Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-02-26
MONTANA SOUIBS

recently.
The treasury department has APPROX
ed the application of the First State
bank of Hobson for a national charter
The bank has a capital of $500
Robert Essex, a prominent Gallatin
valley rancher, living a few miles west
of Belgrade, near Central Park, was
struck by a train and killed Saturday.
The twenty-second annual reunion OF
the Pioneers society of Gallatin cou
ty and the Sons and Daughters of Pho
neers, was held in Bozeman on Wash.
ington's birthday.
Lawrence Brennan, a member of the
Anaconda fire department, was fatally
injured recently when he fell from the
brass pole that is used in sliding from
the dormitory to the first floor.
Ohstrlctionist tactics of an unat-
tached Indian cayuse 20 miles west of
Missoula, resulted Saturday at mid
night in the derailment of the engine
and three coaches of a Northern Pa
cific passenger train. No one serious
ly hurt.
The president has nominated A. r.
Mcdonald postmaster at Whitehall.
The senate has confirmed the nomina-
tons of three ~postfasters, as follows:
William Cluston, Great Falls; Lucille
D. knight, Twin Bridges, and P. ].
Conway ErOp,boro
The legislative referendum prohibit
ton bill which has been passed by the
house and senate will now be present
ed to the governor for his approval,
and then in 1916 the people Of the
state will vote to reject or ratify it. If
approved, Montana will go dry Deem
Der 81, 1918.
Two cars of elk from Gardiner, so
in all, we're unloaded at Okla, near Ju-
dith Gap, with only one lost; the rest
were not even scratched during the
trip, Instead of loading 40 to the car,
as in previous shipments, % were put
in each stock car after it had been
divided into three compartments.
In a gasoline explosion and conse-
quent fire which destroyed the Pioneer
garage at Glasgow, Roy Flick was burn
ed to death. William Powell, who was
passing at the time, was blown across
the street. Several automobiles, valu-
ed at about $4,000, were destroyed,
The cause of THE explosion is a
mystery. Buildings within a radius of
several blocks were shaken.
George Baker of the Baker Brothers.
logging contractors, working near
Whitefish, says the last season has
been a very good logging year. They
have just finished putting in a contract
of 5000. 900 feet for the Eureka log
ging company and are about to start
on a similar contract for the same
company. Louis Micho has also just
closed a successful season of logging
for the State Lumber company and
has the logs ready for the drive.
Startling charges against President
Charles H. Meyer and other officials
of the Western Federation of Miners
were made Saturday in an answer
filed by Butte officials in the suit by
which the national organization wishes
control of the Butte union pending the
trial of it's officers. 1t is complained
that Meyer hired gunner when he
came to Butte prior to June % and that
the Butte organization was forced to
pay them. The defendants claim
further that if Meyer is given control
of the local that the union will suffer
additional expense for numerous gun
men that will be necessary for his pro-
lection.
With Our Lawmakers.
The important measures to come be-
fore the two houses during this week
are compensation, county division and
revision of the state banking laws. A
substitute bill has been introduced by
a joint committee for the various COM
pensation measures introduced in the