Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-07-04
MONTANA BRIEFS

CutDank mas reorganlZeu lts Son-
mercial club.
Only on%e-fifteenth of Montana's ara
BILE lands are in cultivation.
James Ward, aged about is years.
an old-time miner of Butte, died re-
Gently.
John d. Ryan predicts that Montana
is to become a gridiron of railways
mileage may double
w. F. Short was shot and instantly
killed at Malta recently during a quar-
rel with an unknown man, who es-
capped.
Over 5000 Indians gathered at
Browning for the annual Fourth of
July celebration. For years this has
been a big event.
Addison Taylor, the Denton %rancher,
whose body was found lying in the
field at the Horse Shoe Bar ranch
with the throat cut, committed sui
eide.
A petition for a %rehearing in the suit
of the Montana Water company
against the city of Billings, applied for
by the plaintiff, has been denied by
Judge B%ourquin.
The postoffice at Medicine Lodge,
on the Gilmore & Pittsburg railroad,
20 miles southeast of Dillon, was bur-
glarized recently and $40 in silver and
two checks for $23.50 and IS yer
stolen.
Miners in the vicinity of Mill Creek,
Madison county, are elated over the
activity of the forestry service, which
is now building a road from Sheridan
to the head of Mill creek near Bran
ham lakes.
The finest mausoleum west of the
Mississippi river will be erected in the
cemetery at Helena by Col. Thomas
Cruise. 1t will cost 100000, will con
tain several crypes and will stand 43
feet above grade.
The statue of the late Col. w. F.
Sanders arranged for by the Sanders
Memorial association and later by the
Sanders Memorial commission, was
placed in the rotunda of the capitol
building recently.
To every music lover in Montana is
being mailed a copy of the states Off,
cial song dedicated to the people OF
Montana and entitled My Treasure
State" says A. j. B~eitenstein, secre
tary of the big state fair.
H. b. Jacques, who January 16 last
imported Catherine Conwell from Cal
gary TO Great Falls for immoral pur
poses, deserving her a little later in
Butte when she told him she would
starye before becoming a sporting wo
man, pleaded guilty at Helena and was
/ sentenced to serve a veal and a day in
Leayenworth, to pay a fine of 5000 and
costs.
In 1912 the Montana acreage in win
ter wheat was $4,000, the average
yield per acre Z4.5 bushels, the pro
duction 1883, 900 bushels of the value
December l, 1912, of S7,44S,OO0. The
acreage of spring wheat in 1912 was
32S, 600, the average yield per acre 23.;
bushels, and the production 7,70S, 00t
bushels of the value December l, 1912
OF $4,933, 900.
The opening of the Blackfeet Indian
reservation this year may be delayed
Indefinitely by an amendment to tht
statute which was introduced by Sen
ator Myers and adopted by the senate
The amendment was made at the re
quest of Secretary Lane. The amend
ment provides that the minimum pric,
of the land be changed from S1.25 pc.
acre to $3.50, and also that all land
bearing coal, oil OF valuable mineral
be reserved.
j. M. Kennedy, secretary Of the com
mission to devise ways and means L
raise funds for a suitable Montana dis
play at the California exposition, re
ports that of the 5000 asked OF tn,
counties $3.50 has been appropriated
$4,000 has been informally promised
$4,000 has received favorable consid
GRAFTON, no action has been taken o.
$500 and only $500 has been refused
Cascade, Gallatin, Musselshell an
Valley counties not acting as yet. Tn
commission decided not to erect
Montana building, but will engag
space in the different exposition builC
ings in which to display the Montan
exhibits. The exhibits will be Assem-
bled in Helena.