Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-12-31
MONTANA.

4 lodge of the B. p. o. E. has been or
ganized in Lewiston with charter mem
bership of 81 of the prominent business
men of the community.
Judge Theodore Brantly will take the
office of chief justice of Montana without
contest Chief Justice Pemberton has
sent Judge Brantly his congratulations
over his election and acknowledges his
own defeat.
Joe Kroelick, of Livingston, Bohe-
milan, who has been employed with the
construction forces on the Northern Pa
ciic for several years, was assaulted and
robbed of $l025 the other morning while
going from beer hall to the depot to
take the eastbound train for st. Paul.
The report of f. D. Cooper, sheep com
missioner for Cascade county, gives the
following data: Sheep in the county
March |, 1866; lambs locked since,
76.36S; sheep slaughtered or shipped out
of the state since March /, 81 1884; y lnds
of wool sheared, 1923 1924; highest pr per
pound, Is cents, which was the 4est
price paid in the state; lowe ruve, IA
cents; average, l6 lilo cents.
Captain George P. Ahern, late of the
Twenty fifth, and long stationed On Mon
tana, is in Washington, nursing a severe
ly injured leg which he acquired while
campaigning with Gomez III Cuba. He
has lately been promoted to be captain OF
the Ninth infantry, and as soon as he re-
covers he will join his new command at
Madison Barracks, New York.
Commissioner Suterlin reports the sale
of the Montana building at the Omaha
exposition for $3.50. 1t cost $1,000. Mr..
Sutherlin expected to obtain a better
price for the structure, but after seeing
what some of the other states received for
/ their buildings he thinks he did quite
well. Iowa, which paid $1,000 for its
building, could get no more than 5000,
while Minnesota got only 500 for
structure that cost a great deal more than
was paid out by this state.
! Helena and Spokane will talk together
over the telephone some day next week,
according to David S. Murray of Salt
Lake, general manager of the Rock Noun
tain Bell Telephone Company, who is in
the city arranging the details of the pro-
posed connection with the coast lines and
proposed change of the rate scheme soon
to 90 into effect, which will provide for
committed rate for conversations less than
five minutes in length.
The state board of equalization has
filed sensational report in which it Sc
verely criticizes the state supreme court
for following the Colorado decision limit
ing the board to merely changing the as
sessments of the several counties without
affecting the assessed valuation of the
state as a whole. The board claims that
it's function as an equalizing board has
been annuIed by the decision. 1t says
that unless the power it formerly had is
restored to it some other system of taxa
ton must be resorted to, as the revenues
under the present conditions can not pos
sibly equal the necessary expense OF gov
eminent.
1t requires 700 pounds of flour per
week and $50 pounds of potatoes per day
to help make up the daily food of all the
inmates of st. Joseph's Orphans Home.
During the past year 100 tons of coal were
consumed. 1t is said that 60 pairs of
shoes are needed at once. There are lao
children at the home.