Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-18
THE STATE NEWS

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A petition is being circulated in Helena
and being quite generally signed by the
business men calling for an early closing
OF business houses. If the petition re-
ceives enough signatures and becomes
eftectlve, the merchants will close their
places of business at 6 o'clock on all week
days excepting Saturday, when the old
rule of remaining open until 10 will Of
course obtain. The merchants signing the
petition or agreement will see to it that
stores are closed all day Sunday.
Stock inspectors and others connected
with the state board of stock commission
ers have been moved to exceptional ac-
tivity recently in compelling the enforce
ment of the law requiring butchers to
make a full record of the marks and
brands of cattle slaughtered by them, and
to file the record with the county clerk
each month. The activity is not confined
to any one locality in the state, but IS
general. and it is the intention of those
authorities to see that the law is enforced
in every county.
During the early morning hours of the
18th inst, the residence of c. NJ. Goodell.
at PhilbrOok, Fergus county. was broken
AAAto ~ olu 1oDOSO VI FUcl IA
cash.. Mr.. Goodell has a safe in his house
in which to keep his personal v%aluables
and government business of the PhilbroOk
postoffice, which is located at his place.
Some weeks ago Mr.. Jellison, a neighbour
ing ranchman, deposited $640 in Mr..
Goodells safe until he could spare time
to go to Lewistown and put it in the
bank. The night of the robbery members
of the family We're up around the house
! until 2 o'clock.
The agricultural wealth Of Montana
has been added to materially by the large
! acquisition of LAM that will come from
the Grow Indian reservation by means
of the treaty just concluded with the
\ Grow indian by the commissioners dele
| gated to treat with them, a brief account
Of which appeared in the press dispatches.
The treaty has been effected by G.
G. Hoyt and James H. McNeely, the COM
missioners. and Indian Agent Edwards,
after a weeks conference with the In
dams. The proceedings dragged along at
first, but after exercising patience with
the nations wards success w the
efforts of the commissioners and the
treaty was a fact. The signatures of a
majority of the male adults on the reser-
walton has been secured.
The Indians of the Fort Belknap res
ervation, it is thought. will within a few
years be self-supporting. The govern
ment is now building them an extensive
irrigation system hat will bring a large
area under cultivation and provide homes
for all, and it's wards are acquiring hab-
it's of industry by working on the con-
struction of the improvements that will
some day be their own. 1t will take three
years to complete the work, but when it
is done it will be worth it, for then every
family who wants one will have a farm
of 90 acres of arabic land with plenty of
water, in addition to the fine ranges of the
reserve, and it is thought that the gov
will be able with safety to with
draw a considerable proportion of the
support it has given in the past. The In
dams will not need issues of rations when
they are able to earn their own way.
BY September / the Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone company expects to have a
line operating from Salt LAX to the
coast. says the Salt Lake Tribune. The
line to Dillon, Mont, will be completed by
that date, and thus connection Will be
made with the line from the coast now
being operated to Dillon. TIL new line
from Dubois, Idaho, to Ogden is practi-
cally completed. WOrkmen are at pres
ent stringing two additional copper wires
between Ogden and Salt Lake. and as
soon as a gap in Montana is strung with
wire the line from Salt Lake to the coast
will be ready for business. The two addi-
tional wires between Ogden and Salt Lake
will give the cities four circuits instead
Of two, as formerly, and will greatly ia
cilitate business between the two points.
$1.5O and $500 boys tan shoes for $40
at Holbrook's.