The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
COUNTY NEWS
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A lodge of Owls has cen organized at
Kalispell.
Flathead county farmers are harvesting
an immense hay crop.
The state mill has closed down for the
season, having finished saving last week.
Hucklcberries are said to be plentiful
in the mountains this year, and the berry
pickers will soon get busy.
On Sundays large crowds of Kalispell
people go to the various lakes and sum-
mer resorts that are SO numerous through
out the county. Flathead lake, Lake Nc
Donald and Whitefish lake attract the
greater number.-Kalspell Journal.
The ballasting and grading on the new
road through Bad Rock canyon is tenn
porarily suspended by the Forest Reserve
people, owing to their being called off to
guard against forest fires Work will be
resumed later in the fall.-Columbian.
The hay crop is simply immense. Some
of our ranchers report fields giving such
heavy yields as to scarcely leave room on
the ground to place the shocks. The
timothy grown in the Plains is noted for
its fine quality and this year is no ex-
ception to the rule.-Tobacco Plains
Journal.
Three governors shed the lustre of
their presence at the Hotel National this
week, Robert B. Smith, Joseph X. Toole
and Edwin Norris. Governor Toole is
the dean Of the trio, having served his
first term as governor from 1899 to 1892.
Richards succeeded him, and Governor
Smith the four years between '96 and
1900. From that year until last April
Hon. J. X. Toole has been governor, re-
signing on account of i'll health, in favor
of his present high excellency, Edwin
Norris of Dillon.-kalspcll Bee.
The next five years in the history of
Flathead county will be record break
ing epoch in its development. In that
time the folks here will see another trans
continental railroad, the $500" traverse
the county from end to end. They will
see the Great Northern add more mileage
to its system through the construction
OF the line from Kalispell south to the
Northern Pacific. They will see branch
line of the Milwaukee run from a point
on the main line of that road on the
Clark's Fork river, to Libby, tapping the
greatest body of timber in the state and
opening up an empire rich in farming
and mining possibilities. And the
chances are good that this is not all in
the way of railroad construction.-Wes
crn News.
George Couture was a visitor from
Arlec this week and in speaking about
the Flathcad reservation stated that the
allotmcnts had all been made except to
the Youngsters who had been born this
year. He feels confident that the rescrva-
ton will be opened not later than Au-
gust of next year. He declared that the
Indians were well satisfied with the Sc
lections and that the government had
given them square deal. While many
of them did not select good land it was
because they wanted to be near their
relatives or friends. The commission
would inform them that there was better
land for them but they wanted their own
choice. He said that in sucl, cases where
the Indians had made poor selection he
would get two allotments for one. Accor-
ding to his opinion there will be some
hundreds of homes for the whites, and
some of the finest lands on the rescrva-
ton, too. Mr.. Couture made his selection
near Arlec and has 22O acres. He has a
wife and one child. Plains Signal.
During the state land board investiga-
ton in Kalispell this week Ex-Governor
Toole was asked i'll regard to his under
standing Of the provision of the state law
permitting the sale of not over 100 acres
to one person. The governor said he
knew OF the provisions of the statute. He
could not say they were complying
strictly with the provisions of the law,
and would say frankly that he did not
pay much attention to that particular
feature. He said he understood how it
might happen that one person would Use
the names of a large number at such a
sale, just as it had happened that one
had used the names of a considerable
number at public sales. The names might
be used merely to comply with the stat
ute He admitted that in the transactions
he thought it likely the lands were going
to the lumber companies. He made the
statement that while the law provided
that not more than 100 acres of land
might be sold to one person, there was
nothing to prevent the sale of every bit
of timber the state owned to one person
or one company. But that there had been
so strong protest against the proposal to
sell the timber only, that they had sold
both land and timber, in compliance
what they thought was the wish OF the
people OF the county.