Reports Show Slippage in Several Livestock Types
State reports indicate Montana farm stock counts for January 1 1932 show declines in cattle and sheep, with cattle around 3,820,000 and sheep at 3,820,000 head. Hog totals reach 283,000 while horses fall to 400,000 and mules stand near 9,000. Breeding cows rise slightly as calves and beef cattle, and marketings shift with more steers and fewer cows. Sheep decline marks the first drop since 1923 amid drought and financial strain on sheep men.
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Federal Top Reporting Service
Montana
Shoot breaks out at Royal saloon in Dillon
On Sunday about nine, Charles Bliven owner of the Royal saloon was shot by David Daies, an engineer. The shooting appears connected to a boycott from alleged offenders fleeing to Dillon from Butte Anaconda and other towns. Community leaders debate organizing a boycott to curb unrest.
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Charles Bliven
Royal Saloon
David Daies
Butte
Anacond
Dillon
John Kinaman
First Infantry
Lamont
Montana fish hatcheries report record year and releases
Montana State Fish and Game reports 27,631,886 game fish hatched and released in 1931 across 14 hatcheries led by Big Timber and Anaconda. Cooperating units like Butte Anglers Club and federal sources contributed thousands of blackspotted and rainbow trout, bass, sunfish, salmon, and other species with eggs on hand totaling 7.5 million by January 1932.
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Helena
Montana
State Fish and Game Department
Treasure State
Montana Wild Life
State Department
Anaconda
Butte Anglers’ ‘Club
Federal Bureau of Fisheries
Yank Pond
S. S. Drew
California
Loch Leven
Lake Superior
Michigan
Polson Hatchery
Flathead Lake
State College Hosts High School Week April 28 30
Montana State college prepares the High School Week program for April 28 to 30 with faculty led plans and new Vinclusion of a conference of deans of girls. Composed committees from the Montana Interscholastic Association and the State Federation of Women’s clubs cooperate. The event includes scholarships stock judging writing and speaking contests and expanded vocational guidance. Special rail fare of a fare and a third is offered by Northern Pacific Great Northern and Burlington for attendees. Transportation is provided for Smith Hughes students in stock judging traveling on specified railroads.
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Bozeman
Montana State College
Montana Interscholastic Association
State Federation of Women’s Club
W. F. Brewer
W. R. Ames
State University
Ethelyn C. Harrison
Gladys Branegan
College of Household and Industrial Arts
Mildred Leigh
Hamilton Hall
Mary Stewart
Sarah N. Barnes
State College
J. A. Woodard
Gallatin County
F. Livingston
Wolf Point
C. D. Wiggenhorn
Billings
E. J. Crary
Chateau
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Burlington
Smith-Hughes
Road Building Furnished Jobs for 3 000 000 Men in 31
The 1931 highway program employed about one million directly in construction and nearly two million in related gear and materials. Of the 1.6 billion spent, half funded local road improvements. The nation now has 3 million miles of roads and 250 000 miles of city streets, with Federal aid supporting 90 000 miles of main highways.
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United States
America
Ruling on Poor Tax Collection Authority
Attorney General L A Foot rules county treasurers may spend five percent of the poor tax for collection. County commissioners lack authority to hire others to collect the tax if statutes do not authorize it. The opinion upholds the five percent allowance for treasurers and deems alternative collectors unconstitutional.
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L. A. Foot
Justin Bourquin
Butte
Montana's Car Supply Outnumbers Population
Montana could transport its entire population by car if everyone hit the road same day, though luggage transport lags with about 46 trucks per 100 people. End of 1931 registrations show 103,129 passenger cars and 24,037 trucks and other vehicles at the Deer Lodge bureau led by Austin Middleton as registrar and Ski Small as chief deputy. Cascade Yellowstone Silver Bow Missoula Lewis and Clark and Flathead Counties top car counts. Madison County headlines historic reports on mining, stock raising, lumbering, hunting, and fishing.
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Montana
State Motor Vehicle Bureau
Deer Lodge
Austin Middleton
Ski Small
Silver Bow
Cascade
Yellowstone
Missoula
Lewis and Clark
Flathead
Old Madison
Deaths from Disease in State Show an Increase
Provisional figures for Montana show 683 deaths from communicable diseases in 1931, up from 688 in 1930. Tuberculosis caused the most deaths (321 in 1931, 337 in 1930), influenza claimed 163 deaths in 1931 and 102 in 1930, with March recording the highest monthly total at 92.
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Montana
Lucien L. Benepe
State Board of Health
Reveal
State leader by vehicle ratio sparks county rankings
The article notes tourism draws a state leader by population to cars and trucks with 25 automobiles and seven trucks per hundred people. Choteau Roosevelt and Teton counties show higher truck ratios but lower auto ratios. Gallatin and Powder River share car ratios yet have five trucks per hundred. License and title fees last year totaled 1,448,217 returned to counties for road work.
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Choteau
Roosevelt
Teton
Gallatin
Powder River
Counter Attraction at New York Show Draws Auto Salesmen
A counter attraction to the new cars at the New York Show were the automobile salesmen. They appear as examples of the well dressed man in starched collars, correct cravats and shiny shoes, on the firing line presenting the new models.
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New York
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Butte High School
Beaverhead
Albert Stamm
B. N. Stevenson
James
Modjeska
James Fleming
Padley
Smith
Ara & Navy Yoemtas
Canada
Madison County
Clarlow Wilcox
Columbia
Valentine
Beaverhead Auto Sales Company
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