Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-18
MONTANA BRIEFS

The Forest fire season has come to
close at last.
The Sunday schools of Missoula
county opened their annual convention
in Missoula Sunday.
The forestry students of the Uni.
versity of Montana are going to build
a trail to the top of Mount Sentinel.
Misses Ruth and Edith Greenough
of Missoula, who are also we'll known
in Spokane, are doing a nursing stunt
in France.
The high wind and dry weather was
responsible for a number af dangerous
fires in the valley around Belgrade
last week.
The registration of students in the
College of Montana at Deer Lodge at
the recent opening vas one of the
best in it's history.
Snow fell Saturday throughout the
greater part of the state. 1t began
early and one foot is now on the
ground. Helena, Butte and other cities
reported the first fall of snow for the
season.
M. l.. Hickman, secretary of the state
bureau of child and animal protection,
has issued a call for a conference in
Helena Sept. 90 and "a of those n
public and private.
1t will mean dollars in the pockets
of Montana for this state to have a
creditable agricultural display at the
California exposition, in the opinion of
David Hilger, chairman of the Mon
tana exposition commission.
Forest Supervisor j.. c. Whitman
and Fred Dixon, who planned to plant
a flag on the summit of Granite peak,
1880 feet high, the highest point in
the Beartooth range of mountains,
were compelled to return to Billings
without accomplishing their purpose.
AS the result of a referendum vote
recently taken by the mill and smelter-
mans union of Great Falls, those
members who we're thrown out of en-
ployment by the recent closing down
of the Boston & Montana smelter will
received from the union "out of work.
pay from Sept. l.
The new state highway constructed
by the state jointly with Flathead
county, around the east shore of the
Flathead lake is completed. This is
one of the largest pieces of work un-
dertaken by the state. It's completion
Is hailed with much gratitude by the
people of Missoula, Flathead and Lin
coin counties.
Montana will this year contribute
24,000.00G bushels of wheat to the
worlds bread basket, according to
estimates based on a crop survey made
by railroads operating in the state.
For every bushel shipped out the
growers expect to receive close to 81.
Four years ago the Montana wheat
crop amounted to fewer than 500, 900
bushels.
The supreme court has ordered that
writs of habeas corpus be issued d.
rected to the militia authorities at
Butte, ordering them to produce the
bodies of Michael Mcdonald, Owen
Smith and Joseph Bradley before the
court Sept. II. The application for the
writs was made by H. L. Maury of
Butte. Similar petitions on behalf Of
ID. w. Malone, E. Evans, Ed Ross and
Alexander McLain, it is said, will be
filed.
That Joe Bradley, vice president of
the Butte Mine Workers union, now
a prisoner at the Jail in Butte after his
capture with Muckie Mcdonald, had
hidden dynamite caps and fuses in his
effects, was determined the day he was
arrested, but not made public until
Sunday. Marshall Conley and the
military authorities found two boxes of
caps and three coils of fuse in his eff
fects, and they have been given to the
military authorities for evidence
against Bradley when he is brought to
trial before the military court.