The circle banner., 1917-09-28
News of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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geSt handicapS the institution has ever
faced and threatens to do more harm
to the school than anything else, says
Chancellor Edward G. Elliott.
Sixty-one cars, constituting one of
the largest cattle shipments ever made
from Sweet Grass county, recently
left Big Timber for Chicago.
All of the snow fighting machines
of the Great Northern, which have been
kept at Hillyard, are being brought to
| WhitefiSh and will be stationed at
different points along the Kalispell
division.
Judge A. P. Stark has granted the
ty for a grand jury. The jury is in
vestigating alleged misuse of funds in
county offices.
Silver Bow county ranks first among
Montana counties in the number of
automobiles possessed by its citizens.
Cascade, Fergus and Yellowstone coun-
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One of the biggest sheep deals closed
in Montana in recent years has just
meen made in Billings and it is said
upwards of 100000 was involved when
Lee Simonson sold 10000 ewes to a
Denver firm.
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letters to the secretary of the interior
protesting against the custom of tax
ing every privately owned machine the
sum of $3.50 for the privilege of tour
ing Yellowstone national park.
Joseph Lortie, age GA, locator of the
Rarus mine in Butte which was sold
for 100000, is dead in Butte. He was
penniless at the time of his death.
Colonel A. A. White of Kalispell an
nounces he will spend million dollars
improving Wild Horse island in the
Flathead lake with the object of max
ing it the finest summer resort in
America.
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The town of D'Aste, on the Flat |
head reservation, will soon be an eStab-
lshed institution. The selected tract |
for the townsite consists of 160 acres
and is on the line of the Northern Pa
cific branch which is being built into |
that section. Fifteen miles of the new |
branch line is under operation and its |
terminus is now in the town of Taber. |
The draft board of Park county at |
has requested friends and
relatives of drafted men to say their
last goodbyes at home instead of at
the railway station, on account of the
many sad scenes enacted.
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Montana physicians who have been
offered commissions in the medical
corps of the army are urged to decide
at once whether or not they will ac-
cept them, in an appeal sent out by
the secretary of the national council
Of medical defense for Montana.
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The year 1917 has achieved the rec
Jrd as the dryest season recorded by
he Havre weather office. The record
is subject to dispute, however, as
people are insistent that
1910 was the dryest.
Officers of the United States army
ire actively engaged in buying horses
,or army use in several eastern Mon
ana towns.
The Livingston exemption board is
Investigating charges placed before it
% the effect that two Livingston men
adopted children in Butte in order to
lvoid draft service. Both men were
on the grounds of having
dependent wives and children.
The unusual spectacle of a steam
ractor fording the Missouri river was
Witnessed at Fort Benton, the outfit
,etting across without any mishap.
The low stage of water permitted the
lse of the old Indian ford below the
ounty bridge.
Val DeRosier, constable of Marys- ,
lille, was shot and killed by robbers ,
yhen he came upon them as they were
lowing a safe. The murderers es- IT.,
aped. .
Excavating for the 100000 filtration |
liant at Livingston has started and Ii
larks the beginning Of actual con- c
truction on the city's municipality V
wned water system.
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Preparations are nearly complete 0
Or the opening of the fall term of the q
lontana university at Missoula, Mon C
ay, October ]. The last Friday and C
aturday of the present month are to s
e registration days. i