The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-05-28
COUNTY NEWS
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Libby residents are endeavoling to or
ganize a band.
The big sawmill at Somers has been
shut down on account of the strike.
The Kalispell city council has granted
Il telephone franchise to W. II. Griffin
and others.
The supreme court has been asked for
an injunction restraining the formation
of Lincoln county.
The Milwaukee engineers have finished
their work at the foot of Swan lake and
have moved their camp seven miles Up
from the head OF the lake-Bigfork
News.
kalispell has taken steps towards the
organization of baseball team. Con-
siderable money has been subscribed.
and pitcher will be imported 1t is
the intention to have first class team.
f.. f. Peterson of Echo lake states that
the surveyors have already cross-sectioned
five miles of the right-of-way ON the
river between Holt and Bigfork, and
have found desirable location for the
piers OF the railroad bridge. -Kalispell
Bee.
Fine progress is being made on the
l.ibby-Gateway trail. At present the
trail has been finished from the boundary
line to within about two miles above
Warland. When the entire trail is
finished it will extend from the boundary
line to Ieonia. Western News.
Max Pass, immigration agent of the
Great Northern, was so we'll pleased
with the Eureka Commercial club book
let, that he has written President Chap
man for a supply for distribution, and at
the same time paid our boosters neat
compliment for sending out such an at
tractive ad.-Tobacco Plains Journal.
1t is regretable fact that the city
election called for May 3lst must
be postponed until June 2l. May 81 is
legal holiday and the changing OF the
date for election to June was not legal
because the notice should be published
thirty days before election. Columbian.
What is probably the largest flat trout
ever caught in this county was landed
by Jim Madsen in the Flathead river
near the steel bridge Tuesday afternoon
The fish weighed nearly sixteen pounds,
and is said to be the largest flat trout OF
which there is any record.-kalispell
Journal
The full text OF the decision of the
interstate commerce commission in the
Flathead lumber rate case has finally
been received. While the lumber COM
panies are not given all they asked for,
they are very we'll satisfied with the de-
cision, which will give them rate of
five cents a hundred under the Spokane
rate at the North Dakota line. This will
enable the local mills to successfully COM
pete for the North Dakota business
Inter Lake.
Jacob Behner, formerly of Alberta,
has purchased land in the lower valley
and will make his future home in the
Flathead. The tide of immigration that
flowed so strongly into Canada several
years back is greatly checked, and many
who went there in the first rush are find
ing out that northwestern Montana is a
better place tor home, and they are
coming here in considerable numbers
Kalispell Journal.
The sooner our little city is organized
the better it will be for all. Undesirables
of the lowest class are infestlng the town,
and organization and some good stiff
laws applying to these will stop the rush.
1t is shame our town must be the
dumping ground for the county. Those who
are run out of Kalispell and Whitefish
all seem to head in here. But one thing
is sure and that is that in few shor,
weeks things will be made so hot for the
undesirables that they will be glad to
take their departure in preference to
taking a job on the rock pile or sleeping
in the county jail.-Columbian.
The Chamber of Commerce has re-
celved a letter from the engineer who
made the preliminary survey for the pro
posed canal from Kalispell to the Flat
head river, and dredging the river t.
give a depth OF four feet to the lake
The engineer states that in his report
which was made to the board of engineer
for rivers and harbors, states that in hi
opinion no work would be necessary tt
secure the four feet depth from the lax,
to Demersville, and that the cost of ex
tending navigation to Kalispel by wa.
of Kalispell slough would be wholly on
of proportion to the probable commmer
cial tts.-Kalispell Journal