Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-06-13
MONTANA BRIEFS

The Glendive school bond election
occurs June 20.
Glacier park is to be opened for the
season June Is.
The Spokane and Montana territory
tariffs will go into effect August l.
w. D. Buzard of Bozeman on June 8
sheared in nine hours S72 sheep, the
worlds record.
BILLY" Mann, buyer, of Big Horn,
Wyo., is at Miles City seeking polo
horses for use in the east.
The official count for the first six
offices in the miners union election at
Butte shows the conservatives elected
all the officers.
A new orchestra to be known as the
Whitefish orchestra, has been organ
lied in that city under the leadership
of Amos Walters.
A huge development project, inVolv-
ing approximately 100000 acres of
land in the vicinity of Helena, has
been undertaken by a group of Spo-
kane capitalists.
Electrical workers employed by the
| street railway company al Butte have
been called out, and for the first time
in it's history the company finds itself
in a labor difficulty.
The Alaska ranch is one of the best
farms in the state. 1t comprises 1900
acres of irrigable land located near
Twin Bridges and was located by
Governor" Pollinger.
The Blackfeet and other Montana
Indian tribes may now refer claims
they hold against the federal govern
ment to the United States court Of
claims for determination.
Durward Shepard, a Great Northern
fireman who was hosting nights a
the roundhouse at Whitefish, wa
killed recently by being buried undo,
several tons of fine coal.
The story told by Frank damon
who was alleged to have confessed t.
the murder of former Governor Thorn
as Francis Meagher in 1865, has bee
found to be entirely unsubstantiate
by facts.
,, Eleven Northern Pacific engineer
have started out of Bozeman surveyin
: toward Logan, with the intention c
: laying out a route with an easier grad
: on which the Northern Pacific roa
westward may run.
The middle and south forks of tn
:. Flathead river are gradually subsiC
d ing, and although the north fork
still rising slowly, all danger of flooC
ing is believed to be passed unles
heavy rains ONE
: Max Fried of Butte, who recent
was adjudged guilty of contempt
court in connection with the whit
slavery charge against him in tt
federal court, was ordered to pay
b fine of $100 on each of three count
9 Montana's 1918 wool yield will reaC
about %, 900, 900 pounds, a falling O
of about 100000 pounds, a loss
n more than 16 per cent as compare
with the production of last year, a
cording to reports.
- The following is a list of the cou
/. ties which have appropriated mon
= for the San Francisco fair: Sherida
:, $500; Deer Lodge, $3.50; Jefferso
y $500; Beaverhead, $3.50; Lincoln, $50
- Fergus, $3.50; Custer, $3.50; Dawso
$3.50; Hill, 5000; Silver Bow, $1,000.
t. When Governor Stewart return
home from Salt Lake City, a meet,
of the state tax commission was he
D to frame rules and regulations tn
county assessors will be required
lie follow in the assessment Of banl
mortgages, money and solvent credi
a The Kalispel land office has
ceived formal notice of transfer fro
le the Helena land district to the Kal
S. pell land district of lands within t
"a Blackfeet Indian reservation and 9th
IL lands lying west of the continental
% vide and north of the Missoula la
IL district boundary. The transfer
records and archives must be compl
u ed by July 1.
III Protests against the increase of p
lie senger tariffs, effective July /, by
le Northern Pacific and Milwaukee FRI
d. points in Montana to points in w
ed consin, Illinois and eastern stat
I'd with a request that such traits
suspended pending an investigation
as their reasonableness, have been t
he warded to the interstate CONNER
he commission at Washington by
,al Montana railroad commission.
The law passed by the last legis
ture providing that before declar
a quarantine a veterinary shall exhi
ID, to the owner or person in charge
ed specimen of the parasite, under mic
scope or otherwise, for his inspectio
led has nothing to do with the pull
no range, and the livestock sanitary bo
has ample authority to compel the
al ping of range stock, under the pr
cionc Of caotipp 1000 of tha Paui