The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-02-07
AROUND THE COUNTY
Happenings in Flathead County
During the Past Week of
Interest

Mary 6. Scho6eld 10 seeking divorce
from William s. Schoisld on the ground
of cruelty.
|! County Clerk G. T. Young is taking
vacation on the coast for the benefit OF
his health.
/ The planning mill started up last Mon.
day with full crew and the plant is
working smoothly. = Tobacco Plains
Journal.
H La Dessa Macarthur has begun an
action against James Macarthur for .
divorce on the grounds of habitual in.
temperance.
A The mill company IL making some
shipments Of lumber east, and antici.
pates q steadily improving demand
Tobacco Plains Journal.
Sales brothers OF the Thompson river
country have killed fifteen mountain
lions this winter. and G. 4. Ordist has
killed eighteen, including FIVE young
ones.-lnter Lake.
A dispatch from Washington, dated
Jan. %, states that Senator Thomas H.
Carter on that day introduced bill to
appropriate So, 600 for fish hatchery
at Columbia Falls.
Chas. Smith, one Of the popular young
engineers on the main line, came down
from Whitefish last week and is recup-
Grating from a severe attack OF lagrippe.
-Kalispell Journal.
The bob cate are getting very bold
down the ls>c, coming up to the yards
in the daytime and catching poultry and
carrying them away. They avoid tile
traps set for them Kalispeil Journal.
Steve Bywater, one OF the best known
passenger conductors on the Great
Northern railway sy-tem, was in Libby
Yesterday for the purpose Of looking
after his interests here.--NWeste News.
Albert Filkyn, whose thumb was 60
badly torn last week by being caught in
log chain while at work at the com.
pany's logging camp, will lose that
member. lie went to the hospital at
Whitefish last Monday to have the
operation Observation-Disclosures Plains
Journal.
1t is understood that Columbia Falls
has several young men who are must
cans and they have expressed them
selves as being in favor of organizing a
brass band l.ere, and but a little en-
enlargement from the citizens is all that
Is required to make the organization. -
Columbian.
i The jnrv in the case of the state Va /.
Thomas Ford and James Young, who
were charged with the murder of Lam
don T. Carter. returned verdict against
the defendants for granddaughter.
Young, who was only an accomplice to
the crime, was given one year in the
penitentiarv by the jury, hut they left
the punishment Of Ford to be fixed by
the court.
G. W. Avery Of Whiteish was among
the outside visitors who attended the
Farmers Institute meetings here Mon
day. Mr.. Avery called at this Office and
spent an hour conversing on the future
Of the Flathead, and mentioned a few
catering prospects for Columbia Falls
Mr.. Avery il booster in every sense Of
the word and this end of the country
needs more men just like him.-Colum.
bian.
Recently Mexican half and quarter
dollars have appeared in Kslispeli, and
quite a number Of them appear to be in
circulation. 1t IL said that man who
wac here two or three months ago sen,
to Mexico for them, and has worked
them out into circulation, probably al
considerable profit to himself. Canadian
coins have been common, and pass with
ont question. and this made it an easy
matter to get the Mexican coins in cir.
cuiation. Now, however, the coins are
inspected more closely. and ths Mexican
brand does'not 60 90 easily. They arc
worth about half their face value
Inter Lake..
The Japanese gentleman who look
sitter the branch engine when It IL stowet
away for the night, in getting it ready
for business Monday morning, openet
the throttle and then proceeded to ge
up steam. When things were goint
nicely old 2l7 walked up and walket
right through the wall and out on thu
prairie beyond. There the wheels dus
in the frozen earth and the drivers spur
around until the steam was shut off
The wrestler came down from Whitefisl
Monday evening and pulled the engin,
back where it belonged. Beyond hav
ing its countenanee battered up con
siderabiy, the engine was not injured
and was on the run yesterday 40 ueual
l-Inier Lake.