The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-07-25
| MONTANA NOTES |
TREASURE STATE TALES
rERSELY TOLD


Teams has affixed his name to a con
tional league club. McKain will join
the Pirates at the opening Of the
training season next spring. He is
a star athlete at the university, hav-
Ing played basketball there in addi-
ton to baseball
Destruction of a Lewistown school
building, declared unsafe after an in
spection by r. S. Menstrum, state fire
marshal, and Arthur Baker, chief of
the Lewistown fire department, is APP
proved by State Auditor George T..
Porter. The building is said to have
I been faulty constructed and that, in
addition. the bricks used were of very
bad quality and have crumbled away.
1t was condemned two years ago, but
was then strengthened by the use of
steel rods.
Miss Lucille AIcCracken, daughter Of
Livingston dry goods merchant, has
been engaged for western tour, as
piano accompanist by Franciso Zarda,
the opera singer OF the Chicago SYM
phony who is making a concert tour
of the west.
Almost two-thiads of the mangan-
csc mined in the United States was
produced IN Montana, according to a
statement of ID. +. Hewett of the
United States geographical survey.
The Montana output was 100. 932 gross
tons. while that of the entire natoin
was 304, 1868. OF the Montana output,
the Philipsburg district furnished 49,
415 tons and the Butte district 1881.
Most of the product is used in steel
alloys.
There are six Montana valleys, at
least. which will harvest good crops,
according to Senator C. A. Whipple,
state land agent. who has returned to
Helena after a tour of MissouIa-Bit.
ter Root, Deer Lodge. Ruby Jefferson
and Missouri valleys. He is certain
of the excellent condition of these
sections. because he has seen them,
and he has similar good reports of
other irrigated places.
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Walter J. Hill, son of the late james
]. Hill, and one of the largest cattle
raisers in the state. says high hay
prices are going to have a tumble, as
there is great deal of last years
crop still on the farms. little hay hav-
ing been fed last winter. This years
irrigated hay crop is unusually heavy
and Minnesota hay can be delivered
here inside of $50.
Over 70,000,000 acres of public lands |
in the western states remain to be |
surveyed and there is five more years |
work In Montana on public lands and |
an additional five years to plat the |
national forests. according to f. NJ. |
Johnson. supervisor of federal sur
veys in the United States. who is in |
Helena on an inspection trip.
Judge G. NJ. Bourquin, in the United
States court at Helena, has set for
trial on July % the notable case of the
United States VS.. G.. B. Kirby and
Charles McDaniels. brought to collect
$4,000 damages for alleged Illegal
grazing on the Grow reservation.
Lee All Jung and wife and children
of Helena have been granted passports
by the federal court TO go to China.
Jung was for many years chef at the
Montana club.
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According TO reports from Helena
Wednesday. July 1G. was the hottest
day of the year in Montana. Nilsson.
Ii, took first place with a temperature
of 102 for the day.
The office of the state land registrar
reports an increasing demand for irri-
on sale four years ago at s12 per acre
is now being sold around $50.
Clearing houses at ST. Paul and Bill
1ings, under federal control, will expe-
slite the shipping of cattle and horses
from the drouth rea-of the state this
summer
A small panic was caused in Helena
this week when the smoke from for
est fires became so dense in the vi
entity of the city that the people cir
culated the report that the entire for
est area about the city WAS in flames
Extreme fire conditions about Hell /,
ena have caused the doubling of the
fire protection force Of the govern-1
ment
A small Butte boy who heard The Z
call of the outdoors, spent so much
time out at the edge Of the mountains
that great crowd of police deputy :
and friends Of the family went :
out on search. The hoy was not !
frightened after an all night session !,
with the mountains.
T. b. Story of Bozeman has bought
put the stock Of the Bozeman Can
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