The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-12-07
THE STATE.


held up on 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 $4,000 hotel is
nearing completion here. 1t is be-
ing erected by a business mems or
ganization.
Helena.-A. H. Davee, retiring
state superintendent of schools, is the
new president of the Montana Teach
ers' association.
Dillon.-E. B. Roe, B. W. Linn
erick and Jack Barrett have shipped
train load of fat Beaverhead beeves
to the Kansas City market.
AnacOnda.-A man named Bill Nye,
who wears an air of great dignity, 1s
serving a thirty-day sentence in the
county jail on vagrancy charge.
Culbertson.-Two prisoners who
had been arrested and locked up the
night before persisted in 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 $4,000.
Bozeman. - The Gallatin Valley
Gas company, capitalized at 100000,
is to erect plant here in thelspring.
The franchise was granted at a spe-
cial election by 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 million-dollar
crop on the farms of this district Is
an underestimate.
Great Falls.-On single day last
week quarter of million dollars
was paid in taxes here. The Ana
conda Copper Mining company paid
about $4,000 and the Great Falls
Townsite company, $42,2O8.49.
Helena.-The Equity Cooperative
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 cars.
Helena.-Ground will be broken as
soon as the weather will permit for a
100000 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, ST., James A.
Shoemaker and Scott Leavitt, to rep
resent it at the meeting of the Ma
tional Surety league in Washington,
January rs, 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 tie second time in
less than two years the Milwaukee
depot building has peen burned to
the ground. The entire contents, in
Guiding the office records, were lost.
The first depot was destroyed by fire
July 1 of last year. The new struc.
ture cost several thousand dollars.
Helena.-The state land office this
year has done tina largest husine SIS
since it was organized. The total of
sales for the year is $1,657,639.21.
More than 10000 acres were sold.
The next largest receipts of the land
office were in 1912, when the sales
aggregated $1,306,892.
Columbus. - Applications For
four banks in Saltwater county on
file in the office of the bank examin-
err at Helena are considered to re-
fleet the prosperity and increasing
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 their
crops so fast that the capacity of
the elevators is being strained. The
three elevators are kept in operation
day and night. On one day 243 wag-
on loads of wheat came into the town.
Missoula.-State librarians in ses-
sion here elected Miss Elizabeth
Richie, of Kalispell, president of the
Montana Library association. Miss
Ruth Worden of Missoula was elect
ed vice president, Miss Winnifred
Feigner, of Missoula, secretary and
Miss Ruth Sulzer of Butte treasurer.
Butte.-A bridegroom became SO
nervous while he was waiting for
Judge McClernan to tie the knot that
he put the wedding ring on his own
finger. The ceremony was held up
half an hour while Miss Lillian Sui
livan, the Judges stenographer,
pried the band off with two soaped
toothpicks.
Butte.-The Butte Miners union,
whose hall was destroyed by an op-
posing faction of the organization in
1914, has brought suit against the
city of Butte for 100000 damages.
The contention is made that the city
police could have prevented the dy-
namiting. The case will be tried in
Powell county.
BOzeman. BY rolling peanut
with his nose the entire length of the
state college, Llewellyn Luce, a lead
ing college debater Maid his wager