Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-05-09
MONTANA ITEMS.


Boulder is to have telephone ex
change.
Helena is to have an automobile
laundry wagon.
Madison county commissioners will
purchase poor farm.
Grading work upon the widening Of
the Great Falls q Canada railway ha:
started
Most of the seeding for wheat is
completed, and the grain is making Q
| fine start for the crop of 1902.
A number of the leading physicians
of Helena organized the Lewis and
Clarke County Medical society.
Work. has been suspended temper
arily on the new city hall at Billings
on account of lack of material.
John R. Sanford, one of the pioneers
of Montana and of other Northwestern
states, died in Helena last week.
Last week Thomas B. Douglas OF
Columbia Falls was struck and killed
by Northern Pacific passenger train
near Eddy.
Sheriff Potter, of Red Lodge, who
has been on the trail of the Bridger
horsethieves, captured David Brisco
about thirty miles east of Bridger last
week.
State Treasurer A. H. Barret has
completed the report showing balances
on the funds of the state The total
Of money on hand is reported as $685.
SASS.
w. J, Fransham, the saddle horse
buyer at Dillon, has secured a carload
of good saddlers for the South African
service. He will secure another car,
load before he leaves the county.
A. c. Quaintance of the Boulder val
ley has made another shipment of cat
tie to the northern part of the state.
There are about 400 head of 2-year-old
steers in the lot and George Barrow is
the purchaser.
According to the books in the. office
of Register of State Lands Thomas D.
Long, at the close of business April 80.
Montana is receiving an annual income
from the renting of lands of $780,
1852. This represents the payments
for the use of 1,4S1.253.49 acres.
The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany has filed with the state two mort
cages. One was the first supplement
to the general lien mortgage, and rep
resents $56,000,000. and the other was
the second supplement to the prior lien
mortgage and represented $94000.O00
1t has been decided by the state
board of land commissioners to retain
the claim to all sections of land in In
dian reservations, to which the state
Is entitled because of the various
grants from the government. This
means that much land will be of no use
to the state for some time, but, as most
OF 1t is valuable, the board believes it
will gain by the action.
Hugh McQuaid, a pioneer Of Mon.
tana, one of the owners of the Helena
Independent, an old time newspaper
man and one of the best known min
ing promoters of the northwest, died
in Helena last Saturday of
apoplexy. His biggest deal was the
sale of the Drumlummon mine to an
English syndicate, in which he was as
ISOLATED with Henry Bratnober. He
was go years of age and was born in
Wisconsin.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Gardi-
ner last week in which Charles Brown
was dangerously wounded by John Bal
linger. Both men had attended card
party, and while Brown was on his way
home with lady was waylaid and
shot by Ballinger. Jealousy is believed
TO have been the motive of the crime.
William Howard, who a month ago
killed Ed. Stokes during row in Great
Falls. has been acquitted by jury of
The crime. Haywood hit Stokes over
The head with an iron pipe, the act, it
vas alleged, being done in self defense. |