Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-03-12
MONTANA SQUIBS
The Deer Lodge Rifle club has been

employment bureau.
Dan Creighton drank a bottle of cy-
anide solution at Butte Saturday and
died soon after.
Governor Stewart signed the bill le-
galizing dancing on Sunday in parks
whore no liquor is sold.
The appropriation for the agricultur-
al experiment station for 1915 Is $72,-
600 and for 1916 $4,000.
Mrs. Lucille Carver prominent
worker in the suffrage cause, is can
didate for mayor of Butte.
Edward c. Smith, son of 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 law did not include the pur-
chase of the McCauley ranch, near
Fort Missoula for rifle range.
| The Helena Ministerial association
has launched "go 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 500
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 OF
Montana at Missoula, are progressing
satisfactorily. The faculty of the
summer school this year will include
some noted specialists in educational
work.
The case of the state Of Montana
against Bert Riley. Joseph Hookins
Walter Little and Patrick Sullivan on
the charge of kidnapping his been trans
ferred from Silver Bow county to Gal
latin county for trial, on request for
change of venue. ~
A strong chain of circumstantia
levidence led to the arrest of Rober,
Hunter and man by the name of Nil
Ter, a piano player, charged with the
murder of r. j. Benn, a prominen
liquor dealer of Kalispell, who wat
killed Thursday night.
II The criminal case 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 H. Hunt o
the United States circuit court, for
merly of this state.
A The dedication of Montana's stat
I building at the Panama-Pacific expos
t ition which was to have been he'll
' March 5 has been postponed unit
:. March 81 so that the building and eA
q hibits will be fully completed an
!. lGovernor Stewart can be present i
!. lperson, it was announced Saturday.
The joint committee of the Foul
:. teenth assembly appointed to invest
> gate charges that there was a col
spiracy on the part of the retail lun
Der dealers of this state to contrt
I prices reported Thursday, finding thu
that there is no evidence to suppol
. 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 annu
= meeting OF the association to the Sc
~ ond Tuesday in December. The fe
~ lowing We're elected directors:
~ H. Blemish, c. c. Willis w. w. Stoh
., c. Fl. Hammons, R. A. Remover,
- W. Simpson and G. A. Helterline.
There are boys and girls in II
mountains of this state who go
school on skees from October to Jul
of over SHOWS so deep that sometim'
,r the telephone wires are at their wal
nj line was recently brought to lig
I'd by Helen Stephens, the girl teacher
g. these mountain children. The tiny Il
,e lschoolhouse, Is by 90 feet, Is high I
"A in the Gallatin national forest in we'
ern Montana, eight miles from Yello
stone National park. The Is childh'
who attend are the sons and daughte
ba of the hay farmers