The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-03-13
AROUND THE COUNTY
Happenings in Flathead. County
During the Past Week of
Interest

Cora A. Qnaife has begun action for a
divorce from John l.. Quaife.
L. D. Bates has been appointed post
master at Columbia Falls.
The county commissioners rejected all
bids for bridge across Swan river.
The Kalispell postotfice has been out
OF money order blanks for the past week.
kalispell taxpayers have voted to
bond their school district for $1,000,
to build a school house.
Kalispell citizens will determine at
the polls whether or not the town will
have saloons closed from IL o'clock
midnight until Ga. m.
Frank Kelley. who runsthe launch on
Lake Mcdonald, was in town Monday.
Mr.. Kelley says the lake is entirely free
from ice, and has been open all winter.
l-Kalispell Inter Lake.
| VIM. Anstatt, the buttermaker who
has been employed by the Eureka
Creamery company, will arrive from
Rosalia, WASH, next week, and will get
things in shape to start the plant =
| Tobacco Plains Journal.
1t was expected that the sawmill
plant at this place would start up about
/ the Goth, but the delay in the arrival of
some machinery needed in the repair
work now going on, will cause a post
ponement Of the opening date few
! days.-TObacco Plains Journal.
/ P. j. Spannuth has finished his log
ging contract on the Big Fork and has
returned to his home south of town. He
put in about million feet during the
season, and could have done more ex-
cept for the difficulty OF holding men at
the work even ON high wages Kalis-
pell Journal.
Round about the state is noticed an
occasional questioning comment on the
statement that Flathead is the best
county in Montana. 1t was not sup
posed any one would think OF question
ing sncll a self.evilent fact No one
would who has ever seen this county.
kalispell Inter Lake.
A. r. Bailey, formerly the local agent
OF the Singer sewing machine, who dis
appeared with much attempt at mys-
terry last summer, in the district court
Monday plead guilty to the charge OF
larceny, and was sentenced to a year in
the penitensiary.-ln Lake.
Senator Dixon will introduce. bill
Getting aside 20 miles OF the Flathead
Indian reservation as a buffalo range,
Including fencing. The American Bison
society believes that the buffalo will
thrive well If put back on the western
ranges. The officers of that society
have conferred with the president and
the Montana senators OH the PROPOSE
ton, and they indorse it.
J. q. Clark OF Libby has young
mountain lion alive at his place OF bust
ness and the animal has attracted .
great deal OF attention. 1t was caught
about month ago by Frank Sedlak, q
trarper, OF whom Mr.. Clark bought the
animal. Itls cub and weighs about
80 pounds. 1t is strong and healthy and
fine looking animal. resembling very
much large cat. Western News.
VIM. Parent, who was down from
, Whitefsh yesterday. saws things are
booming in the railroad town now. The
railroad has pat to work practically al
the crews that were laid off in the win
ter, and that business ia exceptionally
good at this time. He Gays there is t.
be much done this spring, and with thu
big dam to bring the lake to town ant
the county bridge already under con
etruction, there is plenty of work for al
classes Of laborers. -Kaliepeif Journal