The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-08
THE STATE.

Dillon.-Stock shipments are being
held up OF account of shortage OF
cars.
Chinook.-Three new state banks
for Blaine county. One is at Chi
nook, one at Zurich and the third at
Lehman.
Judith Gap.-A 100000 hotel is
nearing completion here. 1t is be-
ing erected by a business mems or
ganiZation.
Helena.-A. II. Davee, retiring
state superintendent of schools, is the
new president Of the Montana Teach
ers' association.
Dillon.-E. B. Roe, B. w. Lin
erick and Jack Barrett have shipped
a train load of fat Beaverhead beeves
to the Kansas City market.
Anaconda.-A nan named Bill Nye,
who wears an air of great dignity, is
serving a thirty-day sentence in the
county Jail on a vagrancy charge.
Culbertson.-Two prisoners who
had been arrested and locked up the
night before persisted in a fire of un-
known origin that destroyed the town
Jail.
ChinOok.-A charter has been
granted for a state bank at Lehman,
the new town that has sprung up
seven miles west of here. The CAPT
tai is 100000.
Bohemian. - The Gallatin Valley
Gas company, capitalized at $30O,0 900,
is to erect a plant here in the spring.
The franchise was granted at a spe-
cial election by a vote of 237 to 8.
Chinook.-The deposits in the
banks of this city have reached the
million-dollar mark. This indicates
that the estimate of a million-dollar
crop on the farms of this district is
an underestimate.
Great Falls.-On a single day last
week a quarter of a million dollars
vas paid in taxes here. The Ana
conda Copper Mining company paid
about $4,000 and the Great Falls
Townsite company, $~42,208.49.
Helena.-The Equity Cooperative
association at Brady has complained
to the state railroad commission that
discrimination is being practiced
against it in favor OF other concerns
that have elevators in the town in
the provision of ars
Helena.-Ground Will be broken as
soon as the weather will permit for a
500, 600 theater here. Leading cit
liens have subscribed the money for
the erection of the building and j.
E. Oppenheimer of Butte has taken
a lease on the theater.
Great Falls.-The commercial club
of this city has appointed three dele
gates: John Mckenzie, Sr., James A.
Shoemaker and Scott Leavitt, u rep
resent it at the meeting of the Ma
tional Surety league in Washington,
January 25, 26 and q.
Darby.-Avon Benjamin Erway, or
Uncle Ben as he is known to ev-
erybody in this part of the state, is
dead at the age of 81. From 1858
when he came west he prospected and
mined in Utah, Idaho and Montana
until he was too old to do any active
work.
Winifred.-For the second time in
t less than two years the Milwaukee
: depot building has been burned tc
) the ground. The entire contents, in
Guiding the office records, were lost
The first depot was destroyed by fire
} July l of last year. The new struc
ture cost several thousand dollars.
I Helena.-The state land office this
! year has one tha largest huslne SIS
} since it was organized. The total OF
sales for the year is $1,657,639.21
More than 10000 acres were sold
t The next largest receipts of the lane
l office were in 1912, when the sales
? aggregated $1,306,S92.
Columbus. - Applications Fol
: four banks in Saltwater county or
file in the office Of the bank examin.
. err at Helena are considered to re
r fleet the prosperity and increasing
l settlement Of this district. Charters
+ are asked for institutions at Busted
Lake Basin, Gibson and Stickley.
Big Sandy.-This town for some
time has been almost buried in wheat
as the farmers are haulig in theil
crops so fast that the capacity o.
the elevators is being strained. The
. three elevators are kept in operation
day and night. On n day 243 wag
on loads of wheat came into the town
!. Missoula.-State librarians in SEES
sion here elected Miss Elizabeth
Richie, of Kalispell, president of the
:, Montana Library association. Mis-:
. Ruth Worden of Missoula vas elect
ed vice president. Miss Winnifreo
: Feigner, of Missoula, secretary and
: Miss Ruth Sulzer of Butte treasurer
Butte.-A bridegroom became 81
nervous while he was waiting To-
: Judge McClernan to tie the knot tina
= he put the wedding ring on his owl
: finger. The ceremony was held III
half an hour while Miss Lillian Sui
livan, the Judges stenographer
pried the band Off with two soapet
toothpicks.
:, Butte.-The Butte Miners union
whose hall was destroyed by an OPP
posing faction of the organization il
= 1914, has brought suit against tn
= city Of Butte for 100000 damages
: The contention is made that the cit,
! police could have prevented the dy
!. namiting. The case will be tried il
= Powell county.
q Bozenan. - By rolling a peanu
: with his nose the entire length of tn
: state college, Llewellyn Luce. a lead