Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-04-23
MONTANA SQUIBS

ton met at Miles City April 1921.
Joseph P. Wilde was elected chief
of the fire department at Whitefish;
R. Shoaf was elected president and
B. o. Mulling reelected secretary.
A trust company of Seattle has pur-
chased $150,O00 of local improvement
bonds Of the cities of Billings and
Bozeman.
Several acres of winter wheat have
been destroyed in the vicinity of Pom
pegs Pillar, 81 miles east OF Billings.
by an insect pest supposed to be the
army worm.
Montana postmasters were appoint
ed Saturday as follows: Edgar F.
Hersey, Lehigh, Fergus county, e
office; Frank R. Adams, Rudyard,
vice D. G. A~fflerbaugh, retired.
Beginning this week the Milwaukee
will start a new service which will
begin at Missoula instead of at Bon
ner, and continue through to Potomac.
This will be daily except Sunday.
Since the federal law prohibiting
the sale of drugs wen into effect, So
drug users in Montana have been
committed to the state hospital for
the insane. Seven were women
Thieves entered the Silver Dollar
saloon at Great Falls Sunday night
and stole a valuable collection of old
roinc WJSl1fo Po1ao prnnriDfnr
estimates the value of the collection
at $4,000. There is no clue.
Five hundred men from Utah and
three hundred from the state of
Washington, together with several
hundreds from other points arrived in
Butte during the past week, accord
ing to reports.
AT the recent state convention Mrs.
Gertrude Preston of Billings was elect
ed delegate to the national convention
of the Ladies of the Maccabees, to be
held in New York May 20, and Mrs.
Hespie Allison of Great Falls was cho-
sen as alternate.
Orders have been received by Ad-
jutant General Greenan to hold the
camp of instruction for officers of the
Montana national guard at Fort Har-
rison from May 10 to Is. The original
orders were for the holding of camp
at Fort Missoula.
Unless the tariffs disclose some
thing not now anticipated, the grant
ing of a lower railroad rate to Spo-
kane, where the railroads will distri-
butte freight in the competitive ter
ritory created by the Panama canal
competition will not affect Butte job
bers.
The chamber of of Bill
ings recommends that $4,000 be in
cluded in their annual budget to pro-
mote a class d baseball league, in or
ganizing of which the Lewistown
Chamber of Commerce has taken the
initiative. Other cities mentioned in
the tentative circuit are Great Falls,
Helena, Livingston and Bozeman.
Reports of damage to winter wheat
by army worms are coming in from
various localities near Great Falls, but
except in about two districts the dam
age so far does not appear to have
been serious. Near Box Elder, be-
tween Havre and Great Falls, consider
able damage has been done, and near
Portage there has also been damage
of the growing wheat. No other crops
appear to have been harmed so far.
mot guilty. was the verdict re-
turned at BoZeman in the case in
which Burt Riley, former president of
the Butte Miners union, was charged
with kidnapping William Leduc, fore
man of the Black Rock. The jury
in the case of Joseph Hardness was
discharged after being out 77 hours
and not reaching a verdict. The re-
trial of this case and that of Walter
Little will be continued until the No
vember term of the district court.
Two deeds recorded recently in the
office of the clerk and recorder of Ra-
valli county relate the financial side
of a large farm deal. A warranty deed
dated February /, 1915, conveys about
S27 acres from the Bitter Root Valley
Irrigation company to the Sinnissippi
Farm and Orchard company, for $685..
500. A trust deed of the same date and
covering the same land, given by the
Sinnissippi Farm and Orchard com
pany to Frank /. Bennett, trustee, Sc
cures the deferred purchase money,
amounting to $140. 900, payable in four
equal instruments beginning in 1920
and extending over four years. The
cash payment amounted to $S5,500.
Ask the U. S. to l%ntervent.