The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-07-17
COUNTY NEWS
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is said to have been a very successful
event.
The Tobacco Plains Journal reports a
fine strawberry crop in the vicinity of
Eureka.
The Warland saw mill finished its log
cut last week and shut down. But it is
understood that the planning mill is still
running. Western News.
Two double parties Of engineers are
now at work on the Flathead reservation
surveying the project which will ulti-
mately reclaim 100, 900 acres of first class
land.
The body of Chas. Hansel, who was
drowned in the saltwater in the early
spring, has been recovered and inferred
in the Demersville cemetery.-kalispell
Journal.
Isaak Yoakum, whose father and
brother were murdered recently, was in
town recently from Baggs, Wyo. He
says there were six children. He would
have been here sooner, but his home is
80 miles from q railway station.-Tobac-
co Plains Journal.
w. G. Irwin of the Montana. meat
market has sold his interests here and
in the market at Whitefish to H. Nollar
of Great Falls, the change to take place
the first of August. Mr.. Irwin has not
fully decided what he will do, but thinks
it quite likely that he will remain here.
l-Kalispell Inter Lake.
In spite of the vigilance of the officers,
some low-down people managed to slip
whisky to the Indians during their dane
ing on Main street, with the result that
at times the reds got very hilarious. The
dance on Monday night was continued
until such late hour and with 80 much
noise that it became nuisance.
pell Journal.
Hubert Michaels, VIM. Michaels and
Joe and Jim Matejaka spent the week at
their copper and gold mine on the noun
tain southeast of town. The property is
an old one and was located by VIM.
Ramsdell twelve years ago, when a shaft
was sunk. 1t was relocated recently by
the above named and they expect to
prospect it thoroughly this summer The
lead is good one and can be traced for
| some distance on the mountain TOP
Columbian.
L. G. St. Lawrence, s. P. Owen, J..
F. Eson and E. A. Hall arrived from
Louisville, Kentucky, Thursday night
and will 20 the first of the week with
H. H. McGovern to Fortine to look
over the cement deposits there. The
gentlemen are capitalists looking for
opportunities to invest, and if the out
look for cement industry at Fortine
is what they expect to find, they are
ready to finance factory on large
scale.-Kalispell Inter Lake.
In short time the sheriff of this cOun-
ty will turn over to the federal authori-
ties the $l4 900 which was found OH the
persons of the train robbers who held up
the Great Northern at Rondo, and who
made life so interesting for the officers at
the Jail here, and who afterward disap-
peared from the Helena jail 1t is pre-
suned that after the necessary red tape
has been unwound the money will be
turned over to the insurance company
that made good for the amount lost by
the express company .-kalispell Journal.
r. p. A. Johnson, OF the forestry
bureau, arrived this week from Wash.
ington, and with j. w. STREET, of Mis-.
soula, and Roscoe Haincs, Of the loca
force, will make an examination and sur
vey of the lands within the national for
ests for which applications have beer
made under the act permitting settlement
on agricultural lands in the forests. They
will begin the work next week. Abou
seventy-fve applications are pending
which have been made since September
last, and they are within the Flathead
Blackfeet, and Lewis and Clark forests
:. -Kallspell Inter Lake.
Speaking Of the recent baseball gam
between Whitefish and Libby, the West
ern News says: After the game and al
the time the boys were in Whitcfish tn
good people of that town gave them tn
} best they had in the way of hospitalit
and they are all loud in their praise G
the people of Whitefish. Under thes
conditions it would have been extremel
rude to have marred the happiness of TIL
good people of that place by defeating
their nine OH the diamond and Will
this may not account for the score it
thrown in for what it is worth. One 9
the features of the game was the fac
that Gene Desarlno was the umpire.
: must have been gall and wormwood 70
Gene to see the old Libby guard g
down to defeat. After registering as
resident of Libby and making this hi
home for years it is safe to say he woul
not have cried if the Libby boys ha
lugged off the persimmon. The boy
slipped quietly into Libby a few at
. time and have been kept busy explain