Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-15
MONTANA SQUIBS

A Good Templar lodge has been
formed at Willow Creek.
Bozeman business men are now dis
GUESSING new system of street lights.
Jacob Hartwig, a pioneer of Dillon
since 1868, died recently after long
illness.
Montana produced over 100000 tons
of zinc sulphide concentrate in 1914,
practically all at Butte.
Evidences of the presence of oil in
| the borings within the city limits Of
Great Falls has caused jubilant feel
ing.
Gunnar Johnson, aged "a, laborer
at the lime quarry at Lime Spur, was
killed Saturday while at work on a
derrick when 1t broke.
! Miss jeanette Rankin of Missoula,
one of the new members of the con-
gressional committee of the National
Suffrage association, Is at the capital.
William Palmer, well-known wrest-
urday at Casper, Wyo., shot and killed
his wife and then shot and probably IA
tally wounded himself.
The news has been received Of the
at Arkansas Hot Springs. Death &C.
Cured the night of Jan. 8. Arterial
| trouble was the cause.
A large number Of retail merchants
of Butte will be represented at the
annual convention of the Retail Mer
chants association of Montana in Hell
ena ON Jan. Is to Jan. 20.
| c. F. Walker, who buys for Port
land firm, recently shipped nine cars
of fat mutton lambs to Chicago from
Dillon. Mr.. Walker purchased the
lambs from Ed Hollingsworth and Et
Smith.
In 1910 the children of school age
in the state numbered SS,SO5; this veal
there are 126,723, an increase of ovel
37,918. Silver Bow has more children
of school age-from to Ethan an!
other county.
Charles E. Wright, for several year.
active in newspaper work in Montana
| former secretary of the state senat
, and prominent in political and indus
r trial activity in the state, died Satur
| day in Butte.
. The country around Valentine, i
the Musselshell country, has been sci
tied up so rapidly of late that the con
missioners have appointed G. F. But
weiser justice of the peace and G.
Thompson constable for the township
In four years there has been an il
crease of APT per cent in the numbe
b of children of school age in Montan
Q If the same ratio has been maintaine
in the total population there are 536
627 persons living in Montana at tn
= present time.
Colonel Richard H. Wilson, con
handing the Fourteenth infantry, ST
. toned at Fort George Wright, Fol
, Missoula and Fort Lawton, has bee
ordered to take command of the Sc
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g of the posts in the Northwest.
:. The metal output of Montana #
1914 was seriously affected by the col
ditions of the copper market due
> the European war, as Montana is pr
VI marily copper producer The valu
: of gold, silver, copper, lead and yin
from Montana mines decreased, a
Z. cording to estimates by V. C. Helke
e of the United States geological surve,
I. from nearly $62.O00,00O in 1918 I
e about $4S.000,000 in 1914. The d.
crease in copper was large and ths
a in silver was notable, but there wei
considerable increases in gold, lea
a and zinc. The value of the silver an
a copper yield was greatly reduced o
account of the great decline in price
of these metals In 1914.
II In a Commercial Way.
D G. A. Wright has purchased the in
$ plement business of Grayson Bros.
Dooley
e J. N. Mass of Occur d'Alene, Idah
a has had plans made for the erection
2 one-story cement building 25xl,
5. feet with basement 40x24 feet,
Libby, in which he will open ge
:, eral store in the spring.
y AUDITORIUM THEATRE, sPOkAN
!. This Weeks Offering.
~ The Baker Players will presel
u The Silver Horde" Rex Beachs fou
10 act Alaskan fisheries drama, for S
III nights and three matinees.