The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-03-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS
interesting. Happenings Which
Occurred During the
Week,
Forsyth will have a band.

I, Forsyth will have band.
Harlowton is to have an electric ligl t
plant.
Miles City is to secure rural free
delivery.
There is talk of trolley line from
Lewistown to Kendall.
Shelby citizens pulled off prize fight
and dance on st. Patrick's day.
Nearly every section of the state
seems to want 4 best sugar factory.
Bozeman is to have trolley line, run
ming 26 miles into the adjacent Country.
The Malta Enterprise says that Sugar
City, the new townsite IL miles east of
Harlem, already has $50 lots plated.
Billie Ford, a Culbertson saloonke per,
was found dead in his yard last week,
under circumstances that indicate foul
play. 8
The Milwaukee road is conducting q
strenuous advertising cam pAign to bring
settlers to the Montana lands through
which the road passes.
William Lindeay's friends have started
substantial boom for that gentleman's
denomination by the republicans this
year for governor Of Montana.
Pete Peterson of Drummond was fined
$o5 last week for selling live deer
which he had kept in captivity for some
time. Petersoa argued that he had as
much right tosell the deer which he
raised from a fawn as to sell heller,
Rumors are current among railroad
men that the Great Northern shops at
Havre will be closed very shortly for a
period of 80 days, and when re-opened,
non union men will be employed, savs
the Helena Record. The reason for this,
according to the reports, 10 because the
company feels that it has had too much
trouble during pact years with the ma
chinists and boilermakers.
The state board for insane has made
an order, copy Of which will lie sent
to every district judge, county attorney
and board of county commissioners in
tie state, notifying them that the super
intendent Of the asylum has
been directed to refuse to receive
persons temporarily deranged by the
use of drugs or intoxicants. This was
done because of the great number of
such persons who have been sent to the
asylum recently.
The BIackfeet Indian reservation re-
clamation project has BEEN approved by
the government and work on the pro-
ject will commence Immediately, accord
ing 10 H. N. Savage, supervising en-
gineer OF the United States reclamation
service. The new project contem plates
placing under irrigation about 10000
acres OF land on the reservation, and it
will take at least two years to build the
canal, according to the information
which Mr.. Savage has at hand.
Charles Mcdonald and George Frank
hauser, who are charged with having
held up and robbed the Great Northern
train at Rondo last September, escaped
from the Lewis and Clark county Jail
Sunday morning. The job was one Of
the neatest ever pulled off in a Montana
Jail. The men, who were confined in
separate cells away from other prisoners,
with two empty cells between them
not only sawed off the bars OF their
cells, but they also ~ we'd off bar in an
inner corridor which allowed them, to
get to window. 1t also was barred,
and they sawed one of the bars and got
out into the Jail yard. Once there it
was not difficult matter to get into an
alley and then disappear.