The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-01-29
COUNTY NEWS
49,

Poison is to have bank.
Columbia Falls now has an active vol
unteer fire department.
The American Bison society announces
that they will have so buffaloes with
which to stock the buffalo park in the
Flathead reservation.
The Flathead County Anti-Saloon
league is circulating petitions calling up
on the county commissioners to allow
the people of the county to vote upon the
saloon question, under the local option
law.
Thos. Porter has purchased a tract OF
timber north of the depot and is making
ties for the Great Northern. He runs a
crew of twelve men. w. G. Wells and
w. j. Hull are doing the hauling.-Co-
lumbar.
County Attorney Stevens filed COM
plant in Judge Wallace's court Friday,
charging Mrs. Holland, of Essex, with
perjury. The charge grows out of the
investigation into the shooting of her
husband some time ago.-Inter Lake.
The report of the secretary of the Mon
tana Larch and Pine Manufacturers as
ISOLATION states that for the month OF
December, the shipments of the mills
were 100000 feet as compared with
1850, 900 feet for the corresponding time
of the year of l9O7.-Inter Lake.
Lake shore fruit men state that there
is little fear of the apple trees being in
jured by the excessive cold, but it was
an unfortunate experience for peach trees
and it is hardly possible that any of them
will bear fruit this year.-Kalispell Bee.
The people of Bigfork were the authors
of a kick to the county attorney and the
commissioners against saloon at that
place which is said to have provided a
snake room for those whom the whiskey
sold over the bar induced to see things.
The room was so fixed that the patient
could be penned in and left to fight
things in the air without disturbing other
customers of the booze joint.-Kalispell
Journal.
Generosity and kind-heartedness is
worthy of credit no matter by whom
displayed. Last Monday evening, after
reading the account in the Journal of the
Gladwyns being burned out at Troy, and
their subsequent experiences, the people
of the Arcade theatre at once got busy
and raised fund of sixty dollars, which
was sent to the Gladwyns the next day
in care of Mr.. Wood of Troy. More
money was raised and sent later.-Kalis-
pell Journal.
The interstate commerce commission
will hold session at St. Paul on Feb
ruary third, at which time they will take
up the question of the rates OH lumber
from the coast and other western points,
says the Kalispell Inter Lake. Flathead
lumbermen will attend the meeting, and
will endeavor to have some of the in
capabilities III the rates adjusted. As rates
now are fixed, Flathead shippers derive
no benefit whatever for the saving OF
several hundred miles in the haul from
Pacific points to the Dakotas and east.
The tariff sheets of the railroad compan-
les give them an advantage over their
western competitors within Montana, but
as soon as the state line is reached, the
coast lumberman can put his lumber
down as cheaply as the Flathead man,
although it has to be hauled twice the
distance or more. This is one of the
things the local lumbermen will endeavor
to have adjusted at the hearing. c. l..
Dobner, H. Il. Miller, d. b. Barber, B.
j. Boorman, A. L. Jordan, and possibly
other men will attend the hearing.