The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-21
BIG MEETING
OF ST0CKMEN
Session Board of Stock Commission.
ers Well Attended.
John T. Murphy Was Reelected as
President, w. G. Prueitt Secretary,
and J. N. Kelly President Pro Tenn
All Of the Business Was Concluded.

The best attended meeting ever
held by the state board of stock
commissioners was that of last week.
commissioners from every county in
the state but five were present.
The session was to a large extent
a routine one. The books of the sec
rotary were examined and found to
be correct, and a number of claims
about which there were disputes were
passed upon, and the matter of the
appointment OF inspectors for the
coming season was left to the COM
rissioners in each county and the
officers
The old officers We're reelected,
John r. Murphy being selected for
president. and w G. Pruitt for secre-
tary. Mr. Murphy is absent from the
state. and j. N. Kelly Of Sweegrass
was elected president pro TEN. and
presided at the meeting.
In the afternoon, Assistant Attor
ney General Mettler appeared before
the board in reference to the opera
ton of the new bounty law The
law, while it gives the inspectors
provided for considerable amount
of work. does not provide for their
compensation. Mr.. Mettler desired
to know if it was not possible for the
board to pay the inspectors. but the
commissioners were of the opinion
that they did not have the funds to
do So It was the general opinion
that as the law had not had a test.
it would be best to wait until it had
been in operation for some time to
see how it would work before at
tempting to tinker with it.
The contract for advertising I'M
claimed stray money, as the result
of the shipments last year, was let
to the Montana Stockman and
Farmer of Helena. The law provides
that the list must be advertised in
Billings. as wen as at Helena. and
there were two bids from Billings
hut neither was according to law
and they were both rejected. David
Frat. the member from Yellowstone
was authorized to call for new bids
HOSE pItSeul lit llIt HcSllu6 yes
terday were: y. f.. Metlen Beaver
head county: !. u. O'Connor. Broad
water: r. N. Tolman. Carbon: James
r. Stanford Cascade; James Town
send, ChOuteau, A. IL. Aiken, Daw
SON. N NJ. McCauley, Fergus; James
Ford, Flathead II. H. Sappington
Gallatin James Mcdonnell Granite
John Flaherty, Jefferson; w. Fl. Ray
mond, Madison. J. A. MCGOWAN, Mis-
soula: John Bielenberg. Powell. w
Nj. Franks, Ravalli; J. T. Brown
Rosebud; Dan Tewey, Silver Bow
J n. Kelly, Sweetgrass w. X. Flow
erree, Teton: NJ T.. Miner. Valley
d. Frat, Yellowstone.
Despite the reports that have beer
current of heavy losses in cattle dur
ing the winter, the commissioners DE-
not bear out these stories. In som'
sections there have been losses. ant
heavy ones, but the hard weathe
has been in isolated sections. a small
scope of country in Chouteau. an
other in Valley and one in Dawson
being the places. While the losse
are reported on the whole as light
there has been a great amount O
feeding. and the ranges have no
been good This is particularly tn
case in Carbon. Sweet Grass Rose
bud and Custer counties. In the frs
named counties there was a drough
last summer, followed by grasshoI
rers and the grass was eaten on
before winter set in. In consequence.
cattle in many sections will go int
the spring in poor ondition.-Helen
Independent