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News of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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| or Rea Brothers, Will be heard be.
fore the referee at Billings, according
to an order made by Judge Bourquin.
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Assistant General Superintendent E.
H. Barrett of the Milwaukee, with
headquarters at Butte, has made an
inspection of the work on the exten-
sion of the railroad from Grass Range
to Winnett. The steel is now going
down at the rate of about half a mile
| a day, and it will probably take some
six weeks to build the line into Win
nett, owing to delays met with at the
start in securing labor.
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Billings policemen are no respectors
of persons or personages in their vigi-
lance to enforce the traffic laws and
despite the indignant protests of May
or John H. Grant of Roundup, he was
booked for speeding when brought in
by the city's plain clothes officer. The
policeman alleges that Mayor Grant
was going 40 miles an hour when plac-
ed under arrest.
Business on the Northern Pacific
railway dropped almost 80 per cent
in the last six weeks, due to alleged
/. w. w. tactics on the Pacific coast
and through the northwest, according
to statement made in Livingston by
J. M. Rapelje, general manager of
the road.
Another big issue of Cascade county
bonds has been purchased by the
state ON Montana. The issue was one
of $125,000 recently voted by the tax
payers for the erection in Great Falls
of junior high school building. The
bonds bear interest at Az per cent.
On August 10 a committee from the
Montana Bankers association will ap-
pear before the state board of equali-
zation to ask that bank valuations be
made equitable and uniform through
out the state. 1t is said some banks
are assessed on the 100 per cent basis
and others only on 40 per cent basis.
1t is also contended banks are assessed
higher than other classes of property.
1t is apparent that much of the hay
of Broadwater county is being bought
up at high prices by spectators, says
J. B. Seely of the Helena
national forest, who has returned from
Crusades against tuberculosis in
Montana have begun to bear fruit, it
is believed, from the report of Su-
perintendent A. T. Mcdonald of the
state sanitarium at Galen, who says |
'or the first time the institution could |
25 more patients than it |
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The city council of Whitefish has let
he contract for the construction of
he new city hall. F. E. Grinde's bid
)eing the lowest, $4,000, the contract
vas awarded to him. The contract
or the plumbing was let to L. A.
1orner for $1,621. The work of con-
truction will begin at once.
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Supervisor Smith of the Kootenai
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ational forest reports all forest fires
rs have been relieved, and a few
yards placed in charge Of the larger
Tres.
Lewistown has just awarded the con.
-act for a $4,000 school building.
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Three hundred women are employed
n the Northern Pacific in this state
S engine wipers, car sweepers, ma
hinist helpers, operators and clerks,
nd all are doing their work as well
S the men whose places they took, ac
ording to statement by A. V. Brown,
eneral superintendent, at Livingston
G. P. Williams, government reclama-
on project manager at Fort Shaw. has
.ceived letter from the Manager of
lie Farm Labor recruiting department.
)erated in connection with the Chi.
lgo Daily News, asking aid in locat
g married couples on western farms
his bureau is organized for the sole
'mpetent married couples in touch
ith each other for mutual benefit.
That harvest returns will prove that
e crop failures over Montana are not
general as the public has been led
believe and that the good fields,
ose whose yield will be fair, and
ose from which partial crop will
gathered, will produce at least 80
r cent Of the normal yield for Mon
na, is the opinion Of Howard N.
ockett, secretary and manager Of the
,rthwestern Grain Dealers associa-
N, In statement given out at Great
lis.
Helena is planning the construction to
six and half miles of new street si
wing. II the project materializes er
lena streets will be second to none bs
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