Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-24
STATE HAPPENINGS
Matters Worth Reading Which Have
Recently Happened, Compiled in a
condensed Form.
DOINGS OF THE MONTANA PEOPLE

A ten pocket double coal dock is to
lbe built at Glendive.
Trout Creek, new town IN the west
,ern part of the state, is enjoying a
boom.
Arthur Laf1eur, a rancher near Mis-
.soula, was killed last Thursday by
being run over by his own team.
A humber of scribes from various
eastern papers were entertained at
Butte and Anaconda last Saturday.
A bull elk belonging to Paul Nc
Cormick at Billings gets on the war
path and forces some visitors to climb
a hay stack. The animal had to be
killed.
L. w. Stacy of the L U Bar, G. F.
Ingersoll for the Rea Cattle company
and Pierre Wibaux, each shipped
'trainload of cattle from Miles City
Saturday.
Wilton G. Brown, of Helena, who
was arrested for shooting turtle doves,
has attacked the constitutionality of
senate bill No. %, providing for the
protection of fish and game.
The commissioners of Cascade coun-
ty approved of the plat of the townsite
of Manchester, a new town seven miles
from Great Falls, of which place
wollen mill is being erected
Some mischief makers placed dyna-
mite between the double tracks Of the
street car line between Butte and Co.
lumbia gardens and badly wrecked
a street car. Nobody injured.
A plant for generating electric power
will be located on the Missouri river
near Helena. The company who will
institute the plant is the Butte & Ana
'conda Power Co., with capital stock
of 100000.
The United States civil service COM
mission will hold an examination at
Helena, Oct. 21-22, Tor the position of
civil engineers in the Philippine serv-
ice. The age limit is 1S to 40 years,
and the salaries range from 81, 400 to
81, 800 year.
The employers of the Gallatin Val
ley Pulp and Paper Mill company
have formed Montana Lodge No. % of
the International Brotherhood of Paper
Makers and the product of the mill will
bear the label of this union. The i'm
ion is organized with the full consent
of the company.
John L. Turk came in from his
ranch with some fine samples of re-
torted placer gold today. It was min
ed on Mr.. Turks place at the mouth
of Grove creek by himself and 4. c.
Sheriff., placer miner of many
years experience. They used only a
shovel and sluce box and eight davs'
work returned them SO worth of the
pure stuff. Mr.. Sheriff. claims that
the dirt all along there will average
twenty cents yard and that is the
finest dreuging proposition in the
world.-Red Lodge Picket.
There are in the Helena House of the
Good Shepherd thirty girls. The eff
forts of the sisters are directed to re-
forming them with prayer, study and
work. They do various kinds of work
as means of support as well as
means of reformation. An excellent
spirit exists among the girls, many of
whom have PASSED the age of IS years
since entering the house, but remain
there of their own accord. These girls
are often sent on errands about town
and have always proved to be trust
worthy. The mother has perfect con-
troll of them, her disposition being a
happy mixture of friendliness and
kindness, By all of the inmates she
is called mother. She in turn calls
them children. The Helena institution
is the only one of the order in Mon
tana, and unfortunate women from any
part of the state are received with
open arms. Since its establishment,
more than 100 girls have found a home
. Sthere.-Chronicle.