The Broadus independent., 1919-04-10
MONTANA NOTES |
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

Enrolment at the State university
at MSssOula has reached 422, accord
ing to announcement of university of
ficials. 1t was stated that this number
would probably reach 500 within a
few days.
Three mines of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company at Butte have been
closed. Between 400 and 500 men are
affected.
| A distressing accident occurred at
Avon few days ago when the four
year-old son of Walter Kimmerly was
poisoned and died before medical aid
could reach him. 1t was first suppos-
ed the boy had gotten hold of some
poisoned candy, but further investiga-
.tion showed that it was probably some
of the poison that had been put in
wheat for the determination of the
squirrels that the little one had got and
eaten.
Damages in the sum of $4,000 are
demanded Of r. b. Prosser in suit
begun by y. Il. kendrick, who was
recently acquitted at Miles City of ex-
tortiOn in case in which PrOSser was
the prosecuting witness.
If the county commissioners of
Dawson heed a resolution adopted by
the board of school trustees of Glen
dive, Dawson county taxpayers will
vote on the question of issuing bonds
in the sum Of $4,000, the proceeds to
be used for the erection of dormi-
tory to be used by nonresident stu
dents attending the Glendive high
school. The resolution asks the coun-
ty commissioners to submit the ques-
tion.
| /. w. ChOate of BOZeman who has
been an assistant attorney general for
| the past six months under Attorney
| General S. G. Ford has been appointed
code commissioner by the supreme
court, at Il salary Of $1,000 Il year The
appointment was made under the pro-
visions of the law passed by the Six
teenth assembly. providing for the
codification of the session fawS and
the old 1907 code. and making IN ap-
preparation of $2J,OOO for the work
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A granite shaft costing 5000. bear
| ing the names of the MiSSOula county
men who died in the world war. will
be dedicated at Mssoula on Mothers
day. May IL. by the Colonel Robert
f.. MaXey chapter of the War Mothers
| of America
After hearing the evidence i'm the
case of some of Eureka'S delinQuent
boys. Judge Thomson evidently decid-
ed that the best thing to do was to
break up the gang. Consequently one
of the boys was sent to Michigan. an
other to Washington and third to
Missouri to spend some ,lme with rel
atives.
| "MOntanaS divorce record is worse
than that of the nation at large" de-
clared Bishop John +. Carol, speak
ing upon "Divorce," at the cathedral
! in Helena recently. The bishop stated
that so far as divorces are concerned,
Montana, Oregon and Nevada are in
a class by Themselves and in proof of
the assertion as regards Montana, de-
clared that while the divorces in the
nation are II to every 100000 of pop
ulat1on, that in Montana they number
323 to every 100000 of population.
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Frank COnley of Deer Lodge was
chosen chairman of the state highway
| commission at q session of that body
in Helena. He succeeds Oscar Rchn
/ of Butte, resigned. 1t was announced
that much preliminary work had been
done and that the commission is pre-
pared to begin actual road construction
soon. Another meeting will be held
on May 1.
While his wife is busy wiping en-
gines for the Northern Pacific at the
Helena yards, { C. Parsons is taking
it easy. This is the gi,t of IL com
plaint made against Parsons who was
arrested for vagrancy and pleaded not
guilty and is held in the county jail
in default of 800 bail.
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State Game Warden !. l.. DeHart
has gone to Georgetown. in Deer
Lodge county, at which place state
fish hatchery is located, and will ar
range for the starting out of the state
fish car to distribute fry At the
SOmers and Georgetown hatcheries
there are more than four million fry
to be distributed this year.
Bids for the sale of bonds in the
sum of $4,000 for the erection of an
annex to the capitol at Helena to pro-
vide an office and laboratory for the
state board of health will be opened by
the state board of examiners May s.
The bonds bear five per cent interest,