The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-29
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Helena.-The Canadian Pacific is
buying alfalfa seed in Montana.
Kalispell.-The Dank of commerce
Butte.-The Butte holiday trade is
said to have been the greatest in the
copper camps history.
Choteau.-With the weather MAX
ing it almost impossible to work
many fields Of grain in the north
country remain u~nthreshed.
Helena.-The total expenditures of
all candidates for office during the
recent election was $4,000, accord
ing to the report of the secretary OF
state.
Butte.-The Christmas present to
Sam Hall, formerly a prominent real
estate operator, and serving a Ia year
sentence for empezzlement, was p
free pardon.
Westinghouse is not probable
that the bill providing for the open
ing of the Grow Indian reservation
will become a law at the present ses-
sion of congress.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the school
board accepted the provisional resig-
nation of Principal c. l.. Markley,
800 pupils of the Anaconda high
school went on strike.
Shelby-Albert j. Murdoch has
sold his 800 acre farm to Otto Lyon
for $4,000. Murdoch paid for the
farm with n carload of wheat which
was grown on it this season.
Missoula-Forest fires in western
Montana destroyed lumber worth
$4,327 during the year. This loss is
the smallest in years, and indicates
good service on the part of the forest
ers.
Helena-Weather records indicate
that December of this year was cold
err on an average than December OF a
year ago.. The record was fine until
this white Christmas" season made
itself manifest.
MissOula. - Congressman Evans
says several million dollars will be
needed for Indian reservations and
improvements in Glacier park, and
that he expects to secure the neces-
sary appropriations.
Helena.-Fifty cents per message
is the maximum charge which West
ern Union and any other line may col
lect for messages passing over two
lines, according to a rule put into
effect by the public service commits
:. sion.
. Helena-S. c. Ford, attorney gen
e%ral-elect, has announced tina house:
of i'll fame everywhere throughout
the state must &c out of business
. after January 1. Prosecutions viii
> first be undertaken against the w
ers of buildings.
= Helena.-Miss Jeanette Rankin
congresswoman elect for Montana
expended $1,7OO to win at the polls
according to her statement filed Wit
the secretary of state. She will draw
- a salary of $500 per year, ant
mileage to and from Washington.
; Helena-The receipts of the secre
= tary of state in the last two year
from the registration of autos Wer
$S8,64O, according to the biennial re
port filed with the governor: The eS
penses for the same period Wer
$6.127. The balance of $82,513 wa
converted into the state highwa
fund.
Butte-Chester Morterude, a cal
penter, lost a chest of tools. Wit
the assistance of the police, h
searched the town in vain for then
Abandoning hope of their recovery
he went into a secondhand t
here to buy a new outfit. Herr
among other chests offered, was tn
one he had lost.
Miles City.-More than 5000
pounds of alfalfa seed grown on DIR
land was brought here from the Oily
country by Wilbur Titus. This is tn
largest consignment of seed ever n
ceived in Miles City and is the on
growth Of the recently organized n
fa]fa seed growers association {
Custer couu,y.
Butte.-Montana woolgrowers wi
realize approximately $6,5OO,0O0 #
their 1916 crop of fleece, accordir
to E. A. Gray. general agent of tt
Chicago & Northwestern Railws
company. The clip for this year, e
timated at 21,5OO.O0O pounds, is
100000 pounds less than 1915 al
100000 pounds less than 191
However, due to higher wool price
lie e the net revenu will be as large tn
II year as usual.
Bozeman.-Carl S. Vrooman, a
or sistant secretary of the United Stat
department of agriculture, will n
only speak to the farmers of tt
state gathered at the state COLES
= for the annual Farmers week pr
p gram, January % to q, but W:
probably also address the membe
S, of the Montana legislature at Heller
'e during his visit to the west. Mi
~ Mary Rausch. extension specialist
'o home economics at the Washingtt
Is state university, Seattle, has been e
IL gagged to give cooking demonstr
,: tions to Montana women during tt
"a week. She will make a public a
dress on the Home Budget"
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