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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1922
Page
6
A sweeping international digest reports battleships sunk near Sidney harbor, Manchurian defeats near Peking, French espionage arrests, revolts and truces in Europe and Asia, and refugee flows. It also notes British political shifts, American political trials, and disaster aftermaths in the Louisiana flood zones.
Henry Pomeroy Davidson of J P Morgan & Co died at his home during tumor removal surgery. A financier and war Red Cross director, he led US relief in Allied nations for two years, raised 114 million dollars, and advised Wilson at Paris. He helped coordinate relief in Russia Poland and central Europe and chaired the World League of Red Cross Societies.
In Kirvin Texas a mob of about five hundred men burned three Black men at stakes after their alleged involvement in the assault and murder of 17 year old Eula Ansley, whose mutilated body was found near town. Farm owner J T King attended and reportedly approved the acts. The killings occurred in front of two small churches with no gunfire heard.
Michael J. Finn age 61 part owner and business manager of the Omaha Western League club collapsed in his grandstand seat during a game against Tulsa. He died within 15 minutes with heart failure given as the cause. The collapse came after Yanko Davis hit a home run with Thompson on base.
Babson's March business forecast shows Helena leading Montana in purchases with 8.52 million dollars, well ahead of Great Falls Billings Miles City and Lewistown. The land survey program in Montana is winding down with only 60 field staff remaining as surveys of public lands near completion this season.
Helena reports Ike Cohen, key state witness in the Conley case, has been granted parole after serving half of his minimum two to four year sentence for obtaining money under false pretenses in Madison county. Former Warden Conley described Cohen as well behaved during Deer Lodge terms. Mary T. Sanders returns to Helena from Quito Ecuador after two years in consular service. she plans to rejoin relatives there. Albert P. Stark of Livingston seeks Republican nomination for associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court after serving on the Supreme Court Commission. Rankin seeks railroad rate reductions hearing set for June 6, with state arguing potential savings from lower interstate freight charges amid educational building projects.
John E. Bleekman of New York promotes the Bull Mountain and Billings railroad to develop the coal field with a $500000 rise in preferred stock. Possible coke by products and a caking oven in Billings could double the city, with a 16 mile line linking to Shepard and the Billings & Central Montana.
William Luxton of Idaho Fallsclaims a ticket No. B-2,24 bought from a mock of 24, whose duplicate is missing. He arrived in Butte to seek relief as the ticket would award a $30,000 house and lot if valid. If the duplicate isn’t produced by August 1, the property passes to the holder of the first of 14 extra numbers drawn under contest rules.
The Billings Salvation Army corps posts income of ROARS TT and expenditures of SOLOTO for relief and overheads in the year ending April 1. It ends with 138.67 on hand and 72 members. The group held 164 street meetings with 34,715 attendees and 864 indoor meetings with 25,270 attendees as it plans to enlarge the headquarters next year.
The Anaconda city council, after accepting the police magistrate's resignation and electing his alderman successor who also resigned to run for the post, refused to sanction a police force, leaving taxpayers puzzled by the paradox and the town's big stack reputation.
Reports from several northern Mati tina points say winter wheat and rye are in good condition this spring. Spring seeding is widespread though delayed by bad weather, with total acreage planted likely to depend on seed loans from the federal government.
Filing and proof fees for 90 homestead applications and patents registered at the Miles City land office in April amounted to 3488.08 dollars. No isolated tracts were sold that month. Fifty six homesteaders made final proof, one coal application was received and seven oil leases were recorded.
Representatives from several surrounding communities met with Paul J. Wedge to push closer city town cooperation. A pamphlet will be published and distributed in the east and Midwest to advertise agricultural opportunities in southeastern Montana.
A United States Department of Agriculture investigation over three years on 906 farms in Iowa Indiana Illinois Nebraska and Missouri finds that feeding cattle can yield returns comparable to or higher than selling grain. Feeding costs account for about 60 percent of annual cow maintenance with 31 percent for interest labor equipment and incidentals.
Dele county Indiana livestock slipping associations solve hog surplus timing problem. Members ship hogs to market when ready and later buy back needed animals on shipping day. USDA says the cooperative plan could be adopted by others to align market shipments with home butchering schedules.
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture reports dried beet pulp as a rival to corn in lamb feed. An experiment with 12 groups of Utah lambs over 100 days shows beet pulp plus corn and alfalfa producing profits of 3.80 per head versus 1.83 for corn and alfalfa. Both feeds are needed to finish lambs.
Farrowing time marks the hog business as harvest season. Success yields live pigs that soon grow into cash while failure brings dead stock and losses on the ledger.
Clipping horses before spring helps idle work horses recover from winter rest and prepare for heavy spring workloads.
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