Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
MONTANA SOUIBS

Dan Creighton drank a bottle of cy-
anide solution at Butte Saturday and
died soon after.
Governor Stewart signed the bill le-
CALLING dancing on Sunday in parks
whore no liquor is sold.
The appropriation for the ~agricultur-
al experiment station for 1915 is $72.-
900 and for 1916 $4,000.
Mrs. Lucille Carver, a prominent
worker in the suffrage cause, is can
didate for mayor of Butte.
Edward C. Smith, son of a former
governor of Montana, recently com
mitted suicide by shooting at Butte.
The cashier of the Butte Bank can
not identify the trio arrested some
time ago as the robbers of the bank.
A miner at Butte, known as 'Deafy
was probably mortally wounded re-
Gently in a fight with a giant known
as big Louie"
Anaconda's purchase of the United
Metals Selling company from the
Amalgamated Copper company has
caused some adverse comment.
The army appropriation bill as it
became a law did not include the pur-
chase of the McCauley ranch, near
Fort Missoula for a rifle range.
The Helena Ministerial association
has launched a Ego to church" cam
paign lasting four Sundays beginning
March IA to and including Easter.
Bob Baker, mountain lion trapper
of Libby, recently caught four live
lions of good size which he captured
in the Sylvanite country. He sold
them to Kansas City dealers for $100
apiece.
The Montana legislature adjourned
sine die at noon March 5, after trans
hitting to the. governor the general
appropriation bills. A total of 621
measures were introduced in this as
sembly of which 227 reach the gov
ernor.
Preparations for the work of the
summer school at the University O
Montana at Missoula, are progressing
satisfactorily. The faculty of th'
summer school this year will include
some noted specialists in educationa
work.
The case of the state of Montan;
against Bert Riley, Joseph Hookins
Walter Little and Patrick Sullivan OIL
the charge of kidnapping his been trans
ferred from Silver Bow county to Gal
latin county for trial, on request TO
a change of venue.
A strong chain of circumstantia
evidence led to the arrest of Rober
Hunter and a man by the name of Mi
Ter, a piano player, charged with thu
murder of r. j. Benn, a prominen
liquor dealer of K~alispell, who wal
killed Thursday night.
The criminal Ease against the 2
present or former officers and direct
ors of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad who have been in
dicted under the Sherman law will
be tried by Judge William II. Hunt o
the United States circuit court, for
merly of this state.
The dedication of Montana's STATE
building at the Panama-Pacific expos
ition which was to have been helt
March 5 has been postponed unit
March 81 so that the building and ex
hibits will be fully completed ant
Governor Stewart can be present il
person, it was announced Saturday.
The joint committee of the -Four
teenth assembly appointed to investi
gate charges that there was a con
spiracy on the part of the retail lum
Der dealers of this state to contro
prices reported Thursday, finding tina
that there is no evidence to supper
the charges. 1t was adopted in tn
senate without discussion.
AT the meeting of the Sander
County Fair association, it was vote
to change the date of the annua
meeting of the association to the sec
ond Tuesday in December. The 70
lowing were elected directors: W
h. Blemish, c. c. Willis w. w. Stohl
C. H. Hammons, r. A. Remover, I
w. Simpson and G. A. Helterline.
There are boys and girls in tn
mountains of this state who go t
school on skees from October to Jun
over SHOWS SO deep that sometime
? the telephone wires are at their wais
line was recently brought to ligh
by Helen Stephens, the girl teacher o
these mountain children. The tiny To-
schoolhouse, IS by 20 feet, is high u
!, in the Gallatin national forest in west
lern Montana, eight miles from yellow
stone National park. The 16 childhe!
who attend are the sons and daughter
of the hay farmers.
r Record of Assembly.
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