The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-07-30
Doings Of Our Neighbors

Libby has new chemical fire engine.
Conrad people are talking of incor.
pOrating.
Roland Abbott has filed on home
stead on the North Fork about fifty miles
from this town.-Columbian.
The county commissioners of Lincoln
county are advertising for bids for the
construction Of Jail building at the
county seat.
A good many of the people who are
coming in to Kalispell to register take
advantage of the opportunity to make a
trip across the lake to Poison.
The Western News reports that there
is quite building boom in Libby and
that number of substantial buildings
will be constructed at once.
Reports come from Swan river that
1000 ties have been successfully driven
to the lake and will be put through the
picking plant at Somers.-Bee.
f. f. Peterson caught the largest
black bass ever taken out of Echo lake
one day last week, it weighed four
pounds and was a beauty .-Bigfork News.
Two crooks are serving 80 days in
Hotel de O'Connell for fimHamming
young and unsopiisticated Missourian.
Missouri must be protected at all hazards.
-Kaispell Bee.
Register of the United States land office
Andrew w. Swaney, has revoked the
commission of Notary Reynolds, who was
charged with attempted exhortion in
registering. Bee.
0. G. Clay, right-of-way agent for the
Great Northern, was in the city last week
on business. Mr.. Clay stated that he
would without doubt be down this way
buying right-of-way in a very short
while. -Bigfork News.
The Eureka Commercial club has had
large sign painted, telling what they
have to offer to the fasteners, and have
erected it near the depot here in full view
of the passengers.-Inter Lake.
Already some of the people who came
to register have decided that they do not
care to wait for chance to get farms on
the reservation, and have declared their
intention to buy Flathead farms.-Inter
Lake.
A raid was made on the West hotel sa-
loon Sunday morning early, and the of.
ticers obtained gambling paraphernala
and witnesses, besides proof that man
named Adams, who runs the bar, has
not been strictly observing the closing
ordinance.-Kalispcll Bee.
The lands of the Conrad Land and
Water Co. in Teton county will be
thrown open to settlement on October 7.
The government lottery system will be
followed. The first six days in October
will be registration days, the drawing to
take place the day following.
Jim Richie, veteran rallroader, is enjoy
ing the simple life on his farm out from
Cut Bank. The x-roundhouse foreman
states that he has no yearning for the old
life-is not disturbed by shrill whistles
and the busy life of the rusty rails"
Mr.. Richie is getting down to farming in
dead earnest.-Cut Bank Pioneer Press.
People who have lived in the Flathead
for many years were never so enthusiastic
about what great country this really is
until the outsiders commenced coming in
from all parts of the country, and pro-
nounce this the greatest place they ever
saw. Without exception the people who
have looked over this valley, and also the
reservation, cannot say enough in praise
of what they have seen, and almost in
variably they express the intention of
coming back and investing in land even
though they don't draw claim. The
people who came to register on the reser-
walton. and take the pains to look the
country over, are the very best advertise.
ment that Flathead county has ever
gotten.-kalispell Journal