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menced.
Harlem-Hay in the stack has sold
as high as $23 per ton.
Billings - The assessed valuation
of Billings is $9,764.297.
Fairfield-Modern concrete side
walks are being laid here.
Whitefish-Forest fires in this VII
cinity are we'll under control.
Nashua-The First National bank
began business operations a few days
ago.
Roundup4The Musselshell fair
management is arranging for an eu-
genics contest
Butte-The Anaconda Copper Min
ing company has refused to recognize
the Campbell union.
Cut Bank-The third annual In
dian fair will be held at Browning,
September 18, 19 and 20.
Butte-James E. Lillywhite, pres
ident of the Montana Sheepshearers'
union, has enlisted as marine.
Whitefish-Charles johnson has
been made fire warden of the Kalis-
pell division of the Great Northern.
Conrad-J. P. Humphrey of Great
Falls was the lowest bidder for the
sewer and cement sidewalk contract.
Butte-Many miners have returned
to work during the past week and
conditions are approaching normal
ity.
Billings - Approximately SIS, 900
worth of garden truck was grown in
home gardens inside the city limits
this year.
Billings. A. Green. a pioneer
who came to Montana in 1864, is
dead. He resided in the Gallatin val
ley more than fifty years.
Butte-Over 100 men of the first
44S called for physical examination
failed to appear and the district
board will report them as accented
for service.
Helena-The military authorities
have declined to release to the civil
authorities a man wanted on a charge
of horse stealing and who has en-
listed in the army.
Missoula-The report that mem
bers Of the I. W. W. in western Mon
tana were arming themselves is being
investigated by special agents of the
department of justice.
POplar-Poplar has decided to in
stall water works system. A bond
issue of $25, 900 has been authorized
by the city council to finance the
building of the system.
Butte-Because Fred Chapman, a
miner, had returned to work, wom-
an attacked him on the street. She
her shoe struck him in the face with
it.
Helena-The left foot of Henry
Stiles was squeezed off at the ankle
when it was caught in the rope of
windlass. An hour was required to
extricate Stiles and he was conscious
all the time.
Helena-Georg F. Graham of Hell
ena, manager of the Hotter Hardware
company, has been commissioned a
major in the regular army. He will
be assigned to the quartermasters
department.
Fort Benton-Emil Lundmo went
to sleep on the Great Northern tracks.
He awoke to find himself entangled
with the wheels of freight train.
He was badly mangled, one foot be-
ing almost severed.
Helena-The wife of young man
claiming exemption has written the
local board that he deserted her and
his two children two years ago and
she has been compelled to take in
washing to earn living.
Livfngston-The differences be-
tween the city and the local water
company remain unsettled. James
A. Murray, who owns the water sys-
tenn, has offered to arbitrate, but the
council declines his offer.
Helena-"Deadly results to the
ruling classes are threatened in tele-
grams received by Governor Stewart
from eastern locals Of the I. W. W.
should other leaders of the organiza-
ton suffer the fate of Little.
Helena-Major Jesse B. Root, who
has just finished a 9O-day course at
the musketry school at Fort Sill, Ok
lahoma, has returned to Helena and
his command. Major Roots mark
ings are said to have been excellent.
N1issoula--Nearly 4,500 acres of
land in the Flathead reservation, sold
recently at auction, brought an aver
age price of $22.78, away in excess
Of appraised figures. An 80-acre
tract near the railroad sold for SCI
per acre.
Helena-George Metlen, secretary
of the state highway commission,
who has just returned from Sheridan
county, says the crops of that section
are much better than it was thought
they would be, and the harvest will
be more than fair.
Butte-General W. A. White, in