Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-26
MONTANA BRIEFS

Great Falls.
Next years convention of the Chris
tian church of Montana will be held
at Kalispell.
An address at the Meagher county
fair in September by Gov. Sam Stew
art is assured.
Thirteen indictments were reported
by the federal grand jury in a partial
report at Helena.
Montana's gold and silver jubilee an
niversary celebration will be held at
Bozeman Aug. 8.
Churchmen of the state met in Butte
the first of the week in convention,
with Bishop L. r. Brewer presiding.
The Lewistown Gun clubs team,
Weaver, Short, Clayton and Parsons,
were at the state shoot at Billings this
week.
The first bishop of the Episcopal
church in Montana was Bishop Dan1ei
Sylvester Tuttle now of the diocese
of Missouri.
Four hundred opera chairs have been
installed in the auditorium OF the new
Montana State Normal college train
ing school at Dillon.
The first car of butter ever shipped
out of Montana left Livingston for Chi
cago Saturday. The butter was col
lected from creameries.
Twelve hundred acres located on the
old Haymaker ranch, about 10 miles
west of Harlowtown, were recently
sold to eastern parties at about $3.50
an acre.
Four to the p~enitentiary, three to
the reform school, one to the insane
asylum, n out on parole, and two
couples divorced, make up the record
for one day at Bozeman last week.
Word has been received in Bozeman
of the appointment by the Montana
Panama-Pacific exposition commits
sion of a special committee on Mon
tana's grain exhibit for the exposi
ton.
The contest over the will of the late
Margaret Cruise Cotter, daughter o
Thomas Cruise, a millionaire banker 0
Helena, and wife of Harry Cotter o
. Spokane, is now on in the distric
court at Helena.
The entire force of Montana militia
3 10 companies, approximately 600 mel
: will go to Spokane July "a for sevel
!. days of mimic warfare with the Thir'
battalion of the 14th infantry station
!, ed at Fort George Wright.
Mrs. James Zimmerman was recent
ly charged with the murder Of he
. husband at their ranch home neal Lily
! ingston June 10. The only new d.
: velopments in the case was the arres
of Patrick White, who will be held a
a witness.
With the election of officers and tn
selection of Helena as next years col
vention city, the eighteenth annus
meeting of the Montana and Norther
. Wyoming Christion Endeavor unto
. closed it's business sessions in Mi
soula Saturday.
a Construction of what will be in a
probability the most expensive plaI
in this part of Montana for the bree'
ing of pure-bred cattle, horses an
hogs will be started this summer O
= the Green Meadows farm, adjoinin
the state fair grounds. The ranch, th
" control of which is owned by HarI
= w. Child, comprises about LOCO acre
d. The state land department has give
leases on 10000 acres of land in Ca
cade and Toole counties to Bennett
e Jackson of Great Falls. The lands a.
supposed to contain oil and gas. U
Is der the lease exploration work mu
be started within 18 months. tt
,s state will receive IL per cent of roy;
ty on oil and gas produced in Cascat
e county and 10 per cent in Too
* county.
What is regarded as the most II
portant and ~far-reaching step let
ken in the miners controversy
Butte toward settling differences W
a accomplished Saturday by Preside
he G. H. Meyer of the Western Fedel
It's ton of Miners. All the officers-ele
to and outgoing officials Of the Butte I
ac- ners' union, against whom the rev
is said to have been directed chief
nd have resigned.
Judge G. M. Bourquin has sustain
~ in the federal court the demurrer
the defendant in the suit of r.
Kane, as administrator of the estate
Arthur Over, against the Great Nor
,IE ern Railway company. The admin
traitor sued to recover $4,000 for [
"a. heirs of Over, who was killed in
wreck near Culbertson in 1912. 7
important point in the decision is Il
cir Judge Bourquin holds there is in M
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