a .t ï . * ri\~ ¿^ ' alsocIETv OF montana **' The Big Timber PioneerM£LEj\iA, VOL. 43 NO. 45 BIG TIMBER, SWEET GRASS COUNTY, MONTANA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS Rock bound Prohibition Vermont GRIZZLY BEAR TERROR OF Is Latest To Vote For Wet JUDGEEra BERG’ S EXPERIENCE MONTPELIER, Vt„ Sept. 5.— Regarded until the last as the BOULDER VALLEY IS KILLED Vermont, long a rockbound prohi- most doubtful state yet to act, the WITH NOVEL HITCH HIKER voters recorded bition stronghold, Tuesday joined themselves g * ® » by approximately voters recorded two Old Scarface, grizzly bear terror Mr. Johnston went up Thursday the parade of states favoring re­to one for ratification of the twen­ Livingston Enterprise: A new then another tossed to the side of of the Boulder country for three evening and went with Floyd Bail­ peal of the eighteenth amend­ ty-first amendment by which the idea in hitch hiker’s appeal wasthe highway. Then followed the -weeks, came to Big Timber Friday ey and Oscar Fallang to the Jar-ment. eighteenth would be repealed. discovered by Judge B. E. Berg hardboiled egg. The orange the afternoon in the rear of Floyd rett cabin, where a trap had been It was the twenty-fifth consec­ The victory for the repealists, and family as they motored exhausted hitchhiker did eat. The Bailey’s truck. His massive frameset under a porch. Some stakes utive state to record itself in op­ while sweeping, was not entirely through Wyoming while en route car carrying the “poor” (?) trav­ took up a good part of the truck, were driven by Mr. Johnston position to retention of prohibi­ one-sided. At least two of the to visit Zion and the Grand Can­eler finally was lost to view and while his head, as large as that aroundof the trap, and later theytion in the constitution. No state state’s 14 counties recorded them­ yon of the Colorado. The fraud the incident forgotten, except for a small bull, battle scarred, ripped,went to the Fleming cabin. Dur­ has voted for the amendment. selves in support of the eighteenth commanded sympathy when it wasthe fact that the Livingston man rent and torn in many places, laying the evening an accident, Complete returns of Tuesday’s amendment. Lamoile, largely rural,perpetrated for that purpose the did not believe much, in the serir near the end. Many viewed the which Mr. Johnston states is anspecial prohibition repeal electionlocated in the north central sec­ first time, but when on the follow­ ous condition of the . traveler. remains and marveled at the ten­“excitable accident apt to happenfrom the 248 towns and cities in tion, was one. Orleans, adjoininging day the hitch hiker had man­ That night the Bergs spent in acity of an animal which foughtat any time when a posse getsVermont gave: For repeal, 41,279; Lamoile on the northeast, was an­aged to" “hitch” around the Berg a Jackson hotel. At 6 o’clock the them all in the National park, thenout,” resulted in the shooting to against, 20,572. other. car and attempted the same stuntnext morning they returned to the abdicated when a younger anddeath of a> horse belonging to Earl again he was informed that it wasfamily automobile and started better grizzly licked him from Wright. Mr. Johnston, disgusted, not even clever. The Bergs re­ south. Less than a mile out of head to tail. went to bed, and Messrs. Fallang turned from their much enjoyed Jackson as they rounded a curve, Later in the day the carcass wasand Bailey went down to anotherRancher Loses 75 Head Of Cattle vacation trip Wednesday eveningtheir eyes fell upon a pitiful taken to the court house, where cabin. and the judge was in his cham­scene some distance down the Trapper Ted Johnston skinned the Early Friday morning Mr. John When Cavein Hurls Them Into Riverbers as usual Thursday morning.highway. The form of a man was head and neck and gave it toston went alone to the trap and The hitch hiker who seemed to seen to . reel,' stumble and fall Floyd Bailey for mounting, then found the bear caught by his left HARDIN, Sept. 1.—About £?5 on the county road up the Big have outgrown the “thumbing” backward, then to lie prostrate on sent the main part of the body foot, the one he had previously head of cattle, grazing on top ofHorn river at the mouth of Soap idea or who may have believed hethe roadway ahead of them. and hide to the local fish hatcherystated would be holding the bear a 200-foot bluff above the Bigcreek. On their return here, they had thought of a more clever As he pulled his car to one side for fish food. in captivity. The first two shots Horn river at a point 30 miles said the slide occurred about 2 stunt, was encountered between of the road, Judge Berg stopped The story of the trapping and he fired had little effect, the next south of here, were killed Friday o’clock. the south entrance of the Yellow and getting out of the car said, killing of the bear, as told by Tedtwo killed the animal. Before the afternoon when the ground caved The 75 head of cattle that were stone park and the Grand Teton“Good morning, sir, I see you are Johnston, a government trapperbear died, Mr. Johnston states, itin and hurled them to the bank thrown below by the cave-in were park. At a point some distancestill at the same old racket.” Hav­ for 20 years around Sheridan,waved its right paw at him, asof the river far below. part of a herd of about 200. Thefrom “anywhere” the judge ob­ ing a long drive ahead of them Mont., follows: much as to say “come on and Twenty dead animals were count­four men believed that t he herd served a man to stumble and falland being inclined to save sand­ turn me loose and make it a faired,.by witnesses. The others pre­ had been preparing to find its waybackwards. When the family carwiches from being thrown to the COUNTY WILL BURY fight.” sumably were buried by the ava­to the river below for water. finally came to a spot opposite theroadside, the judge returned to BODY OF HOFFMAN Evidently the bear, weighing 565 lanche of earth. It is believed the The cattle were reported to be­ prostrate man, the judge stopped Turn to Page 4, Column 4 pounds, was a veteran of manybluff was weakened by the heavylong to the E. L. Dana Livestock the machine. Inquiry resulted in battles. His left eye was out, lobe CHOTEAU, Mont., Sept. 2.—The rains which occurred in this sec­ company, which leases land fromthe man’s information that heTWO FATALLY BURNED of right ear and top of left torn tion recently. the Crow Indians for grazing andhad only recently been discharged body of George Hoffman, who was away, nose broken, teeth partly IN EXPLOSION OF GAS hanged Tuesday for the murder The cave-in was witnessed by C. also subleases some of the Camp­from a hospital following an op­ gone, right side of face scarred A. Randall, Big Horn county sur­ bell Farming corporation land. Iteration for appendicitis. His long of George Burrell, crippled propri­ and torn. Back of his neck was a CUT BANK, Sept. 5.—R. E. Rich­ etor of a cigar store here, remain­ veyor, Cliff Smith, Cecil Holland was said that the cave-in occur­walk had left him hopelessly play­ big roll of hide where another and Lester Rice who were working red on the Campbell leases. ed out and he could go no fur­ ey and Ed S. Elliott, both of Cut ed unclaimed tonight. bear had caught him and torn the Bank, were fatally burned Tuesday Coroner Charles G. Roberts said ther without food and aid, he said. hide loose and rolled it back. In EARLY DAY PIONEER IS DE PINEDO DIES IN FLAMES The Berg car being well filled, in an explosion in the north end he had received no word from Yellowstone park he had been the pumping station of the Santa Rita “Hoffman’s, relatives and that he BURIED AT HARDIN OF WRECKED PLANE the judge and family proffered the terror of other bears for many man two sandwiches, a boiled eggoil and natural gas line. A third would have the body buried Tues­ years. Finally a 6-year-old grizzly victim of the blast, Emil A. Nelson day unless instructed otherwise. and an orange from a lunch kit licked him and licked him good, HARDIN, Sept. 1.—Funeral serv­ NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Marquis they carried. They then-offered to of Shelby, Tuesday night was not then the balance ostracized him,ices were held here Thursday General Francesco De Pinedo died intercede with the driver of a expected to recover. TEACHERS INSTITUTE to use a society term, or “homed morning at St. Joseph’s Catholicin the flames of his blazing mon­truck they had just passed but he HERE SEPTEMBER 20-21 him out” as a herd of cattle willchurch for James J. Curry, Mon­ oplane today as he attempted todeclined riding in a truck because ABOUT HALF OF PUBLIC do with a member of the herd. A tana pioneer and at one timetake off on a non-stop solo flight of his condition. While they were castout, he came down to the Buf­ trainer of horses for Marcus Daly,to Baghdad that was intended .to WORKS FUND PLACED The state supervisors’ meeting talking the judge took the man’s falo Fork, then across to the cab­the Montana copper king. < dispel the cloud of obscurity sur­ pulse and informed him that his will be held in this county Wed­ ins where he secured food to lay Curry came to Virginia City in rounding his brilliant career in WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — The nesday and Thursday, September pulse was strong and he seemed in the timber until his wounds the late seventies and worked for aviation. quite well. At that point a secondpublic works administration to­ 20 and 21. The meetings will begin healed. During his reign of terror Farrell & Varney when they had His heavily-loaded plane, a “fly­ night was close to the half-way at 8:30 Wednesday morning and tourist car stopped ancj some boys he visited 20 cabins, one five times, the largest horse ranch in Mon­ ing gas tank” containing 1,027 gal­from Pennsylvania offered to take,mark in allotments from its;'$3,- continue until 4:30 Thursday aft­ and most of them more than once. tana. Later he worked at the O. K.lons of fuel, wobbled off the con­ 300.000. 000 fund, but whether it ernoon. The work will be carried livery stable in Virginia City, own­ the man into Jackson. In the period in which everybody crete runway at Floyd Bennett The judge’s car followed behind would reach its goal of lu tin g •on by Miss Marguerite Hood andwas hunting him, he tore doors ed by Thomas J. Farrell, step­field, skidded into an iron fence 1.0. 20.000 unemployed, to work by Miss Alice Mattison from the state the Pennsylvania car and .:soon- and windows out of cabins, pulled father of Robert, John and Willnear the administration buildingthe family saw first one sandwich,jOct, 1, was still a matter of con­ office, Mrs. Henrietta Crockett shelves and tables onto the floorConway, now all dead, who. wereat 6:20 a. m., E. S. T. jecture. from the Montana Tuberculosis as­and danced on them, and carriedwell known in Billings, Hardin In split seconds it was a pyre SIXTY-THREE DIE 4N. Allotments by the. administra­ sociation, and J. U. .Williams, ex­food of. all kinds away in additionand other parts of eastern Mon­for the 43-year-old twice conquer­ tions during the last week totaled city superintendent of the Missou­ .to what ate at the cabin's. tana. ' ^ ^or of the:- Atlantic, w h o . was. plan­CUBAN ..HURRICANE $135^036,141 and.brought the grand la'and Poison city schools. 'MIss Curry'went to work for Daly, in- ning a .record breaking distance total 'approved "expenditure ato Elisabeth Ireland' will also be pres-MILES CITY MÀN HANGS the early nineties when the. copper 'hop for the glory .vof Benito Mus­ HAVANA,. Sept. 2.—At least 63 $1,398,162:838. A $70,000,000 lump :bnti.it'it is possible for her. to be magnate had'1' a string-’of racesolini, who forced.'De.' Pinedo into persdns were killed in yesterday’s suni -given, -.the war deparment for .here?at that tihie. FROM RAILROAD BRIDGE horses.’ With him at the-tipie was retirement and obscurity. tropical hurricane and severalrivers and -hsirbors work and$38,- • . Miss '' Hood will meet'the grade John McLaughlin, for 18 years a Several spectators, grouped nearscore were missing tonight as Guba:500,000-vf or.a ,vehicular tunnel be­ teacHefs who must teach music MILES CITY, Sept. 5.—The body switchman for the Northern Pa­ the administration building, nar­watched the progress of anotherneath the : Hudson river ’ constitut­ and ^the supervisors of music from of a man believed by authoritiescific at-Billings: They worked to­ rowly escaped death or injury storm off the northeastern'' coast;ed the larger part of the past 2 to 2:45kin th e afternoon. She to have been Gustave C. Vogel wasgether at Anaconda and also atfrom De Pinedo’s oncoming plane. Cardenas reported “more than”week’s allotments. '.'twill -meet the- music supervisors, found hanging from a railroadthe Daly ranch iri the Bitter RootThe flier applied screeching brakes 30 killed’ an d . more than 100. in­ . The public works administration the high school 'music teachers, bridge here Tuesday. valley. Mr. McLaughlin was one ofin .time to avoid hitting the group. jured. Four sugar-laden sailboatshas asked the government organi­ the band, and orchestra directors, The rope used for the hanging the pallbearers. out of Cardenas, with ‘ crews of zations which have received funds and applied music teachers, fromwas new and the man was attired After leaving the western part HELENA RESTAURANT from 15 to .20 each, were reported from it, and state - engineers, to 3, to 3:45 in the afternoon of both in a new suit. of the state, Curry came to Bit- DISREGARDS BEER LAW missing and an Italian sailboatforward details weekly to Wash­ days. - In one of his pockets was found lings, remaining there until 1907 was aground near the city. ington on the number of men at t.The rural schools will’ be closed a note on which “Bismarck” andwhen he homesteaded near Hardin. . Fragmentary reports from Santawork on projects being construct­ bn-these two days so that all the“Fort Lihcoln” were scribbled. In HELENA, Sept.' 6.—County Attor­ Clara said more than 20 personsed with public works.funds.. teachers may attend the institute. ney .Sherman W. Smith Wednes­ another pocket , Was', an„/ UnitedrjBEER LICENSE ADDS, TO were killed and injured in terri­ On the basis of fragmentary re­ States army disc marge certififWe day: filed . a: complaint chargingtory surrounding. the city. Four ports, 5,984 men were actually at «OING ON VISIT MAN STOPS showing he had been a truck driv­ FUNDS IN STATE COFFERS*, ...John M. Corr of Helena with dis­ were killed and 20 injured at Ma-work on 94 nighwiy projects oat er in Manila, P. I. •’:V regarding the requirement in his tanzas, 50 miles nearer Havana.of 1,020 that have. been, approved. TO^ DROWN HIMSELF resjbaurant beer license which A third piece of paper read: HELENA, Sept. 1.—Legalized 32. The full 1,020 projects are expect­ “Miss Knolls,' 922 Seventh St.” states food must be sold with beer. GREAT FALLS, Sept. 6.—Leav per cent beer poured $198,643.50 STATE BIDS MUST NOT ed by public wdpn Officials to give There is. no such address in Miles into Montana coffers from AprilSmith said, he had. received reports work to 81,920-meii - Within a few ing a note on the seat of his City, and authorities were at a of other violations and actionsELIMINATE COMPETITION automobile stating he had plan­ ,7 to July 30, State License Clerk, weeks. loss to determine the man’s home John J. Jewell said Friday. would be instituted later against ned to come 'fb Great Fails to visittown. the' alleged offenders: HELENA, Sept. 1.—The attorney • his two daughters, Lucas Zupon, Beer consumers through a tax ASK REHEARING ON STATE implanted on producers paid $15,- genjeral’s office Saturday advised 60, Roundup miner, drowned him­ TEXAS WOOL SOLD FOft . 743 of that amount, the rest orig.- . Helena Independent: State State Purchasing Agent J. E. Mur­INCOME TAX LEGAÜTY self in Belt creek, near Belt, Wed­ Treasurer James. J; Brett reportedphy that, when advertising for nesday while en route to this city. THIRTY CENTS PER POUND inating from state license taxes of- $181,900. yesterday that the'state’s cash inbids to supply gasoline, he should HELENA, Sept. - 1.—A petition The; full content of the note, .banks on Sept. 1, was $2,508,603.68, not specify that the fuel must be was .filed in the state supreme August, the heaviest beer drink­ .as compared with $2,795,882.61 on written in a foreign language, was SAN ANGELO, Texas, Sept. 4.- ing month of the limited period, refined, in Montana. court Friday asking that tribunal not learned. It contained a re-W. A. Mlers of Sutton - county, Aug. 1. Receipts during August .. Such a limitation, it was held,to order a rehearing in the suit Jewell estimated, will produce suf-. totaled $1^58,687.48, while dis? . quest, however, that the car beTexas’ largest sheep raiser, Mon­flcient additional revenue to boost would deprive the state of the o f Brian D. O’Connell, Helena, at­ •given to his youngest .son at day had sold his spring accumula­ bursements amounted to $1,569,- benefit of unrestricted competition. tacking the legality of the state Roundup. the. total over the $210,000 mark. 568.90. Unfinished ' business, or tion of 12-month’s wool, 238,000 He estimated that when the law In .another opinion, the attorney income tax law. - .-Worry over a lung ailment waspounds, to Tom Richey of Lam­ money received, for which no re general’s office said the motor ve­ The case was reviewed-earlier, in thought by authorities to have is in full swing the yearly revenue ceipts have been* issued, totaled pasas, representing A. w. Hilliardwill total $250,000. hicle registration department must the summer and the. court later *.bebn a cause of the suicide. and Son of Boston. $23,602.49. assign license plate numbers, al­handed down a decision upholding ■ A passerby found the car on the The price was 30 cents per. though beginning next year appli­the constitutionality of the act of creek'bank and the body near bypound, one cent higher than the FLATHEAD, MONT., GETS FOURTEEN KILLED WHEN cations for licenses are to be madethe 1933 legislature. in the water. previous peak. Two million pounds SLICE OF PUBLIC FUNDS ERIE TRAIN IS WRECKED by county treasurers. The petition Friday averred that Besides the daughters here, Zu­ of Texas’ , spring crop of approxi­ Under the. new law the first fig­ new evidence and matter has been pon leaves five children at Round­ mately 55;000,000 now remains un­ ure on the plates will designate obtained by the plaintiff warrant­ up. sold or;5.upconsigned. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Allot­ BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Sept. 5.— ment of about. $7,500,000 for public the county in .which the owner ing a review of the court’s deci­ Fourteen persons were killed and lives. sion. < works projects in 10 states \jras more than a hundred injured announced Wednesday after Sec­Tuesday night when the two rear retary Ickes obtained approvalcoaches of a crack Erie passenger LOCAL INVESTORS ARE INTERESTED from President Roosevelt of a long train were tossed into the air by list of others to be made public colliding with a milk train. ONE HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED AND later. The coaches came down in. a IN PLAN TO REORGANIZE COMPANY They included $540,000 for work mass of bent and splintered wreck­ at Flathead, Mont., and $391,000 atage and mangled bodies. PROPERTY.IS WRECKED IN CYCLONE Shoshone, Wyo. A wooden coach just forward of Helena Independent: Creation of gating $5,000,000. Exerting pressure to speed the the steel car on the end of the a state commission to assist in Mr. Bailey said that if the statefunds into job providing construc­ flyer was smashed like an eggshell EDINBURGH, Texas, Sept. 5.— Mexico less than three weeks ago, formulating a plan of procedurecommittees are soon organized, tion work, officials said the bulk by the impact. Whipped by the most severe tropi­ was heavily damaged by the new for the reorganization of the the officers in charge will probablyof the. projects announced Wed­ Passengers in the diner up for­ cal hurricane of the season, floodshurricane, reports here said. Western Loan and Building com­ be prepared to submit a plan ofnesday could be started within 10 ward were hurled from their seats spread Tuesday night over the Deputy Sheriff Boren returned pany, is suggested by R. W. Bailey,procedure within the next 30 days. days and the rest within a month.in a welter of broken dishes. Many rich citrus lands of the Rio Grande here from Harlingen with a dra­ assistant state examiner, repre­It is highly important that these Most of the projects approved of them became hysterical search­valley, obstructing relief work andmatic story. Harlingen, a prosper­ senting Montana in the handlingcommittes have some direct part Wednesday were for improvements ing for relatives and friends whom making definite check of the loss ous little citrus shipping point, •of affairs of the company, whoin working out the plan, Bailey be­on Indian lands in nine western they had left in the rear\coachesof life and property difficult. . was directly ,in the path of the arrived in Helena yesterday. Mr.lieves, because the Salt Lake officestates, for which $6,614,050 was while they ate. A survey of the storm-stricken storm. Buildings were blown down, Bailey is now making his head­will then be “-more certain that allotted. The wreck occurred just east of area which spreads over 20,000trees uprooted and telephone mid - quarters in Salt Lake City, andthe plan has merit, and that it The public works administration Binghamton as the flyer was justsquare miles established a deathtelegraph lines wrapped around will return there on Monday. meets the approval of investors.” also approved advances of $1,048,- leaving the city limits. toll of 100 persons. These figures poles and whipped from their con­ In each city where there are a The affairs of the company are000.to Madison, Wis., and $250,000 The milk train, bound from Hor- were gathered by United Press nections. . . .. number of investors in the West­ now being handled at a minimumfor Eau Claire, Wis., for municipalnell to Hoboken with a load, swept correspondents in all parts of the “I saw houses explode as the ern Loan and Building company.cost, Mr. Bailey said, as there areimprovements. down the main line and smashedstorm-torn area. Complete esti­ wind struck them,” Boren said. “In Mr. Bailey urges that a represent­no salaries for executives and the Officials estimated the Indianinto the rear of the other train, mates, however, were difficult be­ a few cases the wind whipped the ative be selected, and these repre­personnel of the organization hasprojects would provide 1,969,040 which had stopped. Police said the cause of demoralized communica­four walls up, leaving the furni­ sentatives compose a committee been substantially reduced. At themen days of work for 5,270 men, caution signal had been hung uption systems. ture and floor intact. .There were to deal with the Salt Lake office.present time the Salt Lake office benefiting 7,614 Indian and 3,111 and torpedoes placed on the track. Rough estimates of the storm- several houses with their roofs If each investor is advised per­ is dealing with the appraisal ofwhite families, and that the muni­ Motorists, attracted by the crashstricken area were that it extend­blown off, the four walls pinning sonally by mail whenever there is the company’s assets. cipal expenditures would give more began piling the victims, some ed 225 miles inland from the Texas down the occupants. • some announcement of importance Mr Bailey, who has been chiefthan 200,000 man hours of labor. screaming and others unconscious, gulf, stretching 100 miles across. “In Weslaco houses were pitched to be made, the cost will be be­ examiner for the Montana bank­ All of the Indian projects have into their cars and driving for the The southern tip of Texas, one of like cards. One house was lifted tween $750 and $800 each time. ing department, was given a leavebeen authorized by congress andnearest hospitals. the nation’s richest citrus fruit from its foundations, pitched end Bailey said. There are about 25,000of absence to represent the state’s many of them had been appropri­ All available ambulances, physi­belts, was directly in the storm’s over end a quarter of a mile and people who have stock in the com­ investors in handling the affairsated for, but the funds were im­ cians and nurses sped to the scene path. fell in a tourist camp where it pany, of which about 4,100 are inof the loan and building concernpounded to provide for the civil­ from Binghamton and nearby Old Mexico, swept by the hurri­ crushed the small cottages like Montana with investments aggre- in Salt Lake. ian conservation corps. Pennsylvania towns. cane which drove off the Gulf of eggshells.”