Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-25
MONTANA BRIEFS

The prompt opening of the state fair
at Helena Monday is the talk of the
state.
Montana Roman Catholics celebrat.
ed the silver jubilee of a bishop this
week at Helena.
James O'Mara, an old-timer, once
foreman of the Bluebird mine, Butte,
died recently aged 20.
The action of Governor Stewart in
sending troops to Butte has been com
mended in a formal way by the execu-
tive committee of the Helena CONNER.
cial club.
Three hundred dollars will be paid
for the arrest and conviction of the
murderer of John Roloff in Powell Co.,
last month, according to a proclama-
ton issued by Gov. Stewart.
Frightened to death in an automo-
bile accident was the fate of Mrs. Sa-
rah Hager, a pioneer of Missoula, who
died on the road near the McLay
ranch, not far from Lolo, Saturday.
]. ]. ("Scotty") Ferguson, as big
hearted a turfman as ever ran a sta
Bile in the western country and a
wealthy property owner in Seattle and
on other sound points died Saturday
in Butte.
Robert w. Rheinackle, 10 years old,
son of A. e. Rheinackle, a maehinist of
Spokane, was drowned Saturday in
Francis lake at Waller, 65 miles north
west of Great Falls, while trying to
sail on the lake in an old boat. The
body was recovered.
The reclamation service is asking
for proposals for the reconstruction of
the Dodson south canal at Dodson
bridge, Milk River project. The work
is situated On the South side of Milk
river, about-one and a half miles south
of Dodson. Bids will be opened at
Malta Oct. %.
Five suits for damages ~aggregating
$147, 1880, the result of the dynamit-
ing of the Butte Miners Union hall on
June 13 and June %, have been filed
against the city of Butte. The largest
of the claims is that of the Butte Mi
ners' union for $140, 791. James e.
Murray m next with a claim for
S. 1885,.
Five new postoffices have been es-
tablished in Montana, with postmast-
ers, as follows: Bracewell Summit,
Yellowstone county, Julia A. Wood
son; Hazel, Dawson county, Jessie
Smith; Nelson Cook, Dawson county,
Louis HAYES; Smoky Butte, Dawson
county, Sarroll J.. Taylor; Saltwater,
saltwater county, Joseph 1. Rainville.
Despondent because Of ill health,
Charles King, for 33 years a rancher
in the Yellowstone valley, recently
shot himself in the head and died in
stantly. He retired from farming sew
eral years ago and was living in a no
tel at Laurel, where his death occur
red. His only living relative is a son
whose whereabouts are unknown. He
was about 70 years old.
The annual state convention of the
of the American Revolution
be held at Bozeman on Thursday,
Oct. 1. On Friday Oct. 2, the conven
ton will adjourn to the town of Three
at the headwaters of the Mis-
souri, river, to dedicate a monument
and bronze tablet to the memory of
Sacajawea, the Indian woman who
the Lewis and Clark expedition
past that very spot more than 100
years ago.
An oral order was entered by the
supreme court Monday dismissing the
applications of Muckie Mcdonald, o.
Smith, Joseph Bradley, D. w. Malone,
Ed. Ross and James Chapman for
of habeas corpus to secure their
release from Jail in Butte, where they
are held by the military authorities.
The order, however, gives the petit
the right of renewing the ap-
plication, if at the end of 80 days they
have not been turned over to the civil
authorities and it is then made to ap-
pear the district court is able to exc
cute it's process.