The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-11
THE STATE,

corvallis - Hogs sold here fo
$3.50 per hundred.
Stanfortl-A carpenters union i;
being organized here.
: Butte-Car shortage is affectins
the mine timber supply,
Opheim-Many new buildings will
be erected here this spring.
Llvlngston-For killing an elk on,
of season, Sam McMillen was finef
$1O0.
LlvIngston-Typhoi fever is epi
demlc. Two deaths nave resulted
from it.
Deer Lodge-Pupils of the nub1i(
schools have organized a school nota.
to club.
Missoula-The four student iani.
tors at the school of journalism have
enlisted
Miles City - Local business men
have decided to hold "Roundup''
on July 4.
Lewistown-Over SO oil leases, on
land near Winifred, have been filed
on recently.
Great Fal1s-Commercia travellers
of the state will meet here in annual
session June z.
Redstone - The Cleveland coal
mine has been purchased by Mime
apolis interests.
Great Falls-The Rotary club is
planning permanent boys camp in
the Belt mountains.
Observation-Disclosures as to losses
by winter killing of wheat have
been greatly exaggerated.
Poplar-Residents of Poplar have
started an agitation looking to the
installation of waterworks.
Opheim-The Great Northern has
abandoned it's plans to build the Op-
helm extension this summer.
PientywOod-A campaign of road
Improvement is planned by the COM
missioners of Sheridan county.
Great Falls-The Great Falls Iron
works contemplates improvements
which will involve an outlay of $780,
900.
Missoula - Students have petit
toned Chancellor Elliott to close the
University, as so many of them desire
to enlist
Billings-Ground is being broken
for the 1925, 900 office building
which the First Securities company
will erect.
Butte-A lone bandit held up a
street car in the suburbs one night
recently and robbed the conductor
and passengers.
Helena-Clarence Marsh, a con-
vict in Deer Lodge, has been awarded
compensation for injuries received in
a Big Sandy coal mine.
Missoula - Former Senator Joe
Dixon has sold the Daily Missoulian
and the Daily Sentinel to a syndicate
of Chicago neWspapermen.
Roundup-SheriffH Hopkins has is
sued a proclamation warning aliens
to keep the peace and assuring them
of no molestation if they obey the
laws.
GlasgoW-A. w. Rosecrans has
shipped 5000 head of sheep to Bur-
ley, Idaho The sheep were pur-
chased from Margurder Brothers of
this city.
Helena-The exhibitor of the best
ten sheaves of Turkey red wheat at
the state fair will be awarded a four
cylinder, seven passenger Studebakerl
Scobey-Approximately $50 immi-
grant cars have been un1oaded at Sco-
bey this spring. Each of these cars
represents a settler who has come to
Montana to remain.
Missoula-James w. Gerard, war
to Germany, accom-
panied by his wife, will spend few
weeks in the Bitter Root. Mrs. Ger
ard is a daughter of the late Marcus
DAILY.
Miles Cty-During a thunder
storm, while Lou Curl was eating his
lunch in his covered wagon, his
horses, unhitched and tied to the
wagon, were killed by bolt of light
ling.
Billings-Register Foster of the
ocal land office says all homestead
ers who enlist for the war are enti-
led to credit for constructive resi-
lence on his land for the period of
1is absence.
Malta-Tons of rotting fish line
niles from here. During the winter
he lake was frozen solidly to the
bottom, resulting in the destruction
If all the fish in it.
MOndak-All the bonanza farmers
If this section are putting in big
:rops of grain. The season is lit
lie late. but a good yield is looked
or on account of the excellent condi-
ion of the soil.
Opheim-George Linderman, pio
leer homesteader of this section, was
ound dead in his cabin a few days
lgo. He left a note saying that he
hOught that he was about to die, and
lsking that his remains be sent to
JrescO, Iowa, for burial.
Livingston-The Northern Pacific
s hiring every available man for ex-
ensive local improvements. The
will also expend about
;25O,000 at Laurel, and a consider
BILE sum at Whitehall and Bozeman.
Livingston-It is possible that the
ouncil of national defense will ask
hat the Yellowstone national park
,e closed for the season in order
hat the railroad may devote it's