The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-04-13

days the first of the week. He is
working On the head of Buggy creek
for Lee Cornwall.
w. ]. Colwell of Oswego, spent sew
eral days this week in Harlem and
Chinook He states that the whole
country around Harlem is under water
and great damage done to irrigating
dams, two of them having gone out.
The ice has gone out of Milk river.
The river was almost bark full and
probably as high as it has been for
several years. The rapid melting of
the heavy SHOWS that fell just at the
close of the winter made the river rise
faster than ever before.
Mrs. Sam Brooks will leave Sunday
with her son for her home in Glen
Ros, Ont, while her husband will go
west to look up a location. The loss
of this estimable family from our
midst will be severely. felt by the So
ciety they SO gracefully ornamented.
Oscar and Eugene Cutting and T.
M. Patten left this week for Vandalia
where they will make a log drive
down Milk river to the mouth of
Willow creek. The logs will be used
in the construction of a dam in VIII
low creek in which the above named
gentlemen are interested.
Frank Hunter of Poplar passed
through Glasgow Monday on his way
to Blackfoot where he expects to To-
cate a claim on that portion of the
reservation which was thrown open
to settlers yesterday. Mrs. Hunter
has gone east to Virginia to visit her
parents.
The Missouri river gorged with ice
a few miles below Wolf Point and the
water backed up so that the flat was
covered for several miles. The water
washed out about 1000 feet of the
Great Northern railway company
track near the point delaying the pas
senger trains several hours.
Hoke Smith and Johnny Mcintyre
left Glasgow Tuesday for the XE
horse ranch. They will start the
spring roundup of horses in a few
days. T. W. Enright left Thursday.
Mr.. Enright, as has been his annual
custom, will give orders and map out
plenty of work that will not be done.
P. j. Calvin of Saco, was in Glas-
gov yesterday. He says that the
Kennedy dam went out Wednesday.
This viii! be a p%aralyzinp stroke to
many who depended upon the dam to
lrrigate the immense flat north of the
railroad track. Bob Able's dam holds
in good shape and this will insure the
hay crop on the south side.
Len Morrow, wagon boss for the
Nm wagon on this side of the river,
started on the spring roundup for
horses Monday. Among the old hands
that will use a hondo on each end of
the Irvine to catch them coming and
going are Mart Handy, Rusty McNeill,
"Nigger Bob" Leavitt. The roundup
started from Nashua and is working
between Cherry creek and the Porcu-
pine.
M. D. Hoyt and A. w. Mahon left
yesterday for Saco to join H. H.
Hedges on a duck hunt. They will
hunt on Whitewater. They took with
them three dogs for retrieving.
The local sportsmen are taking ad-
vantage of the spring duck shooting
which has been better this year than
usual. The great number of lakes
and sloughs makes the shooting diff
cult and as the birds alight in lakes
around which there is no cover it is
hard to get within shooting range.
Valley county has made a record
for herself in the collection of taxes
that will excel that of any county in
the state. She collected just $3.50
more than the amount charged on the
assessment roll. The amount charged
was $7,523.02, and the amount COL
lected was $47,527.52 The penalty
for delinquency make up enough to
pay the taxes and the $3.50 in excess.
Hank Shuefelt was shot and i'm
mediately killed last Saturday even
ing by 0. M. Dean in the little town
of Grinnell, few miles east of Will
liston, N. D.