Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-01-22
MONTANA SQUIBS

Poultry association was held in Ste
vensville this week.
At the meeting of women voters
held at Helena this week was del
egation from Butte.
John Summers an old resident of
the Bitter Root valley. died in Los
Angeles recently from cancer.
The board of missions of the Epis-
copal church for the diocese of Mon
tana held their midwinter meeting in
Bozeman this week.
Fifty thousand dollars for the Mon
tana exhibits at San Francisco and
San Diego was assured Friday when
the state senate concurred in the
house bill appropriating that amount,
Under the leadership of d. Mcclure,
state organizer for the Farmers So
ciety of Equity, the, farmers of Madi-
son county are rapidly filing into line
and locals of this organization are
springing up all around the country.
Recommendation has been made to
Governor Stewart by the state live
stock sanitary board that the quaran-
tine against Canada on account of the
foot and mouth disease be lifted Feb.
/, but that it be continued against
eastern states.
Leaving Butte Thursday, and car
rying a crowd of several hundred
Montanans bound for the Panama ex-
position, the Montana special run by
the Salt Lake route will make but one
stop between Butte and Los Angeles.
The single stop will be at Salt Lake.
The body of Mrs. Kate Bills, who
recently figured conspicuously in the
divorce court was found in the base
ment of her home Saturday at Butte.
The woman had been beaten to death.
Joseph and Walter Reese, brothers,
and neighbors of Mrs. Bills, are being
held by the officers in connection with
the case.
Sheriff Henderson of Butte, presd-
ed at the meeting of Montana sher-
ifs in Helena this week when they
with county officials, including coun-
ty clerks and recorders, assessors,
treasurers and commissioners, met in
Helena 1t is planned to revive the
old state association of sheriffs, or
ganized in 1905.
The state senate has appointed a
special committee to investigate all
state departments, all state bureaus,
boards and commissions, and to re-
port on the efficiency and economy
in the administration of each. The
committee is directed to submit any
bills for remedial legislation that it
may deem proper.
Judge Erickson at Deer Lodge Sat
urday made an order denying the mo-
tion for writs of habeas corpus in the
cases of Muckie Mcdonald, Bradley,
Winchester and Smith, who were con-
victed on charges growing out of the
Butte miners troubles. They were re-
manded to the custody of the officers
of the state prison.
After Attorney Joseph H. Griffin
announced that f. d. Williams, re-
ceyer of the State Savings bank at
Butte will receive about 100000 for
his services, 299 of the 800 depositors
of the bank at a mass meeting voted
to attempt to GUST the receiver by
means of a petition to the district
court. 1t was the sense of the meet
ing that Butte business man can be
selected to handle the affairs of the
bank in a more satisfactory manner.
In the death at Kalispell of o. S.
Main another gap has been made in
the ranks of the few surviving MEM
bers of the old Sun River Roundup as
sociation, which for many years dur
ing the cow times was the leading
stock organization of Montana. Mr..
Main, better known as "Hod" Main,
was one of the pioneer stockmen of
the northern part of the state. A ma
tive of Michigan, he came to Montana
in the COS, and in 1870 went to the
Sun River valley with Ed Dennis, set
tied on what is now known as the old
Jim Adams home ranch, near the town
of Sun River
H. v. Award has resigned as
cashier of the First National bank at
Kalispell, Mont.
The Kalispell land office has re-
ceived the plats of the villa sites
around Flathead lake, and it is the
belief that the department intends to
offer them for sale in the near future,
probably about July 1.
Two hundred sawmills are con-
rantly at work ripping up into build
ing material for new homes, the TO-
000,000,000 feet of standing timber in
Montana, as estimated by State For
ester ]. c. Van Hook in his biennial
report submitted to Governor Stewart.
The agricultural appropriation bill
now before the house carries $S43, 100
for miscellaneous expenses of the ad-