The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-07-06
THE STATE

Helena - Montana's Red Cross
fund has reached approximately
100000.
RounduI-The Roundup Electric
company has offered to sell it's plant
to the city.
Butte-At a meeting of women
voters held recently national prohibit
ton was endorsed.
Billings-Among the suffra gette
sentlnels recently arrested in Wash
this city.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS G. Williams,
who left Anaconda a short time ago
to go to Mcintosh, Washington, is
missing.
Lewistown-Work on the large &C.
ment plant at Hanover is being rush
ed to completion. The daily pay roll
of the plant is $500
Butte-Louis Deribelbis, just re-
turned from Japan, says men are
working in the Japanese steel plants
for 20 cents per day.
Great Falls--Judge Ewing of the
district court has held that playing
cards in public is not a violation of
law, providing there are no stakes.
Helena-The rights of the North
ern Pacific of 5000 acres of land in
the Gallatin national forest are being
contested by the federal government.
Billings-The strike of transfers,
dray-men, building trade workers
and ice and milk wagon drivers has
been settled and work has been re-
sumed.
Observation-Disclosures operations in
the woods of the Nine Mile district
and the mill at Bonner have been
crippled as result of l. w. w. agi-
tation.
Iivingston-A total of 42O enlist
ed men and eight commissioned Off
GERS of the regular army are station
ed at Fort Yellowstone for patrol
duty in the park.
Billings-Farmers of the Lake Ba-
sin district, into which section the
Northern Pacific is building, have
organized two local companies for
the building of elevators.
Livingston-An increase of five
cents per hour in the wages of all
carmen employed in Butte, Laurel,
Livingston and Billings, is announc-
ed. The decision affects 400 men.
Polson-The federal government
will shortly offer lots for sale in the
new towns of Chariot and Flathead,
on the DiXon-Polson branch of the
Northern Pacific, in the Flathead re-
servation.
Butte-James Reynolds, president
of the Butte Advertising club, and
advertising manager of the Hennes-
sey Mercantile company, will locate
in Billings and engage in business on
his own account
Billings-Two Indians, represent
ing the Grow tribe, have gone to
Washington. where they will endeav-
or to secure better treatment from
the federal government in regard to
their land and stock.
Belgrade-The Belgrade chamber
of commerce is organizing a home
guard, the primary arrangements be-
ing in charge of a committee COM
posed of w. q. Parkins, ]. e. Wake
field and w. H. Richardson.
Helena-Miss Margaret Hughes,
state chairman of the Red Cross
nursing service, has issued an appeal
for young women to take up nursing
as a patriotic duty. The need of
trained nurses will be very great in a
lew ulOullS.
Great Falls-Mrs. M. H. Hensley,
widow of Major S. P. Hensley, who in
his day was one of the most import
ant figures in transportation business
on the Pacific coast, died here at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. W.
M. Thornton.
Helena-Sixteen lump sum settle
ments have been ordered paid to de-
pendents of victims of the Butte mine
disaster. Funeral expenses in each
instance were held down to $3.50, as
compared with an average of $7OOl
of year ago.
Livingston-"I don't have to show
my registration card to every tin
horn sheriff in the country" was the
remark of Newton S. Murphy, veal
thy resident of st. Paul to Sheriff
Robinson of Park county. He was
arrested and fined $50 for contempt
acknowledgements Clarence M
Shaw of the Second Montana infantry
regiment, stationed as one of the
guards at bridge 116, in Bonner, was
shot and instantly killed by Acting
Corporal Arthur Kline at the Bonner
camp. The shooting was accidental
Lewistown-Manyc complaints have
been made by farmers regarding the
depredations of elk turned loose in
the foothills two years ago. The elk
were expected to retire to the noun
tains. Instead they have developed
a fondness for growing grains, and
the farmers are getting the worst of