Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-09-03
MONTANA SQUIBS


tana State Bankers association this
week
The Montana Power company last
week declared it's regular quarterly
dividend of $3O3,415.
A boom in copper stocks and in the
metal seems imminent, according to
market news from the east.
A car of rainbow trout in care of
Mr.. Morgan was distributed in streams
around Darby and Hamilton recently.
| G. Woodland was arrested in Gla-
cier park and lodged in the county Jail
at Kalispell on charge of killing elk
cut of season.
The Northwest Montana Poultry as
ISOLATION has decided to assist in max
ing state exhibit at the San Fran
cisco exposition.
Two moose were seen one day re-
Gently on the banks of the West Gal
latin river on the Sam Wilson Buffalo
Horn ranch up West Gallatin. canyon.
The old Comet mine, in the Basin
district, idle for the last rs years, has
been taken under five-year lease by
the Comet Mines, recently organ
ICED corporation.
Reports of large wheat yields con-
tinue to come in from various parts
of the Judith basin. Threshing is pro-
ceeding rapidly, the yields running
from 25 to 40 bushels
George Lowry, an aviator, of Butte,
was seriously injured Sunday when an
explosion took place while he was pre-
pairing to fill his Zeppelin with gas.
The cause of the explosion is not
plain.
Two Italian horse buyers and one
English horse buyer, were in Butte
Monday in the market for their gov
ernments and ready to purchase all
horses offered coming up to require
ments.
G. Cobb of Kalispell won second
place and silver medal upon his ex-
hibit of taxidermy at the exposition
at San Francisco. Mr.. Cobb's exhibit
was composed entirely of mountings
of native animals.
Delegates from Idaho Falls, Idaho;
Missoula, Anaconda, Helena and Bill
ings were in Butte Sunday and Mon
day in attendance at the annual con-
ference of the Young Peoples society
of the Swedish churches of Montana
]. Mcpherson of Anaconda has re.
ceived word from the Panama-PacifiC
exposition that he had been awarded
bronze medal for his exhibit of blue
stem grass or western wheat grass
botanically known as bromus enermis
| Scattered throughout the state, with
nearly every county represented, there
are something like 1900 members OF
the Society of Montana Pioneers
Their eyes are turned this year to-
ward Great Falls, where the thirty-sec
ond annual meeting of the organiza
ton will be held on Sept. and 10.
AS the result of the high price OF
wheat during the past winter and
spring, the desire of land owners to
increase their output of cereals. ne
cessitating the enlargement Of their
acreage, the implement business OF
northern Montana has during the pres
ent season increased to an extent new
er before known.
Sunday on the north fork of the Big
Hole river, 20 miles from Wisdom, the
anniversary of the famous battle OF
the Big Hole was celebrated for the
first time by the people of this state
and Idaho. On Aug. 8, 1877, the ma
rauding Nez Perez Indians and Lieut.
Col. John Gibbons command of regu
lars met in one of the most bloody en-
counters ever had with Indians in
Montana.
The Montana State Press associa
ton adjourned Saturday afternoon al
Billings with the election Of Walter
Anderson, Red Lodge. president; j. A
Gilluly Of Lewistown, vice president;
George H. Cade of Kalispell. second
vice president; H. c. Anderson of Har
lem, third vice president; S. E. Peter
son of Great Falls, secretary, and H. B
Mitchell of Great Falls, treasurer.
| 1He tWeHly-Hltu annual CouVcutiOL
of the Montana Pharmaceutical asso
citation, held recently at Hunters Hot
Springs, was well attended and much
interest was manifest in the business
and topics under discussion. Retir
ing President Fitch, in his annual
address, especially urged that drug
gists help to make the new law pro
hibiting general stores from handling
poisonous preparations success and
thereby make good the statement tC
the legislators, at the time the bill
was up for consideration, that the in
terest of the general public would
be better served by druggists than by
general merchants. The election OF
officers resulted as follows: Presi
dent, ]. w. Corwin, Park City; vice
| nresidant q w Ranlr Niruinia Citu