The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-07-03
COUNTY NEWS
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Rexford has a baseball team.

Rexford has a baseball team.
Among other Flathead county celeb
tons will be one by the farmers at Jes-
sup's mill.
Jake Teeters takes the palm this season
as catcher Of bear. He brought in the
hides of seyen.-Western News.
The northern part of the Lewis and
Clark national forest will hereafter be
known Us the Blackfeet forest reserve
Jake Neitzling, who has been attend
ing photography school in the east dur
ing the past three months, returned
home Thursday night.-C Columbian.
A meeting of forest rangers was held at
Bolton for several days the latter part of
last week. Inspector A. E. Sherman Of
Missoula was in attendance at the meet
ing.
The state board of land commissioners
will hold meeting on July %, at Kalis-
pell, when hearing will be held in re-
gard to the recent sales of state land in
Flathead county.
Mrs. Ingebretsen, wife of the band
master, was brought here from Fortinc
last Monday, quite seriously i'll, and
yesterday was removed to the Whitefish
hospital. Tobacco Plains Journal.
The Boorman Lumber Co. is having q
new mill built on the site of the one de-
stroyed by fire some weeks ago, and it
will be ready for operation about the
middle of August.-Inter Lake.
The small sawmill on the Charles Seek
place, near Lake Blaine, and owned by
Ole Moe, of kalispell, was burned Thurs
day. The mill was q small one, and oper-
ated Observation-Disclosures Lake.
James O. BrienEof. Jennings sustained a
severe injury near that place on. Tuesday
on speeder. The machine jumped the
track and threw him against rail and
the result was cash on the back of his
head about three inches long. DR.. Finn
repaired the damage. News.
G.. F. Gates wxs business visitor in
town from Poison the first Of the week.
He says the townsite.sat Poison is being
plated and laid out and is being put in
shape for the reservation opening. He
is confident, Poison will be the principal
town of the reservation. -Kalispell Jour-
nal.
David Ross,has the distinction of being
the first one to set out hazel bushes. He
has fine place on Roman lake, near
Dayton, and this spring he decided to try
nut culture. The young plants are grow.
ing fine and in future years there will
probably be fine crop Of hazel nuts il
the Dayton creek country.-Kalispcl
Bee.
d. M. Reynolds OF Troy was in Libby
yesterday and while here gave out the in
formation that the Big mine near tina
place had been sold to French company
for $50, 900. The sale was made by /.
firm Of mining brokers in Spokane, thci
names not being known by Mr.. Reynolds
It was cash Western
News.
In a recent interview with F. W...Hub
bart, member of the board of appraiser,
of the Flathead Indian reservation, h,
stated to a Journal representative tina
the work of estimating the timber ant
appraising the timber land on the reserve
was progressing rapidly and it was tn
intention to cross to the east side of tn
river the first Of the week, the lands OF
the west side having been completed
Mr.. Hubbard said that the work woul'
all be completed by late in the fall, ant
the proclamation opening the re 1rva
ton to settlement would be issued earl,
in the spring. In his judgement tn
opening will occur about the middle o
next June.-kalispell Journal.
Carey Ferguson came down from hi
ranch of the upper Fisher last week an
brought out report that the deer hav
destroyed his timothy hay meadows
His ranch is about 40 miles south {
Libby and he has probably one of tn
most extensive hay ranches in this par
Of Montana. He says this spring hs
been the worst since he has been i
there. He has always been bothered b
deer and the loss every year is an item
but he says thissyear they have simpl
taken possession and he is unable
drive them off He says he counted
deer in his meadow one evening. H
ratified tin pans, hollered and did every
thing possible to. brighten them away
but they paid no attention and WEI
right on eating up the hay. On anotht
occasion he counted 1913 deer in til
same meadow.-Western News.