Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
MONTANA BRIEFS

where they engaged in fighting foresI
fires.
Much anxiety is felt by relatives
and friends of Joseph Miller of Kali
spell, who mysteriously disappeared
while fishing in the Flathead river
The Rev. T. L. MeCutcheon, aged 6S
a Methodist minister of Troy. was
stabbed twice in the left wrist by a
negro woman, bent on robbery, after
a struggle at Spokane Sunday night.
AS a result of the work of James
BROWN, a student of the University of
Montana, and a former resident of
P~hilipsburg, five new students will at.
tend the university from there during
the coming year.
j. w. Whitfield of Livingston was
recently elected president for the e n
suing year by the Montana State Fun.
eral Directors association. The place
OF the next annual meeting was left
to the executive committee.
All members of the Montana state
guard who have not reported for duty
in Butte must do so at once or he
court-martialed, and it is expected
that rs members of the militia will
join their companies this week.
Judge John l.. Sloane a resident of
Missoula since 1877 and one of the
communities best-known and most
highly respected citizens, died at Sc
attic recently. Funeral was held at
Missoula the first of this week.
A special train carrying $50 passen-
gers from Dillon made a trip to Sal
mon City, Idaho, last Sunday, where
the day was spent in visiting with the
of that city and in seeing the
metropolis of Lemhi county, Idaho.
E. L. Sutton, convicted of forgery
last March in Montana and sentenced
to serve two years in the state peni-
tertiary, has been pardoned by the
state board of pardons. S~uttons's pc
tltion for clemency was signed by al
most every attorney in Great Falls.
Following his arrest at Great Falls
on suspicion of having passed forged
checks, John Anderson, 46 e old
claiming to have a family in Minneapo.
lis, has confessed to the forgery of
checks aggregating e $1,000, of
he succeeded in cashing $3.50
worth.
Col R. H. Wilson, Fourteenth in
fantry, U. S. A., has arrived at Helena.
from Fort Lawton near Seattle, to take
charge of the battalion temporarily
stationed at Fort William Henry Har-
Colonel Wilson was in COM
mand at Fort Harrison several years.
The military court established by
he National Guard of Montana since
law was declared September
at Butte because of threatened riots
attacked in a petition filed in the
United States district court for the re-.
on writs of habeas corpus of
,hree of the nine men arrested by the
troops.
While going to Lewistown from King
Bros ranch in an auto recently. the
'ar was overturned and w. e.. Wray.
employed at the farm, sustained a
ractured skull and is supposed to be
atally injured. Anton King, one of
he most prominent formers of Fergus
county, suffered conclusion of the
'rain, but will recover
n Judith Basin country is doing it's
ull share just 10Y toward keeping up
he worlds food supply. In addition
o large shipments of flour, some of it
,oing to the Orient, the Milwaukee
las carried out within ten days 800
ars of high-grade wheat, and the
rain is now coming into the elevators
a stream. With the high prices now
REVEALING, farmers are not disposed
0 hold on to their grain. Saturday o
rain load of sheep went wei the Mil
yankee for the Chicago market.
A movement to impeach Mayor
lewis j. Duncan of Butte and Sheriff
imothy Dricoll of Silver Bow county
Tas ~inaugurated Saturday, when
lajor Dan ]. Donohue, commander of
ne militia maintaining martial law,
citizens permission to have the
istrict court opened long enough to
lie a petition. The petition addressed
Judge ]. j. Lynch and signed by -
itizens asks that a grand jury be cali
q to investigate all officers in the city
county, and particularly Mayor
uncan and Sheriff Driscoll.
The state fair will make Helena a
lty of conventions, as during the
eek there will be many meetings
cid in the capital city. On Thursday
lie State Automobile association will
ave its yearly meeting and during {
lie course of the week there will be :
ceilings of the state farmers, swine
FEEDERS and poultry fanciers. The re- r
Ill druggists will have their state |
and the first meeting of the /
'unty agriculturists will also be held.
he antisuffragists will vie with the
lffragists, who will hold a big page