All mikti. Eleelrlo U. CHINESE LAUNDRY We South Mila fllrwt Ml-R CLRAXIXG AND PRESSING rrritft--PhMt 181.

INSURANCE Ttioi. Topplnr. ICahrs Bide. Phone MULTIGRAPH WORK Ccllcfe ZmptOD Bldl. en Plicer An.

3U. WOOD TARD8 Ptrk Art. WMd Tir4. LONG DISTANCE HAULS BrenTi Mavlni StOTilt. Ph.

293I-W NOODLES AXD CHOP SUF.Y ret Son Noodle Mrlor. 11 Phone 719. PAIXTIXG PAPER HANGING 8. Wtlkcr. 11 N.

Park, dance) I9J7-1C; (offlei) phoni 791. PHOTOGRAPHS 3D PltUburt Blk. Ph. ItM. RUBBER STAMPS' A SEALS Ml K.

SERVICE CAR Rtltat Auto Wrecttnc Co. VtH MTU PhMi 1H. SHOE SHOPS fthon iipk.rlni. H. Ton).

AND ADDING MACHINES JCcntani oe. WOOD YARDS Irickm it Perryl Phone 11JI.J employes during the pact months has not heen equaled here in more lhau a decade for tli same period of time, the manager stated. VICTIM WIFE PASSES IX HOSPITAT. 1 y. Mav 1 0.

BPH Barnett, 36-vear-oId otl field worker, died in a hospital yesterday Irom wounds by pistol In thfi hands of hi? wife Inez, last Tuesday morning. First degree murder charges today against Mrs. Barnett, who is 23, and she will be arraigned when District Judge n. M. Hattersley returns lo Shelby, within a few days.

Barnctl's body Is being sent to Greybull. his former home, for burial. Tho shooting occurred on Ihe highway, about 10 miles from Shelby, ajirt ATrfl Barnetl brought her IiHBbanrl lo town, where she called a physician and surrendered. At the hospital Barnett said aho xhot him after he had refused lo withdraw divorce proceedings Sho had heen living on their ranch near Winnett. Corn Rtalks may be ma do Into paper, Rolf balls, fountain pens, and many other more or less useful articles.

i 3roadwater County Growing Season Is Two Weeks Ahead Townsend. May of he county declare this peason IB ulty two ahead of sched- ile. Growth of vegetation and arm are both In advance of heir usual posftlons at this date hln leads the farmers to inquire whether nature will continue be- ilgn or will reverse herself at a ritical moment. In the dry a serUons summer- allowing has started, presenIng he moisture for next year's crops. Warm a hero and over the tate has caused an earlv greening of lawns and ranges, with consequent growth of crops.

Winter is showing up wHl In the areas escaping winter-killing. With the market hovering around 75 cents and lower, acreage to spring wheat la severely reduced Even with the most favorable weather. a a AM II not pour out its rustomarv golden stream of a i this fall. The acres have not planted. ORNAMENTAL LIGHTS MEAN NOT A THING TO PETTING PARTIES Butte, May city street maintenance department is up against a "tough" situation.

City officials have, scratched their head, have conferred and have -thought, but wltliont ftvall. The situation Btill remains unchanged and suggestions from the public, are now In order. Here's cald situation: Butte petting parties Just cannot stand ornamental lights tliat throw brilliant rrfvn for hundreds of feet In all directions. With warmer weather coming' on and petting becoming an outdoor sport, the pettcrs a taken things into their own hands. A brick or Btonc.

or even some other handy mlssle takes care of I structlon. tho matter. Bang; a light bulb files to pieces and presto, nil is darkness. That la. except for possibly a light from some nearby window, Hie moon or stray star that insist upon trying to spoil the fun.

Complaints during the last few days have reached the police station, that pptter.n drlvo up In ear, park I then proceed to smash the light. Mike Walsh, city engineer, him looked over the situation. The pollc.o have several calls. There has been no definite action yet. The city engineer Is at a loss to suggest any.

The police talk somelhlng'nbout arreafa. And those lights continue on the road to de-, NEW PULLS YELLOWSTONE CBlATT, FORMER STUDENT lEIE Billings. Way Joyce TV. Baldwin, former stu stone county gained 1.071 In at Intermountain Uulon col ation i thn I.i8t decade. 1 TM been "PPointed.

icccntly cording- lo a i i a CPJIMIS report issued by S. CJ. Tlrvnolds. rensua supervisor. The population is 30.C71, compared 2U.600 In 1920.

A pcupral simev of the "county a Ihe largest incieases 1 In the irrigated districts round Billings, particular!) I tiistilcts vest ot the city and on the Billings bp.nch The area includes be of the of Billings rfnd tho non-Irrigated dls- rlcts south of the river. The last district to rpjiort as Cuptcr. where tho population was In 1 9 Ilie district's popu- I i eight rppldonts In Big Horn a 610. The own of (Junler. which was not sep- rly a in 1920, has a opulatlon of 196.

ns credit manager of thn Montana Deaconess hospital at Great Falls according to a letter rccehcd from a i cltv. Mr. in since be left col- Irftp. has been engaged severs vears In I bee keeping industr nt Fort -where Baldwin Sons operate hat is considered to he the largest apiary In Montana. While Mr Baldwin was a student at I a i Union he soloist of the glee club find played a a on the football loam, lie also a member of the Lyceum Course trio.

lichland Voters to Plan on Bond Issue for Bridge i a 1 0 A bridgp bond elertlon will be held Livestock Is a i better a I In Klclilaml Ma; seasonal gains since gross has to John M. Is In romp high enough to make feed charge of the local campaign. Weather for April a i has! The bridge Is to span the Ycllow- a a for both stone Hvrr I i a east young lambs ew RR. while nwcs a will a In May will rome to the a i In very good condition. Losses of young pigs and calves liavn bppn reported lighter a umial.

Shearing has started a mom; small flocks but will not be general for the big month. holdings i -late next Banker's Son Under Knife at Dartmouth a Falls. May 1 0 a StephenKon received Valritram informing him a his son, Sam. student nl Dartmouth, will have to undergo an operation for appendicitis. The fathtr wired the other son, Jark.

who Is at Yale, to BO to hlfi brother. here and Is a project. Inaugurated pome 18 months BRO hj n. S. president of the Sidney chamber of commerce.

The bridge would open an mor- mons i immediately east of hprp and is part of the new proposed firpat Falls-Twin Cities high- a sstcm. Wolf Point Report Shows 1,540 People Poplar. May 1 0 Point Roosevelt scat, has nonu Inlion of 1.540. nrrorrilnf; to pvo llmlnary census figures announce by Supt Charles Ecgaro, pcnnu supprvlRor. The total compares wll Many Canadians Arc Grossing the Line Ilavrp.

May 1 0 a tho winter bei ncr rrtwren Canada, and TIlll county has bcnn vanquished tor another a hy of cars and I i a coming into thp i Stales In the month of April, as report pri through the Mime custom-) office. A total of 100 cars rauic In last month, and people, according to II. C. Renter, customs officer. Checking back i April.

1929. onh Go t-ars were registered In last car. and I persons At the ruslonis office the Increase Is laid more lo better weather conditions this Apnl thBii last, and to fact a when the roade finally got open those who had been farm and ranch bound since last fall took a a a of opportunity to rome lo the Hill rounly metropolis. Harlonton. May 10.

The neir mountain type locomotive recently put Into tost service on the Milwaukee transcontinental lines between Minneapolis and Harlowton arrived in rlty Monday morning on schedule time carrying 18 passenger coarhea, and completing distance In 22 hours and 9 minutes actual running time. The teet run was made without 'Bllghtest mishap, tho trip proving satisfactory In every way. Hundreds of people at various division points viewed the power giant that IB eventually to have a permanent plnce In (ho Milwaukee system. No. 9700, i Is somewhat larger than the Hudson type which arrived In Harlowton weeks ago.

Is marvel of mechanical power. Tho length of the- engine over all Including: tho tender is as 101 feet and the height Is 15 feet 10 inches. The width of tha engine In 10 feet 10 Inches over the a rails and 10 feet Inches over Iho cylinders. The locomotive IB i for an average speed of 60 miles an hour under anv and all weather conditions. The motive behind, tho construction in declared to be'to meet the ever-increasing tendency to shorten the time between the roast and the eastern terminus of tho i a system the- maximum of power and safety.

Billings Jeweler to Present Watches to Lucky Boy and Girl Billings, May ths fourth consecutive year the Forl- nev-pease. company, jewelers, la offering a strap watch for the hoy and a wrist watch for the girl member of the graduating class of Billings high school who arc pointed out by tho hands of a large clock In the company's i dow as the winner of tho awards. The clock, which la made in the form of a large Gruen watch, was wound and started Friday evening at 3 3 by Cal Emery, president of the senior class at the ilgh school. Around the outer circle of the dial are pictures of 105 girls and on the Inside circle are pictures of 65 hoys, all candidates lor high school diplomas this June. When Hhe clock runs down the hour hand will point out tho boy i and the minute hand will point out tho girl winner.

Tho Lenten season was originally only 40 hours--from Good Friday until Easter day morning. 2.Of)5 enumerated in 1020, a loss of 55S decade that city 1 in the las AESOP SAID: I "He Is Wise Who Is Warned by the Misfortune Others" The world is littered with the ruins of public works which have been abandoned. This applies to public utilities municipally owned as well to other classes of public works. The misfortune is the taxpayers'. Governments do not create wealth--that is peculiarly the business of the individual who creates it, preserves it and passes it on to the next generation, free of debt.

As Aesop also said: "Look before you leap." The Montana Power Company Serving 118 Montana Cities and Towns THINK Before You Sign! The proposed new "Workmen's Compensation Act," petitions for which you are asked to sign, includes this: "Section 21)83. Art employe nhill bit deemed to in the flerrlco of Ills employer and acting In the roiirfco of Ms employment wlillo traveling fiom the plant of the employer over tho usual coumu of his travel tn his residence, and while traveling from hfa residence to eatd plant over tho usunl course of travel." If YOU, Mr. Householder, hire a carpenter, painter, mechanic or any kind of laborer, under the Act you become responsible for any injury to him not only while ON THE JOB but in addition you are financially responsible if he is hurt ANYWHERE BETWEEN YOUR OWN PLAGE AND THE WORKER'S HOME! This may at first seem fine for the worker. But just remember this. YOU, Mr.

Worker, will inevitably have to HIRE someone at sometime or other. Then YOU become the "Employer" and YOU become responsible. 150,000 Montanans arc more liable to have to PAY compensation than to RECEIVE IT! --Associated FndiHtriw of Montana, George I. Martin, State Mgr. NEWSPAPER! NEWSPAPER!.

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