Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-04-17
MONTANA BRIEFS


periodicals is THE Knocker'
The Broadwater Hotel at Helena
may be taken over by Butte capitalists
in near future.
K. l.. Sutton, the Great Falls at
torney was found guilty of forgery
at Fort Benton.
The lowest paid workmen in the
city of Butte at present are the en-
ployes of Uncle Sam
X H. Dixon of Hamilton has been
appointed publicity man for the North
Pacific Fruit Distributors.
Last Friday a train of 33 cars of
fat beef cattle were loaded at Red
Rock to go to Pacific coast.
Hundreds of Eagles from Butte and
Montana aeries Joined in the fifteenth
anniversary celebration at Butte We'd
nerday.
Edward Dugan is under arrest at
Gdendive on suspicion that he has
been circulating bogus gold coin
throughout the state.
The formal amalgamation of the
Gallatin Valley club and the Boze-
man Chamber of Commerce took place
Friday. The bar privilege has been
discontinued.
The supreme court holds that where
commissions adjust the Indebtedness
between new and lid counties they
must not take into consideration the
value of bridges.
The city council of Glendive has
sold the old building which has served
as the city hall to make room for the
$50 900 building which will be con
structed without delay.
Postal receipts at the Harlowton
pOstoffice for the year ended Jan.
showed an increase of $500, as com.
pared with the preceding year, $500
of business being done in 1918.
Excitement grows in the new oil
district in Sheep creek basin and an
additional 1000 acres of the land has
been taken up on the Big Muddy
making total af 5000 acres located
upon.
Mrs. Daniel Severns, who died re
Gently in San Francisco, came to Mon
tana in 1869 and lived with her sister
Mrs. James Shedd, at Sterling, Mont.
until 1870, and removed during tha
year to Washington Bar, Mont.
In the death of William H. Race
which occurred recently at the Ma
sonic home near Helena, there pass
ed, it is the believe, the only survive
) ganized the republican party at Ripon
Wis, in 1854.
Secretary of the Interior Lane, an
nounces he will send special repre-
sentative to the Crow reservation. t
investigate and report as to the advis
unallotted lands on that reservation
to white settlement.
. John M. Foster, one of Montana
4 best known pioneers, died recently q
t Chanute, Kan, where he was visitin
with relatives. He succumbed to
stroke of paralysis. Mr.. Foster fo
many years was identified with bus
ness life in Butte in pioneer days.
Arrangements have been made b
] the Glendive chamber of commerc
through Prof. M. l.. Wilson of tn
state agricultural college for tn
+ placing of an agricultural expert 1
Dawson county for the ensuing sun
mer for the purpose of instructing tn
farmers in methods of Oversize
farming.
Fort Benton.-Fritz Kollar, labo
er was shot and killed near Lone Ire,
! this county. Friday. The coroner
/. jury found that he came to his deaf
!, at the hands of Henry Straitmal
u Straitman gave himself up and is
custody He claims that deceased ha
threatened to kill him, and that b
:. shot in self-defense.
: Richard M. Wadams. one of the be.
known of the oldtimers of the stat
= and one of the first white children I
g come to what was then Montana te
ritory, died April IL at Lima of pne'
monia Wadams was brought to tn
territory by his parents in 1862; an
u his mother, heroine of the NeZ Perc
Indian war, survives him.
From an itinerant "cowpuncher," I
, ding the range in the Inland Empil
25 years ago, to one Of the most e.
/. tensive ranchmen in the northwes
r part owner of the famous Marcus Dal
stock farm in Centennial valley, Nom
. Is the record achieved by James
:. Kidwell, formerly of Walla Walla, no
maintaining his headquarters in Por
land
To head off a mistaken impressio
y that has gained currency over Il
state of Montana, that the dread di
a ease, spotted fever, is unusually pre-
II alent this year, the state board of ent
II mology has prepared the followir
statement:
ut is commonly reported in IL
state that spotted fever cases are mol