The enterprise., 1916-10-05
MONTANA IN BRIEF

shelby.-Six cases of diphtheri.
have developed in Toole county.
Belton.-The contract for extensiv.
additions to Glacier Park hotel ha:
been let.
Billings.-Senator Meyers favors
the location Of farm loan bank al
Billings.
Superior. aCasse Brothers will
supply Superior with electricity fol
lighting purposes.
Kalispeu. The grouse crop is very
light, cold weather of last June hav.
ing killed many Of the young birds.
Eureka.-While resisting arrest j
j. Fitzgerald, a tramp, was shot and
killed by Policeman William Doug
lass.
Anaconda.-The infant child of
Nicholas Cronas fell into a pan of
boiling water and received serious
burns.
Conrad. city council has been
petitioned to build city bHll, in con-
nection with which special election
has been called.
Columbus.-The Farmers Eleva-
tor company will erect an elevator
here. Half the stock has been SUBJ
scribed for by local farmers.
Poplar.-The Thompson company
sof Lewistown will build an elevator
here for the Farmers Equity COM
pany. The elevator will cost $780,
600.
Lewistown.-T The Fergus county ex-
hibit, shown at the state fair last
week, will be sent to Seattle to be
exhibited at the Northwestern Land
Products show
Columbia als.-Stephen Zori has
sold his 160 acre tract of timber to
the Columbia Falls Lumber company,
and the work of cutting the timber
will be started at. once.
Plains.-At the opening day of the
Sanders county fair, October IL, ev-
cry individual will be presented with
an apple pie and a glass of cider,
made from locally grown apples.
Chouteau.-The Masons of Chou
team have decided to build a new
temple. .Abuilding association has
been formed and the work of financ-
ing the undertaking is we'll under way.
Dillon.-Cattle buyers are begin
ming to arrive here. Big Hole beef
steers are bringing fancy prices.
Beeves that will be marketed this
year will exceed the number marketed
last season.
Corvallis. Roy Smell, farmer liv-
ing near here, has just received $1,000
from potatoes grown in a ten acre
tract. He planted 50 acres and his
crop will give him a gross return of
over $4,000.
Kalispell. Farmer boys whose
work keeps them out of school during
the busy season will be given credit
for a years work if they attend
county high school for six months.
The plan has proven very popular.
White Sulphur Springs. Walter
Young, member of the I. w. W. gang
which made a futile attempt to run
things at Judith Gap, is dead of
wounds received in the battle be-
tween the toughs and the trainmen.
Dillon.-H. B. Rodgers has been
nominated for district Judge, notwith-
standing the fact that he was not
candidate. Two hundred electors
wrote his name in on the primary bal
lots and this was sufficient to put
him ahead Of other candidates.
Kalispell.- of this district
are protesting about apple inspection.
Farmers have been hauling apples in
to Kalispell, and are compelled to
await the inspectors pleasure, and
much unnecessary delay is occasion
ed because of lack of quick service.
Washington. Ida Dixon, wild
ow of William Writ Dixon, former
representative in congress from Mon
tana, has by will devised that chair
shall be endowed at the state univer-
sity in memory of her husband, her
son and herself. The endowment car
ries with it bequest for $4,000.
White Sulphur Springs. - With
shipments of livestock to the Chicago
markets for two days totaling nearly
100000, heavy returns are predicted
this year from the industry in this
section. On one day 81 cars of cattle
were shipped and on the other 20
cars of lambs. Every animal sent out
was in good shape and it is reported
that the cattle in every part Of the
valley are in the best of condition.
The cattlemen are looking for big
prices. The biggest shipment was
made by the Castle Mountain Live
stock company, 13 cars.
Whoever maintains there can be no
such thing as an excess of caution
should fako noto Of nonr flohIorna rtod