Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-05-01
MONTANA BRIEFS
Belgrade is organizing a band.

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Belgrade is organizing a band.
Joseph p. Riley, we'll known and
highly respected business man Of Butte
succumbed to i'll health Sunday.
In some unexplained manner Jerry
Mahoney. aged SO. was instantly killed
Forest Grove, a Milwaukee station
east of Lewistown, which now has a
station. will have an agent in charge
of it June l.
Plans are now we'll under way for
the eleventh annual meeting Of the
Montana State Dental society, which
Is to be held in Great Falls June $40.
The secretary of agriculture has
awarded a contract for the construc-
ton Of the Bitter Root-Big Hole road
in Montana. The work will cost
100000.
James Hughes, who had been a resi-
dent of Butte for the past "a years.
died recently. He was Sc years of age
and for years was employed in the
mines.
Fifty.four thousand dollars has been
raised through the cooperation OF min
ing men and Helena citizen for the
development of some mining property
in the Helena district.
| The state board of medical exam
liners will hold special meeting on
June 80, July and 2, for the purpose
of examining applicants to secure
licenses to practice medicine and sur
gerry.
In event the president issues a call
for volunteers or asks for the services
of the state militia, Montana national
guard organizations will concentrate
and be organized for field service at
Fort Harrison, near Helena.
C. e. Reynolds has been elected
president of the recognized school
board at Poison. Miss Henrietta
Peterson of Moorehead, Mimi, was
elected to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Miss Clara Gravez.
Helena was selected as the meeting
place for the second annual English
evangelical Lutheran conference O
Montana, at the close of the first SEES
sion in Bozeman last week. AS re
suit of the election Of officers thu
i, Rev. H. T. Rauh of Billings wa!
chosen president.
: Bankers in Butte and other Montan'
' points, who declined to pay the New
: York reporting company of New Yorl
( city $32 each for every copy of thu
. transcript of the federal reserve banl
5 hearing in Seattle, will fight the mat
Y ter in the court. The company i
d suing to collect the money due.
In preparing for operation the Lehigl
8 branch of the Great Northern, lin
! eight miles in length joining the Bi
e lings branch at the station of Wind
ham, in Fergus county, and which vii
serve what is expected to be one of tn
biggest coal mines in the state, tw
work trains were put on this week.
ell Representative Evans of Montan
9 probably will be obliged to leave 70
n Colorado as a member of the hous
d committee which has been investiga
L ing labor troubles in that state. l
n view of the outrages committed durin
the past week, the committee ha
about concluded 1t must return
the scene of hostilities to gather fu
T. Their information.
News was received at the distrit
: headquarters Of the forest service o
!. April "a that the contract for the col
= struction of the Bitter Root-Big Hol
:. !. road had been executed by the seer
tary. This road is an extension Of tn
= Camp creek road. in the Upper Bite
- Root valley, across the continental
u vide, and down Trail creek, joinin
y with the county roads in the Big Ho