Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-11-13
MONTANA BRIEFS

The funeral of the late Mrs. M. ".
Nay, who died in Butte, was held at
Dillon Sunday.
The organizing of a Lewistown chap
ter of the American Red Cross society
took place Sunday.
George Kemp, one of the nine men
who broke out of the Silver Bow coun
ty Jail Oct. ID, has been returned to
the Butte Jail.
Lovers of the boxing game in Mon
tana are doing a lot of thinking now
over the defeating vote accorded the
Kiley boxing law.
1t will require the official count to
finally settle the controversy as to
whether Daniel Boyle or j. e. Nc
Cormick is elected railroad commits
sioner.
At the recent meeting of the Madi-
son and Beaverhead County Automo-
bile association Judge w. A. Clark of
Virginia City was elected president
of the association.
Alvin Swanson, aged 81, was acct
dentally killed Sunday by the dis
charge of his own gun, while hunting.
This is the third killing in Lincoln
county since the eason opened.
Bankers and mining men of the
northwest are shocked to hear of the
sudden death last week in Toronto
of ]. S. C. Fraser, manager of the
Bank of Montreal at Victoria, B. c.,
one Of the best known bankers in the
northwest.
The Royal Basin Mining and Mill
ing company are just in receipt of
their new water turbine and electric
motor, which completes the equip
ment necessary for the installation of
their new power plant under construc-
tion at Maxville.
Montana is intensely aroused over
the action of the British government
in Selling copper cargoes, and unless
the state department can remedy the
situation the absolute suspension of
the copper mining industry in Mon
tana is threatened.
Funeral services of the late F. Aug
ustus Heinze were held at the home
of his sister, Mrs. William M. Fleit-
man in New York Saturday. Mr..
Heinze's estate, estimated at $780,
900, will go to his ~2-year-old son, #.
Augustus Heinze, ia, his wife being
dead.
Governor Stewart has issued a quar-
antine proclamation prohibiting the
shipping into the state of live stock
of every description, or the movement
of live stock within the state unless
loaded through stockyards under the
supervision of federal or state inspec-
tors.
The Rev. James Zachary, who left
the pulpit some time ago and has been
residing on a homestead near Moore,
last week shot and killed Matthew
Hill, a Finlander. The shooting oc-
Cured near Winnifred. to which place
the clergyman walked and surrendered
himself. He claims self-defense.
A Heinze memorial association has
been formed at Butte and steps taken
to perpetuate the memory of Heinz,
in the mining camp for whose develop
ment he had done so much. A statue,
smelling laboratory and probably a
scholarship in the Montana School OF
Mines will be the means for honoring
Heinze's memory.
Showing an increase during the
month of October of $16,182, over the
preceding month, the postal savings
department of the Butte postoffice is
rapidly climbing into the topmost
places with cities of much greater
population. There were 2.538 accounts
opened last month and deposits were
made during the same time amount
ing to $53,752 and $37,570 was pait
out. The total balance to the credit
of the depositors TO- amounts II
$476,854. 1t is predicted that the
Butte office will have a credit amount
ing to half a million by the first O.
the year.