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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1921
Page
5
The piece urges depositors to audit check stubs to maintain accurate bank accounts. It argues that careful record keeping builds credit and helps recover lost checks by using stubs for duplicates, emphasizing discipline in personal finance.
The Montana State Board of Land Commissioners has not set new lease rates for state oil and gas lands. At a recent meeting, the board approved pre-April 7 lease applications but will not consider others until a yearly rental figure is agreed. Current terms: 15 percent royalty to the state and a $100 yearly rental for 320 acres.
In Salt Lake City Judge Tillman D. Johnson dismissed all Lever Act violation charges in the Utah district court against 19 defendants led by the Utah Idaho Sugar company and its officers. The report notes other Montana and local incidents, including a fatal wagon accident near Torah and a harsh legal penalty shift for highway robbery.
G M Moss editor of the Whitefish Pilot proposes the Montana State Press association hold its July meeting in Whitfish on July 28 29 and 30. A reply to T J Hocking and EK Petragon is awaited as executive committee plans and Whitefish entertainment unfold. An auto trip circuit including Lake McDonald Kalispell Somers and a Flathead lake steamer to Polson is discussed. Robert Lee McCulloch district judge in the Fourth judicial district died at his Hamilton home aged 62 after throat illness. He came to Montana 29 years ago and served as district judge since 1911 replacing Henry L Myers.
Billings plans a June 25 pageant near Hardin to honor Custer’s last stand. Five hundred Crow and Cheyenne Indians representing Sioux join American Legion and cavalry in the spectacle. Permission from the war department to use the national cemetery. Gen. Hugh N. Scott will attend. Efforts seek Mrs. George A. Custer’s attendance in New York.
Juhray was sentenced to be hanged in Butte on June 10 between 3 and 6 AM for the murder of Hugh Gibson on September 29, 1920.
Great Falls Ad club endorsed a proposal to raise 25 000 dollars to reward the first oil company that brings in a well flowing 600 barrels a day north of Great Falls. Other civil groups will be asked to help fund the effort.
Atty Frank Woody, a Missoula lawyer and former assistant attorney general under Ford, plans to move to Billings to open a new firm with Butte lawyer G W Stapleton about April 20. Woody will return to Helena briefly. Stapleton has been Silver Bow county attorney for two terms. Milk dealers must obtain licenses under a new Montana board rule, with tuberculin tests and other inspections at owner expense and no compensation if cattle are condemned. Indemnity of 75 percent of assessed value plus 300 for pure bred stock applies to cows slaughtered due to tuberculosis, with county assessor providing registry. A Butte man died from exposure after immersion in Pipestone dam near Columbia Gardens, dragged out by three youths John Phillips, Pat Johns, and Alfred Jepwick.
Judge George B. Winston held a one day district court session in Deer Lodge disposing of demurrers motions and probate matters. An order was issued in the case of Jack Fredericks alias John H. Fredericks for the return of 85 pints of bonded whiskey seized without a warrant. Governor Dixon named M W Potter as penitentiary warden and Charles A Jakways as game warden. A Deer Lodge furniture factory plans to hire over 30 workers were announced after securing a location from the C M & St Paul railway.
Fred Violette and Peter Moret were convicted yesterday of operating an illicit still on Violette’s ranch west of Missoula. They received 13 months in federal prison and each fined $500. A 30 day stay was granted while an appeal or new trial is pursued. Violette was a county treasurer candidate whose name remained on the ballot.
Wayne B Wheeler urged beer as medicine prohibition and cutting national spirituous liquor supply to 250 000 gallons or a reasonable amount. He spoke at a legislative conference of temperance groups outlining the Anti Saloon League program to lawmakers.
Governor Joseph M. Dixon named five members for the Montana fish and game commission to implement the new law. The appointees are B. A. Wilson of Livingston H C Crippen of Billings John A. Tressler of Malta Joseph L. Kelly of Anaconda and Thomas N. Marlowe of Missoula as terms from one to four years. The group to meet April 20 at 2 p.m. to organize and assume duties. Billings hotel to be replaced by a five story 250000 dollar hostelry. Bozeman suffers 40 year windstorm with 48 mph gusts causing unroofed barns and downed poles disrupting lines.
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