Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-05-29
MONTANA BRIEFS

Bozeman men have voted at a pub
lie mass meeting to GUST the Home
telephone.
Rudolph L~aunderville, 81 years old,
and for 81 years a resident of Anacon-
da, died there Sunday.
Predictions of sheepmen throughout
the state as well as from official re
ports, indicate a big crop of lambs
this
John l.. Murphy, banker, mining
man and rancher, whose business ca
reel in Montana extended over half /;
century, died at Helena recently.
Mrs. Frank Landon, for "a years a
resident of Dillon, and a highly re-
spected matron of that city, died Sat
urday after a brief illness of pneu.
monia.
Word has been received at Billings
of the recent death in Long Beach,
CAL, of Sidney Morse, pioneer banker
and former county official of Yellow
stone county.
The total assessed valuation of all
property in Montana this year will ex-
coed $500, O00, 900, a gain of $1S.0OO,-
600 over 1913, according to State Tax
Agent G.. M. Houtz.
The accidental drowning in the
Tongue river, near Decker, Mont, re,
Gently of William Mckinney, a ranch
er, and two children, a fri aged {
and a boy aged 8, is reported.
State Auditor Heating has appoint,
ed w. Forrest Mckee Of Great Falls
deputy commissioner of insurance. He
succeeds D. Oswald Cohen, who has
resigned to take effect June l.
AS a result of the agitation which i,
going on at the present time in boil
Montana and Idaho, the time is fas-
approaching when there will be a goot
automobile road from Butte to Seattle
M. P. Stopped, wner of a hotel a
Garrison and a well-known business
man of Powell county, who vas in
jured near Gold Creek a month ago b.
his automobile overturning on a higl
grade, died Sunday.
; Chauncey Gould shot and killed Ro
Kimeson recently on the Cakes plac
in Dawson county, about IS mile
/. southwest of Culbertson. Cakes an
Gould both claimed a tract as a par
c of their respective homesteads, tn
land being surveyed, but not approved
This year the wool industry is be
{ ter for the western woolgrower, wit
: the present tariff. than it mas bee
for the last 10 years, and it's futur
appears to be limited only to the e,
tent of the range, according to Lew
. Penwell, a prominent Montana sheel
man.
An early consideration of the senai
e bill allowing settlers on governmel
irrigation projects 20 years to pay fl
r water, and also to provide graduate
payments, is urged in congress. u
n less the special rule is reported, I
action can be taken by the house c
l. the bill this session.
g Mrs. Adolph Galonen, wife of a FL
nish coal miner at Washoe, was bur
q ed to death at her home recently whe
she kindled fire in the kitchen stol
j with kerosene, resulting in the expl
1 sion of a can of coal oil in her hant
I and enveloping her in flames. 81
died soon after in frightful agony.
F. o. Sternberg, well known in blu
mess circles of Butte, was arrests
e recently on advices from the author
ties of Fresno, CAL, charged with ha
ing deserted his wife and two babe
t. His arrest caused a sensation,
Sternberg was supposed to be unms
ried and moved considerably in so
i ETY.. He is an heir to a large Ca
fornia estate and was thus located.
TO Governor Stewart has issued a sta
!. ment in which he strongly oppos
u consolidation of the three state &c
d. cationaI institutions-the state univ
sity, the agricultural college and t
n school of mines. The governor ca
ne attention to the fact that the fiji
III choice of the location of the consc
dated colleges is not left to the G
:. zens of Montana, but to a nonreside
: commission, and he fears a ecuRren
of the bitter feeling which was eng
dered some years ago by the fight
the permanent location of the CAPT
of Montana.
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