Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-21
MONTANA NEWS.

Announcement is made by the newly
chosen temporary officers of the White
fish and Poison Electric Railway COM
pany that Immediately it will put a
crew of engineers in the field to look
out a route for the proposed line north
and south through the Flathead valley.
More than 200 prominent citizens of
Milk River valley in northern Montana,
with President L. w. Hill of the Great
Northern, with a corps of his attorneys
and civil engineers, were in conference
recently regarding means for the early
completion of the Milk River irriga-
ton project. In event the necessary
money is not available from the recla-
nation fund, as now seems probable,
an offer will be made, if the govern
ment will step out of the way, for the
Great Northern to raise the money and
finish the work.
County Attorney J. C. Huntoon of
Lewistown has filed an information
charging Cyrus A. Spangler, well
known Forest Grove rancher and stock
grower, who killed Lawrence Boland re-
Gently, with the murder in the first de.
gree. Spangler refuses to give any ex.
PLANTATION.
Rocky Boy" renegade chief of
small band of Chippewa indians
given an allotment on the Blackfoot
reservation is to cut logs and work in
the woods this winter to pay for his
keep and that of his tribe. The agent
| tindinO bo oif .ol,
with food and clothes or with labor,
arranged with the Two Medicine Lum-
Der company, which has bought 1000
900 feet of timber from the Blackfoot
National forest, for "Rocky Boy" and
his nine men to do this work. The In
dams were around Helena for number
of years but being without work they
had fallen into poverty.
During last week President Hill of
the Great Northern railway was enter
tanned by Libby and Kalispell citizens.
With face, neck and shoulders terribly
burned and bits of flesh from her neck
to her waist falling from her body, Mrs.
Tim Lynch, fatally burned, screaming
with pain, ran from her home in Butte
Sunday morning and threw herself in
the snow. A moment before she had
saturated her clothes with coal oil and
touched match to her fimsy garments.
The cause of the terrible deed is said
to be domestic unhappiness. She died a
few hours later.
The annual report of the state rail-
road commission, recently made public,
shows that during the year there were
1877 fatalities and S6s cases where per-
sons were injured. Of the fatalities, Sc
were railroad employees and 81 other
than employees. OF the injured 7Og
were employees and 159 other than EN-.
ployes. In the year ended November
80 last railroad construction was com.
pleted as follows: Chicago, Milwau.
kee & Puget Sound, 319 miles; Gallatiu
Valley Electric, IS miles; Gilmore 4
Pittsburg, 35 miles; Great Northern
SO miles; Montana Western, 20 miles;
Northern Pacific, % miles.
A club of 100 eastern millionaires
has been formed with the object OF
establishing in. Montana the greatest
game preserve in the world. Walter
A. Wheeler of Philadelphia, one of the
leading spirits of the club, is now in
the west closing the deal for a great
tract of wild land near the Yellow.
stone park, which will include thou
sands of acres suitable for game of all
sorts.