Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-07-31
MONTANA BRIEFS

eral mercantile establishment at Glen.
dive Saturday.
Dominick Mcclure of Hamilton is
president of the Farmers Society of
Equity of the Bitter Root valley.
Beyond question the proposed county
of Wibaux will be created as result
of the special election on Aug. l.
UP to Saturday night nine candidates
for railway commissioner have filed
their statements with the secretary of
state.
The contract for the last section of
the cooperative Big Hole road at the
head Of the Bitter Root Valley was
let recently.
Directors of the Kendall Mining CO.
have declared dividend of cents a
share totaling 100000 on all stock of
the company.
The first regular meeting of the
newly organized fourth Montana dis.
trict of the Rebekah lodge was held
in Bozeman Saturday.
The body of a man found in the riv.
er at Spokane Is that of William Cass,
aged II, paperhanger, who lived at
Butte a number of years.
Official notice has been received Of
the expulsion of the Butte No. Al of
the Journeymen Plumbers associa-
ton by their international.
Several speakers of national reputa-
ton will address the Montana Bank.
ers' association at its annual conven.
ton in Butte. beginning August 10.
During one of the most severe cleo.
trical storms ever experienced at Liv.
ingston, the home Of John Everett, an
insurance agent, was badly damaged.
A panoramic view of Glacier Ma.
tional park, showing the characteristic
features of the landscape, has just
been issued by direction Of Secretary
Lane.
Charles Robinett, the young man
who killed a sheepherder known as
"Cayuse" Saturday in the Centennial
valley, gave himself up. The shoot.
ing was the result Of range fight.
With one-third of it's area Topped off
by the formation of Richland county,
Dawson made substantial gains in as.
sessments during the last IL months.
The total valuation is given as SILL
852,448.
Belief that oil in marketable guam.
titles exists in the Great Falls section
as well as in the Calgary district has
impelled spectators to activities in
the corraling of large tracts of land in
that vicinity.
Vernon Dunn, age %, motorcyclist
and machinist, was almost Instantly
killed Sunday afternoon and his COM
paniOn aboard his motorcycle, Miss
Sofie Shosser, age, 15, probably fatally
injured when Dunns' machine, travel
ing at a high rate of speed, struck .
horse attached to a vehicle ON a curve.
The horse was killed.
Latest news concerning the opening
Of the large tract Of land between Ju-
dlth Gap and Harlowton, which for
several years has been tied up by the
Carey act Is that 1t will be thrown
open for filing as homesteads within
the next few days Most Of the tract
has been sluatted on by homesteaders
since last fall and these people will
be given the preference in making i'll
ings, providing they have complied
with the law.
An account of an area of workable
coal recently examined by G. S. Rog-
ers of the United States geological
survey, in the northern part of Big
horn county, only 3 or 4 miles from
Waco station on the Northern Pacific
railway, has recently been published.
The coal-bearing area lies on Pine
Ridge. between the Yellowstone and
the Bighorn rivers, at the head Of Mis-
sion and Sorrel Horse creek, begin
ming about eight miles southeast Of
Custer and Gaping the ridge for six
miles. The coal is Of good subbitu.
minous grade, black and lustrous.
The final and most important bust
ness meeting of the Montana State
Press association was held at Lewis
town July Is. By unanimous vote, the
invitation of Billings to hold the con
vention in that city next year was &C
cepted. The following officers were
elected: j. R. Faulds. Stevensville
president; Walter Anderson, Red
Lodge, first vice president; Geo. H
Cade, Kalispell, second vice president;
H. B. Mitchell, Great Falls. treasurer
and S. E. Peterson, Moore, secretary
The republican editors formed a so
ciety to be known as the Republican
State Press club, with s. w. Teagarder
Of Forest Grove as president.
While insufficient capital is one
of the stock causes of failure EN-
ployed by the commercial agencies
there are many concerns who fall
short of success because they have