The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-16

mounted infantry officers of the army
have been ordered by the war depart
ment to various points in Montana to
prepare data for the Progressive mill
tary map of the United States.
Second Lieutenant Max r. Waner
of the Twenty eighth infantry will
be stationed at Hinsdale on the Great
Northern railway; Second Lieutenant
Keith S. Gregory, Sixth infantry, at
Pompey Pillar on the Northern Pa
cific; First Lieutenant Herman Glade,
Sixth infantry, at saltwater. on the
Northern Pacific; Second Lieutenant
William F. l.. Simpson, Sixth in
fantry, at Lincoln, thirty miles north-
east of Drummond, on the Northern
Pacific, and Second Lieutenant
Charles S. Caffery, Second infantry
at Adair. fifteen miles northwest of
Bolton on the Great Northern.
They will be accompanied by order
lies and transportation and camp
equipage, quarters for the former be-
ing hired.
Private William j. Partridge, COM
pany l., Second infantry. was re-
Gently tried by court martial at Fort
Assnnboine, for forging checks of
the officers at the fort at Havre last
December and January. The checks
We're eight in number, and We're for
the sums of $1035, IS, 49, $120. 1925,
$10.35 and 1926, and one being an
t'ortler for whatever he wanted" on
the post exchange at the fort on the
order Of General Edgerly. A deser-
ton charge was also against him. he
quitting the fort on January 2, being
captured on the 9Th at Havre. Of the
twelve counts against him he was
found guilty of seven of them, and
the court ordered his dishonorable
discharge from the service and i'm
prsonment for two years.
Private Eddie l.. Mott, company M,
Sixth infantry, at Fort Missoula;
Private John e. Carmelich, Fort AS
sinniboine, and Musician Henry Nit
chell, Fort Harrison, have been de-
tailed to take course of instruction
as cooks at Fort Riley, Kanas.
Private Carl J. Meers. company M,
Second infantry, has been fined $50
by a Fort Assiniboine court martial
for leaving his post as a sentinel
without being relieved.
Another Assiniboine court has dis
honoraby discharged from the army
and sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment Private R. K. Orr for alb
sence without leave and resisting an
officer It also fined Private Ellerson
W. Daulton $40 and imprisoned him
for three months for drunkenness and
absence from drill
dents in Fergus county, Congressman
Pray has interested the department
of agriculture in the matter Of resist
ing the ravages Of a pine bark beetle
which is damaging trees in the
Snowy Mountain forest In calling
the matter to the attention of the
department, Mr.. Pray presented petit
tons from Fergus county CONNER
cia clubs and others for assistance in
destroying the beetle which bores
holes through the trees. The depart
ment will thoroughly investigate the
matter.
Representative Pray has secured
from the war department the allot-
ment of $4,000 for snagging opera
tons and the construction of bikes
and revetments on the Missouri river
from Sioux City to Fort Benton, and
has asked for $4,000 additional for
dixie and revetment work from
Kansas City to Sioux City. He
has also requested the war depart
ment to permanently station an en-
gineer officer in charge of river and
harbor work on the upper Missouri
at Sioux City. Last week the depart
10 enc oh NJ
City to begin operations on the Mis-
souri, upward. The department, at
Mr.. Pray's request, will very likely
send an estimate to congress next
winter for improvements to the river
at Fort Benton and Judith.
The elimination of national forest
lands along the Kootenai river from
the new Lincoln county has been re-
uuested of the interior Department by
Representative Pray and the matter
taken under advisement by the for
ester in whose hands have been
placed petitions from the residents
along the river asking for the elimin-
alton.
Star postal routes have been or
dered Immediately established in Mon
tana between the following points:
Alder to Virginia City, leaving each
point daily; Jocko to Arlee, daily;
Utica to Philbrook, daily.
Emil Richard of Butte paid his re-
spects to the Montana senators and
congressman last week, prior to sail
ing for Syria on Saturday to visit his
aged mother, who is not expected to
lopo r6'S
is a native Syrian, and Richard him
self was born in Beirut, going to
Montana Is years ago. Representative
Pray secured for Mr.. Richard pass
port from the state department to
Syria. Richard sailed Saturday for
IIavre on the American line, and will