The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-30
STATE NEWS.


A bold robbery Of $3.50 from a Butte
lodging house occurred Friday night.
An effort is being made to change
the U. $. land Office from Chinook to
Great Falls.
Kalispell is having IN epidemic of
diphtheria. The schools are closed and
no Child is allowed to leave home.
There have been five deaths il the
town.
The clerks of Butte are organizing a
which has for its result the
closing of all stores III the city at 6 p.
m. The movement is said to be gen.
orally favored by the merchants, who
claim that the business after 6 O'Clock
is a profitless one as the expenses of
keeping open exceed the profit On the
grades sold.
Mayor McCarty of Butte, has named
the following delegates OF the part of
Butte to the International Mining con.
gress that meets in Milwaukee June
1923: John O'Neill, j. e. Richards.
Michael Kennedy, Thomas Bryant, j.
A. Hunkee. Bennett Price, James Tai
bott, J. W. Forbis, Fl. l.. Frank and W.
W. Walsworth.
The forty Or more railway postal
clerks running in and out of Montana
the different railroads are deeply in.
terested along with the army filing the
same positions OIL all Of the railroads of
the United States in the proposition OF
the enactment Of a law by congress for
the Reconsideration of the clerks and all
increase in pay commensurate with the
work performed and the term of SER
vice. For a number of years the postal
have petitioned congress for such
a law.
At the state meeting Of county as.
SCISSORS Of Montana, held in Helena last
week, the following valuation was
agreed upon: Stock sheep, $3; lambs,
%. so; range horses, $40; yearling cat
tie , SIS; stock cattle. $25; milk cows,
$50; beef cattle, hogs, workhoses and
thoroughbreds, to be fixed by the as
SCISSOR us individuals. The assessors
determined to fix the value Of lumber
at not less than $6 a thousand and
logs at $3.50 per thousand. z. 4.
Daniels Of Park county was elected
president and Assessor Conger Of Beav-
erhead, secretary.
The state board Of land commission.
ers received word last week that Binger
Herman, commissioner of the general
land Office, had refused to grant a mo.
ton for review applied for by Attorney
General Nolan in the proceeding in
volving seventeen townships of valu.
able timber lands in Missoula county.
Unless the secretary Of the interior
reverse the commissioners rul.
ing, the decision means that the North.
arm Pacific Railway company will se.
timber lands having a present
value Of at least $500. 900, which the
state itself had expected to obtain from
the federal government.
Ranchmen in the Yellowstone val.
ley can grow corn equal to any that is
raised in Nebraska il they will devote
a little attention to its cultivation,
says the Stockgrowers' journal. This
week Arthur Billie. who has Il ranch
four miles east Of town. left some
Of last years crop. and the
Pride Of the North" mn early dent
corn, shows perfect development, al
DOES the "Red Gap Squaw" another
variety that Mr.. Billie has given much
attention to. Mr.. Billie Is fast develop
ing into a modern male Ceres and his
of crop growing is worthy Of in.
by those who are interested
in corn growing. Ceres it will be re.
membered was the daughter Of Saturn
and Ops, the goddess of corn and tillage.
Six more Montana bankers were sub
poenaed this week by Marshal Wool.
man to go to Washington and testify
before the senate committee in the
CLARK case. Those who are ordered to
Join the Montana contingent at the ma.
;ional capital are: T. Q. Kurtz. cash.
or of the Montana National bank at
Helena; A. J. Johnston of Clark's
,ank; A. j. Davis Of the First Ma.
ional, aud r. J.. Knuckells of the
state Savings bank of Butte; Il. Il.
Wright of the Bank of Fergus County,
W. B. Dalenty of Hyatt q Dalenty
(. Townsend. Cashier Kurtz of the
dontana National wired the committee
hat he could not 60 at present until
h 0 president of the bank, A. l.. Smith,
who was on the stand Monday. returns.
Governor Smith addressed the state
apartment last fall In regard to steps
cling taken to induce the Canadian and
governments to rid Montana OF
40 Cree Indians who were deported