The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-01-22
COUNTY NEWS
49,
The county commissioners will meet in
.pacial session on Wednesday, Feb. 3.


special session on Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Numerous residents of Troy have de-
clared themselves to be against county
division.
The Enterprise Lumber Co. will re-
build the saw mill at Kila, which was
burned recently.
The postoffice at Stryker has been or
dered discontinued, and the mail for that
place will 60 to Fortine.
Lincoln H. Reed. well-known young
man of KalispelI, committed suicide on
Saturday by cutting his throat.
Flathead county witnesses have been
subpoenaed to appear in the Frank
hauser case at Helena this week.
Arrangements have been started for
the annual ice harvest of the Great
Northern on Little Bitter Root lake.
How to hold the trade OF Poison, in
the Flathead reservation, is problem
that is bothering kalispell merchants.
There will not be as many logs taken
out of the timber in Flathead county
this year as in some former years, on &C
count of the large stocks of lumber on
hand.
Why not divide Flathead county into
numerous counties? For instance, make
each town county and also a county
seat. That would settle the dispute and
satisfy all.-Columbian.
Steps have been taken to secure sub
scriptions to a stock company to the
amount of seven thousand dollars for the
building of the proposed metallic circuit
telephone line from Kalispell to Poison.
|-Nalispell Journal.
Articles organizing the Dayton Lumber
company have been filed in the office of
the secretary of state. Principal place Of
business Dayton, Mont. Capital stock,
$40, 900; divided into 100 shares OF the
par value of 800 each.
A petition was circulated the first of
the week asking the postal department
to give us an extra mail to and from
Kalispel each day. This is good move
and we hope the department will con-
slider it favorably .-Columbian
Sunday morning it looked as though
the town was going to be depopulated,
so many went away OIL the train.
wenty-eight of the passengers, however,
were going to Helena to serve as wit
nesses in the trial of Frankhauser, the
train robber. -Kalispell Journal.
While in Columbia Falls on county
business last week, according to the Kali
ispell Inter Lake, County Attorney Stew
ems was appraised of the fact that boy
of Is was tending bar in one of the sa-
looms there, and that it was common
o occurrence for minors to visit the thirst
parlors.
A correspondent of the Butte News
makes merry over Representative Pom
why plll w punish WIZ StsiS-
lessly shoot human beings through mis-
take for game animals. If the correspon-
dent had lived in this county, and taken
note of the many people who have been
killed by careless hunters, he would be
less likely to ridicule bill which he has
probably not read at all.-Inter Lake.
We hear rumor that another railroad
is to be built. 1t is coming from the
north; will run to the summit of the
Teakettle mountain and from there a
suspension bridge is to be built oyer CO.
lumbla Falls and strike the earth again
about five miles from town, thence into
Kalispell.- Columbian
E. w. Gay, who has quarter section
of land near Eureka, some time ago dis
covered a thin vein of mineral-bearing
rock Oh his land, and sent samples away
for assay. Just recently he received the
returns and found that the rock ran $3.50
to the ton in copper. The land may de-
velop into very valuable piece of prop
erty.-Kalispell Journal.
Saturday the sheriff set the prisoners
in the county Jail to work clearing of
the snow between the Jail and the court
house where the gallows for LIE Beau is
to be erected. The work OF putting up
the enclosure and gallows will be COM
menced as soon as the sheriff returns
from Helena, which will be the earlier
part of next week.-Inter Lake.
Considerable quantities of dressed meat
are being shipped from here this winter
over territory reaching from Troy OF
the west end and Trego Oh the east. The
Warland Lumber company and Baker
Bros. the Trego lumber firm, are among
the larger consumers. The logging OPP
erations are now in full swing all ovel
this section, with large crews at work.
Tobacco Plains Journal.
Word comes from Camp No. that 1
lumberjack by the name OF Henr.
McGovern took a couple of dogs to thu
camp last week, and while sitting by tin
engine used to pull logs up the hill