The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-10
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

last week on a charge Of drunkenness,
las confessed the killing of Jesse B.
Boynton, who was found shot dead
hear Paradise on June 4, 1913. Weed
IN says the gun was discharged in a
'cuffle for its possession. coroner's
jury had decided that BoyntOn COM
nitted suicide.
A Kalispell news story intimates that
a test case of the prohibition law in
regard to the manufacture of two per
,ent beer is likely. 1t is understood
Il brewer of that city contends the law
lefines an Intoxicating beverage as
something which contains more than
two per cent of alcohol, and he is
| planning to put on the market beer
which contains less than this amount.
Attorney General Ford recently ruled
that beer containing alcohol in any
quantity was Illegal
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james Fl. Baldwin, assistant United
States district attorney in charge of
the Butte office, has rendered his res
ignation. He expects to form a law
partnership with B. X. Wheeler. for
mer district attorney, who resigned
several weeks ago.
The Helena Airplane association
was formed in that city at recent
meeting of business and professional
men and capitalists. The object of the
.lc G GaiI tn ha fn q
landing site there OIL the route of the
government transcontinental aerial
mail service.
r. X. Anderson. fined $500 three
months ago on charge of sedition,
has been placed in the county Jail at
Miles city, charged with assault upon
Ross c. Ayers, Il 19-year-old country
boy who was a witness against him at
the time of his trial. After the beat |
ing, said to have been done with a |
club, Anderson started for South Da- |
kota, but was trailed for two days by |
Constable Strater and placed under ar
rest.
leu IhtilU, lltl'l Ill lDE Stut-
ton, broke Jail last week but was re-
captured the next day In n barn where
he had hidden himself. Reno slipped
into the cellar while deputy was
letting q visitor out of the cell room.
He hurt his ankle in clambering over
the Jail wall and was unable to get
very far.
A Washington dispatch says Secre-
tary of the Treasury Glass has asked
for So ,0S0.50, a supplemental
estimate for making repairs on the
lower Yellowstone reclamation project
in Montana. He explained that this
additional sum is necessary because of
the cloudburst and flood August 10 to
Fl, 1918. This is to be used in re-
pairing the canal system which will be
needed in 1919. The area affected
to 10000 acres.
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The cold weather of the past week
has put a close to navigation on
Flathead lake. The bay at Poison
S frozen for four miles out. The
steamer Klondike has tied up at Pol .
son for the winter.
Total sales of War Savings stamps
n Montana so far reported amount to /
STA ,50367. Final receipts for De-
'ember are expected to put the figure .
ar above that amount.
The Montana Automobile DIstribu-
or's association, with headquarters at
treat Falls, has written Secretary of =
tate G. Il. Stewart endorsing his rec
for change in the law
elating to the testing of gasoline and
il.
Chief Noise Of the Flathead Indian
ribe is dead at Missoula of influenza,
nd the authorities are interrogating
Poker JIM" the tribal medicine man,
Tho is declared to have treated Noise
t his tent near that city. Noise,
raped in blankets, was found dead |
utside the tent, and the coroner ex- /
ressed it as his opinion that he sue q
Imbed to exposure. He was 70 years =
ID.
The winter reunion of the Masonic
cottish Rite bodies of Montana has r
zen abandoned, according to an an
by the reunion committee
Helena. There will be classes, how
ver, during the months of January
Id February but the formal program. |
iginally scheduled for the first week |
December and twice postponed on
count of the influenza epidemic, has u
zen called off.
The most important case on the SUI
enc court docket set for hearing "b
ring the week beginning January tin
that involving the constitutionality 20
the law prohibiting the giving Of In
emiums with merchandise. The suit OIL
is brought in Silver Bow county of
ainst Lutey Brothers, Butte mer- ou
ants, for alleged violation of the
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