The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1910-12-27
SHORT BITS Of NEWS
OVER THE STATE
HAPPENINGS. HERE AND THERE
hLL OVER THE STATE OF
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t Sledges and snow shoes are used b.
| employees of the Great Falls Watel
Power and Townsite company wht
| keep the transmission line between
Great Falls and Butte in repair =. 1t is
also reported that skis and snow shoes
! are now in use in many parts of Idaho
and AiOntana instead of stages, it be.
ing easier and less expensive to carry
mail and supplies on them than to keer
the mountain roads open during the
winter
Report comes from Forsyth that
eastern Montana stockmen will en-
deavor to have some action taken by
the legislature to provide for doing
away with wild animals. Because of
scarcity of funds to pay for bounty on
wild animals but few have been killed
within the last three years and the
coyotes and wolves are doing increased
damage to live stock
1t is reported that when the new
dredge at Ruby, Madison county. is
completed that Montana will have the
biggest dredge in the world. The
dredge will be working in short
time. 1t is to cost $270.OOO, and will
work 5000 cubic yards of earth a day.
1T is $50. feet long, So feet wide. and
thirteen feet deep.
4 preserve the species of pronghorn
antelope which are dying off in the
Yellowstone park through disease epi-
demic among the herds there, Secle-.
tary Ballinger has issued orders to
have twenty of the antelope kept for
the government in National parks and
ten of the animals are to be sent to the
bison reserve on the Flathead reser
walton in this state
A mass meeting was held on the
open Flathead reservation of seventy +
four families residing in the valley be-
tween the Moiese townsite and Crow
creek recently. Better roads, schools,
and name for the vicinity were the
main matters under discussion. A
road committee was appointed.
j. d. Ball was arrested December
IL and brought to Great Falls charged
with dynamiting fish in the Judith
river. Ball pleaded guilty and was
lined 5000 by District Judge ]. B.
Leslie. Ball has been camping on the !
Judith river for several months ex-
amining mining claims.
AT the suggestion of President
Whiteside of the society. the matter of /
having the meeting of the State Horti-
society in Helena will be con-
'ldered. 1t is assumed that there would
De advantage to the association in hav-
ng its meeting of the state caDital
iurlng the session of the legislature.
The report of the biological survey
of the department of agriculture states
nat definite progress has been made
n the last year toward discovering the
cause of spotted fever in the Bitter
root valley and other parts of the
Rocky Mountain region.
Thirty-five children were brought in
special car from Fort Benton to
Great Falls Tuesday and placed in the
st. Thomas Orphans Home recently
by the Catholic church.
rhe children were from ten to three
years of age.
From statictics compiled by the
United States geological survey in CO.
operation with the census bureau it is
SHOWN that the total production of
coal in Montana during 1909 was g.
'53,94O short tons, valued at S5,O29,-
225.
According to statistics recently COM
piled by State Register F. H. Ray, the
of fire-killed timber in the
state this year amounts to 10000, 900
,eet The cost to the state as a result
of lighting fires was $15,S2S6O.
1t is rumored that John Ringling
Who has purchased a great deal of
in the vicinity of White Sui
ohur Springs intends to make that
place the winter quarters for his cir
Gus.
In the annual report of Secretary of
War Dickinson, it is shown that the
'emount depots at Fort Keogh, Mon
ana, and Fort Reno, Oklahoma, are
ioing satisfactory work.
The Boy Scouts has branch or
sanization now at Great Falls, being
there last week at the Pres
oyterian church with a membership of
.wenty.
The city council of Butte at a meet
ng Wednesday night went on record
IS favoring unanimously the commits
sion form of government for cities.
The Polleys lumber mill at Missoula
has been closed until spring because