The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1910-04-22

man for the agricultural train which
is soon to be run through the state.
| The registration for the late cleo
tion in Helena was over hundred
less than for the election there two
years ago.
On account of increase in business
the French-German hospital of Mis-
Isoula will erect new building, tt
cost about $4,000.
Several arrests and convictions
have been made in different parts OF
the state recently for the violation OF
fish and game laws.
A state association of commercial
club secretaries will probably he
formed at the time of the Good Roads
| Convention in Billings.
Ordinance was unexpectedly intro
duced into the Missoula city council
this week for the closing of Missoula
saloons on Sundays.
In the arrangements being made
for the Flauhead fair, to be held next
fall, is the attempt to get James 1.
Hill to speak at the fair.
The new stockyards being built by
the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget
Sound Railroad Company near Mis-
soula are almost finished.
The governor has offered reward
of $3.50 tor the arrest and conviction
of any person practicing fraud upon
incoming settlers.
Merchants of Great Falls have
taken action toward preventing the
nuisance imposed on them by solicita-
tions for subscriptions of all sorts.
Local contractors state that nine
teen new residences are to be con-
structed in Moore this summer, fact
significant of the growth of the town.
Postmaster's salary at Hamilton
has been raised from $1,000 year to
81, 800. G. G. Chain has been reap
pointed to the position of postmaster.
The Creeklyn ranch of the Wei
come estate in Madison county, IA
nous for it's pure bred Hereford cat
tie, is being converted into a sheep
| ranch.
Said to be the largest irrigation
project launched in the central part
of the state is that which is to be
made near FlatWilloW and MacDon-
aid creeks.
f. d. Linklettler, an experienced
orchard man, has been assigned to
special horticultural inspection work
in the Bitter Root Valley under Pro-
fessor M. L. Dean.
A fourth bank is to be organized in
Kalispell under state laws and will be
in operation in June. 1t is the fifth
new bank in Flathead county within
the present year.
Thomas S. Cummings, legislative
representative from Choteau county,
has rendered his resignation. AS no
session of the legislature will be held
before the next election no special
election will be called to fill the va
cancy.
The line of the Missoula Electric
Street Railway Company to Bonner
is completed. Work on the line in
the city is progressing rapidly. By
the end of May almost the entire sys-
tenn will be in operation.
DIR. John A. Walker has arrived in
the Bitter Root, where he will study
the spotted fever germ for the gov
eminent. DIR. Howard II. Ricketts,,
who has already made considerable
investigation concerning the fever,
will continue his studies in the Bitter
Root this summer.
Miss Kathryn Wilson, formerly a
resident of Helena and a graduate of
the University of Montana, and at
present vice-president of the Allen
Hynes Publishing Company of Spo-
kane, is the head of The Daily Inland
Herald of Spokane. She is the only
woman in the country holding such a
position.
Last March was the most remark
able on record in Gallatln county.
From records at the State College in
BoZeman it was determined that the
hottest March day with a tempera-
ture of 81 degrees and the highest
average mean temperature of the
month of 42.3 was had this year.
From forty to forty-five carloads of
immigrant goods have gone through
Kalispell on the Great Northern on
the way to the Flathead reservation.
1t is estimated that not less than
seventy-tiye heads of families are
represented in the shipments made by
the railroad i'm March