The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-06-20
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

are required TO report on all aliens
working under their employ. In case
the aliens refuse to answer questions
| the state will take over the mans case
Columbia Falls has its own "mys-
| terious booze case. A Columbia Falls
| citizen who laid in January supply
returned home recently to find his
cellar emptied of cases, kegs and bot
ties, representing large money out
lay.
]. III. Mcintosh, secretary of the Mon
tana Associated Industries, says the
business and Industrial outlook in Mon
tana is good Labor is scarce, he says,
with many new building projects plan
ned.
The dixie which affords Forsyth pro-
lection against high water is finished.
The dixie extends from the Northern
Pacific tracks west of the city to the
east side of the fair grounds.
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Placer mining has started in earnest
in the Missoula district once more. One
placer has returned more than $1,000
in the last few weeks, it is said.
Forestry employees are busy con-
structing trails through the Flathead
forest in the KaIispell area. One crew
is blazing from Bear Dance to the
Swan Lake ranger station.
One bank in Miles City has pur-
chased 20 pure bred Duroc-Jersey hogs
for distribution to members of Boys
and Girls clubs in that section of the
state.
Silver Bow county commissioners
must in the future assure the county
auditor that they have done fair
days work on Sunday before pay for
that days services will be allowed,
Judge Dwyer recently decided.
Prof. HI. E. Morse of the Montana
State College has just finished a trip
through the Bitter Root valley. He
says that the orchards of that section
are noticeably free from scab and 9TH
er diseases and that a bumper crop
may be expected this year.
George w. Parker of Jordan has re-
turned home to make official and per-
sonal denial of the war departments
claim that he was killed in France.
Parker was badly injured but recover
ed, and became the victim of a mix-up
In names.
Attorney General s. c. Ford reports
many violations by stock companies |
Of the law which requires that all |
notes given in exchange for stock shall |
pear the words "given in purchase of |
stocks Prosecution is promised by |
he attorney general for offenders.
L. F. Wausk, a correspondent for
he Milwaukee Journal, is the first
ourist to register at the Yellowstone
National park this year. Early ar
ival of crowds of tourists promises
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he officials say.
Two Miles City people have been
ined 5000 and sentenced to 10 DAYS in
all as the result of 'home brewing"
f beer. Sheriffs claim that enough
ome-brewed beer was found in their
ouse to fill two automobiles.
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Montana Tiflemen plan to hold a
reat state shoot at Butte on July 4.
is expected to be the largest rifle
of its kind ever held in
ne state.
Sale of l 900 acres of timber in the
lincoln county district to a Canadian
lrm is reported. Men are already at
ork logging.
Accused of having sold 60 gallons
water in whiskey barrels under the
retense that it was whiskey, two
reat Falls men are being held for
L hC DOni VI NOiltlOl vi lilc STATE
rminal elevator has asked the Great
alls chamber of commerce to provide
free site.
A battling nervous malady, termed
! physicians as in the nature OF q
.rvous breakdown, caused the death
an Anaconda high school student
st week.
The construction of cattle build
9 to cost $1,000 on the grounds of
e Custer County Fair association
s begun. A bridge across the
'ngue river is another project that
e fair supporters are working upon
miles Of new steel rails
II be laid over the Rocky Mountain
7isiOn of the Northern Pacific near
ssoula this year. The cost will ex-
ed $4,000 per mile.
Violation of the law which demands
lcellation of all stamps placed upon
let and medicinal articles at the
he of sale is reported as common
III some druggists in Montan by