Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-12-11
MONTANA SQUIBS

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city hall at Dillon.
The state board of met
at Helena Monday to v the vote
cast at the election last month.
Clyde Park will follow other cities
of the state in the adoption of an
open-air municipal Christmas tree.
The sale Saturday of $15O,O0O Hill
county %refunding bonds, at Havre,
Mont, to a Spokane firm is reported.
Due to an epidemic of scarlet fever
in and about Malta, the public schools
of that place have been closed indef-
initely.
Efforts are being made in and
around Choteau to arouse interest in
a movement for the securing of a
beet sugar factory.
An orchestra has been organized at
the Philipsburg high school for the
purpose of furnishing music for their
entertainments and social functions
The Granite County Mill and Ele-
vator company will start the mill in
Philipsburg within the next few days
under the management of B. F. Thurs,
ton.
In keeping with it's policy of re-
trenchment, recently begun, the North
ern Pacific has reduced the size of it's
force of employees in Glendive by 80
per cent.
A. A. Coulter, a machinist, was shot
and killed at an early hour Sunday
morning at Great Falls in a revolver
duel with a highwayman while on his
way to his room. Each fired two
shots.
The latest move made by County
Attorney Slattery at Glendive in the
case of the state against Benjamin
Harry and others, charged with the
murder of F. A. Garinger, was the ar
rest of Mrs. Lillian Stollard, daughter
of Benjamin Harry.
Some members of the state board of
education are in favor of electing a
chancellor to take charge of the state
university, the agricultural college
and the normal school. Others who
are in favor of actual consolidation OF
institutions are opposed.
The statement filed by E.. e. Essel
styn, secretary of the republican state
committee, shows that the committee
' spent $11,813 in the recent campaign
r and that it collected for the campaign
from "A subscribers a total of $11,999
The largest subscription was that O.
T. A. NARROW, $1,250.
Change of venue was granted by
District Judge Michael Donlan in the
cases of members of the Butte Mine
! Workers union who are charged witt
kidnapping members of the Western
Federation of Miners an dthe trials
of four will be held at Bozeman, where
the court, with a jury, is in session.
While travelling at a fair rate O
d speed the Havre local passenger
train, which left Great Falls Saturday
afternoon, was wrecked a mile west o
Virgelle. From some cause unknown
the smoker and day coach left thu
rails and were hurled to one side. Sew
eral passengers were slightly injured
Mystery that has surrounded thu
secret purchase of hundreds OF acre
of valuable land near Laurel, 16 mile
west of Billings, within the last fey
weeks, has been cleared by i. j.
Moss, a Billings capitalist, who an
chat he uror thn hIIYy0p an
that he proposes to build a model II
dustrial city similar to Gary, Ind.
Proceedings have been begun againe
Frank Haynes, who was sent from II
ton county for five years for forger
and escaped from a road camp in Ga
latin county; William McWhirr, ser
from Beaverhead county for thre
years for forgery and escaped from
road camp in Deer Lodge county, an
James Reagan, sent to prison for thre
years for grand larceny and escape
from a road camp in Gallatin count,
In connection with the proposed CIR
\ alton of Phillips county from the ives
. ern part of Valley county and tn
6d5ISIu DdlI VI OdhSJ -
which an election will be held Fe
2, and in view of the fact that thel
are no party organizations within II
lines of the proposed county, it hs
Is been determined to hold a mass NEE
ne ing in Malta or December IL for TT
ch purpose of nominating candidates Il
county offices.
Dennis Herlihy, well known in pol
ical and liquor circles of the stat
M Monday was stabbed in the stomac
NY it is alleged, by Robert Connel,
IA friend, who became enraged when Il
two were wrestling in a Butte saloo
cn Herlihy sprang into the limelight dr
pe' ing martial law, when he refused
ve obey the proclamation to close S
;S- looms, and the troops wrecked b
place, pouring wine into the stree
lat Physicians hold out no hope for HI