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EASTERN MONTANA TO BACK RED LODGE-COOKE CITY ROAD Reconnaissance Survey Will be Completed Soon Reported That Grade Will Not Exceed Five Percent. The government officials making the recon naissance survey, together with the local engin eers, of the Red Lodge to Cooke City road are progressing nicely. The official surveying party composed of Fred Theime, district forest engineer, B. W. Kitt, of the bureau of public roads, IS R. T. Ferguson, supervisor of the Beartooth National Forest, together with W. P. Burke, local engineer and W. E. Pinkney The engnieers were accompanied by Harry Smith, M. E. Martin and son Melvin, who are look ing after the pack outfit and doing the ! cooking. The party left Richel Lodge on June] 20th and established their first camp near Tin Can Camp up Rock Creek O. H. P. Shelley, secretary ] I i canyon. of the Beartooth Boosters Club, made a trip up the canyon Tuesday and vis- j ited the surveyors and they reported at that time that they were going to make their grade five percent. Later on in the week W. E Pinkney came in and reported that they had reached the top of the plateau on a five percent grade. On Sunday F. 1. Johnson came in from Camp Sawtooth and stated that the surveying party was camped on Little Rocky and they expected to finish their reconnaissance by July 4th or 6th and would go out by way of Cooke City; the horses and pack out fit returning over the proposed route. A committee from Red Lodge will meet the surveyors at Cooke City on July 4th before they leave for the western part of the state. All of eastern Montana seems to be interested in this proposed road ac cording to a letter received Tuesday from J. A. Shoemaker, secretary and manager of the Billings Commercial Club. The Billings Commercial Club i» tremendously interested in the pro posed road and have appointed a road CQMtniiitee composed of R. G.'Wiggen hom, attorney and a former resident of Red Lodge, F. P. Connelly, formerly president of the Billings Commer cial Club and W. W. Gail, former president of the Rotary Club. Accord ing to the letter Billings is ready to go the limit and to help organize ail eastern Montana to get behind the Red Lodge to Cooke City road. They sug gest a large general committee of eastern Montana to be known as the "Red Lodge to Cooke City Road League. Montana project. The committee in Billings has written a strong letter to Mr. Fred Morrill, district forester in Missoula, advising him that all of eastern Mon atna will be behnid this project. At a meeting of the Commercial Club some time ago a large delegation of Red Lodge citizens represented the Beartooth Boosters' Club O. H. P, Shelley, secretary of the club, out lining to the Billings people what had been accomplished and what the Bil lings and eastern Montana people could do to assist this project. The very fact that the road to Coon«, City will be on a grade not exceeding five percent makes the road feasible and with unity of puprose and with the great citizenship of eastern Montana nothing can stop this road according to the Beartooth Boosters. This is ta be an eastern "IS" ARE YOU GOING CAMPING? We Have a Full Line of Camping Equipment Fishing Tackle Sporting Goods Tents and Canvas Goods Jeffery Hardware Co. STATE CONVENTION (Continued from page 1) ! ^Charles Krause, Billings. James M. Murphy, Butte. Richard Gies, Great Falls. Dubert Dohmen, Bearcreek. ] I Ryan Membership Cup Committee: i James Holland, Chairman, Havre. J. W. Murphy, Great Falls. Ray Anderson, Billings. Richard Gies, Great Falls. Dubert Dohmen, Bearcreek. Press and Publicity Committee: O. H. P. Shelley, Chairman, Red Lodge. W. F. Zietz, Helena. 0. J. Simmons, Red Lodge. W. A. Huff, Billings. j ; Telegraph Committee; W. F. Zietz, Chairman, Helena. I Howard, G. Bennett, Great Falls. Lester H. Loble, Helena. William Malloy, Butte. Don King, Butte. State of the Order Committee: William Malloy, Chairman, Butte. A. E. Caufteld, Great Falls. W. F. Zietz, Helena. Howard G. Bennett, Great Falls. Finance Committee: Oscar Helding, Chairman, Missoula. G. A. Bosley, Great Falls. F. L. Sorenson, Helena. Perry Banner, Miles City. Resolution Committee: Lester H. Loble, Chairman, Helena. W. A. Huff, Billings. Jack Rowe, Butte. I F. A. Williams, Red Lodge, Degree and Ritualistic Committee: F. A. Williams, Chairman, Red Lodge. James Holland, Havre. Oscar Helding, Missoula. A. E. Wilkinson, Red Lodge. 0 J. Simmons, Red Lodge. J. A. Tripp, Missoula. The committee on order of business reported at once and the next report was the committee on credentials which made a partial report as fol lows: Bearcreek: P, Dubert Dohman, Alex Hynd, Veeney, JulTna Vesingue, Alex Hawthorne, Billings: Wilford Lloyd, C. S. Wecidiff, Jock Hoveland, Frank C. Miller, P. J. Taugher, Hillary Wright, Frank J. Spring, Frank H. Swim, Jr. Jas. R. Gale, A. E. Heath, Larry O'Leary, Nick, Reis, W. A. Huff, A. Anderson, Chas, Krause, W) Frank J. Holtman, P. E. Neiison, E. Lofgreen, Chas. H. Paff, Butte: E. A. Sullivan, Wm. Molloy, Don B. King, A. B. Cohen, Dan Hanley, M. J. Hartnett, Leslie J. Northam, Earl Holtman, R. J. Krabler, W. T. Bauman, Eddie Storey, Ted Rich, John Roach, Albert Paul, John Harthrcll, Joney Honey, John J. Harrington, J. A. O'Neil, John Dooley, James M. Murphy, Frank Krabler, John Rowe, Elmer E. Clark, Jas J. Brett, Wm. Maxwell, A. N. Olds, Lewis Snell, George Lapp, Wm. Nevin, Frank Sweeney, Gus Fitschen, Elore Beaulieu, Albert Mondelli, George Bourquin, Jr., Great Falls: H. E. Bennett, A. E. Caufteld, F. L. Shepherd, E. Pfister Sr., W. J. Burlingame, G. A. Bosley, W. H. Grover, R. Geis, Jr., J. W. Murphy, Martin Nelson. Miles City: Perry Binnen Missoula : Oscar Holding, Paul Vassar, W. J. Johnson, G. H. Tripp. Red Lodge: F. A. Williams, E. A. Wilkinson, Dr. A. H. McFarland Dorn. Marino, Jr., Wally Sanseheck, Henry Albert, Orin Zupp, James Smith, John Peters, O. J. Simmons, Harry Obert. Roundup: James Jessin, John Russell. Helena Aerie: E. G. Hughes, A. J. Dafler, Harvey Yates, E. F. Bray, V. Clementson, J. D. Ellison, G. E. Tufty, H. R. Guthrie, G. E. Darfler, S. J. Surman, B. H. Mason, John W. Darfler, H. E. Anderson, C. J. McKinnon, C. G. Andrews, C. C. Judd, E. D. Martin, E. H. Baker, T. C. Brayon, C. L. Nelson, J. W. Lyon, V. B. Allison, F. L. Sorenson, A. G. Fitzpatrick, J. E. Wine, L. L. Lee, J. B. Gray, O. H. P. Shelley, E. J. Neville, I vVif; IJ ' ( Lee ter Loble w. r. Zietz Next was the report of state of ficers; first that of President T. J. Troy, which was a very exhaustive re port • dealing with the state of the order in general. This report was read and referred to the committee on state of the order for segregation to be referred to the different commit- 1 Then W. F. Zietz, state secre tary, gave a very complete report of tees. the state aerie and conditions of local aeries throughout the state showing that the order had made substantial gains of more than a thousand in the last year. His report was also re ferred to the committee on state of the order for segregation to be re ferred to the different committees. Then the treasurer, A. E. Caufteld, reported on the financial conditions of the order showing a substantial bal ance in the treasury to the amount of $2589. This report was referred to the committee on finance. The next report called was that of the delegate to the Grand Aerie session 1924, Mr. William Shea, junior past president. He not being present his report was read by F. I. Shepherd of Great Falls. Mr. Shea went into details of the na tional convention held last year and gave a very interesting report of all the doings. The balance of the afternoon ses sion was devoted to reading telegrams and letters from Grand Aerie_ officers. Recess was taken until eight o'clock Wednesday evening at which time the report of the committee on state of order was heard. Another recess was taken until nine o'clock this morning at which time the exemplification' of the ritual and the drill teams will compete. This will require the great est part of this morning and after the morning session another recess will be taken until Friday morning. At one thirty this afternoon the delegation will proceed to Richel Lodge and Camp Senia where a fish dinner will be given in their honor. Tomorrow morning the grand dec orated automobile parade will take place at nine o'cl ck and the balance of tomorrow will be devoted to hearing the various committee reports and ac tion thereon. The election of officers will also lake plan • tomorrow and it is thought the convention will adjourn sometime tomorrow afternoon. Day and night fireworks will furnish unique entertainment on the last day. Delegates began to arrive on Mon day and were met at the train by the local committee, Among those who first arrived was President T. J. Troy, W. F. Zietz, Don King, vice president, Oscar Helding, state conductor, and other delegates from Helena, Butte, Missoula, Great Falls and Billings, Among other early arrivals from Great Falls was Howard G. Bennett, past state president and A. E. Cau field, treasurer of the state aerie. It is reported that there will be two condidates for next year's conven tion; that of Missoula and Billings. At the time of going to press it was not learned which one of these cities would receive the honor of entertain ing the next State Aerie. RED LODGE STIRRED I ' ! (Continued from page one) damage is estimated at half a million dollars in the towns of White Sluphur and Three Forks, the former place suffering the loss of the county court house, while at Manhattan two school buildings fell to earth. The inhabi tants of the towns suffering these shocks were so frightened that many of them left their homes and camped in the open. Butte and Anaconda felt the tremors intermittently through the night. Helena and Missoula escaped with lighter shocks, tho the nervous convulsions were felt again on Sunday. Anaconda recorded a tremor at 3:46 Sunday afternoon, the seventh in twenty hours. There was no serious damages caused there, but at the Mon tana state hospital for the insane, eight miles from Anaconda the wall of one of the buildings fell in, giving fright to the inmates. In the section surrounding Three Forks, the quake made deep cracks in the earth and the bed of the Jeffer-j son river was lowered at least two i feet at the point a mile above where it! joins the Gallatan and Madison rivers ' Landslides on the Milwaukee railway ) near Lombard forced this line to use the Northern Pacific tracks. However, the various Milwaukee schedules were restored about twenty-four hours later. The Northern Pacific tracks were damaged by a landslide two miles west of Lombard, extending a distance of 1,200 feet. The passengers of train No. 235 Sunday night were trans ferred at Logan to another train en route to Butte, and Monday was able to resume their scheules. Four States Feel Shocks. Montana was not the only state in the shake-up as the Shocks were felt in Idaho, Washington, and Wyoming. Sheridan, Casper and Thermopolis were the Wyoming towns most severe ly shaken, tho the damage was not as great as in the Montana towns. The, wonders of Yellowstone National Park remained untouched, the rangers re porting to Superintendent Albright that there were no damages to the formations of the geysers thus far. One road was blocked by a rock slide near Mammoth. Thousands of vis itors in the park did not know of the 1 vibrations, tho they were felt by some ' in the dining room at Mammoth, j Dr. Clapp Explains Phenomena President C. P. Clapp of the Uni | | versity of Montana made the follow phenomena: ■ The effect of a sudden slip along a fault," said Dr. Clapp, "is to send out vibration in all directions and these vi bradons are the earthquake as it is felt at a distance from the place of ongin. "Earthquakes, in other words, are vibrations of the crust that are set up by a slip, as a jelly is set in motion by the breaking off or slipping of a small piece. "The waves travel at a speed de pending on the elasticity and density of the medium through which they move. "One set of earthquake waves travels in a straight or nearly straight line through the earth at a speed of six to eight miles per second, and a second set of waves travels around or near the surface of the earth at a rate of two or four miles per second." "There is little to fear from such an earthquake," he added, "and it is prob able that this slip has relieved the it be stress to such an extent that another earthquake will not occur for several years." , ■•Fault movements, he declared, are j rarely or,never of a slow, continuous nature, but are sudden and intermit tent, taking place after a period of quiet, during which the earth's strains > accumulate to such an extent that the : resistance to movement is overcome and a sudden slip takes place. ..The intensity of an earthquake de pends upon the amount of the slip, the size of the area affected and the depth. "Althought earthquakes occur most frequently and violently in two prin-1 cipal zones, one following the shores of the Pacific ocean and the other sur rounding the earth not far from the equator, all portions of the World are affected by tremors. During historical times no major earthquakes have oc curved in the Rocky mountain region, although minor ones have been fairly frequent. The earthquake felt Satur day night in Montana is perhaps the! most severe ever recorded here. "In spite of our records in the mat ter of earthquakes there are plenty of indications of, prehistoric disturbances in the mountain states. Nearly all of our mountain ranges are the results of faults and the movements along some faults have changed recent geography in a minor way. Dr. Roy Wilson found an old mine tunnel in the Flathead range evidence of a recent displacement along one of the major faults which outlined the 0. KORPI SENTENCED (Continued from page one) wright, W. D. Cunningham, John No Tinkcom, Barney Hart and William Laylon. The witnesses for the prosecution included Mr. Oakley and son. Chief McAllister, Judge E. B. Provinse and Elmer B. King. The cutting affair took place at the Oakley garage June 3rd about six thirty. The arrest was made by Chief McAllister after searching the town. The assailant was found on a ranch north of town and hag been lodged in the county jail ever since. The jury was out about an hour and a half and brought in a verdict of guilty. Juds'e Goddard sentenced the defendant t® pay a fine of $100 and to be confined in the State penitentiary for a term of not less than two years and not more than four years. Four other cases came up on Thurs day; the first one being the town of Bearcreek vs. Ikey McDonald, case was dismissed and defendants bond released for the reason that there I was not sufficient facts to constitute j an offense against the town of Bear- j creek. Tho case of the town of Bear-, creek vs. John Hamilton was also dis-! ni'ssed and defendant released for lack ' ! of facts sufficient to constitute and of fense against Bearcreek. In the case of Joseph Komposh vs. Francis Powers et al motion for new trial was submitted to the court and overruled. Execution for further pro ceedings are stayed pending the ap. peal provided such appeal is promptly taken by the defendants and also pro viding that the plaintiff be permitted to use the old road through defendants pending appeal. In the case of G. S. Sommers and Co., vs. Steve Fekety defendant moved for non-suit which was denied. Testi mony was taken in behalf of the de fendant. and judgment was granted. i it! ' ) in in as ! The Arlien Vermette of St. Paul regis tered July 2, in this dty for the con vention week. He is enroute to Call fornia. EAGLE LADIES , . ,, . . , , Luther. On their return, light refresh ments served at the club. Thursday. Breakfast at the Elks (Continued from first page) Club at 8:30 o'clock, served by the Methodist Ladies. An automobile ride around the city after breakfast and fish fry in the afternoon and the dance in the evening, will be the entertain ment for the second day. Friday. Breakfast at eight o'clock at the Elks Club, served by the ladies of the Epworth League. The ladies are to view the parade, from some ad vantageous point, as well as the day light fireworks. At one o'clock, there will be a luncheon at Mrs. Skinner's. If the crowd is too large to be ac-| comodated at Mrs. Skinner's home, the ladies will be taken to the Elk's Club and the menu will be served as prepared by Mrs. Skinner and the ladies. The entertainment after the luncheon will be cards, or a trip to Piney Dell Carnival, the choice de pending upon the weather. There will be another get-together meeting the evening to view the fireworks,4nd the dance will complete the program for the last day. a , The Elk's Club will keep open house for the delegates and guests, both gentlemen and ladies on all three days. It is planned to present a souvenir in the nature of a picture of some scenic spot of the Beartooth Mountains, to , each lady attending. _ * A large delegation is expected from Billings but it has not been learned j what day they wi n arriv e, or whether part 0 f tbe delegation will attend on d i(f eren t days, of > ' : DEATH CLAIMS ] , , . ItY J enas y vanln - res ' dent of Red ^ Lodge tor the pa 01ghteen years ' havlng been em f )lo > ed In the Montana Coal and Iron Com j pnny at Bearcreek. He was a mem (Continued from page one) He has been _ j : I | g GOOD BUSINESS Demands I I I I I I I I I I I GOOD FIRE INSURANCE Let us do it for you 0. J. SIMMONS Representing Home Fire Insurance Co. Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance Co. j j j I | i O S 2 ! I I The End of the Search Oh, I'm sure she would like that! The .words are spoken invariably by shoppers who select gifts of SILVERWARE iand a range of designs from our large stock, makes the happy choice easier. BEARTOOTH JEWELRY Red Lodge. ' ber of the miners union as well as a member of Beartooth Lodge No. 101 ! of the Oddfellows. Funeral services were conducted yesterday from the Methodist church i „ ^ th Rev ' F - C - Fulford officiating. Downard's funeral chapel had charge of the body. Mr. Pollock is survived by his wife; six daughters, Mrs. Margaret Brooks, Mrs. George Linn, Mrs. D. W. Colum bus, Christina Pollock and Jesse Pol lock of Red Lodge and Mrs. Mary Cun ningham of Portland, Oregon; four 1 sons, Guy of Red Lodge, William of Fort Harrison at Helena and Andrew and John of Bearcreek. i -1 j *>». William Dempster, John Sewell. Alex Youn *- Ira Maxwell and Ed Me I Cluskie. The pallbearers were Charles Carl in, | Eagles Are to be Entertained at a Novel Fish Fry The Fish Fry at Richel Lodge and j Camp Senia will be one of the out standing* features of entertainment to ^ today The loca , ^ made arrangement8 for ] carg tQ ^ the delegatea and their to thfi Figh Fry( leaving the ; Labor Temp , e at one . thirty- They ^ ^ ^ dty thig evening I at which time a dance will be given jn honor o{ the de i e gation and visitors. ; Another interesting feature of the ranl will be the day and night fireworks on the last day and the dec 1 orated automobile parade tomorrow morning which will take place at nine o'clock from the Labor Temple. Too much credit can not be given to F. I. Johnson and Roy Hicox, under whose leadership the fish were caught for the big fry. ! FOUND: One gold tie clasp in Convention Hall. Owner can have same by calling at News office and paying for this ad. a 16-lt.