Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-11-27
MONTANA BRIEFS

for hundreds of teachers Of Montana.
William Dorian, one of the pioneer
placer miners of the west, died recent
ly at Butte. aged 80.
The corner stone of Bozeman's $780,
900 Young Mems Christian association
building was laid Saturday.
Schools in Lewis and Clark county
are closed this week to allow teachers
to attend the meeting at Butte.
The government has thrown open
1876, 900 acres of land in western Mon
tana on the Grow Indian reservation
for homestead entry. It is stated that
100000 acres of the Yakima reserva-
ton and an equal amount ON the Col.
vile reserve will be opened next sum-
mer.
The federal quarantine against Mon
tana because Of the foot and mouth
disease was Saturday modified, effect
i've this week, to permit live stock
shipments except from the counties Of
Dawson and Custer These are the
only infected areas in the state.
Michel Pablo, the wealthy Flathead
rancher, once known through the
country as 'the buffalo king" be-
cause of his ownership of the great
Flathead herd, left an estate when
he died recently at his ranch near
Roman valued at more than 100000
The Rev. D. B. Price, who has been
resident of Montana for Is years,
has been elected assistant secretary
of the church extension board of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
and will leave the first of next year
for Louisville, KY, to assume his new
duties.
Contract has been entered into by
q Miles City firm with New York
horse firm for the delivery of 10000
horses for a European government
within the next IL months. Repre-.
sentatives of European governments
are busy buying horses in eastern
Montana.
There was Joy in university circles
at Missoula Saturday when the word
came that Governor Stewart had Civ
en- official authority to the university
board to proceed with the expenditure
of the $4,000 appropriated by the last
Legislature for the erection of for
estry building at the state university
One man is dead and another in a
dying condition in Billings hospital
as the result Of an automobile acct
dent at Canyon creek bridge Saturday
afternoon when machine driven by
B. Chapple, farmer of Joliet, left the
roadway, turned turtle and crushed
Chapple and w. d. Parsons. Joliet
blacksmith, beneath it,
Five teams of six men each partici
pated Saturday at Billings in the first
statewide competitive demonstration
of first-aid work in the history of the
state. The tests included various In.
juries to miners in their work, and
first place went to team No. / of the
west side mine of the Northwest I'm.
provement company of Red Lodge.
Montana appears to possess at Miles
City the only horse market in the
world which handles sufficient horses
to supply the needs Of the European
cavalry service. Buyers for the French
government who have secured the
country and who have tried every 9th.
er market, including Chicago, St
Louis and Omaha, finally gave up the
job in despair till they came to Miles
City to complete $250.OO0 purchase.
Michael ("Muckie } Mcdonald, pres.
ident of the Butte Mine Workers un-
ion at the time of the miners riots in
Butte. Saturday was found guilty of
kidnapping by jury here and his pun
ishment fixed by the court at a term
Of three years in the Deer Lodge peli-
itentiary. Joseph Bradley, vice presi-
dent of the Mine Workers union. also
was convicted OF kidnapping and his
punishment fixed by the jury at five
years in the penitentiary.
Frank Hazeibaker of Dillon has hit
upon novel way to advertise Mon
tana soil at the Panama-Pacific ex-
pOSlllOu. ne Will dSStulDlc lVU luS.
of agricultural soil from each county
in the state and ship the same to San
Francisco as part of the Montana
exhibit. A portion of the soil from
each county will be displayed, while
the rest will be used in making mod
ell Montana farm, where grain will be
sown and shown actually growing. An
endeavor will be made to irrigate the
small farm and conduct it exactly as
Montana grain farm is conducted.
The examination of Frank Vogel of
the lands owned in Flathead and Lin
coin counties, Montana, by the Big
Blackfoot company and Julius Neils
has been completed. 1t is stated that
the examination was made for the
purpose of enabling the two compan-
les to make exchanges of land, the OBJ
ject being to eliminate as much as
possible waste in harvesting the tim
Der and to bunch their holdings as
much as possible. It IL understood
this deal means another sawmill for
Libby. with a capacity similar to the