The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-10-04
Newsof Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
= Treasure State =


istown, it is stated by NJ. d. Hanlon
who, with John Cooper and Frank j.
Hagan, is. operating the property. A
new tunnel was recently driven in to
tap the coal vein, new tipple has
been constructed and everything is. in
readiness for the mine to become a
producer.
Resolutions adopted Jointly at a
meeting of the Park county chamber
of commerce and the Livingston Rod
and Gun club, addressed to Gov. S. V.
Stewart, call his attention to the fact
the state fish and game commission
has done nothing so far to construct
a fish hatchery in that county, author
lied by the legislature last year and
for which $4,000 was appropriated.
A total of S169,0O0 has been loaned
Montana farmers through the federal
seed grain office in Great Falls, and
$10387 has been loaned North Da-
kota farmers. Announcement that no
loans will be made after October 81 is
stimulating prospective borrowers to
make application.
Mrs. o, T. Armstrong, wife of a
prominent rancher of the Paradise val
ley, and nearly so years old, has
brought in enough socks to the Park
county Red Cross chapter to bring he
quota to POI pairs. This makes the
patriotic old lady the champion knitter
of the county, if not of the whole
state.
Lief Fredericks, examiner in charge
of the federal employment office at
Missoula, has been commissioned a
deputy sheriff, in order that he may
have power to enforce the work or
fight order in western Montana. Mr..
Fredericks has recruited many hun
dredS of labOrers for western Mon
tana farmers and for the shipyards
of the Pacific coast.
The Northern Pacific railway com
pany payroll at Livingston last month
broke all records for size, according TO
a statement made by Will Bennett,
fiscal agent of the company. 1t al
most doubled the amount paid out by
the company year ago. The aggre-
gate amount is in the neighborhood of
100000, the shop payroll alone be-
ing $4,000
Frank G. Hall, former city treasurer
Of Missoula, convicted of statutory as
sault and given from IA to % years in
the state penitentiary, must serve his
sentence, ruled the state supreme court
in a decision by Associate Justice
Holloway. The case was the most SEN
ever held in western Montana.
Official word from Washington, D. |
y. says Montana is still the only state |
hat has filled its quota of the student
nurses reserve.
William Moran, shift boss, and Fran
lis Dyer, pumpman, were instantly
Tiled when the cage cables at the
Mountain Con. mine in Butte broke,
lropping them more than 500 feet to
he bottom of the shaft.
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At the state land sale in Lewistown,
a ,93S acres were put up at auction
nd 10,195 acres were sold, bringing
n $167,S05, an average of S16.74 an
ere. The record price was $661 an
ere. One section sold for an aver
ge of $25 an acre. The sale was con-
ucted by Sidney Miller, state register,
nd George B. Hopkins, deputy and
uctioneer. Mr.. Miller considers the
ale most satisfactory one.
Alex Johnson of Anaconda, who de-
Jared his intention of becoming a
itizen of the United States several
ears ago, and then renounced it a
ew days ago because his original
purse would have made him liable
,r military service, will go back to
weden. When the eXpatriated citi-
an returned to his job at the con-
he found he had become an
ndesirable and that there was no
ore work for him.
The firm of Mclaughlin & O'Niel,
,ntractors of Livingston, has been
xarded a contract for extending the
alter mains at Big Timber. The con-
act is in the neighborhood of $10,-
70. The firm is just completing the Z
wv municipal water plant at Living
on. costing the city nearly $250.009
ork will commence at Big Timber
e first of the month.
Captain L. A. Whitney, chief mill
ry Inspector of students army train
e corps in the northeast district,
til headquarters at Helena, states i
at saloons in cities where the units l
e stationed need not close unless
ey sell liquor to the students. But If i
ldents procure liquor, he declared,
e government will establish dry
mes.
The state livestock commission has
en- officially informed that the
lited States food administration has
ed the price of cottonseed products
X57 pqr tor III, sacks f n n of uoint