The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-08-31
| MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

| III eastern Montana TO guard Drldges
and tunnels. The soldiers are replac
Ing deputy United States marshals
hired when the guard was mustered
into the federal army.
Coy Jackson and George Foley
ranchers in the Belt mountains, have
been arrested by game wardens charg-
ed with illegally killing elk.
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The completion of a twO-mile spur
by the Montana, Wyoming & Southern
railway to new mine in Fister gulch
opened by the Montana Coal & Iron
company has made accessible the rich
est coal deposit in the Bridger district
and 1t is expected the output will be
greatly increased.
The city council of Big Timber has
passed a resolution prodiving for the
creation of a modern lighting district
that embraces the entire town, SUBJ
iect to the approval of the taxpayers.
The 1917 apple crop will be the
,leanest ever harvested in the north
west, declares State Horticulturist A.
L. Strousz, speaking of the Montana
product this year. The quality prom
lses to be very good and there is little
scab on the apples. Mcintosh Reds
will furnish the greater portion of the
crop.
Railroads doing business in Mon
ent year on a valuation of $50, 952, 726,
an increase over 1916 of $1,9O91S5
The Helena city council has passed
an ordinance designed to prevent 'trai-
torous speech" on the streets or in
other public places. The law is eff
fective at once and provides among
other things that all those wishing to
hold public meetings must secure per-
mission from the council.
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Officials of the Montana Good Roads
association at conference in Helena,
selected September 81 and %, during
the State fair week, as dates for the
annual convention.
Over .S25, 200 has been subscribed in
stock for the Geraldine Farmers Ele-
vator and Milling company, and work
On the building will begin at once.
Instructions have been received at
the Great Falls naval recruiting sta
ton to accept no more naval recruits
after September 1.
The Amalgamated Sugar company,
Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah and
other western states, is now ready to
erect a large factory at some suitable
point in the jefferson valley, provided
he farmers will contract to grow 1000
lcres of beets.
Billings will send at least one fully
minister to the trenches, in
he person of Rev. f. III. Talbot, pas
or of the Community church there.
lcNelcllu dlUOt udS ltll IOI OIL
smelling, Mimi, where he was sum-
noned to the second officers train
ng camp.
Prof. Alfred Atkinson, professor of
gronomy at the state college at Boze- |
nan, has been selected to be food COM
missioner of Montana, by Herbert |
Ioover, national food administrator.
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All of the Burma beans in the hands
f retailers in Montana have been
raced by the state board of health,
nd their sale forbidden. The federal
overnment has also excluded them
rom interstate shipment.
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The rapid progress which the Indian
as made towards civilization will be
at fair to be held Sep
1dian agency.
Reports Of county agricultural
gents show that harvesting is under
ay throughout the state and that the
eld of grain is going to be far larger
ian was indicated by the pessimisticI
,ports of recent weeks. All irrigated
heat has done well and the hay crop
i'll be fair.
Mrs. Wiley Donaldson, wife of a
Incher in the Clearwater country, has
ken out a license to pilot hunting
i'd fishing parties. She is believed
be the first woman game guide in
merica.
A. G. Scholes, state dairy commits
oner since the creation of the office ,,
We years ago, has rendered his resfg-
Ition and will engage in the cream
y business.
Kalispell's 100000 federal building
1ich has been in course of construc-
IN for the past year is now nearing
mpletion and it is expected that it
IL be ready for occupancy by Sep
mber 1.