Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-05
MONTANA SQUIBS
Mathew Dunn, who died recently at
Helena, was buried at Great Falls.

Mathew Dunn, who died recently at
Helena, was buried at Great Falls.
Three wool clips in the section
around Dillon have beer contracted
for at 25 cents.
The Three Forks new hospital build
ing will be ready for patients as soon
as the furnishings and operating APP
paratus arrive.
Statistics show that there is being
imported into this state annually sew
eral hundred thousand dollars worth
of poultry and eggs.
r. H. McAllister, who shot his wife
at Camp creek, February 90, is still at
large. His wife is at BoZeman in the
hospital alive, but in a critical CON
dition.
Bids Were opened recently for the
construction of a public building at
Miles City. The lowest was Fl. f. Hi
ram of St. Louis, 92,517. No award
was made.
The president has nominated the
following Montana postmasters: Tena
M. Sanderson, Grass Range; F. A. Tit
niger Cascade; Andrew Fleming, Mel
stone; C. NJ. Hanson, Wolf Point.
Gallatin county has received a check
from Silver Bow county for $|5,13I.15.
being the balance due to that county
on account of the cases tried that were
}ro ,,efor,DI fror, C;I,1. Da- z,.4-.
during the last term Of court.
The state supreme court holds that
"Muckie" Mcdonald Joseph Bradley.
Owen Smith and William Winchester
must serve the sentence of imprison-
ment at the penitentiary imposed upon
them in Butte for their participation
in the labor troubles of the mining
camp last summer
Crazed by anger because he believ-
ed they were responsible for his wife
leaving him, Grant T. Martin, a paper
hanger of Laurel, 16 miles west of
Billings, Monday shot and killed his
two brothers-in-law, George and John
Lockridge, at their ranch, 40 miles
southwest of Billings. He is in Jail.
Joseph Sturgeon, who had beer en-
gagged in the mercantile business in
Waller since the birth of the city sew
eral years ago, died recently, aged Sc
years. Mr.. Sturgeon came to Mon
tana in his early youth and engaged
in the cattle business in Beaverhead
county in the early days. He was one
of the early settlers of Butte.
Being in the employ of a ~roalroad
for 81 years and an engineer for AZ
years, and never having had an acct
dent or wreck, is the remarkable rec
ord of George Geer, who resides at
Livingston, and who, at the age of rs,
is today one of the most energetic.
capable and reliable engineers run
uing on any road in the country. He
also is a civil wal veteran.
A remarkable case of a dream COM
ing true and a wish gratified as a re-
suit of his dream vision came Satur-
day when Patrick Joseph Graham, a
resident of Butte for 26 years, died
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary
Weldon. While slightly i'll he fell
asleep, dreamed he was in a coffin.
He awoke, made a will, declared a
wish to die that night, and while
asleep he died.
Horse buyers for the Italian govern
ment and farmers in the Dakota fur
nished the demand for the material Of
fered at the first sale of the year held
in Miles City last week. All of the
stock offered was sold even to the
light saddle horses of the cayuse type,
although the prices were not as good
as those secured on the M~ontana-bred
Gallatin valley draft horses which
topped the market.