Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-03-13
MONTANA BRIEFS
Lewfsto~n Elks elected W. F. shees

Lewistown Elks elected w. f. Shee-
han exalted ruler recently.
Half of the new slime concentrating
plant at the Washoe smelter will be
put in operation on March 10.
The reclamation projects which the
government has at present mapped
out in this state, amounts to $7,00O,O00.
DR.. o. G. Evans has been appointed |
county health officer by the board of
county commissioners sitting as
health board at Anaconda
Fourteen rural schools in Gallatin
county have made contributions to the
fund for an educational exhibit build
ing at the state fair grounds.
Initial steps toward organizing the
forces which will electrify the Milwau-
kee line between Three Forks and
Deer Lodge was taken in Butte Tues
day.
The unincorporated town of Absa-
rokee. with a population of only 200,
has a newly established elestric light
plduI CdPdbio VI oupPAyih6 po"Ci AN'
500 lamps.
Whitehall is taking on a metropoli-
tan appearance this spring, due to the
occupancy Of the new brick buildings
constructed on the sight of the fire
swept district.
If the members of the Ladies' aux
iliary to the North Side Progressive
league have their way there will be
no more spiked" punch served in pub
lie dance halls in Missoula.
Upon request, the Butte Anglers as
sociation will be furnished with the
names of all the streams where fish
ing can be had and other information
in regard to this community.
The death of William Bauer OF
Butte, whose body was found at Mini
doka, Idaho, recently, is reported. The
body was found in the open country
and had evidently laid there for two
months.
More than 500 farmers coming from
all parts of Flathead county and few
, from other counties assembled in Kali
ispell Saturday for the purpose of per
+ fecting farmers cooperative organ
; ization.
! win e. Coleman, we'll know
throughout Elkdom in the nortnwes
and one of the most prominent mem
bers of that order in Montana, die'
e March Z without knowing that he ha,
J. been elected exalted ruler of the Ana
0 conda lodge.
]. Fred Andrews has been awarde'
a contract to build a new fish ira
# on Flint creek. 1t will be an importan
t adjunct to the hatchery industry a
T Georgetown lake, where, at the mout
, of Stewart Mill creek, another ira
> is already located.
Work has been started on the Y.
# G. A. building to be erected in Helena
d 1t will be four stories, brick and col
|. crete used in the construction, the col
d tract price being $4,000. The built
a ing lis to be turned over by the col
tractors Dec. 20
@ Word has been received in Dillo
s from San Diego of the death of Kal
n Reidelsberger at that place recent,
n Mr.. Riedelsberger was we'll known a
s a violinist in Montana. having ha
charge of music departments at Dee
Lodge college and the Montana Stat
l. Normal college.
Il Lon l.. Guy, 6 feet 2 inches tall,
9 picturesque figure wherever he goe
! was extradited from Oregon to BUTT
then turned loose by the Silver Boz
county officers. He will be taken t
Sheridan, Wyo., by Sheriff Ross N
: Happ, who cashed one of Guys $40
checks and found the check not neg
table.
K At the concluding session of the SCI
! enteenth annual convention of tn
Montana Association of Master Plumb
ers at Great Falls Saturday the city {
+ Billings was selected for the meetin
: place in 1915; the date was left opel
w. M. Arnold of Butte, president
[. John Campbell of Butte, secretar.
e treasurer.
Completion of the mammoth Mil
s River irrigation project in this stat
r which was started several years ag
T. by the government, is now in sigh
Canals, distributing systems and dive
sion works will be completed in tn
: spring of 1915; the st. Mary storag
. works in 1916, and the first division {
|, the Sun river project, covering 1900
acres on the Greenfield bench in tim
o to deliver water in 1917.
Fifteen years, the limit under tn
- statutes, was the sentence pronounce
upon John Harrington, who was col
victed recently at Butte of burglar
in the first degree. Ten years was th
4. sentence pronounced upon Harrinl
y tons partner, John McCarville. JOSEF
n Esper, who stabbed a young Assyria
n girl because she was tired of Twin