The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-08-21
COUNTY NEWS
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The county commissioners will hold
special session on August g.
The chief of police of Kal,spell is going
after the automobiles who exceed the
speed limit.
At the Methodist conference in Kalis-
pell Rev. w. B. Young was reappointed
to have charge of the Whitefish church
for the ensuing year.
The rangers on the Blackfeet national
forest will begin the first of the week to
do some extensive work on the trails
above Lake Mcdonald, making them
more passable for pack horses and gener-
al travel.-Inter Lake.
Philip Geifer was shot in the side at
Fielding last Friday in fight with Thos.
Shields and VIM. Schrader. The trouble
arose through the biting of Shields
daughter by dog owned by Geifer.
Gcifer's wound is not dangerous one.
Arthur Wigle, workman in the mill
at Somers, had his left foot caught in the
slasher chain and torn to pieces about
eight o'clock Saturday morning. The foot
was terribly mangled, and the unfortun-
ate young man was brought to Kalispell
on the morning train to have the foot
amputated. -kalispell Inter Lake.
We are informed that anew bridge is
to be built across the Swan river at this
place, to take the place of the present
one which is in pretty poor condition.
The new bridge will he put in a more
suitable location and be more convenient
for the travelling pubic.-Bigfork News.
|, Several carloads Of rails that were re-
Gently taken up from the old line of the
Great Northern west of Marion were
brought in recently and are to be ship
ped to Dakota for use on branch line
being built in that state. This spoils an
other vision of the local railroad builders
who accepted the fact that the rails were
piled up at Marion as proof positive that
the company intended using them in
constructing another line in the same
community, presumably the Libby cut
off We will not believe any more rail-
road stories until work is commenced,
and we see it with our own eyes.-kalis-
pell Journal.
Flathead valley lands of the best quail
ity are getting along toward the hundred
dollars an acre period, and it will be
only few years until that much or
more will be the ruling price for the best
farms. And there is every reason for
such price. Based on the returns per
acre, which is the only proper standard
for fixing the value. the farms of the
Flathcad are worth more than Iowa and
Illinois lands which are selling at twice
the price. There are farmers in the
/ Flathcad who will this year sell the grain
/ from their wheat fields at from thirty to
forty dollars per acre. They are the best
ones, of course, but almost any field Of
grain will give return of ut least hall
the price at which the land could be
bought. -kalispcll Inter Lake.
In the district court on Saturday John
F. w. Kussoff, who made the attack on
VIM. Schumann and H. &. Miller, and
shot John Dupont through the jaw,
plead guilty to assault in the first de-
gree. A plea was made for him by
Judge d. F. Smith, who called the at
tention of the court to the comparative
youthfulness of kussoff, the fact that he
has a wife and child dependent on him
and that he was intoxicated at the time
he did the shooting. John Chisholm
charged with assaulting Miss Richards
near Eureka, changed his plea of no
guilty to guilty, and was given five year
in the penitentiary. = Kalispcll Int
Lake.