The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-03-19
COUNTY NEWS
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The homeseekers are arriving daily.

Work was started this week for placing
the poles in the business and residence
sections for the electric light system
Tobacco Plains Journal.
The upper mill of the H. F. Jessup
Milling Co. started up this week with
full crew, and is cutting its capacity of
lumber daily.-Inter Lake.
A force of seven men are now at work
in the assessors office getting things in
shape for the regular spring work of as
sessing the taxable property of the county.
-Kalispell Journal.
The Flathead Water Power Co. has
been granted franchise by the Kalspell
city council to erect transmission line
through the alleys of the city to connect
with the proposed Whitefsh line
Now that the indications are that the
reservation will be opened by midsummer
it is time to forget all petty differences
and get in and boost as one man for the
Flathead valley.-Kalispell Journal.
Within two years after the Somers-
Dixon extension is completed, we will
have a swarm of people from Butte, Hell
ena and other Montana places spending
the summer months in the Flathead.-
Inter Lake.
Thos. Laing was appointed road super
visor for this district by the county dads
at their regular quarterly meeting last
week. Tom has occupied this position
for the past few years, and the commits
sioners know a good man when they see
one.
The logging camps are breaking up,
and the men are coming to town and
getting ready for the drive. 1t is believed
that the cut of logs for 1909 will fall short
Of any previous year for some time. The
late snow and early thaw are partly re-
sponsible for the shortage.
The men of the forestry department
have been engaged during great part of
the winter in clearing a way along the
west shore of Lake Mcdonald for tele-
phone line. All the dead, broken and
leaning trees have been cut out in prepa-
ration and as soon as frost is out of the
ground the poles will be set and the wires
strung = alispell Journal.
Messrs. j. O. D. Ross, Judge NJ. J.
Brown and Robert Yates, who went to
Whitefish to participate and represent
the citizens Of Libby at the reception
given in honor of Hon. f. M. Hutchin-
son Tuesday evening, report a very
pleasant time and brought back to the
citizens OF Libby the congratulations OF
the citizens of Whitefish upon our vic
tory.-Western News.
Conrad Travesy, whose saloon license
the council refused to renew, has secured
counsel and will fight the case in the
courts. If he wins, and the right of the
council to determine the fitness of saloon
keepers and their numbers is abridged
we will have Il local option election on
our hands sure, and quickly.-kalispel
Journal.
Among the stories brought back from
Helena is one that several of the people
who signed a statement that they did moi
oppose county division, Immediately for
warded letters urging the defeat of the
bill at all hazards, and that among the
bushel or more of documents on Cover
nor Norris table when he was consider
ing the bill were both the statement ant
the lctters.-Inter Lake.
DR.. Seaman, the alicnist of the warn
Springs hospital for the insane, came t.
town last Friday morning, and that al
ternoon made an examination of LeBea,l
the murderer. OF course it was impossi
bic for anyone to get line upon his con
clusion in the matter, as he will max
his report to the governor. LeBeau wa
supposed not to know at the time tina
his mental capacity was being tested, bu
it is more than probable that he was wis
to the proceeding. DR.. Seaman left TO
his home Sunday evening. -Kalispel
Journal.