Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-05-22
MONTANA BRIEFS

roads day in Flathead county.
After drinking three ounces of car
bolic acid, George HI. Griner, a ditch
worker at a ranch neal Worden, soon
died.
Those engaged in the sheep business
in Powell county report that the lamb
crop is very good n conditions very
favorable.
Clarence White, "a years of age.
was struck by lightning and killed at
the Arnett ranch, near Windham, Sat,
urday night.
The Lewistown city council has
awarded the" contract for installing a
special lighting system in the business
district, the cost being $4,000.
In a dispute involving $3.50 Dee
C"Tex") Steward aged "a, shot and
killed Ell. Miller, his employee, at q
shoe shining stand in Butte Sunday.
The Mountain View is the latest
shaft of the Anaconda company's
mines in Butte to be closed for re.
pairs. The entire shaft is to be retim-
bered.
For a short time Saturday night fire
threatened to destroy the large ware.
house of the Granite Bi-Metallic Con.
solidated Mining company at Phillips.
burg, when it was hit by lightning.
James Miller, barely more than a
boy, was sentenced at Missoula to
serve five years in states prison by
Judge Duncan. He pleaded guilty to a
charge of attempter criminal assault
Business men of Great Falls to the
number of 1913 recently toured the
northern part of the state on a get-ac-
quainted trip and boosting for the
good roads congress-, which is to be
held in August.
At the request of people living along
the Missouri river slough between
Great Falls and Wolf Creek, in Mon
tana, the State Agricultural College
will wage a war of determination
against mosquitoes.
Prof. e. L. Currier, in charge of the
department of farm management at
the college, was married Monday to
Miss Bernice Chambers, a graduate
Of the music department of the Uni
versity Of Nebraska.
Sponsored by two of the most prom
inent merchants in Billings and bear
ing the signatures of a number of
women, petitions have been circulated
for the re-establishment of the re.
stricted district which was closed las
February.
The lowest bidder on the earthwork
of the auxiliary spillway channel and
north dixie Vandalia division dam,
opened at Malta recently was James
O'Conner of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
$25 5000. The work involves the exca-
walton of 10000 cubic yards of dirt.
Mrs. Mcclure, wife of Edgar Nc
Clure. a well-known mining man INT
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles D. Nc
Clure of st. Louis, Mo-, and Philips
burg, Mont, was shot in the forehead
recently while trying to prevent her
husband from ending his life a suicide.
Mcclure had grown respondent.
/ Fort George Wright, Spokane, is to
| be the scene of a mobilization of 1000
! troops, July "a to 81, inclusive. The
! troops in the encampment will include
the national guard of Montana, includ-
ing the infantry, cavalry, signal corps
:, and hospital corps, under the direct
command of Adjt. Gen. Phil Greenan
D of Montana.
: Former Senator George H. Stanton,
counsel for the executors of the late
+ w. G.. Conrad of Helena, has an
/ nounced that the appraisers have com
pleted their work of listing the Mon
tana property of the deceased, and
: that it amounted to 81, 555, $50. This is
simply the Montana property. Mr..
: Conrad held considerable property
! elsewhere.
That the natural resources of Mon
/ tana may be properly advertised
throughout the eastern states during
8 1915 to influence immigration, l.. J..
3 Bricker, general immigration agent of
the Northern Pacific railway, at Hell
. ena, has a series or special
cash premiums to be awarded in con-
. nection with the Montana state fair
this fall, September 81 to 26.
Over 100 special officers, detectives,
deputy sheriffs and ranchers secured
the mountains near Rexford for the
two train bandits, who, at 2 o'clock
Friday morning, held up the crack
|. Great Northern Oriental Limited. No
one was injured, although the robbers
fired many shots in an effort to fright
en- the passengers and crew. Little
D valuable loot was secured. This is
!: the fourth time trains have been held
up at the same spot.
The first shipment Of coal from the
Cottonwood Coal company's mines at
Windham has hean made. The Cot.