The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-01-15
COUNTY NEWS
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The Tobacco Plains Journal notes that
the Eureka postottice has been made an
international money order office.
The Western News reports that the
Dawson Lumber Co. is making some ex-
tensivc improvements at Libby, and will
operate upon even larger scale than
formerly.
The men who took that trip up in the
mountains after the remains of Tom
Monroe certainly showed the right spirit
in being willing to stand the hardships
connected with such a trip,-Columbian
The county commissioners evidently
believe in helping good thing along,
and started off the new year by raising
Deputy Baney's salary from $1,000 to
$1,000 year.-Tobacco Plains journal.
Mr.. Schultz was down from his Creston
ranch Monday in the interest of the NJ.
W. A. He secured Il number ofprospec-
tive members and it is probable that a
camp will be organized here.-Bigfork
News
H. S. Boyle has bought 10 acres of
the Asher orchard on the bill just at the
edge of town, paying therefor $3.50 per
acre. With paying orchard on the
land the purchaser has decided bargain
in his buy.-Kalispell Journal.
The two mail pouches from train No.
! Sunday morning, got pretty badly dis
figured. The pouches were tied to-
gether when thrown from the mail car.
They were drawn under the train and
torn open and being caught by truck
the mail was scattered from Mineral
avenue crossing down the track to the
sidetrack switch. At this point the
pouches caught OH a frog in the switch
and tore loose from the car truck. The
contents of the pouches were badly dam
aged Western News.
Five Great Northern box cars were
burned at Shields siding, near Rexford,
last Sunday. A string of empties we've
on the siding when Engineer G. B. Hart
passed along with light engine and he
saw some of them on fire. He succeeded
in detaching all but five of the cars and
drawing them to place of safety. 1t is
supposed a couple of tramps built fire
III one of the cars and it got beyond their
CONTROL as MIR. Hart noticed two men
standing near the burning cars when he
arrived on the scene. Deputy Baney
picked up Il tramp here and held him on
suspicion couple of days, but he could
not be positively identified by Mr.. Hart,
as it was about dusk when he saw the
two men at the siding, although the
prisoner resembled in general way one
of the men. The man insisted that he
was not connected with tile affair in any
way, and for want of better evidence, he
was turned loose. Tobacco Plains Jour-
nal.
G. E. Ford has finally obtained the
survey of his ranch situated in the forest
reserve in the Glen lake district, says the
Tobacco Plains Journal. No other part
of the section except MIR. Ford's quarter
was surveyed. 1t seems to be the policy
of the department to survey no land ex-
; cept that covered by the applicant, and
then only with apparent reluctance. As
; near as Mr.. Ford could learn the con-
tract for the survey of his land was let
r about a year and Il half before the work
was done. But Mr.. Ford is persistent
cuss and ever since he was taken in by
the reserve he has kept pegging away tc
$ have his rights perfected, with such tar.
dy results as would have discouraged the
ordinary man and cause him to throw
up his claim, as a number have done il
the Pinkham creek section. In the light
OF Mr.. Ford's experience it would pro-
badly be wise for the settlers in the
Pinkham creek section to cease trying tt
have the township surveyed, but max.
individual applications and keep ever
lastingly at it. All these claimants made
settlement before the creation of the re-
serve.