The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-07-18
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSELY TOLD

Wireless communication between
Miles City and Jordan will be opened
at once, it is reported The liftinf
by the government of the wartime
prohibition against operation Of wire
less sets is announced
Announcing that 1t had accepted the
"open shop" policy in dealing with
! labor and declaring it will withhold
| patronage from those shops which sup.
port closed shop demands, the Boze-
man Employers association has gone
on record In labor matters.
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| The Northern Pacific Railroad COM
pany has placed guards near its large
bridges in order to guard against fire
| by the falling of burning cinders. The
| guards will be kept placed until the
season of excessive drouth has ended.
Oswald Choquette of Butte was
drawn from the depths of a hotel
chimney by Butte firemen. When he
was pulled to the roof he lighted a
cigarette and seemed unimpressed by
his experience. He claimed he fell
into the chimney from an airplane. He
will be examined as TO his sanity.
High winds are tanning bad fire
in the Lolo forest, in the Bitterroot
country. Extra gangs of fire fighters
have been sent to the scene of the fire.
The sheriff of Hill county at Havre
is holding 26 pints of whiskey until
the owner calls for 1t. The liquor
was found In an abandoned cellar DUR
ing a police raid on bootleggers.
George Hutchins, one of the pioneer
union men Of Anaconda, has been hon.
ored with a life membership in the
Anaconda Clerks union. He was
charter member three different times
of clerks unions in this city. He is
now In Portland for the benefit of his
health.
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Horses are selling dirt cheap these
days, but the cheap kind are not being
used for work but are being killed for
their hides. j. E. Wilson of Winnett
reports buying about 400 head of them
for So each.
The state supreme court has adj
journed to September s. 1t approved
writ of mandate to Judge Hurley of
Glendive, ordering him to enter judg-
ment in the bootlegging case there or
show cause September why he should
not do so. The writ was asked by
County Attorney Albert Anderson of
Dawson county, who plead that the
refusal of the court to enter judg
ment In the matter of Frank Oliver,
accused of dealing In Illicit liquor,
prevented appeal.
Sheriff John O'Rourke has returned
to Butte from Nevada City, CAL, hav-
ing in custody Dan Merrigan. wanted
In Butte for the murder of James
Ferry. That Merrigan is the man
here was settled in a telegram
which Sheriff O'Rourke sent County |
Jackson after the former had |
secured Merrigan In California.
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Edward King of Proctor was killed |
BY being run over by an auto truck |
near Bigarm, while on his way to q |
Fourth of July celebration at Poison.
King, with his wife, sisters and broth
sr, were of party which had charter
ed the truck to take them to Poison.
When near Bigarm, King attempted to
walk along the running board while the
,ar was In motion. In so doing he was
brown under the wheels and was so
BADLY injured that he died while on his
way to Poison, where he was being
aiken for medical assistance.
Despite the fact that men are
locking to Missoula In large numbers,
here are still more jobs than men In
he city.
A closed season on deer in Valley,
Sheridan and Roosevelt counties is In
fleet until October /, 1921.
A colony of beaver has appeared In
slough at the outskirts of Miles City.
he rodents are increasing In number
nd the sportsmen of the city are
hrowing every possible protection
bout the animals to give them per-
lament home so close to the city.
To fill in part the demand OF the
armers along the Big Horn river for
.rigation water, the manager OF the 3
hoshone project has been authorized
y the United States reclamation de-
artment to sell under certain condi-
ons during the 1919 season. stored
ater from the Shoshone reservoir. 4
With 176 accredited delegates pres +
At, the seventeenth annual convention :
{ the Eagles Of Montana opened In r
reat Falls last week. More than $50 q
tests attended the banquet on the L
rst day of the convention.