The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-03-12
COUNTY NEWS
49,

The county commissioners meet next
Friday in special session.
Bigfork is to have a bowling alley,
shooting gallery and pool room.
A bogus check artist worked a few
saloon men in Kalispell last week.
A landslide at Bigfork Saturday broke
through the company's ditch and caused
the plant to be shut down for a while.
1t is reported that the Flathead Valley
Water Power Co. will build an electric
road from Somers to Poison. -Bigfork
News.
James Mccarthy, formerly a Kalispell
bartender, is supposed to have been
drowned in the Flathead river near
Coram according to the Inter Lake.
The petition for incorporation was gen.
orally signed in Columbia Falls, and the
outlook seems to be that the town will
be incorporated.
The county bonds for the erection of an
addition to the county high school and
to build a steel bridge at Columbia Falls
have been sold by the county commits
sioners.
Wild geese are thick in the lower val
ley, and the man with the shotgun looks
at them longingly, and wishes he could
suspend the game law for one day at
least.-Inter Lake.
The county commissioners have ap-
pointed Thos. Carroll to take the census
of Columbia Falls, preparatory to calling
an election in that town upon the incor-
poration proposition.
]. E. Lewis came down from the North
Fork with Jack Reuter- Sunday. Mr.
Lewis had about seyen hundred dollars
worth of furs with him that he had pur-
chased on the trip.-Columbian
O. E. Lehmicke, one of the foremost
residents of the town of Bigfork, was q
visitor Wednesday. He said there was
feeling OF citation at Bigfork on account
of the bright prospects of road building
and population.-Kalispell Bee.
The Hunt Hollister mill will start oper-
ating about the 10th of this month. We
understand all the mills around here will
be in operation very soon and business
will be booming again.-Columbian
The Eureka Lumber company is pre-
pairing for the spring log drive, which
will probably be started next week. Men
and supplies are being gathered for the
FIVE crews which will be strung along the
river.-Tobacco Plains Journal.
Railroad men and others who come in
from the mountains say the snow liz 8
deep and heavy all through the higher
mountains, and that there will be plenty
of water coming down the rivers this
spring, unless the warm weather comes
early and evenly. A late spring and
then sudden warm weather would give
us flood.-Inter Lake.
j. H. Stevens returned Saturday from
Helena, where he went the first of last
week to get some much needed legislation
relative to the issuing of liquor licenses in
counties outside of Incorporated towns.
The "much-needed" law, however, was
one among many others that might come
under the same head as those that failed
to get onto the statute ooks.-Kalispell
Journal
The county commissioners have an Of
fer to make the city authorities. 1t is to
lend them the prisoners confined in the
Jail for petty offenses, to work on the
streets, and the only string on the offer
is that Main street, from the court house
north, shall be the first one worked.
The county will board the men, just as
it does now, and all it asks is that the
town shall furnish man to watch them
and return them to the Jail at night.
The commissioners have an idea that it
will be good for the prisoners to get out
in the open air and work, and think it
may also have tendency to make Jail
sentence less attractive to some of them.
Likewise it might furnish the town a
chance to get some work ON the streets
done very cheaply.-Inter Lake.