Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-07-25
MONTANA BRIEFS

Harris & Co., bankers, are edecting
a new $4,000 bank building at Dayton.
The Montana State Association of
Nurses was in session at Butte this
week.
Big automobile display is latest fea-
ture planned for the state fair Septem-
Der 90 to 27.
Thomas A. Morrin, an old-time resi-
dent of Butte, died recently at Stamp
ing Ground, KY.
Jacob Teeters, aged IS, one of the
best known and most interesting char
acters of the western part of the state,
dropped dead Saturday at Stonehill.
Sunday a special train took the Dill
Ion several hundred excursionists from
Salmon, Idaho, together with the Sal
mon band, for the annual baseball con-
test.
William Mcdonald, the second rail
way grader to appear in the district
court at Lewiston, charged with dyna-
hitting fish, pleaded guilty and Judge
WV al lh1pOoCu q lAAC VI ptuO.
Robert Halliday, aged 70, a sheep
herder in the employ of the Blair-Pen-
we'll Ranch company, was found dead
in his tent Monday 20 miles from Boze-
man, near the Flathead forest ranger
station.
More than 10000 harvest hands are
wanted between now and August Is on
the farms of Montana, North Dakota
and Minnesota. Montana alone wants
220O men at wages varying from $1.75
to SO a day.
The Thornton hotel at Butte was
held up at 8 o'clock Monday morning
by a lone unmasked robber, who Sc
cured $1,000 in cash from the clerk and
escaped. The hotel is 200 feet from
the central police station.
]. S. Stressenger, a Boston wool buy
er, bought about 100000 pounds of
wool at Lewistown, Mont, Tuesday,
the price ranging from Is to TN
cents. These are the first sales made
in Fergus county this year.
Two lives were sacrificed Saturday
night in an automobile accident two
miles west of Missoula. The dead: c..
G. Hill, a young woman of Missoula,
aged 20; Earl Waugh of Bonner, a sub
urb, a Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
brakeman.
From all over Montana and from
northern Wyoming, the Christian En-
deavorers will gather in Bozeman July
20, 80, 81 and August 1 for the seven
teenth annual convention of the Mon
tana and Northern Wyoming Christian
Endeavor union.
Claudius E. Toole, a pioneer cattle
and sheep man of Montana, died at
Helena Saturday at the home of his
brother, former Governor Joseph X.
Toole, at the age of 70 years. He first
came to the state in 1866. He is sur
vived by his wife and three children;
also two brothers.
]. Duffy, one of the wealthiest stock
men around Judith Gap, with much
land in the Snowy mountain district
and banking and mercantile interests,
vas shot and instantly killed Monday
by L.. S. Mclaughlin, a neighbor, fol
lowing an alteration in the latter's
house over the ~pasturing of stock. Nc
Laughlin is under arrest.
Sixteen lodges, with a total mem
bership of 1000, were represented by
the 60 delegates present at the meet
ing during last week at Anaconda of
the state convention of the Order of
Vasa. President Ludwig Rose of
Butte presided. After tr%ansacting the
routine business the convention in
dorsed the movement for the construc-
ton of a monument to John Ericsson
at Washington, D. G..
Frank Busta, a N. P. freight brake
man, was roughly handled recently by
hoboes, who held him up and took his
shoes, watch and a small amount of
money, a revolver being flashed in his
face. Shortly afterward they attempt
ed to make Busta jump from the train
and upon his refusal to do so he was
shot in the left cheek, the bullet pass
ing through the flesh. The holdups
again started after him and he dropped
from the train when about two miles
west of Hysham, injuring his arm.
A sale of IS million feet of govern
ment timber from the Flathead ma
tional forest of Montana is announced
by the forest service. The Somers
Lumber Co. of Somers, Mont, was the
buyer. The contract approved by
Chief Forester Graves runs four years.
The area specified includes $3.50 acres
in the Swan river and Swan lake wa
tershed, about so miles north of Mis-
soula, Mont. Larch, spruce, white
pine, Douglas fir, yellow pine, and ce-
.ar are all represented in the saw tim
Der woods, and cedar poles, piling and
kindred products are mentioned by
the terms of the sale. For saw timber
of all species the government gets So
thousand feet, board measure, 81 per
hundred for 7-foot posts, 2 cents per
linear foot for piling, and from Is
cents to $3.50 apiece for cedar poles,
according to size.