The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-05-16
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

Butte, Helena and Anaconda held a
meeting last week to discuss concerted
action toward improving the highways
ofthe state. George Ramsay of Hell
ena said that good roads in Montana
of the quality of the California roads
would place the Treasure state thru
in importance in the tourist business
in the United States.
In an auction sale at the Billings
| stockyards, 1859 head of registered
| Hereford cattle brought total of $751;
| 315. The cattle were shipped to Mon
! tana by South Dakota livestock firm
and were sold to Montana farmers and
ranchers. One bull brought S1,650, be-
ing sold to f.. III. Tice of Logan.
Helena headquarters of the Metho-
dist Episcopal centenary movement
| reports that 16 points in the state have
| raised their quota to the fund. The
| Helena area includes North Dakota,
Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon.
| Police Sergeant Philip Prlja Of
Butte, tried on a charge Of second de-
gree assault, has been found guilty.
| Prlja made an assault upon Mike
Burzan, Serbian, during a Serbian
| demonstration at the Northern Pacific
depot last fall. Prlja also is. Ser
| bian.
| The state REIMBURSEMENT council of
the Y. M. G. A. will meet in Helena on
| May %. Recreation, education and
| similar topics will be discussed
The state highway commission has
| been advised federal authorities have
| approved of federal aid project de-
| signed to eliminate hairpin turn on
| the Marshall grade near Aissoula The
cost is estimated at $4,000. Yellow
stone county has applied for $4,000 of
| federal aid money to finish surfacing
| with gravel a 47-mile stretch of road
between Billings and Pompeys- Pillar
An old flat stone on which he had
| tired wheels in the pioneer days of
| Anaconda will be polished and erected
as monument to August Deslauriers,
first blacksmith of Anaconda, who
died suddenly at his ranch near Ana
conda. The stone will stand ON the
street outside the pioneer forge which
was closed in 1895 when Mr. Des-
lauriers turned to his farm home.
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William Pendy, alias Sam Lee, who
escaped from the county Jail at Mis-
sOula In February and was recaptured,
escaped again last week. He was re-
taken an hour later and brought at
once into the district court, pleaded
guilty to the charge of breaking Jail
and was given the maximum sentence,
two and one-half years, in the state
penitentiary.
For the first time in several years
Butte is without a military guard,
Captain Wilson's company of the 44th
regiment of regulars, which has been
quartered at the school of mines, hav-
ing been transferred to Vancouver
Barracks. Wash. The detachment COM
prised 43 men, in addition to the of
ficers.
The state railroad commission has
set for hearing at Thompson Falls
May TO- the application of residents of
Eddy, Noxon and Heron for the res
toration of a stub Northern Pacific
train that was taken off during the
war. The stub originally ran from
Spokane to Paradise but at present
runs only to Kootenai.
Mrs Anna Gould Hough sister of |
the late Jay Could the financier, and
widow of the Rev. A. NJ Hough. the |
first regularly ordained Protestant |
preacher in Montana, who dedicated |
the first church built in Helena, died |
last. week in Los Angeles, according |
to word received in Helena. Mrs. |
Hough was SO years of age.
License applied for cards are no |
longer legal on automobiles, according
to communication Secretary of State
Charles T. Stewart has sent out to all |
sheriffs and chiefs Of police He adj
vises them that purchasers of new Ears
should be allowed from II to II days
in which TO procure licenses, and if
they have not been obtained at the
expiration of that period to seize the
ears and arrest the owners.
While reports are current that the
direct referendum provisions of the
constitution will be invoked against
the legislative referendum to be con-
sidered at special election to be held
on September on the amendment Of
the primary law to provide for nom-
nations by state conventions, and the
bill to legalize boxing in Montana, Sec
rotary of State G. L. Stewart is max
ing the preliminary arrangements for
the election.
The annual appropriation for the
city of Missoula for the fiscal year
ending April 80, 1920 is $97, 16O. This