Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-11-27
MONTANA BRIEFS


William Dorian, one of the pioneer
placer miners of the west, died recent
ly at Butte. aged 80.
The corner stone of Bozeman's $780,
900 Young Mems Christian association
building was laid Saturday.
Schools in Lewis and Clark county
are closed this week to allow teachers
to attend the meeting at Butte.
The government has thrown open
185,000 acres of land in western Mon
tana on the Crow Indian reservation
for homestead entry. 1t is stated that
75O.O acres of the Yakima reserva-
ton and an equal amount on the Col
Vile reserve will be opened next sum-
mer.
The federal quarantine against Mon
tana because of the foot and mouth
disease was Saturday modified, effect
i've this week, to permit live stock
shipments except from the counties of
Dawson and Custer. These are the
only infected areas in the state.
Michel Pablo, the wealthy Flathead
rancher, once known through the
country as 'the buffalo king" be-
cause of his ownership of the great
Flathead herd, left an estate when
he died recently at his ranch near
Roman valued at more than 100000.
The Rev. d. B. Price, who has been
a resident of Montana for 25 years,
has been elected assistant secretary
of the church extension board of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
and will leave the first of next year
for Louisville, KY, to assume his new
duties.
Contract has been entered into by
Miles City firm with a New York
| horse firm for the delivery of 10000
horses for a European government
within the next IL months. Repre-
d sentatives of European governments
e are busy buying horses in eastern
r Montana.
s. There was joy in university circles
" at Missoula Saturday when the wore
came that Governor Stewart had Civ
d en- official authority to the universit.
4 board to proceed with the expenditure
s of the $4,000 appropriated by the las
D. legislature for the erection of for
u estry building at the state university
One man is dead and another in
II dying condition in Billings hospita
c. as the result of an automobile acc
IL dent at Canyon creek bridge Saturda
a afternoon when a machine driven b
a b. Chapple, farmer of Joliet, left tn
roadway, turned turtle and crushe
Chapple and W. d. Parsons, Jolie
blacksmith, beneath it.
Five teams of six men each partic
~ pated Saturday at Billings in the frs
statewide competitive demonstrate
I'D of first-aid work in the history of tn
Oh state The tests included various il
OF juries to miners in their work, an
* first place went to team No. 1 of tn
n west side mine of the Northwest In
&c provement company of Red Lodge.
W. Montana appears to possess at Mile
~ City the only horse market in IL
"a. world which handles sufficient hors,
70 to supply the needs of the Europea
ev cavalry service. Buyers for the FrenC
government who have secured Il
,ir country and who have tried every OF
10 er market, including Chicago, S
To Louis and Omaha, finally gave up Il
m Job in despair till they came to Milk
City to complete a $250,O00 purchase
Michael ("Muckie , Mcdonald, pre-
Z" ident of the Butte Mine Workers u
ion at the time of the miners riots
tic Butte, Saturday was found guilty
kidnapping by jury here and his pu
e. ishment fixed by the court at ter
av of three years in the Deer Lodge pc
i'm itentiary. Joseph Bradley, vice pres
at dent of the Mine Workers union, all
at was convicted of kidnapping and h
on punishment fixed by the jury at fiji
re- years in the penitentiary.
on Frank Hazelbaker of Dillon has
au upon a novel way to advertise Mo
ca tana soil at the Panama-Pacific e
lc- position. He will assemble 100 Ii
TN of agricultural soil from each coun
ns in the state and ship the same to S;
le' Francisco as a part of the Montal
exhibit. A portion of the soil fro
each county will be displayed, viii
the rest will be used in making a mo
er ell Montana farm, where grain will
os- sown and shown actually growing. 4
nd endeavor viii be made to irrigate Il
en- small farm and conduct it exactly
Ill Montana grain farm is conducted.
in The examination of Frank Vogel
- the lands owned in Flathead and Ii
~ coin counties, Montana, by the b
10 Blackfoot company and julius Ne
us has been completed. 1t is stated tn
"o the examination was made for &
purpose of enabling the two compa
rk les to make exchanges of land, the c
lin ject being to eliminate as much
he possible waste in harvesting the til
Der and to bunch their holdings
much as possible. 1t is understo
this deal means another sawmill I