The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-03-29
News of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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Butte on st. Patrick's day when mem
bers of an Irish organization attempt
ed TO parade in violation of orders o.
a city detective was painfully injured
by the mob. Soldiers of 4he Four
teenth infantry were instrumental In
restoring order.
One million two hundred and fifty
| thousand dollars is demanded by Lee
Simonson from A. II. Barth, both OF
Billings, for alleged fraudulent opera
tions of the. defendant In effectine
cancellation of grazing leases on the
Crow reservation held by the plain
tiff, in the biggest damage suit ever
| filed in the Yellowstone county district
| court. Both parties to the suit are
4 owners of large sheep interests in east
| ern Montana.
An offer of a commission as second
Lieutenant in the transportation corps
| of the national army for early service
abroad as railway transport officer
Nhas been received by Jules Beaudoin
| of Havre, q brakeman on the Great
Northern, from the war department.
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| More than half million dollars
will be spent the coming summer by
one group of eastern capitalists in the
development of Oil fields Immediately
adjacent to Billings, it was stated by
B. NJ. Hoyt, geological engineer.
There were 121 kinds of automobiles
which made the trip through Yellow
stone park in the season of 1917 ac-
cording to figures just made public.
The total number of cars used was
5,331, as compared with 3.340 the pre-
vious year and 956 the first year the
park was opened to automobiles.
The finding of skeleton in the
shaft of the Jersey Blue mine in Butte
is thought to clear up the mystery of
the disappearance 20 years ago of
Joseph M. Keown, one of the best
known miners in the Butte camp at
that time. The Jersey Blue had been
abandoned for the past 80 years and
but recently passed into the hands of
Butte men who are making initial eff
forts to reopen the mine.
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The State Council of Defense has
received a telegram from President
Wilson strongly commencing an ex-
tension of the council of defense to
include community councils, upon the
ground that this action will result in
Qualification of existing effort, fu-
sion of energies now too much scatter
ed and at times somewhat confused,
into one harmonious and effective
power
J. f. Mon, Chinese cafe owner of
Missoula, was arrested charged with
selling meat on Tuesday in violation |
of new city ordinance compelling |
restaurant keepers to obey the require |
ments of the United States food adj !
ministration.
The police of Lewistown have been |
given instructions to kill all stray
dogs in the city. Holding that the
canine is a contributing
cause to the decrease in supplies of
meat and therefore a cause for the
increase in the cost of living, the city
adopted an ordinance prohib-
ting dogs from running at large.
A. B. Leach & Co., of New York and
Chicago, one of the largest bond deal
ng houses in the United States, bought
he entire issue of $4,000 five-year
Tx per cent state bonds, authorized by
he special session of the legislature, |
he proceeds of which are to be used
" the state council of defense to Sc
ure an increased crop production in
Iontana. A premium of $3.50 was
aid on the S500.000. The bonds were
with the understanding that
hey be approved by the firms attor-
eys.
Owing to the constantly decreasing
lumber of high school students desir-
lg TO pursue the study of German, and ;
l compliance with the popular demand
Or elimination of the study from the
of all public schools, the D
filings board of education has voted q
} discontinue all German courses, be-
inning with the opening of school p
ext September. French and Spanish n
asses will be substituted, it was an u
Dunced.
Formal application for $4,000 with ii
hich to finish the Kalispell-Ovando 81
I'd the Kalispell-Libby roads. has been it
ade by the Flathead county commits til
oners to the state highway commits m
on, which disburses federal road 81
oney The county commissioners want as
900 year for three years for each W
the highways named. 90
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Thursday, March 2S, is the last day wi
which registration may be made so
der the new state law requiring a 60
mplete record of all rifles. shotguns, w,
volvers, pistols, swords, dirks and ~
ggers, together with the names, adj w,
esses and a personal description of
Fir owners.