The circle banner., 1918-04-26
News Of Montana
Brief Notes Concerning the
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4 The Anaconda Mining company ant
the Montana Power company joint,
subscribed for 100000 worth of Lib
erty bonds. Forty per cent of thi,
amount, or $1,2OO,OO0, was credited
to Butte, which had q quota Of 81
100000.
| An order of the director general tt
| the Great Northern to furnish daily
10 cars for the mines In the Bear
Creek field is not being complied with
| according to complaints made to the
| Montana railroad commission, the op-
| orators asserting only seven cars have
| been received through the course OF
| several days.
Loans so far made by the state
council of defense to aid farmers to
plant crops this spring, average less
than 5000 each. There has been dis
tributed among these 392 farmers a
total of s73.35535.
]. B. Gnose, wholesaler and baker
at Anaconda, has been ordered by the
national food administration to turn
back into the trade 200 sacks of flour
held in excess of his reasonable needs.
The Montana railroad commission
has been advised by the director gen
eral that hereafter all suits against
the carriers while under federal juris-
diction must be brought in the county
or district where the plaintiff resides
Or in the county or district where the
cause of action arose. This rule was
made to eliminate the delays and loss
OF time occasioned by forcing railroad
witnesses to travel long distances.
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w. j. Swindlehurst, state fuel ad-
ministrator, has rendered National
Fuel administrator Garfield his res
ignation, to take effect as soon as a
successor can be secured. Mr.. Swim
dlehurst says his duties as state COM
missioner of labor and industry do not
leave sufficient time to act as fuel adj
ministrator.
Unless the law requiring license of
automobiles is strictly complied with
at once, action will be started against
the offenders wherever they mag be
found in Montana. Secretary of State
c. T. Stewart has put the matter ut
to the sheriffs of the various coun
ties and the latter in turn are going
after the car owners known to be gull
ty of violating the statute.
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John ]. Hartwell, an inmate of the
state penitentiary at Deer Lodge was
shot twice in an attempt to escape,
and died few hours later from the eff
feet of his wounds. Hartwell was sent !
up from Butte in 1915 for robbery. |
He was the leader of a gang of auto
mobile bandits operating in that city. |
Sadie l.. Bryson, widow of the late |
John A. Bryson of Kalispell, Great |
Northern engineer who was killed in |
wreck near Essex on February 3, |
las brought suit against the road for
iamages in the sum of $4,000.
Governor Stewart has formally pro-
'laimed May IA as Arbor day.
B. X. Wheeler has been reappoint-
d United States district attorney for
Iontana.
The Montan railroad commission has
cen advised that hereafter industry
racks must be built and maintained
v the industry using the tracks. Here
Dfore the railroads have built and
such spurs. The commits
ion has been further advised that
ewspaper contracts, exchanging ad-
ertising for transportation, recently |
rdered cancelled, will be permitted to
emain in effect until the end of this
ear. .
"Soap box" orators will be banned ,
.om speaking on the streets of Butte
1r the remainder of the war period,
[ayor Mahoney has announced.
ina, according to Harry w. Turner,
ate director of the war savings stamp
ork. He reports that there are $50
,cieties in the state now, while the
)al sought is 1877.
An earnest request for Montana
lysicians and surgeons, from Surgeon /
eneral Gorgas of the United States
my, has been received by Secretary I
:. F, Cogswell of the state board of 3
salth. The nation needs $4,000 men
this profession, it is said-and at
ice.
The Rev. James F. McNamee, pastor
the First Baptist church in Helena, u !,
as elected moderator of the South y
n Montana Baptist association, at u
e annual convention held at Helena. y
A new cheese factory is to be built IL
the site of the plant which was de- q
royed by fire last December in Cor q
Ills. Workmen are now engaged in !"
caring away the debris, preparatory ~
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