The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-03-26
COUNTY NEWS
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The county commissioners have ordered !
small Jail building built at Bgfork.
The number of saloons in Kalispell
has been limited by the city council to
twenty.
An electric light plant is to be put in /
at the Soldiers home this spring.-Co-
lumbar.
Sam Robertson left today for Boulder,
Mont, where he expects to take over the
management of the Age-Sentinel.-Co-
lumbar.
Since Libby has become the county
seat of the new county of Lincoln, four
attorneys have moved there and located.
Inter Lake
Claude Loepsly has the logs nearly up
for General Manager Gruber's cabin. 1t
will be about half way up Lake Melon
ald.-Columbian.
Andrew Rankin Horne. formerly cit
izcn of Scotland, has applied to the dis
trict court for final naturalization papers.
-Kalispell Journal.
The firemen are building their new hall
this week. Work began Tuesday morn
ing and the building will be rushed to
completion. -Columbian
Columbia Falls has population of $50,
according to the census taken there re-
Gently, and will vote on the question of
incorporation Oh Monday, April 26.
There has been between 5000 and G, OOO
railroad ties cut and hauled on the Great
Northern right of way in this vicinity
during the past season. Western News.
The hotels of the town are filling up
fast with the advance guard of the spring
rush of people to this section to pick up
the good things lying about.-kalispell
Journal.
We haven't been able to figure out yet
just where the Tobacco Plains comes in,
with all tins railroad racket few miles
east and south OF us. We want some
o. that. Tobacco Plains Journal.
Action has been started by the county
against the Julius Neils and the Big
Blackfoot lumber companies to recover
money which the board of county COM
missioners refunded to them on taxes.
w. J. Bremen returned home Satur-
| Il l,o
past few weeks seeing that everything
went off properly at the capitol during
the legislative session. -Bigfork News.
The big sawmill will start up on Mon
day next. A day and night shift will be
put on this year from the opening day,
and it is anticipated the seasons cut will
be the heaviest yet made.-Tobacco
Plains Journal.
General Manager Gruber, who during
the winter has built fine cabin at Lake
Mcdonald, has made arrangements with
the Dingo boat company of st. Paul, to
put one of their thirty foot gasoline motor
boats on the lake for him this summer
Kalispell Journal.
The story of Frankhauser's confession
and narrative of the escape of himself
and Mcdonald from the Lewis and
Clark county Jail has made its appearance
in kalispell. The government is only
permitting the publishing of three hun
dred copies.-Kalispell Journal.
Frederick LeBeau, the condemned
murderer, was brought into the sheriff S
office Sunday and informed of the decision
of the governor not to grant him a COM
die on April second, the date set. LeBeau
said he did not expect anything else, and
did not appear to be overly cast down at
the news that extinguished his last hope
of life. Preparations for the execution
are all complete. Journal.
The development of Flathead county
in the next two years will be of more than
ordinary interest because of the possible
changes in the future of several cities
kalispell will have her hands full in
warding off future county divisions which
may do considerable damage to her SUI
premacy. The east and west line, which
it is understood Whitetish looks upon sc
fondly for new county by the next leg
islature, may mean Columbia Falls fol
county seat. Old Flathead surely seems
to be in for some great changes in the
near future, and us Lincolnites will look
upon the field of activity and rivalry witt
considerable interest. Tobacco Plains