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 themselvesg * ® » by approximatelyvoters 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 Fridayey 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 eighteenth would be repealed.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.