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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1926
Page
10
Sanaa and officials have dispersed after Congress adjourned. President Coolidge and family head to Lake Osgood Adirondacks summer White House. Vice President plans coast to coast campaign to reform Senate rules. Paris protests loom against Washington accord amid Franco Belgian franc crisis. City streetcar strikes hit New York and Indianapolis. mediation board formed to handle wage demands as railroads resist raises.
Washington correspondents say the President is satisfied with the sixty Ninth congress output including tax cuts, war debt funding and world court approval. He laments farm relief defeats but expects tariff and price fixing disputes to resolve, while targeting November electoral victory. In Mexico, decrees curb Catholic publications and orders, with Cardinal Gasparri calling for prayers for persecuted Catholics on August 1.
The Reed committee released donor names to the Anti Saloon League and the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment from the Pennsylvania primary inquiry. John D. Rockefeller Sr and Jr led contributions to the dry cause with 60500. The wet group reported about 800009 in receipts, with 5200 from Mrs. Van Gerbig of Connecticut. The Philadelphia inquiry neared completion as the panel planned to meet in Chicago July 26 to probe Smith McKinley expenditures. Senator Reed aims to reveal influences behind the world court resolution, seen as hostile to prohibition.
Premier Briand told the chamber of deputies the cabinet will wait to present the full foreign debt program. He linked this to resolving the British problem and awaiting clear ameliorations in the American accord before ratification proceeds. Franklin Bouillon attacked the Berenger agreement.
In Poland the Indecision of Marshal Pilsudski fuels a tense national policy stand. Bolshevik agitation worsens clashes between soldiers and civilians while Soviet Russia watches from the east. Polish extremists push for ceding land to Germany and Germany seeks the return of territories. Diet opposition grows to the dictator's decrees likely to extend to 1928.
Nature continued her rampage across the globe last week with earthquakes in southern Europe and Asia, followed by temblors in Sumatra and Java that cost many lives. Floods worsened in Mexico, Austria and Japan amid record snowstorms in South America and a cyclonic storm in Chile. Torrential rains damaged crops in Ohio.
After months of effort the hull of Submarine 8 51 was raised from the sea off Block Island and towed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where it will be opened to recover the 24 bodies for burial. Lieut Commander Edward Ellsbury led the engineering work after the S 51 sank last September in a collision with a steamer, costing 33 lives.
In Salem Massachusetts the three hundred year celebration featured Vice President Charles G Dawes inspecting a large parade and attending a banquet. He delivered a greeting from President Coolidge and gave a lively speech. Dawes also announced plans related to his own candidacy.
Department of Commerce data show one car per 71 people globally, with the United States leading at one per six. Hawaii one to eleven, Canada one to thirteen, Afghanistan one per 1.2 million, Hejaz four cars, Abyssinia one in 133,338, China one in 31,871. Solomon Islands two cars, Liberia fifty four. Most 1920s American made vehicles dominated exports, especially in South America. Europe trails.
Translators led by Prof. Oluf Opsson claim the Spokane inscription describes a Viking expedition in 1010 across North America and a clash with Indigenous tribes. A Grant county rune set also dated 1010 recounts Norsemen fleeing Indians and starving under river cliffs as they crossed the Columbia River.
Sam Mandell of Rockford defeated Rocky Kansas of Buffalo in ten rounds to claim the lightweight championship Chicago hosted. The referee ruled Mandell outpointed Kansas, though the decision drew sharp criticism.
Internal Revenue figures for Montana show a total income increase of 151700.15 over the prior year ending June 30. Corporation taxes rose significantly while individual refunds and exemptions partly offset gains, indicating improved business conditions across the state.
Federal aid projects in Montana will have sealed bids opened on July 20 in Helena. Projects include grading and structures on Reck Canyon road in Gallatin County, steel and concrete bridge work at Bear Creek on Rocky Canyon road, and resurfacing 484 miles of Bitter Root road in Ravalli County. Also listed are Crow Agency Battlefield Highway work in Big Horn County, timber pile trestles on the Crow Agency Wyoming line, Pablo Rolling road resurfacing in Lake County, and a two-span 60 foot Griffith Creek bridge in Dawson County.
Judge W FE Carroll of Butte orders foreclosure on Bitter Root valley lands tied to remnants of the 1909 irrigation scheme. The case notes a 72 mile ditch and canal from Lake Como toward Missoula with an estimated $4 000 000 expended, and involves about $182 500 in land value.
Russell Sage, Yellowstone county sheriff, was shot and killed at the Billings jail by John Vickery, age 24. Vickery then wounded Jailer T. L. Brooks. Sage is the second Yellowstone sheriff to die in the line of duty, following Sheriff James T. Webb killed 18 years earlier near Roundup while attempting to arrest a horse thief.
The North Dakota state highway department reports construction work more than tripled in the fiscal year ending June 30. Contracts awarded from July 1, 1925, to June 30, 1926, totaled 4,104,223.14 dollars, vs 1,614,847.73 dollars the previous year.
Senator Walsh Congressman Teav itt and Dr. John Widsoe of Salt Lake on the Fact Finding Commission will speak at the 1926 Montana Irrigation and Drainage Institute convention in Valier August 18 to 20.
The Chinook city council approved the purchase of a fire engine costing 3800 dollars with delivery scheduled within 60 days.
The General Land Office in Washington completes a full Montana map detailing public land surveys county and reservation boundaries rail lines cities towns roads and topographical features. The new map updates the 1917 edition and is available through the Superintendent of Documents Government Printing Office Washington DC for 25 cents.
The state board of education names three out of state professors to form the site commission for the new Eastern Montana Normal school. They will report to the board by September 1. Cities bidding include Billings Miles City Glendive Roundup Forsyth Lewistown Glasgow and Havre.
Mualta's Main street is being gravelled near the depot. Judith Milling Co. of To son breaks ground on a new unit. Last week 25 more men joined the Northern Pacific shop force at Laurel. Yellowstone attendance records were shattered with 8 102 admissions on Judy 4th. Three Indians were killed and two injured near Brockton. Judge W R Stewart longtime Montana leader dies in Bozeman. Governor Tarlekson to address Port Benton Montana Pioneers. Forest crews round up south fork Judith river, shortening drive from Woboson to Helena by 45 miles. Great Northern anticipates heavy traffic this year. Montana to receive no federal check of 1550 for net funds within borders last year. Fourth of July fires spark talk of banning fireworks. Billings dam, 80 000 damages, destroyed. landmark for 25 years. John F Higgins of Glenrock leaves 500 000 to Wyoming state. Bank guarantee ballot measure killed for lack of signatures. 810 000 federal lands survey apportionment includes 60 000 for Montana. Benzien Women's club draws 100-plus from multiple towns. Benzien uniquely railroadless. State land receipts for late June total 67 826 07 versus 51 020 47 year ago.
High Court declared that gasoline dealers in Montana who withheld about 150000 dollars from a 2 cent per gallon tax are more nearly guilty of larceny as trustee Assistant Attorney General Albert H Angstman filed a petition for rehearing in the Sunburst Refining company case in the supreme court The case involves more than 30000 dollars and is one of several prosecutions by the attorney general's department.
Field wilt of potatoes hits Northwest farms annually. Montana Experiment Station plant pathologist H. E. Morris warns growers to watch as plants reach about 12 inches. Infected plants droop and die with brown discoloration at the stem end and a brown ring beneath the skin. No cure exists. control relies on a disease-free seed bed one tenth the main field size, located away from other potatoes.
Thomas D Campbell president of Campbell Farming near Hardin says this year’s wheat harvest will be the largest in its history with yields near 600 000 bushels up from 425 000 last year. Six combines and about 70 binders will harvest the crop under contract by Art Koebbe using a new 12 foot International combine. One man operates and maintains the machine and thrashes the grain.
The Montana farming roundup notes the Teton County Shipping association shipped 111 head of cattle from Bynum Chateau and Dutton. It reports the Bitter Root valley’s largest canning crop starting at Stevensville canery and strong wheat yields with 45 bushels per acre on summer fallowed land near Hinsdale. Widespread livestock movements, wool clips, grain elevator plans, and favorable weather frame a busy agricultural period across Blaine Yellowstone and surrounding counties.
Four more pure bred dairy calves have been shipped to Madison county from Tillamook Oregon to strengthen 4-H club herds. Last year a Madison county 4-H member's cow won the Ayrshire grand championship at the Midland Empire Fair.
In the state 317000 head of cattle have been tested once and found free from tuberculosis. During May 1642 head were tested and only 25 reactors were found.
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