The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-11-02
News of Montana
Brief Notes. Concernine the
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| Ivy SeHefdtillS OO.OUO lioIScDonSi, i
planned by the Montana Power com
pany, the electricity to be used in tn
electrification of at least some portion
of the Great Northern system.
| While travelling to his ranch hom
from Miles City at night Jacob Mer
cier lost his way and with his team
went over 50-foot cliff and was kill
ed. One of the horses was killed also
MERCER left town about dusk on 4,
stormy night after being advised no
to try the trip. The body was founC
under the living horse.
The Montana state board of hOrti
culture has ruled that owing to the
present food conditions occasioned by
the European war; apples which have
a total area of scab not exceeding one
half square inch, may be marketed
provided the boxes are plainly labeled
''scab" and bear the name and adj
dress of the grower.
The Livingston lodge of Elks and the
Park county chamber of commerce
have started campaign for funds
to buy feed for thousands of head of
elk in Yellowstone national park Re
cent visitors to the park say the range
has been almost entirely eaten off by
grazing herds of cattle and sheep.
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The army recruiting office at Bill
lings has enlisted more than 1000 men
into the regular army since the war
started.
p. I'll. Sexton, owner and manager of
the Sexton theater in Great Falls, and
former prominent real estate and in
surance man, is being held in the Cas-
cade county Jail pending an examina-
ton as to his sanity.
Various Montana districts report
considerable damage to the potato
crop from the recent severe freeze.
Hector A. Erred" LaMOtte, wearing
a deputy game warden badge. and
Louis LeVeque, both BARRIERS and mem
bers of the Power City Shooting club
of Great Falls, were arrested by Dep
uty Game Warden Delphy after they
had slaughtered 90 big northern ducks
at Schammock lake. The ducks were
confiscated and are being held as evil
dence.
Montana sheriffs in special session
in Helena decided that the $50 re-
ward offered by the federal govern
ment for slackers should go to the
person giving the information instead
of the sheriff making the arrest.
A company of Billings men capt.
talized at $4,000 has been organized
to build complete milk pasteurizing
plant and cheese factory. The COM
pany expects to treat all the milk re-
tailed in Billings.
]. E. Logan, secretary of the Great
Western Sugar company in Billings,
says people of the northwest need have
40 fear that the sugar supply here will
De curtailed, and that the present
price of SO per hundred pounds will
continue indefinitely.
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After four years as chief of police |
If Glasgow, Nick Baynham has come
o Helena to become a deputy United |
states marshal under Joseph L. As |
ridge, as successor to l.. S. Croft, |
Who resigned several months ago to |
inter- the federal secret service and |
Who is now stationed in Spokane.
That the doctors who made the ex- |
limitations for the various Montana |
ounty exemption boards did their |
york unusually we'll is demonstrated |
y the fact that out of the first five
er cent of Montana's quota that was
ent to Camp Lewis, or 395 men, only
tx men were rejected as physically
A land deal involving $4,000 acres
f land and quarter of a million dol
hrs was consummated in Roundup
hen the Griggs ranch, located near
age, was sold to Frank Liess, bank
+ of Mokena, ILL.,, and Mrs. Maitby, a
-ealthy land owner of Chicago. The
cal was made through the agency of
!. A. Morris, president of the First
ational bank of Roundup.
III. w. Hueber. Sc years old, an en-
loye of the Billings sugar factory,
lille emptying a wheelbarrOw into
vat of pulp. became over balanced
nd fell into the hot mass. Life was I
xtinct when the body was recovered.
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A new roundh0use Is being built at
ainville by the Great Northern to
ouse all the branch line engines.
The contract for the principal dis
ibuting ditch of the Fergus County.
and & Irrigation company's Flatwil-
w irrigation project has been let to
E. Weir of Lewistown. Work will
3 started Immediately. The project
i'll irrigate 7,44S acres.
B. o. Johnson of Livingston, super
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