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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1927
Page
4
Bhatchere on the Sliver Tow county section of the Butte Anaconda pavement will be widened. Work on site is nearly complete with estimates finalized. A contract for the job, costing about 5000 dollars, is expected to be approved in tune with 5000 to 8000 cubic feet of embankment addition and removal of about 9000 feet of guard rails.
The Milwaukee railway announces special rates from San Francisco and Los Angeles. A round trip from San Francisco to Butte via Portland and Seattle is quoted at 72.70 dollars. Travel via Portland is 87.67 dollars, while from Los Angeles via Seattle the rate is 87.44 dollars. Sleeper accommodations are available on Milwaukee sleepers at a 25 percent advance above the standard tariff.
A fragmented report details weeks of disruption to lard migration toward Yellowstone Park due to bad weather. It mentions Amery Charl Rats and local observers in Wisconsin and notes deaths and shifting grazing patterns tied to seasonal changes.
Walter Hagen forecasts a bold British counterattack as American pros prepare for the 1927 American Open at Ottawa and the Ryder Cup trials. He notes British stars including Dunedin Bromner Compston Gadd Ray Haver Robson and Whitehurst plotting return money and prestige, with the stakes centered on June events and transatlantic matchups.
The body identified as Angie McGillivary was found Thursday night at the Renner block. Sheriff’s deputies pursue two men who aided McGillivary and may be held for questioning. An inquest is planned with Corner Pat Holland, but light on death remains limited. Identification came from Chicago Milwaukee & El Paurate workers at Deer Y Lodge. McGillivary died of poisoning, whisky found nearby. Ralph Butterworth and Mrs Butterworth visit East Lake. he returns Tuesday while they stay for a longer visit.
Postmaster Brimmacombe announces no mail delivery Sunday or Monday except perishables and special deliveries. Local office readies ten trucks and clerks for limited service, using a Gude mail wagon for parcel post, with heightened efforts to inform the public. The app-delivery order originated from department headquarters in Washington, not Brimmacombe.
W. D. Stapleton, agricultural development agent for the Northern Pacific, visited Butte yesterday. He planned to proceed to Helena on the afternoon train.
The Montana lamb crop is forecast to exceed last year by about 1W0 percent amid steady shipments of 100000 head from Washington and Qreven into Montana. Roughly 100 curlends have arrived with more to follow. Montana’s population loss is 2 head out of 195000 with notable declines in Deer Lodge, Flathead, Bitter Root, and Big Blackfoot. R B Stevens of Missayia notes the stock port for Northern Pacific Railway. Hearing has begun at Mains Thompson Falls and Black tool.
Park rangers announced about 700 elk from the Gallatin herd in Yellowstone were killed during the hunting season to maintain herd numbers within limits. The percent killed is cited as necessary to keep the population in check.
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