The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-06-12
COUNTY NEWS
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There are number of smallpox cases
in the county.
Appraisment work on the Flathead
reservation is progressing.
Charles w. Stewart has been granted
a divorce in the district court, from
Emma H. Stewart, on the ground of de-
sertion.
There is no lack of baseball variety
here, the.town having little kid, a big
kid, and regular nine.-Tobacco Plains
Journal.
The water has been higher this week in
Tobacco river than for several years,
caused by the heavy rains.-Tobacco
Plains Journal.
The Libby baseball nine holds the
unique record of never having been beaten
and the club has been walloping its
neighbors for the past ten years.-West-
ern News.
| A night shift was put on at the mill
Tuesday and this plant is now rnnning
full blast. The mill whistle again sounds
like old timcs.-Tobacco Plains Journal.
The Eureka Lumber company is be-
coming one of the pig taxpayers of the
county, the assessed valuation this year
being $l19, 900, as against $40, 900 a year
ago.-Tobacco Plains Journal.
On July LIST the salaries of presidential
postmasters are to be readjusted,
and the Kailspell postmaster will Ike
raised from $24OO to $500; that OF
Whitefish from $500 to $l6OO.-Kalis-
pell Journal.
The report has gained considerable
ground and is being freely talked of that
Columbia Falls is to have new bank
and that the contract is let for burning
the brick. The report further has it that
the building will be handsome struc-
ture, and will occupy one of the promi'
nent corner lots in the center of town.
columbian.
The recording department of the
county clerks office has a big job or
hand just at present putting in the books
129 patents to state lands, and as many
quit claim deeds, filed yesterday by the
Somers Lumber company. The patents
were issued to different people, and the
grantees in the patents had all quiz
! claimed their INTEREST," to the lumber
company. They cover 1919 quarter sec
tons of timber land in the valley.-Intel
Lake.
Placer mining operations on Libb!
creek indicate that it will be but shor
time until that stream and the creek
which empty into it will be developed
into one of the biggest gold producin,
districts in the northwest. From on
end of the stream to the other, or rather
from the lowest point on the creek whcr
there are evidences Of paying place
gravel to the point where the big dyk
puts across that stream and from whicl
!. it is supposed all the gold has com
/. which has been found and is yet in til
sands along the creek, there is All activ
ity which has for common end tn
production of placer gold.-Wester
News.
Yesterday afternoon Jack Kearne
discovered human hand and foot o
the back of one of the lots occupied b
the Chinese stores on Second avenu
west. He reported the find to the shel
ifs Office, and they were taken in chare
by Sheriff O'Connell. Both hand All
foot had been disjointed by some OH
who thoroughly understood the operation
and they had the appearance Of havin
been kept in some sort of preservativ
for long time. 1t is thought probabl
they had been in the possession of som
physician who had buried them insecul
ely, and III y had ken carried by some dc
to the place where they were found. II
quiry among the physicians has SO FL
, failed to throw any light on the matter
H-K alianall Inter Lake