Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-22
MONTANA SQuIBS

At the meeting of women voters
held at Helena this week was a 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 c~oncurred 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.
l., 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 will
the case.
Sheriff Henderson of Butte, presid
ed at the meeting of Montana sher
ifs in Helena this week when the.
5 with county officials, including coun
2 ty clerks and recorders, assessors
~treasurers and commissioners, met i
Helena. 1t is planned to revive tn
/ old state association of sheriffs, o
q ganized in 1905.
The state senate has appointed
G special committee to investigate a
!. state departments, all state bureaus
q boards and commissions, and to r.
port on the efficiency and econom
O in the administration of each. tn
committee is directed to submit an
bills for remedial legislation that
. may deem proper.
If Judge Erickson at Deer Lodge So
8 urday made an order denying the m
o. ton for writs of habeas corpus in Il
cases of Muckie Mcdonald, Bradle
Winchester and Smith, who were co
u victed on charges growing out of tt
a Butte miners troubles. They were I
&c manded to the custody of the office
~ of the state prison.
10 After Attorney Joseph H. Griff
* announced hat F. D. Williams, I
ST ceiver of the State Savings bank
Butte will receive about 100000 t
his services, 299 of the 800 deposito
In of the bank at a mass meeting vot'
- to attempt to GUST the receiver
means of a petition to the distri
court. 1t was the sense of the me-
~ ing that a Butte business man can
10 selected to handle the affairs OF t
L,xJ~ IN n mona coficfQlfnrV mAnnt
e In the death at Kalispell of o.
III Main another gap has been made
the ranks of the few surviving me
on bers of the old Sun River Roundup
ge ISOLATION, which for many years d'
h ing the COW times was the leadl
he stock organization of Montana. n
re- Main, better known as "Hod" Ma
MT was one of the pioneer stockmen
he the northern part of the state. A l
tive of Michigan, he came to Monta
in the SOS, and in 1870 wen to t
Sun River valley with Ed Dennis, s
tied on what is now known as the
Jim Adams home ranch, near the to-
Of Sun River.
an- H. V. Award has resigned
Is. cashier of the First National bank
Kalispell, Mont.
The Kalispell land office has
ceived the plats of the villa 81
tly around Flathead lake, and it is
belief that the department intends
t. offer them for sale in the near futu
probably about July 1.
Two hundred sawmills are C
ra. stantly at work ripping up into blu
ing material for new homes, the
600, 900, 900 feet of standing timber
of Montana, as estimated by State /
ou- ester ]. C. Van Hook in his bienI
the report submitted to Governor Stew'
by The agricultural appropriation
now before the house carries $S43,
for miscellaneous expenses OF the
USE mi%nistration work of the forest 81
ice in District No. 1, Headquarters