The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-11-13
COUNTY NEWS
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Work on the new school house at Co.
lumbia Falls is progressing nicely.
Three Bigfork saloonkcepers were ar
rested for keeping open on election day.
The county commissioners have been
canvassing the election returns this week.
A steady stream of new settlers has
been coming into Flathead county this
year.
Taxidermist Bryant shipped out fine
bear rug Monday to Faribault, MIMI
Columbian.
The John O. Olson Lumber Co. are
putting in logs and getting ready foe a
several weeks n.-Columbian.
G. F. Edwards of Great Falls is here
looking over the country. He will move
his family over here in about month to
make their permanent home in Flathead
county, Kalispell Bee.
There is at least one socialist precinct
in the county, Rexford giving one plural
ity for Debs over Bryan. AS Charlie
Taylor, who sent in the returns to us,
said, 'The Red Special done a plenty
here. Tobacco Plains Journal.
Your attention is called to the fact
that Flathead apples are tickling the
palates of the east in carload lots, Fred
Whiteside having recently shipped two
cars of them to eastern points, one car
going to Chicago. -Kalispell Journal.
! Joe Cosley came down Sunday night
from the mountains. He says the snow
on the summit is three and four feet
deep; so deep he had to come down via
Browning. Joe bagged big horn about
ten days ago on Mt. Macbeth. -Colum-
bian.
Snow has stopped the progress of the
Nyack-St Nicholas trail that the fores-
try department has been building under
the direction of Supervisor Haines, and
the crew has come to town. Work will
probably be resumed in the spring.
Kalispell Bee.
John Seaman walked Is miles to be 81
Libby to cast his vote, an example which
is worthy of mention, and which indi-
Gates that Mr.. Seaman places the proper
estimate upon the privilege citiz n ell
joys by reason OF the voting franchise
Western News.
Robert Gates returned Saturday from
the reservation, where he has been esti-
mating timber for the government. Mr..
Gates says there is about 1900, O,oO,
feet of lumber on the reservation and
that all the preparations for opening the
land to settlement have been completed.
-Bigfork News.
| +. r. Belle, an old time Flatheadcr
who has been living in Detroit, Mich.
for the past six years, returned last week
with his family, and expects to again re-
side here. He says there are large
number of people in Michigan who are
planning on coming to this country in
the spring, some in the hope OF getting
claim Oh the reservation, but the larger
number expect to invest in farm proper
ty.-Kalispell Journal.
cit is zero here this morning, and
probably you people in Montana are
frozen up" writes lady in Minnesota
to a Kalispell friend last week. Another
letter. from considerably further south
than Minnesota, said: 81 suppose you
are enjoying skating and sleigh rides up
there in the far north.' These people
from the frost-bitten and wind-swept
plains should come to the Flathcad and
see for themselves, how sweet peas and
pansies are still fourishing in the gar.
dens, and the roses in the open air are
still blooming these early November days.
1t is true the roses get occasional dis
couragements from sharp froets, but a
few days of bright warm weather bring
them out again But it is loss of time
and effort to get through the understand.
ing of the average outsider the fact that
weather west of the Rockies has no sim
ilarity to that of the plains country
Kalispcll Inter Lake.