The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-06-25
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The report of State Auditor Keat-
ing of receipts received from insur-
ance companies for the quarter end
ing shows a total of $1O1,213 the
largest of any quarter in the history
of the state. There are more than
200 insurance and bonding companies
doing business in Montana.
The first wool sale Of the season in
northern Montana is reported from
Great Falls, where the Armstrong
clip of about 100, 900 pounds was pur-
chased yesterday by Hallowell, Jones
E. Donald of Boston. Newspaper re-
ports of the price conflict, but it is
said to have been 81 or % cents per
pound.
According to the report of State Ex-
aminer Magraw on the condition of
2O8 Montana banks more than $780,
OOS were tucked away in savings de-
posts during the months of March
and April. Compared with the report
Of March 4th, the increase in savings
deposits was $4S1,615.18. Loans also
showed a substantial increase.
Although nearly a million acres of
Montana land is being reclaimed each
year by an average of $4,000 families,
it will be more than 35 years before
the unoccupied lands are exhausted,
even if the immigration continues at
that rate. This is set forth in the
Montana federal census, which declar-
-es there are still approximately 49,
10000 acres capable of becoming
crop bearing farms.
AS a result Of the campaign on the
dandelions made by the kids of Con-
rad, 1887 pounds of the weeds are
stored away to be dried and burnt,
and the kids received $23.76, one cent
. pound for their good work. The
kids did a good job, and there are not
any dandelions in Conrad as the re-
suit. Saturday morning Alderman
Hull notified the gang of "army kids"
to meet at the city hall, when he
would pay them off. And they were
there.
More than 1876, 900 acres of nonirri-
gable land in Montana will be op-
ened to entry under the provisions
of the enlarged homestead act on June
10, 1915. The lands so affected are
scattered throughout the state, the
greater portion being located in the
central and eastern parts of the state,
A news item in the Havre Promoter
announces that the contract for build.
ing the Hill county court house has
been let to Olson & Johnson of Mis-.
soula, whose bid of $114,0OO, was &C
copied. The contract however, does
not include the plumbing and Other
equipment. Work on the building will
not begin until the dispute over thu
site has been settled, an injunction
being in effect against the location re.
Gently selected by the county commits
sioners.
According to an old time stockma,
who nov lives in Helena, the frs
Shorthorn cattle for breeding purpos
es ever shipped to Montana, wer'
three head brought from Kentucky t.
Fort Benton in 1872, by H. L. Keene
the senior member of the firm o
Keene & Son of Canton, just acros
the Missouri river from Winston. M,
Keen shipped the three head of stoc'
to Fort Benton by steamboat and drov
them from there overland to his HON
on the Missouri river in Broadwate
county.
Fines amounting to a total of 50
S61.50 were imposed for violations G
the state game and fish laws durin
the past six months, according to tn
semi-annual report of State Gam
Warden ]. L. DeHart, which was sui
mitted Saturday to Governor Stewar
The report shows there were 40 al
rests made. OF these &c were COZ
victed and helped swell the state gam
funds by contributing fines amountin
all the way from $25 up to $25