Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-10-02
MONTANA BRIEFS

now being shipped out of Madison
county, going largely to Chicago.
j. Whitman of Henry's lake was
arrested for killing elk in Montana
out of season and paid a fine of 500.
News has been received in Bozeman
that Mrs. Alec Wessitsh oil San Fran
cisco, formerly Miss Lois Patterson of
Bozeman, has developed into a grand
opera singer of great ability.
The seedgrowers of Montana have
gone on record as being opposed to
the workmen's compensation law as it
will be voted upon at the election this
fall under the initiative, in the belief
that it will affect the farmers of the
state.
While walking with his father at the
latter's ranch near Stonehill, Harold
Arthur Listoe, aged Is years, son of
Julius Listoe, was fatally shot in the
right shoulder by an accidental dis
charge of a rifle in the hands of his
father.
The twelfth annual Montana state
fair will go down in history as having
broken all previous records in the
number of visitors, the number of ex-
hibitors and the number of clear days.
The attendance was in excess of So
900. Last year it totaled 46,400.
The s~uffragettes of Montana Sep
TENDER rs marched in a monster pa
rade at Helena. 1t was a state wide af-
fair, every county in the state being
represented. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw,
the veteran woman's rights leader,
walked at the head Of the procession.
1t is reported that the Lauterbach
ranches located above Alder, together
with all the sheep, numbering 10000
head, have been sold to Dillon parties.
The price is said to have been in the
neighborhood of 100000. This is one
of the largest outfits in Southern Mon
tana.
Within a week or SO the contractors
will, it is reported, start the bore at
the 700-foot tunnel on the Great North
ern railway. This tunnel is a few miles
further east than what is known as the
"log tunnel" seven miles from Lew
istown, and in which the bench is now
being removed by a steamshovel. The
west face for the short tunnel has been
completed.
After having run amuck and burned
camp wagons and a sheep shed be.
longing to Walter Winnett, by whom
he was employed, w. S. Baldwin Sa.
turday morning wrote his will on the
rim of his hat and sent a bullet
through his heart. At the time, he
was hiding under a cut bank and was
surrounded by a party of men who
were closing in on him, reason evi
IDENTIFY returning to him in a measure
as in his will he left all his money
two horses, a homestead claim and his
dog to Mr.. Winnett.
Boys and Girls Winners.
Ralph Darlinton won the stat
championship in the boys potato con
test
Rex Wakefield of Forsyth won tn,
gold medal in the boys corr contest
Marie Walker Of Lewistown won tn,
gold medal in the girls sewing contest
These winners had each previousl,
won county championship in potat'
or corn growing or in sewing, ant
came to Helena as the guests of tn,
state fair, along with the champions o
other counties, with whom they wer,
competing for the state honors.
Governor Stewart presented tn
medals to the boys and girls.
In a Commercial Way.
G. e. Cothlin has purchased tn
Implement and feed business of Gu
lager at Chester.
The Ryegate Implement company a
tyegate has disposed of it's implemen
apartment to e. e. Goodspeed an
/. I. Bennett.
Dowdle & Hough have sold thei
Implement business at Bridger to {
". AIRY, who will add other lines an
ncrease the stock.
The Thompson Falls Mercantil
ompany at Thompson Falls is cree
J ng a large coal shed to facilitate tn
.andling of the fuel end of it's bus
less.
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