Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-26
MONTANA SQUIBS

A term of the United States dis
trict court will open in Missoula April
5.
The Butte Cubs baseball team has
again been r~eorganized for the 1915
season.
Thomas Boland, justice of the peace
for many years in Anaconda, died
Saturday. He was a pioneer of Ana
conda.
The Lewistown Gun club has ord
cred a full carload of blue rocks,
to be used in the state shoot, to be
held June 81, % and 90.
Louis Pitman and family have
joined the ranks of returning ranch
ers to Gallatin valley, after residing
in California for several years.
Harry Jones, son of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
f. Jones of Butte, is in China with a
detachment of United States soldiers,
guarding a stretch of government rail
road.
George w. Meyers, attorney of
Miles City, has been appointed regis
ter of the United States land office
there to succeed Albert Kircher, about
April Is.
The chamber of m of Lewis
town will rive a luncheon on March
20, when the details of a plan for a
chamber of M club will be
submitted.
The county commissioners at Twin
Bridges, have decided to purchase a
new road-making machine of modern
pattern in order to more successfully
handle certain swampy roads of the
county.
One Of the biggest shipments of cat
tie that have left Beaverhead county
this spring went out last week frosn
Dillon, when Frank Frazier loaded
$50 head Of fat steers for shipment
to Seattle.
Action was brought in the federal
district court at Butte Saturday petit
tioning the court to declare the Butte
& Duluth Mining company a bankrupt
concern. The proceeding was brought
on behalf Of a number of laborers.
sam Robertson, a horse buyer and
shipper, was arrested recently at
Miles City, pleaded guilty and was
filmed $50 and costs for shipping a lot
of horses from Divide through Butte
to Miles City without having com.
piled fully with the law of inspec.
ton.
w. P. Monberg, manager of the
Park County creamery at Livingston,
has received word of his winning
second prize for Montana butter at
the national creamery butter makers
convention at Des Moines. The Ste
{ vensville creamery received first fol
J Montana.
The rapid progress being made II
the development of the big oil fields
of Northern Montana may result in
the establishment in both Butte and
Great Falls of oil exchanges for the
purpose of handling the stocks of the
: many new Montana oil companies be
| ing formed.
n If any state office, state institution
+ or state board spends more money il
> the coming two years for the mainten
ance and betterment of the service
than it is now spending, it will do Sc
l in spite of an order made by the state
, board of examiners, and the board
will refuse to audit the excess &C
! counts. The state will not have with
in bali a million dollars of the amcun
appropriated by the legislature, ant
to keep within the forma
notice has been served on those wh'
have the authority to contract bills.
In the case of the state of Montan;
? versus the Warren Construction CON
! pany, on the charge of violating tn
= eight-hour law, County Attorne,
Harry A. Bolinger at Bozeman, aske
that the case be dismissed after tn
, examination of some of the witnesses
= because it was impossible to prov
the case without the testimony @
employees of the company, and tn
court ruled in accordance with tn
opinion that these witnesses need nc
j testify for the state if by giving sue
testimony they might incriminat
u themselves. Judge Smith then d
e rected the jury to find a verdict fc
the defendant.
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