Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-06-20
MONTANA BRIEFS

Butte is the horne of Sheepshearers'
Union of North America Nc. /.
The Dawson County Fair association
has issued its premium list for the fair
and racing events scheduled for Sep
TENDER IL, Is and 10.
At a recent meeting of the executive
committee of the state teachers asso-
citation it was decided to hold the an
nual meeting Thanksgiving week, in
stead of Christmas week.
The state central committee Of the
socialist party this week will take up
the charges against the Butte local
preferred by the conservatives in an
effort to have the charter revoked.
Montana's 1913 wool yield will
reach about rs, ZOO, 900 pounds, a fall
ing off Of about 5000, 900 pounds, a
loss of more than 16 per cent as COM
pared with the production of last year.
The Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany will pay taxes this year on SILL
446, 90l net profits as against $685.
729 in 1912, an increase of nearly
$1,000, 900, according to the annual re-
port.
The law passed by the last legisla-
ture permitting electors to secure GER
t~ificates of registration from the coun-
ty clerk and on the presentation of
these to vote in any precinct in the
o0,,,+,. ~. hoa~ l1o1onoj rpnancfif,,
tional.
Former Senator George Turner of
Spokane has disposed OF his coal rail
road in Montana to ]. H. GARNER OF
Clarke county, Wash, for $4,000, ac-
| cepting a loss of $112,500 over what
the line first cost. The road was built
20 years ago.
Hereafter no prison labor will be
furnished for any highway which is
not a designated state highway; that
all applications for prison labor be re.
ferred to the Montana highway com.
mission for assignment and that all
rules and regulations of said commits,
sion.
1t is a settled fact that the officers
of a corporation may lend money tC
the corporation for legal purposes, anC
hold and enforce their claims for re
payment, provided, however, they act
in good faith and do not obtain an ad
vantage to the detriment of the Other
stockholders.-So says the supreme
court.
The state board of education has
adopted the recommendation of Mr.
Craighead for the establishment of q
domestic science department at the
university and for the addition to the
faculty of teachers in public speaking
physical training and English. The
heads of all the state institutions were
reelected.
The board of county commissioner!
at Forsyth have designated the mail
highway as beginning at Hathawa!
and running westward through Joppa
Rosebud, Forsyth, Howard, Sanders
Hysham and Myers, and then crossing
the Yellowstone river and following
the present Pease bottom road to thu
Yellowstone county line.
The tsate dental society, in session
at Butte last week, selected Grea'
Falls as the next convention city 'anC
elected the following: Bernard J
keenan, of Butte, president; G.. L. Bish
op of Anaconda, vice president; Franz
Wadhams of Billings, secretary, and S
H. Chase of Great Falls, treasurer
The society decided to become a con
stituent society in the National Denta
association.
State Engineer Mahon has received
word from the department of the in
| terror that the Little Missouri project
comprising about $1,000 acres of Care,
land in Custer county, had been az
proved. The company, which will re
claim the lands, will Immediately ente
into a contract with the land act boar,
> for the construction work. 1t is est
mated that the land will accommodate
300 families, or in the n~eighborhood o
1900 people.
t To guard against the introduction 0
} the alfalfa weevil into Montana Gov
ernor Stewart has issued a proclama
. ton declaring a quarantine against a.
: of the state of Utah; Dear Lake, One.
/ da and aBnnock counties in Idaho; an
Uinta and Lincoln counties in Wye
ming, prohibiting the importation c
alfalfa and forage crops of all kinds