Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-01-29
MONTANA SOUIBS

DR.. Finn, former resident of Libby,
died in Malta, of heart trouble.
A favorable committee report was
made to the senate on the seed lien
bill.
The state senate killed the bill pro-
viding for nonpartisan election of
county officers.
Sidney Hoffn an, a pioneer ranchman
of Gallatin valley, is a patient at the
Bozeman hospital.
A new postoffice has been establish
ed at Swan Lake, Flathead county,
with Albert X. Millett as postmaster.
The Great Northern Railway com
pany will expend $4,000 in improve
ments Upon the roadbed in the vicinity
of Eureka early in the spring.
The reasury department has award
ed to Olson w. johnson of Missople
the contract for erecting the public
building at Bozeman, his bid being
$685.
The Commercial Club of Deer Lodge
has made arrangements for a farm
ers' institute to be held at the court
house in Deer Lodge next Friday and
Saturday.
Harry Richards, a pioneer of West
ern Montana, residing at Bonita, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself re-
Gently. He. worried we the loss of
pension papers.
The farmers of Gallatin valley are
wearing a broad smile as a result of
the heavy snowstorm last week that
was greatly needed to protect the
ranges and the winter wheat.
Announcement is made that Princi-
pal c. Y. Brown of the Sweet Grass
county high school will his con-
nection with the school at the end of
the present term, having accepted a
like position in the Park county high
school for one year.
Employees of the legislature who had
not been paid for services rendered
were Saturday given their warrants by
State Auditor Heating and the cash
for them by State Treasurer Rae.
There were 80 house employees Ind IS
in the senate who had the pleasure.
County Attorney Thomas F. Shea
recently held that when a child reach
es the age of 6 years the child can en-
ter into public school regardless of the
time of the year. The proposition was
put to the attorney general in Helena
and he sustained the position taken by
Mr.. Shea.
Mrs. Grace Crater P~oindexter, wife
of DR.. F. M. Poindexter, died recently
at Dillon. She had been i'll of heart
trouble for several weeks. The deceas
ed was born in Beaverhead county 81
years ago, and vas one of the most be
loved and highly esteemed young won
en- in the county.
From 1000 to 1900 tons of coppel
ingots, produced by the Anaconda Cop
per Mining company of Anaconda, ONT
of the largest copper corporations in
the world. will be shipped to Tacoma
every 20 days and transshipped tc
steamers to be hauled via the Panama
canal to New York.
Murray's bank, a private institution
at Butte, direc ly across from the post
office, was the cen of a daring day
light holdup. At three o'clock the
other afternoon when three unmaskeC
men rushed into the bank. and, after
holding up Cashier e. l.. Chapman, the
} only official in the bank at the time
they locked him in the safe. The ban
} dts escaped with 5000 and some val
liable jewelry.
James Retalick was sentenced t
serve one year in the state peniten
tiary, in accordance with the verdicf
of the jury in the case Jan. 4. The
Judge afterward ordered that the sen
tence be suspended and that Retalicl
be placed under parole. Retalick was
convicted on the charge of grand lar
ceny in connection with the robbery
of the Butte Miners union safe, which
was blown up June 10.
One of the principal questions dis
cussed at the meeting of the county
clerks and recorders of Montana a
Helena last week was the registration
of the women who have become eligi
BILE as voters through the adoption O
the equal suffrage constitutions
: amendment. A woman of foreign ma
tivity can register on the naturaliza
ton papers of her husband or he
: father. The widow of a %naturalizet
: foreigner can register on his papers
A woman of American birth, who i
married to a naturalized foreigner
must register on his papers; the citi
+ zenship of the wife follows that of thu
t husband. as long as their marital rela
tionship continues.
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