The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-10-31
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
7 -SELY TOLD

Nearly 100 elk, tame as cattle, and
protected by the state game law, have
been wantonly slaughtered by hunters
in Mineral county, according to an Of
ficial report to headquarters of forest
service district No. at Missoula. The
animals were rounded up in a pasture
and shot as they "milled" helplessly.
They were protected under the law
which desgnates certain districts Of
the state within which they must not
be shot They were accustomed to
man.
Hubert McGinty, merchant of East
| Helena, established a precedent In a
! voluntary petition in bankruptcy filed
| in federal court Mt Helena, in which he
gave among other assets. deposits of
| $2,261 In a local bank. His total liza
| bilitieS We're listed at $S.494 and his
| assets at $5,4T7. of which he claimed
| $SO5 exempt. Among the assets is
| listed an automobile valued at $500,
and debts due on open accounts 81, 516.
Good results are being obtained
throughout the state In the campaign
for full weight loaves, inaugurated by
Secretary of State Charles t. Stewart,
according to word received in his of
flee, and the circular to all county au-
ditors and deputy inspectors calling
for inspection of weights of loaves is
being complied with, reports show.
The law is being observed generally
m thn COMMITTEES with thn Nv
ception of few cases.
Work is to begin shortly on brick
building at the state tuberculosis sani-
tarium at Galen to take care of about
30 patients at a cost of approximately
$4,000. Plans have been approved
for the building and Superintendent
c. E. K. Vidal ordered to proceed with
the construction.
The mammoth skeleton in possess
sion of Octave Forth of Tregon may
be turned over to the Smithsonian in
stitute at Washington. This is the
advice given DIR. Scion B. Stone of
Troy, by Judge w. Y. Pemberton, his
torical librarian. to whom the COM
munication was given by Secretary of
State Charles T. Stewart The state |
has no museum to care for the man. |
moth.
For the first time in years wheat is |
being shipped into Montana for mill
ing purposes, according to G. A. |
Bailey, a big grain dealer with offices
in Helena. Mr.. Bailey said the ship |
ments are coming largely from the
west and from Nebraska and the
shortage of cars is being felt by grain
dealers in the middle west.
Mrs. Harry Richards of Marysville
has been awarded S4.225 in a lump set
Element by the state industrial acci-
dent board for the death of her hus-
band, who fell TO his death in an ore
chute at the Gloster mine in Helena re-
Gently. Strange fatality has followed
Mrs. Richards, according to informa-
ton received by the board. Three
husbands. brother and son have all
been killed accidentally in mines.
After having carried n bullet in his
the last 10 years. w. G. Tay-
Tor, a patrolman of the Butte police
force, has decided that if his health T.
Is to be saved the bullet must he re-
moved. and he has accordingly de-
,ided to submit to such an operation.
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Crop failures have not dampened
he ardor of farmers in the northern
part of the state according to Chan
,ellor f. c. Elliott, who has returned
TO Helena from a trip 10 the state
experiment. stations in Hill and Blaine
going ahead with fall work and are
to put in good crops again
lext spring.
Seed buyers from the east and mid
lie west are now securing Montana for
,hoice alfalfa seed and their efforts
ire bringing a raising tendency to the
Montana market, according to seed
men of the state. The prices this
rear are the highest ever paid for the
Montana product, which is recognized
Is the premier of its class in the
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A Washington dispatch says the SEN
tie has passed and sent to the house
bill by Senator Walsh of Montana,
for opening of the Crow In
liam reservation in Montana. Under
he bill 100000 acres would be avail
tble for settlement and the Indians
would be allowed to homestead 800
lcres and sell the remainder of the al
Barracks for the accommodation of
ederal troops to be quartered in Butte
are to be constructed In
south Butte. according to information
rising in that city. 1t Is said the gov
intends constructing barracks
n all Industrial centers