Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-06-06
MONTANA BRIEFS

rails owing to high water.
No serious damage has resulted yet
from the high water in Flathead lake.
The lake is the highest it has been
since 1908.
The body of Patrick Kennedy, the
miner who was killed at the Stewart
mine in the Occur d'Alenes, will be
shipped to Ashland, Wis, for inter
ment.
Two new banks have been estab-
hshed at Circle, Mont, the First State
bank and the Circle State bank, each
of which will be capitalized at $4,000.
They are now preparing to open for
business.
When an old trunk which has been
in a mill at Marysville for years was
opened recently 1T was found to con-
tain the badly decomposed body of a
human being, whether a man or wo-
man could not be told.
Officials of the federal bureau of
fisheries are investigating a trout
taken by the Indians in Iceberg lake,
in Glacier National park, which never
has been known to exist outside the
icy waters of the polar seas.
The steel bridge across the Kootenai
river at Rexford collapsed Sunday and
is a wreck, caused by the water under
mining a pier in the middle of the
stream. The bridge had two spans
and was erected last year at a cost of
$4,000.
Flathead bison reserve is located
on the Flathead Indian reservation
and consits of $4,000 acres of land,
which is in every way adapted to the
buffalo and his needs. The Flathead
reservation lies about rs miles north
west of Missoula.
The attorney general advises the
public service commissioners that the
law Of Montana forbids the c~onsolida-
ton of two competing telephone com
panies in the state, and, therefore, the
request of the citizens of Hamilton for
such consolidation can not be consid.
cred.
Lieutenant Governor Mcdowell, who
is acting governor during the absence
from the state of Governor Stewart,
has offered a reward of $4,000 on be.
half of The state for the arrest and con.
viction of the murderers of Harry
Drum and Ted Thomas at Butte last
month.
The eight-hour law with reference to
hosting engineers in mines applies
only to such plants as are incontinuous
operation 16 or more hours in "a OF
each day, or at any mines where a
hosting engine develops Is or more
horsepower, or at or in n mine
where there are Is or more men EN-
ployed underground in "a hours OF
each day.
The Kalispel land office has re.
ceived formal notice of transfer from
the Helena land district to the Kalis.
pell land district of lands within the
Blackfeet Indian reservation and other
lands lying west of the continental di.
vide and north of the Missoula land
district boundary. The transfer of
records and archives must be complet.
ed by July 1.
William Wallace McCracken, soldier
pioneer, banker, died suddenly Satur-
day morning at his home in Hamilton,
having been taken i'll but a few min
utes before while seated at his desk
in the Ravalli County bank, of which
he was president. Mr.. McCrackin
was well known throughout all Mon
tana. He served several years as
mayor of Hamilton.
Because lands which now comprise
a state game preserve were surveyed
instead of lands for settlement, out of
moneys which, it is claimed, were to
have been expended entirely by the
general land office for the survey of
the latter lands, settlers in eastern
Montana are having no end of trou-
BILE. They can not fence nor pillow, as
they do not know the boundary lines
of their claims.
e. A. Kenney, Spokane, knew Gen
eral Thomas Francis Meagher, one
time governor of Montana, whose mys-
FERROUS death in the Missouri river
at Fort Benton was supposed to have
been explained by a confession of a
prisoner in Missoula recently. Mr..
Kenney served in the civil war in the
same brigade that Meagher's brigade
fought with, and places no credence
in the theory that Meagher was muir.
dered.
f. Augustus Heinze won a suit in
New York brought against him by the
state superintendent of banks to re.
cover 100000 on loans made to him
by the defunct Union Bank of Brook
Ign. HeinZe made a counter claim fol
money he said he had lost because the
bank failed to follow his orders to sell
collateral he had deposited as security
for his notes. A jury in the supreme
court gave Heilze a judgment fol-
$149, 1926.
SECRETARY BRYAN USES
ORNATE SEAI