Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-04-30
MONTANA SQUIBS

II. w. Paige, a well driller, while
drilling for water six miles east OF
Billings recently, opened a large peck
ct of oil gas.
A number of mining men from Butte
will inspect the phosphate deposits
which are being opened for exploita.
ton near Maxville.
A fire originating from a faulty flue
caused a loss of about $1,000 to the
building and contents of the Methodist
church at Dillon Saturday.
Flames consumed the greater part
of one street in Stevensvi1le Friday
night. The fire burned six buildings,
the Hunter block catching fire several
times.
Mrs Mary Duffin, formerly Mrs.
Harry Allen, shot and killed herself on
a ranch near Lewiston Saturday. She
was 80 years of age. Her acquaintance
throughout the county was extensive.
4NO SduSC lOl ACi dSL is hllUWu. ..s
News that Secretary of the Interior
Lane has permitted auto travel i n
Yellowstone National park after Aug.
l was received at Livingston with
much pleasure by some and with in
dignation and regret by others.
w. L. Hays, clerk of the district
court Of the Ninth judicial district, has
mailed a bill to Silver Bow county for
$~2,377.40, the total cost of the three
Butte cases recently tried in Boze-
man. The cost of the jury was $94S,
and for the witness fees $1,429.40.
The chamber of commerce of Lew
istown has accepted an offer from Hen
ry Neill to give the use of a ~five-acre
tract at the edge Of town as a demon
strating tract for growing sugar beets.
The tract will be looked after person
ally by County Agriculturist Pearson.
David M. Wood, state sealer of
weights and measures, who with Dep
uty Sealer H0ule has been weighing
bran, mixed feed and middlings han
died by dealers in Helena, say that
it had developed that certain mills
were giving short weight in these COM
modities.
With the object of securing correct
data of what Montana produces and
the quantities., the Montana railroad
commission has made arrangements
to obtain from every railroad operat-
ing in Montana monthly commodity re-
ports, on which will be reported by
stations ~ staple commodities.
Residents of the state may have
the opportunity of seeing the old Lib
erty bell, famed for having pealed the
first notes of independence of the
American colonies ON the Fourth Of
July. 1776. 1t will be on it's way to
San Francisco fair. The route and
date will be announc d later in this
paper.
Officials of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company at Butte say that I'M
l%aborers, attracted by the news
that Butte was striking its old pace as
a result of the copper boom, headed
this way by thousands, simply cannot
be provided with work. While the
companies have been putting on skill
ed miners, they have no employment
for men who are without experience.
The Harlowton school board chose
the following for the coming year.:
Superintendent, John A. Johnson;
principal high school, c. A. WEIGH;
mathematics, Mary Hough; music and
drawing, Jessie Poindexter; seventh
and eighth grades, Ida Berg; fifth and
sixth grades, Mabel Murphy; second
grade, Edith Woodbury.; primary, Nj
ma Kirk; English, third and fourth
and kindergarten positions to
be filled; Okla school, C H. Robert