Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-02-23
THE STATE.

Great Falls-E. F. Kientz. a sa-
loonkeeper, forfeited $25 bail In po-
lice court here after crashing into
and wrecking a preachers automo-
bile.
Missoula-A fire that burned
many hours before being discovered
Quilted the interior of a large ware
house belonging to the Missoula Mer-
camille company. Provisions worth
$4,000 we're destroyed.
Terry-Terry is to have a new
hotel which will cost in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. The old Drum
mond hotel which was destroyed by
fire several weeks ago is to be re-
placed with a structure three stories
high
Butte-While he was rolling a Gig
arctic, James Jarvis, aged So,
stepped backward toward a window
in the second story of a downtown
business block, stumbled over the
sill and fell Is feet, f%racturing his
skull. He died almost instantly.
Great Falls-Ten-year-old jean
nette Fontaine was saved from
drowning by her pet dog, who pulled
her out of an ice hole in the Missou-
ri river. When the child recovered
in the hospital, it was found that the
dog had strayed OF had been stolen.
Lewistown-The high school trus-
tees have decided hat a new build
|, ing is necessary to accommodate the
students at the institution and will
submit the proposition for an issue of
100000 of bonds, to run 20 years,
bearing 5 per cent interest, to the
) voters.
Missoula-The twenty-fourth an
5 niversary of the signing of the legis-
7 lative act establishing the state uni
5 versity was celebrated on the campus,
Feb. Is. Rev. j. N. Maclean, pas
: tor of the Presbyterian church of
Missoula, was the charter day
: speaker.
; Sidney-Olaf Peterson, a wealthy
y farmer living As miles south of Flax
vile, was found on the road to town
smothered under a load of flax. He
had apparently been walking beside
his load when he hit a slanting piece
: of road and the load overturned
burying him.
h Bozeman-F. B. Linfield, director
of the Montana experiment station
n is in Washington confering with Sen
ator Walsh on the question of crop
o ping the Grow Indian reservation
Mr.. Linfield went to the nationa
capital in response to a Telegram
n from Senator Walsh.
It Lewistown-The high school dor
6 mitory has been opened and alread.
20 girls and IA boys have takel
quarters in the building. Mrs. W
w. White has been chosen as matron
The girls and boys who make thei
home at the dormitory will b
Ie charged on the basis of actual cos
Is Plevna-Discovery of oil and ga
g in a we'll being drilled at the schoo
house has occasioned a great deal G
excitement. While the flow was nc
of a commercial quantity, the driller
are confident hat with additions
ne depth the yield will be sufficient
large to justify the building
In works.
ne Billings - George T. Lampor
u Montana pioneer, died here, aged q
Id After the civil war and the India
campaigns in New Mexico, throug
which he served with distinction,
he came to Montana by the way of til
", Black hills. He filled numerous pul
It's lie offices, and was the discoverer
ge the Bear Creek coal fields.
Havre-G. j. Cooper, a Gre
he Northern employee, has received n
m tice that his patent ror an intern
a combustion engine, turbine principl
ga has been allowed and he has gol
ie- east to consult with his attorneys u
tut on the ACCESSIBILITY of presenting h
is plans to the government. The pla
ed call for a 40 horsepower motor
5000 revolutions a minute.
iui Butte-Flight alone saved fro
violence at the hands of a mob
unknown person who threw wat
from a window upon Dave Coskin,
blind organ grinder. Coskin lost
sight IT years ago in a mine &C
dent. He has been a resident
Butte for 81 years and he has h
permission from the city council
several years to grind music from
hand organ on the streets.
BilIings-The Society of Easte
Montana Pioneers has elected OF
GERS for the year as follows: Pre-
dent. A. l.. Nutting, Laurel; v
presidents by counties, Custer, H.
Wiley; Carbon, A. S. Goss; Fall
w. Freese; Fergus, Mrs. Neville !
ty; Musselshell, j. L. Asbridl
Park, Otto Anderson; Sweet Ora
Mrs. Alice T. Vancleave; Yellowsto
~ e. r. Dunno; secretary, Fl. A. Fri
sW Sidney-While digging a well
xH his farm about 35 miles east of
m ney, C. w. Stillwell struck gas wi
}# in five feet of the surface.
IN neighbors are excited over the
covery and are talking of organic
~ a company to develop the propeI
"a The Stillwell farm lies in the viciI
III of Hell's Half Acre, where sc
NJ years ago the reported discovery
IN valuable mineral deposits cause,
vi stir.
Roundup-James C. Simpson
member of the Pioneer club
Roundup and until 1910 engineeI