The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-07
Montana Notes


The following letter has been received by secre-
tary Conc Of the Fifteenth legislative assembly
from President Wilson: "Please accept for YOUR
self and for the members of the Montana senate
and house, my warmest thanks for the heartening
assurances Of the resolution which introduced
by Senator Hogan I deeply appreciate this gen.
action
Fifty-five employees of the city of Great Falls
have received an increase in salary OF SIS a month
due to the increased cost Of living
Tag No 10 was placed on Rags. the Butte mo-
torman's dog. so that he might ride free the
street cars. The next day Rags was killed by
fire department horse.
The validity of the law placing justices Of the
peace in certain county classes on a salary has
instead Of the fee basis will be tested soon in a
friendly suit brought in Helena and intended for
the supreme court to decide.
Apparently the only clue to the burglar who en-
tered drug store at Chester, Hin county are fin
ger prints on pane Of glass in the window
through which the burglar entered and these have
been all but effaced by a heavy rain on the night
the deed committed
Butte policemen have received a S. raise, the
second within the past six months.
The men in the Western Unions Helena office will
be granted an eight-hour shift the first of May
The women received eight hour working day
by the recent act Of the legislature.
Guests at the Billings Jail this week were Will
lam J. Bryan and Charles W. Fairbanks. 1t might
be that the names aliases.
Wolf Point. in the heart of the Fort Peck reser-
vation has taken for its motto Excelsior" The
town has grown from so to 600 in three years. its
citizens assert.
that make him virtually city manager He re-
ceived $500 year.
Miles City has the honor of being the first city
IN the state to fill up company Of militia to full
war strength. Billings and Kalispell are next.
Members Of the Federation of women's clubs at
Great Falls have expressed their determination to
see that the city's vacant lots are cleaned up and
planted for gardens. A day will soon be set for
the women and children OF the city to start the
work.
A third OF n million acres in the Helena public
lands district has been filed since the enlarged
homestead law went into effect last December.
A woman is being held in the county Jail at
Helena on a charge OF horse stealing
Miss Katherine Stnson, the aviatrice who made
such hit at the 1914 state fair, is said to be the
first bird person. to fly the forbidden city of
Pekin. China. When she returns to this country
she will have nearly 100 silk kimonos presents of
admiring Chinese officials
The Helena Garden association, newly formed. is
going to take complete survey Of the city so that
no vacant lot or yard will be left uncutivated
Mrs. J. A. Grant was defeated for mayor Of Deer
Lodge by her male opponent. Frank Conley. She
made an eleventh hour entry into the race.
United States District Attorney Wheeler Is writ
Ing all the county attorneys Of the state to urge
that they help in the detection Of German spies and
plotters.
The Butte Socialist candidate for mayor polled
1900 votes or Just half as many d. his Republican
rival and a third many the successful Demo.
cratic candidate.