Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-04-09
MONTANA SQUIBS

pointed by the county commissioners
as a general road supervisor for the
county.
Joshua Boyd, who came 20 Living
ston recently from the state of Wash.
ington, was thrown from a wagon in
which he was going to Wilsall and
sustained fatal injuries, Sunday.
The corner stone of the new Helena
eonsistory Shrine temple was laid Sat
urday, Lewis A. Smith of Butte, grand
master of the Masonic grand lodge,
conducting the ceremony. assisted by
other grand officers.
John Doyle, age So, a lumberjack,
attempted to board the pilot on the
engine of a passenger train Saturday
night at Fortine and fell under, his
head being severed. Doyle had rela-
tives neal Grand Forks, n. D..
Word was received at Bozeman re-
Gently telling of the death of the'Rev.
David Wilson at Newtonville, Mass.
DR.. Wilson was a brother of General
| Wilson of Bozeman and uncle of Fred
Wilson of Anaconda. He vas a pio-
neer of the Gallatin valley.
AS a result of a quarrel while en-
route from Townsend Saturday night,
Anderson Blacker, water commission
er of the Deep Creek district, lies at
a hospital with two bullets in his
body, and Charles Wakefield is dead
from a self-inflicted wound after he
had shot Blacker. They had quar-
relied.
B. S. (Buckshot) Robertson, veteran
northwestern railway man, for the last
even years running passenger trains
on the Great Northern between Spo-
kane and Whitefish, has been ap-
pointed Inspector of railway safety
appliances for the interstate com
merce commission and has been as
signed to a district embracing four
southern states.
The jury at Butte found the defend
ant, John Caterno, guilty of murder in
the first degree, and left his punish
ment to be fixed by the court. The
question of his guilt or otherwise for
the murder of 9-year-old Rocchino Cal
vetti, whom he shot in the dance hall
of James Negroes place at Meader-
vile, at the same time he shot fatally
the boys father, Savareno Calvetti,
early in the morning of Feb. s, last
year.
Governor Stewart has appointed DR..
A. D. Macdonald of Kalispell superin-
tendent of the state tuberculosis san
itarium at Galen, succeeding DIR. T. D.
futile, resigned. The place pays $4,000
a year While the constitution pro-
hibits the appointment to certain Of
fees of members of the legislature,
and though DR.. Macdonald was a
member of the last legislature, the
prohibition does not apply to the place
to which he has been appointed.
What may develop into a sensation
al cattle-stealing case had its incep-
ton It Helena with the arrest of Chas.
| Cassmen and Henry Bruckert of Au-
gusta. They are ranchers living in the
northern part of the county, and are
charged with stealing and %butchering
cattle belonging to Burke and Power
of the Rock Creek Cattle company
The alleged crime was committed &
year ago. Bail was fixed in each case
at $1,000 and in default the men are
in Jail.
The following Montana postmaster.
have been ~reappointed: David Max
ey Cooke; James Shine, of Corwil
Springs; Lee B. Banks, Fish Tail; Jen
ME l.. Kimball, Kimball; DAME
Knapp, Oswego; William E. Barnard
~Powderville; Joseph G. Crooch, Siou,
Pass. The following postmasters hav,
been appointed: A. E. Mayo, Du
puyer; Irving Kooler, Flat; Thomas
Conlin, Hoffman; John Dato, Pryor
Ralph c. Brickor, Putnam; Ruth B
Cain, Stacey; James G. Haw, Waco
Representative Evans has returned t,
Washington from Panama. He will
remain there about a month befor,
coming to Montana. The Hiram Lloy,
Building and Construction company O
st. Louis was awarded the contrac
for erecting the Miles City publ,
building at a cost of $86,817.
Elections Monday.
Bozeman.-John A. Luce was elect
ed mayor.
Lewistown.-Mayor Symmes was re
elected over Robert Lowman.
Helena.-The voters of this city de
cided to adopt the commission form
OF government within 80 days.
MISUNDERSTANDING O'Brien, demo
crat, was elected mayor yer Charles
CARRIER, republican, by seven votes.
Missoula.-John M. Brechbill wa
elected a member OF the city council
under the commission form of govern
ment, defeating W. H. Beacon, a SO
cialist.
Great Falls.-The democrats almos
made a clean sweep In the eIectio,