Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-02-09
THE STATE.

Highwood.-The commercial CLUB
will endeavor to secure a water sys-
tenn for the town.
Bozeman-Forty-five youths are
being instructed by the agricultural
college in grain grading.
LewistOwn-The Great Northern
has carried it's survey out from WIN
nett on through the Musselshell val
ley. the grade being 165 e e o
the river bed at Weede.
Lewistown-1he Winnett business
men have organized u commercial
club with o. H. Badger as president;
P. j. Anderson vice-presldent ana
A. w. Ogg secretary and treasurer.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of a sugar
factory here is assured, it is announc-
ed, as a result of the sale of bonds
by the Montana-Utah Sugar company.
It is expected work will be started In
the spring.
Observation-Disclosures all through
Sheridan county have been adding
their membership to the Non-Par-
tisan League at a rapid rate this win
ter. 1t is believed the county now
has 5000 members.
Bozeman-Two months in the
county Jail was the penalty imposed
upon r. L. Johnson who pleaded
guilty to stealing some socks from a
local shoe store and disposing OF
them at a second hand dealers a few
moments later.
Helena-Antone Rasmussen of
Musselshell county is the second far
mer to negotiate a loan from the
state. He was paying IL per cent
interest and secured $4,000 on a 800
acre farm at six per cent. His saw
ing in interest will be $3.50 per year.
Harlem--With more than three
score cases at n time, this city Is
in the midst of the worst typhoid
fever epidemic in it's history. Many
patients have been sent away to
Great Falls, Havre and Glasgow hos
pitfalls. Both the local hospitals are
full.
Roundup-Falling backwards into
a pot of grease in which his mother
had been cooking a goose, the Is
) months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs,
| Vince Oset, residing just outside the
> city limits of Roundup, was so badly
I burned that death came 48 hours
later.
8 Helena-Clerks of the courts Of
several Montana counties met here
and organized a state association Of
court clerks. The officers elected
E were: J.. l.. Martin of Lewistown
J president; P. ]. Day of Shelby, vice
I president, and w. D.. Jarrett o.
l Roundup, secretary-treasurer.
Roundup-His chest crushed be
tween a hayrack and a gatepos'
when he attempted to reach hi
horses heads to prevent a runaway
John S. Glenn of the Emory district
was so badly injured that death cam
3 after a few hours. Glenn, who wa
le 80 years old, was a ~prosperou
rancher.
Roundup-Nearly 500 men ar
ID on the payroll of the Republic Goa
70 company at Klein, ear here, and tn
/ production breaks all previous re-
~ ords. 1t is averaging in excess {
/ 5000 tons a week at present. Th
mine is operating on full time an
y all the output is taken by the Mi
70 waukee to operate it's trains.
/ Missoula-Mrs. Ada Lee, says til
physician attending her, is alive an
- getting we'll solely because she dram
e a large amount of whiskey befo1
taking carbolic acid. Mrs. Lee, Q
AZ account of a love affair, made elal
III crate preparations for suicide, inclut
- ing the writing of numerous letter
and the disposition of her money.
10 Livingston-This city won the fiji
10 al round in it's seven-year battle fl
the right to construct and operate
municipally-owned water plant whe
the supreme court of the state denie
. the Livingston Water Works cor
pany, owned by James A. Murray
Butte, a rehearing of the Ease decide
8 against it by hat tribunal last 0
itober.
~ Helena-R. r. S%idebotham and
n G. G.. Wilmot, founders of the Mort
western Trustee company, have be-
convicted of using the mails to d
fraud and sentenced to 10 mont.
in the federal prison at Fort Leave
worth. They are required to p
the cost of the trial, about $500
None of the 13 other defendants W
found guilty.
S~avoy--The last of the old tov
of Savoy was moved to the new tow
site a few days ago, when the Goo
heart hotel was finally placed on
foundation on a prominent cornt
On account of its great weight, N
Goodheart was unable to mov |
hotel when the rest of the busine
houses were moved last fall, a
had to wait until the ground fro
Butte-With all the milk deale
complying with the city milk or
nance in the amount of butter f
solids and bacteria, and a major
of grocery stores. confectionery stol
and restaurants rated at 100 per ce
Milk Inspector J.. P. Riordan has
sued what he terms the most sat
factory report this year" Tween
four diaries are included in the