Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-07
There are 10 pensioners In Mon

Telephones have been placed in all
| Anaconda school buildings.
The Rocky Fork Coal company has
| built Il washer. at "A cost of $50,
There are 1907 pensioners in Mon
public schools, including 425 in the high
school.
Col. c. II. Kessler has resigned the
command of the National Guard of
Montana.
James r. Caldwell. merchant of
Helena from 1866 to 1870, is dead in
Texas.
The Red Lodge physicians are again
fighting. The issue is chickenpoX VS.
smallpox.
The rev machine shops which the
Northern Pacific has been building at
Miles City.
Miners in the vicinity of Helena have
organized a union of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners.
r. W. auckland of Highwood has
raised 10000 pounds OF onions on II tri-
file over half an acre of ground.
A. NJ. Green Of Clarksville, ILL.,. aged
niEety-tive years. has taken up home
to live there for fifteen years, he says
After the LIST of next month it will he
illegal to deposit any coal slack or
screenings in any stream containing
fish or water used for irrigation or do
mestic purposes.
John Many and DR.. Hopkins Of Chi
nook have embarked in the sheep bust
ness, having recently purchased from
Ed Fogarty 2,1OO head of ,yearling ewes
at $2.S5 per head.
A branch lodge Of the Order Of Rail-
way conductors will be ornganzed at
kalispel shortly. Arrangements to
to that effect are being made, and IL is
expected the new lodge will be well UNI
der way in about three weeks.
The Northern Pacific company has
exhausted it's ice supply in it's two
large ice houses in Glendive, and is
now hauling it's ice from Forsyth. The
capac city of the houses was 5000 tons,
and an idea of the enormous business
done by the road may be gathered from
that.
Col. G. HI. Gould, live stock agent OF
the Burlington, is i'll with paralysis at
Livingston since the LIST of July last are
approaching completion. The shops
will cost the company about 100000
when completed, ind will outrank any
machine shops in the Northwest as to
their size and completeness in both
machinery and buildings.
The newly elected officers of the Mon
tana w. G. II. u. are: Mrs. Anna A.
Walker of Hardy, president; Mrs l.
N. Smith of Helena, vice president at
large; Mrs. William +. Currah OF
Butte, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Matt w. Anderson of Miles City, treas
erer; Rev. Alice S. N. Barnes of White
Sulphur Springs, state organizer.
L. Parker Veazey of Great Falls has
been appointed corporation agent in
Montana for the Great Northern rail
way company, the Great Northern Elk
press company and the Cottonwood
Coal company, succeeding A. J. shores,
who has resigned his connection with
those corporations. Certificates an
nouncing the appointment of the new
agent have been filed with the secreta-
ry of state.
President Hill, in the annual report
of the Great Northern: Grows Nest
coal and coke are Of superior quality.
The coal company's plant is being en-
larged and the output increased. In
addition to furnishing coal for the use
of the company and for commercial
and domestic purposes in the North
west these mines are expected to sup
pl yth esmelters at Great Falls, Ana
conda, Northport and Everett and will
furnish heavy and profitable traffic"
The Montana Sandstone company
finds itself so pressed with orders that
it has decided to enlarge it's plant at
Columbus and continue work all win
ter. In order that this may be done it
has arranged for the erection of "a large
building, to be he ated by steam, in
which the stonecutters may work dur
ing the coolest weather To generate
the steam needed fer heating purposes
and to supply power for the machinery,
1875 horse power boiler is being in
stalled. At present about sixty men
are at work at the plant, of whom
twenty are stonecutters and the rest
quarrymen and general laborers
Receipts of Western range cattle at
Chicago last week were 16, 700 head, the
heaviest weeks supply of the season.
The totals for the previous week were
14,O00 and a year ago, $500. The total
for the season to date amounts to 114,-
600 head, which is $4,000 short of a year
ago. The demand for the good kinds
last week was good, and sales We're
made on a steady basis: though the
common and medium dragged along
slowly. and generally sold weaker.
There were not so many range cattle
received the previous week, and this
branch of the trade toned up and adj
vanced from 10 to. 20 cents for desirable