Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-03
ESTABLISH
new COUNTY
lne People OF Deer Lodge
Said to Want It.
WILL BE NAlNED POWELL
Ii the Bill Goes Thr0ugh--New Off
GERS Who Will Be Appointed--
Other Business Done.
WILL BE NAlHED POWELL
Special to the Inter Mountain.

Helena, Feb. 3.-BOth houses ad iOufned
until Monday afternoon after the session
OF one hour and one half The session of
the senate was taken up largely with the
first reading of a number Of senate and
house bills.
The looked for bill creating Powell
county was introduced.
Bills introduced in the senate were as
follows:
By the judiciary committee-Amendng
the law creating the state arid land COM
mission, defining its duties, etc, empower
ing the commission to issue bonds for
construction of water system of ilriga-
ton, said bonds to be a charge against
the water.
Committee on porations-Helating to
the meeting of stockholders If boards of
directors of corporations. The stockhold-
ers must meet in Montana but the board
of directors boards of trustees Of ali
corporations heretofore or hereafter Gre.
ated may meet within or without the state
providing that duplicate copies OF the
proceedings of a meeting held outside the
state be kept on file at the principal Mon
tana office.
! By Phillips-Creating Powell county,
defining it's boundaries and altering the
boundaries of Deer Lodge, Lewis and
Clarke and Flathead counties. The bill is
very similar to the one defeated two
years ago. After detailed description
of the boundaries of the new county the
bill provides for meeting at Deer Lodge
March 20 of a commission to adjust the
debt of the segregated portions in accord
ance with the terms of the bill The COM
mission is to consist of the boards of
county commissioners of Deer Lodge
Lewis and Clarke Flathea2 and Powell
and is to be presided over by the judge of
the fourth judicial district. Deer Lodge
will be the county seat of the new county
and it will remain in the third judicial
+ district. The new officers to take office
| March l. in the event of the passage and
approval Of the bill are: County commits
| sioners, James e. Marcum, Helmville;
Charles H. Williams, Garrison; D. c. Nc
| KenZie, Avon; Treasurer A. D. Peck, Deer
Lodge: Sheriff B. F. Brown, Garrison;
! Clerk and Recorder r. G. Humber, Deer
! Lodge: Assessor j. X. Uh, Pioneer; Clerk
of the District Court N. Y. Hoss, Deer
Lodge; County Superintendent Anna
Quigley, Deer Lodge; County Attorney
owen Emerson, Deer Lodge; Coroner M.
D. Plattner. Elliston; Public Admins
traitor ]. Y. Batterton, Deer Lodge; Sur
i veyor II. S. Reed, Jr., Deer Lodge.
/ BY Eggleston, changing the boundaries
of Deer Lodge and Lewis and Clarke
counties. The proposed change will add
! to Lewis and Clarke the portions of Deer
! Lodge lying around Bald Butte, Granite
! Butte, Lincoln and other districts, whose
! residents have petitioned the cOmms-
| sioners of Deer Lodge to be annexed to
! Lewis and Clarke, because of their pres
ent naccessibilty to Anaconda.
BY Stanton, creating a board Of sink
= n fuO1 commits ciOnnrS To cOnciSt pf tha
mayor of the city or town clerk or city
! treasurer who. whenever there is any
money in the sinking fund, SHALL have
| power to invest the same in the manner
! prescribed by the bill.
! BY Myers esta blishing and equipping
state normal school a the town of Ham
ilton. The bill provides that whenever
| the citizens of Hamilton shall furnish a
townste and bonus of $4,000 the state
board of education shall segragQra sufIi-
cient lands from the present state normal
school lands, upon which bonds shall be
/ issued in the sum Of $4,000, making $40,-
600 in all, for the construction of the in
stituton. The institution shall in every
way be secondary to the normal school at
Dillon.
BY Gruwel. providing for tie creation
of a state arid land commission oy add
ing a section providing for the purchase
! and reclama ton of certain lands in Yel-
lowstone county by issuing bonds.
senate JOINT memorial NO. ). by Ma anon.
| memorialzing congress for the opening
for settlement of a portion of the Fort
Relknap Indian reserva ton.
AS the Torrcn land bill introduced in
the house has been defeated and SINH
lar measure has been introduced in the
senate by Anderson, it has been deemed
advisable for the appointment of a COM
mission by the governor to advise the
next Legislature as to the advisa bility of
+ adopting the system. Senator Norris
az 'ingly introduced a resolutiy IN II
/ tha fleet.
Notice of bills were given by Stanton
relating to conditions under which for
eign corporations can transact business
in the state; by Stanton, defining the
legal meaning of the term fellow SER
vant;" relating to the licensing Of ,ravel-
! ing agents.
By Norris, authorizing tha governor to
correct errors in the public land fund.
By Norris, appointing an assistant state
land agent.
By Hannah, relating to liens for SER
vices.
The senate finally passed two appro-
priaton bills of $l22.20 to reimburse
Michael Therriault, county clerk of Flat
head, for the expense contingent upon
bringing the ballots in the Geiger- White
side contest to Helena and reimbursed
Sergeant at Arms Ponsford in the sum Of
500. 60, expenses incurred in serving the
process of the senate upon Therriault.
The house went into committee Of the
whole this morning Immediately after