The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-02-14
AROUND THE COUNTY
Happenings in FIathead County
During the Past Week of
Interest

l
Charles Gibbs, Of Plains, Sanders
county, has been appointed clerk of the
Fiathead appraising commission.
The Great Northern has submitted
plans to the state railroad commission
for remodeling che depot At Columbia
Falls.
Mr.. Egbert James, Van Duzer and
Miss Catherine Conrad. eldest daughter
Of Mrs. Charles E. Conrad, were married
at Christ Episcopal Church, Kalispell,
at six-thirty o'clock on Tuesday evening
of last week.
+ G. A. Well, president Of the Eureka
Lumber company, accompanied by Mrs.
We'll, attended the meeting OF the
Western Pine Manufacturers associa-
ton at Spokane this week.-Tobacco
Plains Journal.
during the week from logging camp
near Marion, suffering from broken
and crushed leg, caused by heavy log
rolling on him. He is now IN the hos
pital.-Kalispell Journal.
A. L. Jordan, who has recently been
on trip through North Dakota sizing
up the lumber situation, says conditions
are very unpromising in that state, and
that they will not be much better until
another crop is raised Inter Lake.
L. L. Davis, who has been working
OH logging contract for the O'Brien
Lumber Co. at Whitefsh all winter,
finished the job the first Of the week and
returned to Kalispell. He expects to
60 to California the first of next week
and spend the remainder OF the winter.
-Kalispell Journal.
A flag stop is being made by the
branch train midway between Kalispell
and La Sale, and 1t will be on the new
time card that goes into effect Sunday.
1t will be known as Roses crossing.
The train has been stopping there on
signal for some time.-Inter Lake.
The Great Northern will begin its
annual work Of harvesting the ice on
Bitter Root lake in few days. The
ice is said to be- sixteen inches thick at
this time. 1t was eight inches thick be-
fore the recent cold snap. The ice OH
this lake is Of superior quality, the
water being perfectly pure, and the rail-
road gets it's supply for long distance
Of the road from the ke.-KaliepelI
Journal.
Harry Stanford has just finished
mounting a Golden eagle for Jane.
Broderick, who shotit on the lake shore
last fall. The eagle is magnificen,
specimen, carrying an abundant supply
OF war eagle feathers in it's tail spread
which feathers might have been traded
: for small herd Of ponies in the early
days, the Flathead Indians coveting this
plumage Of the war eagle .-Kaliepel
Bee.
The grade which the county built las
fall on the highway running through
the town, without providing all outlel
for the water to drain away, is in fail
way Of giving us lake on each side O
the main street. The warm rains yes
terday sent the water down from the
hills, and the vacant lots and back yards
in the lower part OF town are receiving
the fiowage. No bringing the lake t.
town for US, or ship canal from Tobac
CO river we are more likely to need {
few pontoon bridges.-Tobacco Plainl
Journal.
A possible explanation OF the presenc,
of SO many lynx in the valley this win
ter is offered by gentleman who ha'
done some investigating. 1t is said thai
every few years a mysterious disease
gets among the snowshoe rabbits and al
but exterminates them, and that it hal
been especially severe the past few
lnonths, the Dummies dying IN grea
numbers. AS the lynx feeds chiefly o,
the rabbits he has been obliged to lool
for some other food, and has come int.
the valley for it.-Inter Lake.
The Parker Lumber company, OF thi
place, has been incorporated and til,
stock was transferred to the new com
pany this week. The capital stock il
$4,000, Of which $685. 900 has been paid
The new company will continue in tn,
saving, planning and Wholesale and re
tail lumber business. The officers o
the company for the ensuing year are a
follows: Harvey Parker, president
Olin Parker. vice president; Andrev
Parker, secretary aud treasurer. Col
um bian.
Sheriff w. H. O'Connell has takel
the following prisoners to the peniten
tiary: Thomas Ford, sentenced to tel
years and James Young. to one year
for the killing Of Landon T. Carter Of
the 4th OF November. Morris Sweeney
convicted Of burglary in the second dc
gree was sentenced to one year. William
II Rickson who pleaded guiltv To III