Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-03-23
THE STATE.

Carter-Carter is to have a new
hotel.
Billings-Billings BARRIERS have
asked for an increase of two and one
half cents per hour.
Galata-Seed wheat is selling for
So. Buyers from North Dakota are
here picking up every bushel they
can buy.
Malta-The drill in the Bowdoin
oil well struck a pocket of natural
gas at a depth of GIG feet. The flow
was quite strong.
Billings-Beet growers are to re-
ceive an advance of SO cents a ton
this year if the price of sugar re-
mains at the present figure.
Townsend = Six families, with
their household goods and effects,
have arrived here and will locate on
lands purchased in this vicinity.
Bozeman-Ole Johan Jacob Cor
nelius Jacobsin Holland, who claims
the longest name in Montana, has
wed Finger Berthe Berg of Minneap-
oils.
Denton-Half a dozen new resi-
dences, a flour mill, an elevator and
several business blocks will be built
u6T6 DIS SOOu DIS tu6 WSdLuSI Will pCl~
NIT.
Roundup-Nearly 500 final proof
certificates filed during the past year
will increase the a~ssessable property
of Musselshell county by at least
100000.
Bozeman-Montana comes in for
a generous share of the runds APP
propriated by congress to the various
states for high school teaching in
agriculture.
Helena-Adjutant General Phil
Greenan, of the Montana National
Guard, says the Second Montana reg
iment will be recruited to 1900 men
within 60 days.
Darby-W. r. CLIFFORD, the Bitter
Root sculptor, has submitted designs
and models for the $4,000 monu-
ment to be erected at Cody, Wyo.,
for Buffalo Bill.
Roundup-This town boasts the
largest garage in the United States.
The garage contains a second floor
which is reached by automobiles
with an inclined plane.
Butte-Willis Haviland, son of DR..
w. H. Haviland of Butte, has dis
tinguished himself as an aviator in
the French army. He has been deco
rated twice for bravery.
Columbus-Mrs. Lars Stene sold a
dozen pairs of socks at the county
fair for $3.50 a pair. She clipped
the wool from the sheep, carded il
| spun it and knit the socks.
Ronan-Farmers of this section
have subscribed for sufficient stock
in an independent telephone COM
pany to permit of the construction of
a rural line which will reach nearly
every section of the valley.
| Anaconda-Sheriff Hartsell, while
in Miles City, saw Louis Carapalis,
who was released a year ago on 500
bond after being arrested for shoot
ing craps. The sheriff collected
500 and turned Carapalis loose.
Helena-Charles j. Conner of
Townsend, former county attorney
of Broadwater county and a member
of the Fifteenth Legislative assem-
bly,, has been elected secretary of the
railway commission to succeed w. B.
Rhoades.
Hinsdale-Hundreds of head of
sheep and many cattle have persisted
in the bottoms of the Missouri river,
60 miles from here, as the result of
the severity of the weather. John
Etchard is said to have lost 1000
head of sheep.
CoIumbus-With eight car loads
of possession, including AZ horses
and a steam tractor, five families
have arrived here from Iowa. They
are settling on seven sections OF
land they have purchased recently in
the Hailstone basin.
Livingston-The famous gold and
tungsten mines of Jardine, a few
miles north of the Yellowstone Park
boundary, are TO be reopened shortly
on a large scale. About 800 men
will be employed. Litigation has
kept the mines closed for years.
Butte-The ButN and Superior
is now conceded to he the greatest
zinc mine in the world. The, COM
pany's contract with the American
Zinc and Lead company expires
March 81. The Butte company paid
for one years shipment of concen-
trates to Oklahoma $1,2O0,000. In
the future the ore will be treated at
Great Falls.
Three Forks-C. M. Smith, one of
the successful farmers of the Gala
tin valley, has taken over the $500
acre farm of the Broadwater Farm
company and will go in for machine
farming on an extensive scale. When
the weather breaks he expects to
have several tractor outfits working
night and day until his lnad is