The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1907-02-22

CeSsful farmers OF the burton Dencn,
has purchased 3J-horse traction en-
CINE and thresher, also a steam ploW
with ten 14-inch gangs. The investmen
# the amount of money required to
purchase an outfit of this cnaEac ter
shows that Mr.. Johnson has unlimi ed
confidence in the bench country, and
shows, too that farming in that section
is paying proposition. The outfit
was ordered through the Hirshberg
company Of this city, and will be ship
Acantht.
VIM Wolter has SO far progressed
with his enormous ice contract that
he has only 300 ton yet to be harvest
ed. Although the snow has turned
to slush and ice in the streets he in
forms US the ice cut at Merrill's lake
is still in fine ondition.-Boulder
Age-Sentine1.
Al Shaw returned from Williston,
Tuesday. where he went to purchase
hay. He succeeded in getting about
100 tons, but had to buy a baler in
order to get it in shape to ship. IN
four days hay raised from $16 to $40
a ton in Williston Valley Co. News.
Unless stout chinook strikes us
in this part of the valley, it will re-
quire some time for the snow to melt
off entirely, as it lays nearly two feet
deep Oh the level--iIinsdale Home
stead.
Deputy Game Warden Lounds had
Timothy Miller and Earl McCrory ar
rested at Libby last Sunday for killing
deer out Of season, and the game war
den was sure he had a dead sinch,
as he had watched the men go to the
cache of two recently slaughtered
deer. However Judge Hartman, who
tried the case, discovered or invented
some technicalty which justified him
in Diminishing the charge as not prov
en-. Mr., i.oundes has two guns which
he found with the cache, which nc
one will claim and lie has some su7-
picion, not unfounded, that the guilty
parties may yet be brought to gus.
tice -kalispell Bee.
e. D Nash, OF Helena, deputy state
veterinarian, returned Friday morning
from a trip to the II. G. Lying Iancl
on fleetwood, to which place he wa:
called a few days ago to Investigate
the cause of the death Of about eight.
head of sheep belonging to J. 3. Ions
and company. 1t was discovered Ina
the sheen had been poisoned by Ill
nine seeds which had become mixed
the bav with which the sheep We're b
ing fed The lupine weed is the flrs
variety of wild plants to appear i
the spring, closely resembling WI.
: peas, and is said to be deadly polso
only at that time of the year. Rive
Press.
Iurgen Kuhr came near losing h
, fine driving team while coming
from the ranch Monday. He was eros
? sing Bean creek and driving over
the Chinook gave way and the horse
went down in a washed out hole, II
5 led with soft, slushy snow and waite
5 I'D to their backs. Mr.. Kuhr unhookt
c the traces and crossed the soft sno
| by spreading blankets on the surfa
, and after hard work got his hors
out of their icy bath.-Chinook
: pinion.
i 1t is reported that a large numb
l. of elk, driven out of the surroundl
l. mountains by the deep snow, ha
l. gone into the meadows at old N
J. Carthysville. near Summit, and {
u being FED there, and are also helpi
~ themselves to Phil Geifers hay
Inter Lake, Kalispell
q If the press of the country cont
o. ues to class the Flathead valley W
II the blizzard swept area on the OIL
n side of the Rocky mountains, it II
u yet be necessary for this valley
Join the new state of Lincoln In or
to be classed in our proper elm;
~ zone. The oft repeated staten