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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF BED LODGE
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CARBON COUNTY NW
VOL. XII. NO. 2
RED LODGE DAILY NEWS
VOL. 2. NO. 140
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BED LODGE, CARBON COUNTY. MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935.
STATE LAW MAKERS
CALL END TO 24TH
LEGISLATIVE MEET
The twenty-fourth assembly of
the Montana legislature adjourned
shortly before 7 p. m. Monday eVe
ning, endirg a session which ex
tended 91 hours over the regular
sixty days, passed Thursday at
midnight, and breaking a deadlock
over appropriations items which
had embroiled both houses since
the deadline Thursday.
Arguments over appropriations
of state funds for operating state
departments were centered princi
pally on those for the Montana
railroad and public service com
Session Extends 91 Hours
Over Regular 60-Day
Period
mission.
Despite open friction between
the house and senate, a high spot
throughout the session, the close
of the twenty-fourth assembly, de
scribed as one of the most hectic
in Montana's legislative history,
was marked Monday by a feeling
of tranquillity between the warring
ey, while 124 others had success
fully passed through the legislat
ive mill but awaited final approval
of the state's chief executive.
Three bills met with the governor's
veto.
The total bills filed at the close
of the fortieth or final day for in
troduction included 540 measures in
the house, an all-time record for
this branch of Montana's legislat
ive assembly. Before the senate
a total of 221 measures were filed.
The total number passed by house
factions.
The results of over sixty days
of law-making found 168 measures
written into Montana statutes with
the signature of Gov. P. H. Coon
and senate and sent to the govern
or will not be determined until
status reports are made in both
branches.
Measures of importance still
hanging fire pending approval of
the governor are HB 343, the $3,
000,000 water conservation, relief
old-age pension and relief alloca
tion measure; HB 517, water con
servation revolving fund; SB 26,
Montana motor patrol act, HB 289,
the liquor system revision bill per
mitting the sale of drinks by ho
tel cafes.
Important measures that passed
in the house and signed by the gov
ernor include HB 4, appropriating
$185,000 for legislative expenses;
HB 63, providing for alternate jur
ors in extended criminal and civil
cases; HB 50, permitting entrance
of widows and war veterans to Co
lumbia Falls home; HiB 139, pro
viding for 10-day tourist fish and
hunting license for $1.50; HB 91,
providing 8-hour day and three
platoon system in cities of first
class; HB 87, preventing certain
advertising by dentists; HB 136,
creating volunteer firemen's pen
sion fund; HB 74, extending pow
ers of irrigation district commis
sioners; HB 66, "gin marriage
act"; HB 171, preventing the giv
ing of prizes for the taking of (
game and fish; HB 292, biennial
highway appropriations of $6,600,
000 .
Those of importance passed dur
ing the session in the senate and
signed include SB 7, permitting
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DELEGATION TO GO
TO HELENA TONITE
ON ROAD PROPOSAL
A delegation representative of
towns of Red Lodge, Bridger,
Fromberg and Belfry leaves here
this évening for Helena to repre
sent to the Montana highway com
mission a proposal for making the
Red Lodge-Bridger county highway
a part of the state's seven per
cent system.
Members of Red Lodge's repre
sentation will include C. C. Bowlen,
chairman of the county board of
commissioners; John G. Skinner,
city attorney, Mayor G. A. Jeffery
and Frank O'Connor.
The proposal, which is declared
to be beld in high favor by all
cities and towns along the route of
the Red Lodge-Bridger link, asks
that the state take over the high
way and adopt it into the Montana
system. The feeder unit connects
state highways Nos. 310 at Brid
ger and 32 at Red Lodge, the lit
ter connecting with the new feder
al approach highway to, Yell<
stone National park.
COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE
GETS FARM HOUSING PLANS
The Carbon county extension of
fice here has received a list of
farm building plans from the Fed
eral Housing administration, it
was announced Tuesday. The list
includes plans for the construction
of all types of farm buildings. The
county extension service, it*/was
stated, will be glad to cooperate in
any way possible and assist any
one in securing suitable plans if
called upon to do so.
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COUNCIL SETTLES
PARK HOARD ISSUE
AT TUESDAY MEET
Resignations of Old Body
Accepted and New
Board Created
Red Lodge city councilmen at
their regular monthly meeting
Tuesday night at the city hall vot
ed to accept resignations tendered
by the three members of the board
of trustees pf the new city munici
pal tourist park, introduced and
passed 1m an ordinance increasing
the number of park trustees from
three to five members and then
voted unanimously for five new
park board members.
Ironing out of the administra
tive problem for the city's new
tourist headquarters proved the
highlight of the session,
Resignation of the third mem
ber of the old' trustee board was
ing of the council.
tendered at last night's session by
J. P. Plunkett. The other members
of the old board, John Corey and
Dominic Marino, tendered their
resignation at the February meet
A motion, introduced by Aider
man Peo Maddio and seconded by
Alderman W. J. Barrett, not to ac
cept the resignations of the old
board members resulted on roll
call in a split vote of 3-3, Alderman
Maddio, Barrett and Harry Math
ews in favor of the motion and Al
dermen W. W. Flashman, Ed
Bloom and Gus B. Foltz, opposed.
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ROBERTS RANCHER
DIES AT
Matthew Hunter, Prominent
Resident, Succumb^ at
Hospital
Matthew Hunter, 58, well-known
rancher of the Roberts community,
died at a Billings hospital at 8 o'
clock Friday morning following an
operation for appendicitis. He had
been removed there for treatment
last Tuesday.
Funeral services were conducted
at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at
the Roberts Methodist-Episcopal
church. The Rev. H. W. Woods of
Red Lodge officiated, while ar
rangements were in charge of R.
G. Martin of the Martin Funeral
borne here. Burial was in the Red
Lodge mausoleum.
During the services, the Rev.
Mr. Woods and Mr. Martin, accom
panied by Mrs. Roy A. Petrie of
Roberts, sang two hymn numbers,
"Rock of Ages" and "Abide With
Me," Pallbearers were Albert Bu
das, Grant Bell, C. E. Hudson, M.
S. Wentworth, P. E. Howland and
Emil Heikkila.
Mr. Hunter, a prominent ranch
er of the community for the last 33
years, was bom at Breenwood, Ill.,
Nov. 23, 1876. He came west to re
side in Washington for a time, be
fore removing to Montana in 1902,
being one of four brothers to lo
cate on homestead land, four and
one-half miles southeast of Rob
erts. He had since been a contin
uous resident of the Roberts com
munity. The Hunter broth!
well-known ranchers of Carbon
county.
Mr. Hunter married Mrs. Carrie
Fry. at Roberts on Dec. 26, 1923.
Mrs. Hunter survives as do three
brothers, William, Leonard and
Ralph Hunter of Roberts, and two
stepsons, William Fry of Ennis
and Clyde Pry of Helena, both of
whom attended the services Sun
day.
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The British gunboat. Sandpiper,
was too small to make a ten-thohs
and mile trip to China for perman
ent duty, so it was taken apart and
shipped by freight in ten thousand
pieces for assembly at Shanghai.
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Community Nuisance No. 1
In last week's issue of The Picket Journal, C. H. Draper,
editor and supposedly owner of that undernourished week
ly local sheet, in writing the story of the train-bus contro
versy, stated that the editor of The News, who caused the
arrest of one of the truck drivers of the Northern Pacific
Transport company, "is disclaimed and condemned by the
conservative and substantial leadership of the commun
ity.
We could expect this kind of a story from the rather
shakey pen of Editor Draper. It has long been kntnyn that
kq has consistently opposed every constructive program
that would benefit Red Lodge and Carbon county. He rob
bed the taxpayers of Carbon county for many years on the
printing contracts/and he attempted to do so*again this
year. He opposed the efforts of the editor of The News in
securing the construction of the Red Lodge-Cooke City
highway and we have his written words, as published in
The Picket Journal, to substantiate this statement.
Not only has he been on the wrong side of every con
structive program advocated^ by the citizens of Red Lodge
and Cabon county, but now comes forward in defense of
the Northern Pacific, aiding the rail interests to further
tear away prospects for Red Lodge 's future and to further
demoralize community spirit, with the final and greedy
aim of removing a main source of tax-paying revenue
which, once gone, will become a burden for the already
over-loaded taxpayers of the county to bear, consequences
of which could be painted here in the deepest black.
It is for this attitude that Editor Draper has come with
in the well-earned right of becoming known and henceforth
dubbed as Community Nuisance No. 1.
We do not believe that any good citizen of Carbon coun
ty, who is well-informed, is in favor of discontinuing the
train service between Billings and Red Lodge and substi
tuting bus and truck service. There may be some who do
not understand the question and do not realize the far
reaching effect such a change will have upon this commu
nity, in increasing taxes of Carbon county residents, in de
terring Carbon 's progress and in Jncohveniencing eight or
ten thousand people of this county.
For instance, when the train carried the mail it was
sorted by a mail clerk on the train and within a few min
utes after it arrived it was in the hands of business men
and others who then had plenty of time to answer their
correspondence for dispatch in the outgoing mail the same
day. With the bus service, a decided change has taken
place in regards to this, to say nothing of their inconven
ience, their unsanitary conditions, their undependable ser
vice and their destruction to highways built by taxes
placed on the motoring public.
Since the bus-mail service went into operation under a
restraining order of the federal court, it is demonstrated
beyond ,any question of à doubt that the combination ser
vice is inadequate and wholly unsatisfactory to a commu
nity as large as Red Lodge, and when the facts are pre
sented to the court, we are satisfied that the Northern Pa
cific Railway company will be compelled to continue the
passenger and mail service on the rails and off the high
way.
]/n conclusion, who is this so-called
conservative and
substantial leadership" in Red Lodge and Carbon 'county?
We would like to have Editor Draper tell us who they are
that we may examine and look into their records of civic
pride and constructive community spirit. We are inform
ed that, when Editor Draper penned the phrase, he had in
mind himself and two others, whose records are none too
good. If this is true, we would like to write their life his
tory, both personal and official.
COMMITTEE IN HOUSE OPPOSES ISSUANCE OF
TRUCK-BUS PERMITS BY OLD RAIL BOARD
Findings of fact made in a re
port of a special committee in the
Montana house of representatives
on its investigation into the af
fairs of the state board of railroad
and public service commissioners
held that meetings of the board
late in December and early Janu
ary at which a large number of
applications were granted for bus
permits and discontinuance of- rail
service,
Northern
Lodge-BilUngs branch, were at
variance with established practice
and recommended that, upon appli
cation of interested parties, the
decisions should be set aside and
given reconsideration. /
Its findings of fact included:
1. That the minutes were too
brief and formal. /
2. That the records show hear
ings properly held with one or
more commissioners present.
3. That the meetings were so in
formally conducted that they may
be questioned as to whether they
were meetings under the law; That
including those of the
Pacific fpr its Red
the membqrs were not together
such as required by law.
4. That from October to Janu
ary 7, the commission was handi
capped by the absence of Tom
Garey and the illness of Tom
Stout.
5. That during November and
December a large number of appli
cants for hearing for bus permits
and the discontinuance of rail ser
vice were entered and permits
granted at meetings of December
31, January 3 and January 5.
6. That the procedure in grant
ing these permits were at variance
with the established practice of
the commission as to make highly
questionable the adequacy of the
protection of the public interest in
that 1 ■ ■
(a) Commissioner Young con
ducted alone 44 hearings, and tran
script was made in but 20 cases,
(h) That the commission was a
one-man board for practical pur
poses for at least three meetings,
(c) That some applications were
put through with unprecedented
DRAWS ONE-YEAR
TERM FOR FELONY
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Penalty Suspended Pending
Fromberg Youth's Good
Conduct in Future
21-year-old
Ralph
Haworth,
Promberg youth, was sentenced to
one year of hard labor' in the state
penitentiary when he pleaded guil
ty before District Judge O. F. God
dard to a direct information charg
ing grand larceny, a felony, at a
Carbon county district court ses
sion here Tuesday.
Haworth's sentence was sus
pended pending good behavior, af
ter Judge Goddard severely repri
manded the youth, who told the
court that the felony charge was
his first offense against the law.
Haworth was arrested at Billings
Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Rob
ert Pryde of Bridger, who was no
tified by Louis Brambo, a sheep
herder near Edgar whom Haworth
bad been assisting in feeding a
band of sheep, that the youth took
a $100 bill from Brambo's suitcase
when the youth went to a sheep
wagon presumably to get a pair of
overshoes.
Deputy Pryde and Brambo trail
ed Haworth to Billings soon after
the latter discovered the bill miss
ing. Haworth, it was stated, be
came aware that he was being fol
lowed, ducked into a washroom of
a (Billings beer ball and cached the
bill. He was brought to Red Lodge
and Sunday, on being questioned
by county authorities, admitted the
theft but refused to tell what he
did with the bill.
An unusual feature of the case
was the return of the missing $100
note here Sunday to (Sheriff J. R.
McFate by a Billings resident,
whose name was not learned, but
who stated that he witnessed Ha
worth hide the bill while in the
beer hall washroom.
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RESTRAINING ORDER
POSTPONES HEARING
IN TRANSPORT CASE
A restraining order issued
March 2 by United District Judge
Charles N. Pray to prevent inter
ference with the operation of the
Northern Pacific Transport com
pany's busses and trucks between
Red Lodge and Billings also with
held action on the hearing of F. R.
Meehan, a driver for the railroad's
subsidiary, who was arrested here
on that date and scheduled to an
swer charges of operating a ve
hicle without authority of the Mon
tana railroad commission before
Justice of the Peace John Sander
son Saturday.
Meehan's hearing, according to
County Attorney É. P. Conwdjd
who issued the complaint against
the truck driver at the instance of
O. H. P. Shelley, editor of The
News and leading figure in a
strong local opposition against
changing of this city's transporta
tion services from the rails to the
highway, is indefinitely postponed
until Judge Pray's enjoinment is
removed.
The driver, when arraigned here
on the charge, entered a plea of
not guilty. He is at liberty on a
$500 bond furnished through the
railroad interests.
speed; some filed December 10 and
14 being acted on in the same
month; that of 29 applications, 20
were acted upon by a one-man
board; that the volume of business
was greater than that ever before
handled in a similar length of time.
(d) That an "order and report"
usually made for each case was not
made out for any of these cases.
(e) That the meeting of December
31 was not held on that date; that
meetings on January 3 and 5 were
not actually held at any time; that
the minutes of these meetings
were not records of actual meet
ings but are formal statements
prepared pjrior or subsequent to
dates they represent.
In its recommendations the com
mittee included r
1. That official board meetings
be actual meetings.
2. That complete minute-records
of all proceedings be made.
3. That all permits from Novem
ber 1 to January 7 appear to be of
doubtful validity and upon appli
cations from any interested party
SEED LOAN BLANKS STILL
UNAVAILABLE IN MONTANA
Otto P. Roberts, emergency
county agent, has been advised
that blanks for the government
seed loans have not yet been re
ceived in any part of Montana.
Many requests, he said, are com
ing to the county extension office
here for information regarding the
blanks and that parties interested
will be notified upon the arrival of
the blanks here.
WASHOE MINER IS
FATALLY INJURED
IN MINE MISHAP
Steve Puhek, 39, Dies at
Local Hospital of
Skull Fracture
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Head injuries sustained in an ac
cident in the Washoe coal mine
early Thursday proved fatal to
Steve Puhek, 39, a resident of
Washoe and a. miner in the local
field for nearly the past score of
years. Mr. Puhek died at a local
hospital Sunday of a fractured
skulL
While engaged in blocking a cut
ter bar of a mining machine in the
first room of 3 south entry in the
Washoe mine, Mr. Puhek was
struck by coal rolling from the
face of the cut, H. W. Russell,
mine superintendent stated.
The rolling particles struck the
victim as he leaned over the sump
ing pan of the machine to adjust
the cutter bar, knocking him off
balance and causing him to fall
and strike his forehead against the
edge of the sumping pan. A front
al skull fracture was sustained
from the blow, Dr. J. C. P. Sieg
friedt, who was called to attend
Puhek, said.
Puhek was rushed immediately
to a Red Lodge hospital. He was
in a semi-conscious condition and
shortly after arriving here lapsed
completely unconscious until the
time of death early Sunday.
An employe of the Washoe mine/
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REPORT INCREASE
IN STATE TRAVEL
Conoco Bureau Reports a
Total of 83/632
Used, Service
The popularity of Montana as a
mecca for automobile vacationists
from all parts of the country is in
dicated by a report just released
by the Conoco Travel bureau, a
branch of Continental Oil com
pany and America's largest free
travel service. According to the
report, 83,632 travel bureau tour
ists spent more than $3,440,880 in
this state last year.
It was also revealed that motor
travel throughout the entire Unit
ed States was unusually heavy
during 1934. Hotels, tourist
camps, restaurants and many other
types of business took in more
money from tourists than during
any other year since 1929. The
bureau supplied detailed trip ser
vices to 969,485 vacationists, a
figure 41 per cent greater than the
organization's total for 1933. Sta
tistics also show that travel bu
reau tourists spent in excess of 40
million dollars while they were
away from home.
The Conoco Travel bureau is an
organization maintained to pro
vide motorists with up-to-date in
formation on North American
roads, routes, hotels, cottage
camps, scenic and historical at
tractions plus any other data like
ly ,to make vacation Ijrips pleasant
and profitable. More than 100
carefully trained men and women
are employed in the bureau's cen
tral offices at Denver, Colo. Con
oco's 22,000 service stations act as
field branches. It is predicted that
one and one-half million vacation
ists will rely on travel bureau as
sistance during 1935.
should be set aside and given re
consideration by the commission.
After extended debate on the re
port of the public service commis
sion committee, the summary 'of
its findings and recommendations
was received and placed
on file.
The man who thinks he is witty
gets a lot of self-approval.
ADMINISTRATOR OF
COUNTY RELIEF IS
TOLD TO CUT COST
Butler's Orders for Relief
Curtailments Received
By Local Office
Along with other county relief
.administrators throughout the
state, Carbon Relief Administrator
O. J. Salo was in receipt this week
of instructions from Dr. W. J. But
ler, Montana relief administrator,
calling for drastic reductions in re
lief administrative costs, the ex
tending of relief aid and other i
tems in order that the office be
operated within the alloted budget
for the remainder of March.
Dr. Butler's orders emphasized
that incurrence of deficits during
the month would probably bring
about dismissal of administrators
of offices where such deficits oc r
cur.
In calling for the reductions in
relief expenditures, it was stated,
the situation was one beyond the
control of relief officials and was
brought about by limited funds at
the disposal of the FERA and be
cause of the delay in congress of
passage of new legislation to pro
vide additional monies for this
work. This includes, mainly, the
$4,800,000,000 works bill.
Administrator Salo stated Mon
day that his office would comply
with Dr. Butler's orders in every .
respect. In compliance with the
instructions for reducing expendi
tures, he» said, no work relief will
be available to county relief clients
for the remainder of t]je month.
The instructions from thg' state
relief administrator received by
Administrator Salo also recom
mended that the following steps
be taken to reduce expenditures:
That all work projects be dis
continued.
That all relief clients be placed
on direct relief.
That clothing budgets and inci
dentals and medical, dental and
drug budgets be reduced' to a mini
mum.
That drastic reductions be made
in travel items.
That all administrative employes
donate several days' services for
the "good of the cause".
The Carbon county administrat
or reported that the county has
650 relief cases at the present
time.
In giving his instructions for
the cuts in expenditures. Dr. Butler
said, "It is forced upon me."
"Montana, I am informed, has
been granted all the money which
the state, may reasonably expect
for March", he continued. "I have
been told that Montana has been
fairly treated in this regard, and
the federal officials themselves re
gret the necessity of the cut. I
have been given strict instructions
that we must under
stances incur a
month of March.
He further stated that the
tion was taken with "the greatest
regret and over repeated protests
on my part," and appealed to the
people of Montana to "cooperate
fully with relief officials in ac
cepting the regrettable conditions
imposed by limited funds.
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deficit for the
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OUTGOING ALDERMEN
FILE THIS WEEK IN
CITY WARD CONTEST
Three filings in the city alder
manic race had been made up to
noon today with City Clerk P. H.
Alden. Two of the filings were
made this morning, the other was
made Tuesday. AU of the filings
were by the outgoing aldermen in
each of the three city wards.
They were those of Gus B. Foltz
in the first ward; W. W. Flash
man in the second ward and Peo
Maddio in the third ward. The fil
ing of nominating petitions of Mr.
Foltz and Mr. Flashman was made
this morning, while Mr. Maddio
filed yesterday. The petitions place
the present outgoing members of
the city council in the aldermanic
race of the city election on April 1.
Other nominating petitions are
being circulated in city wards, it
was stated. The petitions, under
election laws, must hear names of
at least 6 per cent of the voters
who cast ballots at the election
held in city wards last year.
Admiral Byrd took iee» fin if
with him to the South Polar re
gions to keep his provisions from
freezing too solid.
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