Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-08-08
MONTANA BRIEFS

The Miners Union picnic at Butte
occurs August Is.
The 1913 dates for the annual Lin
coin county fair, at Eureka, are Octo-
Der 1, 2, 8.
The Northern Pacific has completed
a survey of it's proposed line through
the Flathead country, it is stated.
With prices of copper, lead and sill
yer advancing, smiles are broadening
on faces of Montana ore producers.
John Merry. 81 years old, a Montana
pioneer, recently married, pleaded
guilty to a statutory offence with May
Cross, 26 years old.
AS a result of a war being waged on
restaurant owners in Butte relative to
the selling of impure milk, IL firms
were arrested last week.
Mrs. Nelson, prominent in Butte So
ciety, was held up Friday night by
two masked men in the street near
her home and robbed of $S5.
Little Margaret Green, the f~our-year-
old daughter of MI. and Mrs. George
F. Green, of Butte, is dead as a result
If burns she received while at play.
Claiming that he has been libeled by
his brother, George Wesley Davis
started suit at Butte against Andrew
J.. Davis, president of the First Ma
tional bank, asking for $4,000.
Two men tallying exactly with the
description of the Thornton hotel, Pa
cific, Greyhound and Duffy saloon
holdups at Butte recently, were arrest
ed in Deer Lodge or suspicion.
Escorted by a dozen Bozeman citi-
zens, Secretary Franklin K. Lane and
his party passed through Bozeman
Sunday in an automobile tour of the
Gallatin valley.
The Hill county bonding PROPOSE.
lions voted on Saturday show that the
courthouse bonds are defeated and the
roads and bridges improvement and
for the fund to take up county war
rants carried.
Judge John c. English, formerly Of
Anaconda, died recently at his ranch
near Goldendale, Wash. Judge Eng
lish had been suffering for some time
from diabetes.
The conversion Of Senator Thoma:
]. Walsh to the wool and sugar provi
sion of the Underwood tariff bill ha'
been so complete that his speech re
Gently in defense of the bill was re
ceived with delight by his party assc
~ciates.
Aliens who file petitions for natural
~ization based on declarations of inter
ton made under the old naturalization
law will find their petitions valid i
the majority of cases if the petition
are presented before September 81 c
this year.
In preparation for handling MOI
; ~tana's big grain crop this season
i State Grain Inspector j. E. Templeto
. has appointed one chief deputy inspe'
I tor and 10 deputy inspectors, who, III
q der his direction, will supervise tn
a handling, inspection, weighing an
storage of grain in Montana.
The last of the Beaverhead woo
9 four carloads, was Saturday shippe
from Dillon warehouse and this clear
up the clips for 1918. More than tW
million pounds of wool vas shippe
n from Beaverhead county this summ'
and while not as large as in the pr
vious two years, is a splendid shown
for the county. Almost all of the clil
S were sold outright at prices from
cents to Tx cents.
State Forester G. w. Jungberg Ri
deputized 225 forest rangers, forest.
officials, and employees of lumber col
10 panies as volunteer fire wardens
combat forest fires should they occu
Besides the volunteers, the state has
n fire protective agreement with Il
" North Montana Forestry associate
on a pro rata basis, for fire fightin
d and another agreement with the fore
i service by which the state and t.
service each contribute $4,000 to
fund used to defray the expenses
ar maintaining fire patrols on the watt
sheds of all navigable streams in Nc
~ tana, whether on forest reserves
mot.