Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-01-23
MONTANA BRIEFS


Katie Day. wife of Harry Day, at
Butte drank quantity of wood alco-
hol with fatal result Sunday.
William r. Patterson of Salt Lake
suicide in the tenderloin |
district of Anaconda recently.
There is much comment in the Bit.
ter Root over the hasty burial of the
last survivor of the Fairweather party
Livingston Saturday voted in favor
Of an issue Of $4,000 to be used in
a new city school build
ing.
D. w. Raymond, secretary of the
board of stock commissioners, says
there is no immediate relief from high
prices of meats.
During three months the white
plague exterminated the whole of the
Thomas family at Butte, consisting of
three brothers
]. T. Gunniss, superintendent Of the
brickmaking department of the Ana
conda Copper Mining company, died
recently from a paralytic stroke.
With typical southern California
weather throughout Montana there is
no reason why the state should be
without a winter health and pleasure
resort
The city of Helena has appealed
from the recent order of the public
service commission adjusting rates for
electricity in Helena to the district
court.
1t is proposed to make the road now
leading through from Butte to Helena
by way of Elk Park and Boulder a first
class highway SO that traffic may be
maintained the year around.
Mary E. Larson of Boulder, daugh-
ter Of wealthy farmer, a student in
the agricultural college, committed
suicide Sunday by hanging, as q re-
suit apparently of overstudy.
The handsome $4,000 normal col
lege training school is now completed
in Dillon, ready for occupancy. The
seats and furnishings and fixtures will
be installed and the pupils in the build
ing by the first of February.
Mrs. Rose A. Vadnais of Butte will
receive an allowance of 500 a month
from her husband Polydor Vadnais
pending the hearing of the divorce &C
ton in which the plaintiff asks $100,
900 Of her husbands alleged $225,00C
estate.
| The state railroad commission
has granted a rehearing in the distrib
uting rate case and suspended for 2(
days the new schedule Of rates which
all railroads operating in Montana had
been ordered to put into effect last
Monday.
The reclamation service has awarded
a contract to a Portland firm for the
construction work and the erection Of
structures on the Pishkum reservoir
the supply canal and the Sun river
slope canal. The contract price II
$242,975.
Giving as reason the reduced sugar
tariff, the Great Western Sugar com
pany of Denver has notified Montana
sugar beet growers of a minimum cut
of 25 cents per ton for beets and of 81
to 80 cents in the graduated scale fol
per cent of sugar content.
Having his perfectly healthy and
strong leg cut open and slice OF
bone two inches long extracted to be
used in piecing together the bullet
shattered frame of his right arm, was
the unusual operation performed or
John Liebe at Butte recently.
The Montana railroad commission
ers have filed with the interstate com
merce commission a complaint asking
for lower rates on corn, rye, oats
wheat, flaxseed and millet seed, car
loads, from Montana to st. Paul, Min
neapolis, Duluth, Seattle, Tacoma ant
Portland.
The Butte Miners union January II
wired another donation of $4,000 tt
the relief of the striking copper miners
of the Michigan fields. This makes
total of $4,000 sent to Michigan b,
the miners union of Butte alone
Funds sent by other local unions swell
the total sent from Butte to $lOS,Ooo
Whether Montana shall be repre-
scented at the San Diego fair as wei
as at the San Francisco exposition
next year will be decided by an exec
utive commission consisting OF DAVE
Hilger of I.ewistown, F. A. Hazelbake
of Dillon and F. s. Luck of Missoula
with full powers by the board OF ex
position commissioners.
A double killing occurred at rom
pey's Pillar in the eastern end OF Vel
lowstone county, Sunday night, as tn
result of quarrel over cedar post
which. it is said, had been stolen iron
Crow reservation land. f. F. Gately
stockman and owner OF severa
ranches, is said to have fired the hrs
shot at Ed Williams, a cowboy en-