/ FALLON COUNTY TIMES to take care o f a small check like that,” a bystander replied. The tourist looked in­ DEVICE PREVENTS Rancher Invents “Fool-Proof” Device to Prevent Crossing Accidents credulous for a moment, then smiled and re­ Treasure State marked, “ Say, this must be some town.” HELENA—Frank Armstrong, arrested a few P 4 days ago and charged with driving while CROSSING DEATHS News in Brief under the influence of liquor, was fined $100 by Police Judge ‘Harry Pickett. M O N T A N A RANCHER INVENTS PHILIPS BURG—An uninvited guest, known \v • * ] MISSOULA—Seventeen carloads of sheep : were shipped In from Wlnnett to go Into as ,Mr. Skunk, Invaded chicken coops of Mr*. “FOOL-PROOF' DEVICE TO PRE­ Kate Smith the other day and feasted on 40 VENT CROSSING CRASHES I the Blackfoot for summer grazing. chickens. He was eventually captured and i FORT PECK—Army engineers In charge of killed by three neighborhood boys. building the Fort Peck flood control projects Apparatus Can Be Installed At a Cost: MISSOULA’” William Magee, 64, slashed hla announce that one-third of the huge earth- throat and died at the home of his nephew, of Approximately $2,000; Fred K. Gil— | fill is In place Phil Magee. Lolo county authorities reported lam of Wisdom, Old-Time Railroad I MILES CITY—Mrs. B. K. Holt. 80 years of a few days ago. Magee had been a woods age, mother of Gov. Elmer Holt, died here a and lumber worker in western Montana sev­ ATn.n, is Inventor. | few days ago Her three children were at the eral years. bedside at the time of death. DILLON—Nick Davis, 82. an old-time miner A “fool-proof” safety device for SWEETGRASS—For two cars of wool recent­ of the county, rolled more than 400 feet down railway crossings has been invent­ ly shipped from this point to Boston, the a mountain side the other day In the Sun­ ed by a Montana rancher—and one consignors received 24’A cents a pound. Two light mountain district and escaped without that can be installed at a trifling more carloads- of wool are still held here by a scratch. In company with C. M. Roberts and sheepmen who have not sold their clip. son, Jesse, of Dillon, Davis was climbing cost as compared with the under down the mountain after inspecting proper­ passes and overpasses that are DEER LODGE—To direct the entertainment ties when he lost his footing and was un­ now required to prevent crashes for the Montana Pioneers. O D Speer has able to stop rolling The younger Roberta between autos and locomotives. The ~/3 * cl been selected general chairman to work with dashed after him and caught him at the very ah committees in arranging the program of edge of a cliff several hundred feet in invention is a recent one. The pat­ events for the visitors here Aug 27, 28 and 29 ent—No. 84370—was received a few height. days ago. The device can be in­ TOOL-PROOF* SAFETY RAILROAD CROadNG DESIGN. EUREKA—Miss Mary Ann Shea, pioneer stalled at a cost of approximately This patented plan for preventing; on the semaphore principle. Whenever an.p?' ioom to do so—and may then resident of the Tobacco valley, who home­ railway crossing accidents was invent- a train enters the "crossing block” the return to the traffic lane, through the steaded near here before the railroad was $2,000; it costs from $50,000 to bullt. died several days ago at the home of i $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 her sister passes at highway-railway cross­ 'road man, Fred K. Gillam of Wisdom, to swing and the gate to close.’ If a ab. > marked "19,” by which time the The lines marked ‘ *‘14,’'........... "16”.. and ‘ "10"----- driver ' ' should3h ‘ ‘be ‘ passing’ through the tr n will have passed and the gate BELT—Miss Margaret Pimperton has ar­ ings. rived here from Palmer, Alaska, where she ~mc.-ir.o- «nfoiv are the outlines of a wall, five feet gate when It starts to close he can v.Hi be again open. teaches In the Matanuska valley She is vis- 1 5 Fred K Gillam of Wisdom at the end farthest from the rail- still cross the track in safety—because The lines rharked “ 18” denote a wall itlng her mother, Mrs Catherine Pimperton. , and other relatives and will return to Alaska S T S S i S a r V S train8?s%tin8 some °d^ an ce In the fall SShS&r. to ^vdlnf airway15 sSie Z Z t T V * 5 MISSOULA—Federal emergency relief funds in the amount of $288.900 recently allotted years, who finally turned his atten-' ii£htP^ ™ i « and T red liah? for nie&t ?o cross the track Y * f t A design similar to the one described to forestry region 1 wiU put Into operation tion to farming. His own railway ex- use The wall Is built in the center of With the gate closed traffic Is “ eased” *s ,l* 0 ^ on r*Sht of the rail- at once in Lolo. Kootenai. Cabinet, Flathead periences with autos were not so deadly waU 18 buUt m tne center 01 through the arartore one crosslnS so that travel from both and Bitter Root districts forestry projects Its to arouse his horror at the grade-i marked ..19 .. ..1S .. «l r . and throug(n the aperture 1» tne one dirrcllons is protected estimated to provide 3 000 man months work crossing slaughter that annually crops! -a i” mmk another wall 30 feet to toe nearest the track-into an enclosure The walls may be bullt of any width_ within the’ next 90 days. f t n S f w ^ ^ i0comnone?n! riSht of the wall In the center of the J lth a circular wall marked "12.” The any heigbt and at any distance from HAVRE—Barbara Zeder, 10. of Detroit, fi?? t„^t ^ere.n2 „ m road, at number “ 16” on the first men- driver can proceed no farther toward the railway track that toe construc- spent an anxious hour or two here recently. | Inadvertently leit behind by touring rela- ! h aid .about and read of death after t*one^ wa^ is a safety gatfe that works the crossing. He must turn—and has turn engineer deems most effective. tives, after they had stopped for supplies ! death since he became a farmer—un­ Traveling In three cars, the party was con­ til he felt moved to apply himself to; subjici.s the New York Irishman liked fident the child was In one of them and the working out of a solution that; to discuss best. As to baseball, he went drove 30 miles before her absence was estab- i would be within toe means of counties, on record that the Baltimore Orioles Ushed. | with small incomes. And he hit upon, and the Boston Nationals of the '90’s ST. IGNATIUS— Paul Campbell. superin- ! the following plans: | were as good as any of the modern intendent of the Somers hatchery has acquired I At each crossing build a traffic lane i Montana day champion clubs. As to politics, he 599 000 eggs from the Anaconda hatchery. | hail a lot so say that I’m not printing The eggs were transferred to the Mission ■ ^ - S M O O T H with a gate that closes automatically; Range Trout Co hatcheries and will be i —on the principle of the semaphore i His one remark that impressed me planted by the state when they become of ! —when a train is approaching the, about mining was that Butte is still sufficient size to care for themselves In the i crossing. But, toe critic says, will not1 the greatest mining camp In the world. lakes and streams /ÔmcrnÜïA o ld the speeding driver crash the gate?' Sports Tales First Montana College Team BUTTE—’ Where can I cash a United States GLENMORE DISTILLERIES CO., Inc. That is provided for in the following | The College o f Montana, located at treasury check for $500?” a tourist, em­ Loulrvlll* • Owensboro I phasizing the monetary Immensity Involved, manner. The gate swings shut at an. Deer Lodge, was the first Institution Lnrgnst DIatWwy in Kentucky angle of about 50 degrees ,and to the1 of higher learning in toe state to go In recently asked a Butte group on Main street right of it there is an opening in one1 of other dmjs for football. It was in 1893 that Sam "Most nnyone around here ought to be able of the walls—which eases the driver, Barker Jr., a Butte boy then, and a Into a blind lane with a circular wall By JOE L. MARKHAM, Chairman Montana State Athletic Commission Butte man now, organized the Mon­ at the end, and far enough from the tanans. For his organizing efforts, A ti AT Í O N A1D1STÌ LI E fcS F ROD OX T gate to give the driver—unless ne is Barker was named manager and elect- blind or drunk—a chance to get con­ China, Siberia, Ethiopia, Chile, wanted to play college and pro baseball trol of his machine before he crashes Ireland, Poland. Name any country Frank Selee told him to do both, sug­ into the circular barrier wall. you can think of—and footprints of gesting that he use another name In Billy Hudson were made on sands, professional baseball.