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Montana Sports Tales THE MOUNTAINEER DEVICE PREVENTS Rancher Invents "Fool-Proof' Device to Prevent Crossing Accidents LANDMARK STANDS Treasure State CROSSING DEATHS NEAR ANACONDA News in Brief if •' •••••• e•;..; X•I••• ses s # MONTANA RANCHER INVENTS • OLD HOUSE LOCATED • dowir••• •.• • • ON FIRST ✓osy rscx—Army engineer* in change eit "FOOL-PROOF DEVICE TO PRE- , • • •!••; :1 :••••1:::;•1 •.7r: 10 • • s P• •• • PLAT EVER FILED ON BY betiding the Port Peck flood centre( consftalat VENT CROSSING CRASHES ,„ .•. •r•.• announce that one-third of the huge mea- A WOMAN nt' is In place. • /. .s s iv ib • „,• e• • :•• . g . • Apparatus Can Be Installed At a Cost •, 'sr.. • •/0 •• .11/ • •• MILES CITY—Mrs. B. K. Holt. 80 rears at •• • • •• .• ses.• • By WALTER ED TAYLOR we, mother of K. Gil- ••• sa• 11 Guy. Eimer Holt, died haw a of Approximately $2,000; Fred few days ago. Her three children were at the •..r..de About five miles east of the city Wisdom, Old-Time R.allroad 4.. • a • • bedside at the thne of death. lam of •t of Anaconda and just a short dis- Man, Is Inventor. • tance from U. S. highway No. lle SWEETGRASS—Por two cars of wool recent- • • IT shipped from •I •• stands an old house which has.the this point to Boston. the • . ••• • • • ; • eensignors received 24/12 cents a pound. Two •••• distinction of being located "fool-proof" safet/!lmnevice for en the more carloads of wool A . e'tall's 0%, •fta first plat of ground are still held here by railway crossings has invent- ever Med on sheeptnen who have not sold their clip. rancher—and one by a woman in Montane. The Wons- ed by a Montana • • . a• ,•• •; ....:.••••••• „ . , 1 DEER, LODGE—To direct the entertainment installed at a trifling an was Gwenllian Evans and that can be had come for the Montana Pioneers, 0. D Speer has compared with the under to Montana from Wales - been selected general cost as /,; •, • with chairman to work with passes and overpasses tbat are her eon and daughter-In-law, all committees in arranging the program or t.tk Mr. and Mrs. Morgan events for the visitors required to prevent crashes • 44 1 Evans. In here Aug. 27. 28 and W. now I 1869, shortly between autos and locomotives. The /5 Li? after her arrival, Mrs. EUREKA-. Miss Evans filed Mary Ann Shea, pioneer invention is a recent one. The pat- an entry on 180 acres resident of the Tobacco valley. who home- ent—No. 84370—was received a few of land on Warm Springs creek. steaded near here before the railroad was ago. The device can be in- '7'00L-PSOOF" SAFETY RAILROAD CROSSING DESIGN. This was the first homestead entry built, died several days ago at the home of days made her sister. stalled at a cost of approximately This patented plan for preventing on the semaphore principle. Whenever ampts room to do so—and may then by a woman in Montana. $2,000; It costs from $50,000 to railway crossing accidents was invent- a train enters the "crowing block" the return to the traffic lane, through the Coming from crowded Wales, Mrs. HELENA—Prank Armstrong. arrested • few $200,000 to built under and over- ed by a Big Hole rancher and ex-rail- signal at the end of the wall begins opening farthest from the track and Evans thought getting 160 acres of land days ago and charged with driving while highway-railway cross- road man, Fred K. Gillam of Wisdom. to swing and the gate to for the asking was almost too under the influence of liquor, was fined 11100 at close. If a also marked "19," by which time the good to by Police Judge Harry Pickett. The lines marked "14," "16" and "10" driver should be passing through the train will have passed and the gate be true. She lived on her land the crossing safety are the outlines of a wall, five feet gate when it starts to close he Can will be again open. required length of time and received PHILIPSBUEG—An uninvited guest, knows The inventor of the as Mr. Skunk. Invaded K. Gillam of Wisdom. high at the end farthest from the rail- still cross the track in safety—because The lines marked denote a government patent. The place be- chicken coops of Mrs. device is Fred road track and tapering "18" a wall came Kate Smith the other day and feasted Co 40 old-time railway man—switch- to a much the gate begins to move while the which prevents traffic from running one of Montan,a's earliest post.. chickens. He is an lower height at the end nearest offices under He was eventually captured andl man, brakeman and conductor on the the train is still some distance from the into the cul de sac by any other - the name of Gwendale. killed by three neighborhood boys. Pacific out of Livingston for track. The high end of this wall is crossin —too far to hit a car that than the openings marked "1 The present house on this 67-year-old Northern equipped with age ." IfISSOULA—William Magee, 84. slashed Ws years, who finally turned his atten- a moving arm for day- needs travel only a few score feet property was begun in 1880 but be- light service and a red light for night cross track. A design similar to the one described cause transportation throat and died at the home of his nephew. tion to farming. His own railway ex- to the was so tuidevel; Phil Magee. Lobo county authorities reported use. The wall is built in the center of With the gate closed traffic is ..e.asecrr is Also built on the right of the rail- oped at the time and periences with autos were not so deadly crossing so that travel from both materials were a few days ago. Magee had been a wood* the mod through the aperture "19"—the one so slow in arriving, it and lumber worker as to arouse his horror at the grade- directionsway is protected. was not com- In western Montana see- annually crops The lines marked "19," "15," "13" and nearest the track—into an enclosure pleted until 1883. Materials for this old eral years. crossing slaughter that "11" mark another wall The walls may be built of any width, reports—for 30 feet to the house came from many sources. The BELT—Miss Margaret up in the press the rea- right of the wall in the with a circular wall marked "12." The Pimperton has ar- common in center of the any height and at any distance from bricks were shipped from a brickyard rived here from Palmer, Alaska, where she son that autos were not so road, at number "16" on the driver can proceed no farther toward his railroading days; but he has seen, first men- the railway track that the construe- In Salt Lake City, a product of the in- teaches in the Matanuska valley. She is vis- tioned wall is a safety iting her heard about and read of death after gate that works the crossing. He must turn—and has tion engineer deems most effective. dustrial regime of Brigham Young. The mother, Mrs. Catherine Pimperton• rough lumber was cut and other relatives and wlfl return to Alaske death since he became a farmer—un- at a sawmill in the fall. erected in the foothills a few miles from til he felt moved to apply himself to subjects the New York Irishman liked working out of a solution that the home. Other lumber was shipped MISSOULA—Federal emergency relief funds the to discuss best. As to baseball, he went In the amount of 8288,900 would be within the means of counties from the east. The great double en- recently allotted on record that the Baltimore Orioles trance doors and to forestry region 1 will put into operation with small incomes. And he hit upon the Interior doors at once in Lobo, Kootenai, and the Boston Nationals of the '90's and staireassea of walnut were the work Cabinet, Flathead the following plans: were as good as any of the modern and Bitter Root districts forestry prolects of a master woodworker and cabinet estimated to provide At each crossing build a traffic lane Montana day champion clubs. As to politics, he 9,000 man months work maker of New within gate that closes automatically England. At present the the next 90 days. with a had a lot so say that I'm not printing. house is occupied by Miss Mary —on the principle of the semaphore His one remark that impressed me Evans, HAVRE—Barbara Zeder, 10. of Detroit., herself a Montana pioneer and grand- spent an anxious hour or —when a train is approaching the, about mining was that Butte is still daughter two here recently. crossing. the critic says, will not of the woman who first inadvertently left behind by touring rela- But, the greatest Mining camp in the world. filed upon tives, after they the speeding driver crash the gate? Sports the land. Everything in the had stopped for supplies. Tales Traveling in three First Montana College Team house has cars, the party was con- That is provided for in the following been perfectly preserved , The College of Montana, located at and many of the original carpets re- fident the child was in one of them and manner. The gate swings shut at an drove 30 miles before her absence was estab- Deer Lodge, was the first institutiOn main on the floors after more than 50 angle of about 50 degrees and to the of higher kerning in the state to go years lished.
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