The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-03-14

The alumni of the State university
through a secret ballot, has decided
to express its disapproval of the ac-
ton of Chancellor Edward c. Elliott
of the University of Montana i'm sus-
pending DIR. Louis Levine of the de-
partment of economics.
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Nels Olson, bartender in a Miss0ula
hotel, was fined $3.50 in the district
court there when he pleaded guilty to
charges of selling liquor in violation
of the state latv.
The Deer Lodge county council of
defense is preparing a campaign in line
with the recommendation of Secretary
of Commerce William Redfield's slo-
gan of Buy only what you need, but
buy it now the object of which is
to promote a drive to stimulate bust
ness to a pre-war basis.
Col. o. e. Petty has returned to
months in the service as Y NJ. c. A.
secretary in France. He wears a gold
wound stripe on his sleeve.
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Word has been received in Boze-
man of the death of Count Ricardo
Gatteschi in New York City. the son-in-
law of l.. J. Patterson, who lives in
Gallatin county.
March 81 the county commissioners
of Yellowstone county will open bids
for the sale of bonds in the sum of
S125,000, of which $4,000 is to be
spent on the Huntley bridge project,
$4,000 on the south side bridge and
$4,000 ON the fair grounds
The manganese producing business,
as result of the competition from
foreign fields, is now a thing of the
past at Philipshurg and great in
dustry which the war had developed
in Montana Is silent. While not pro-
ducing any manganese, some of the
mines are within the bone of the sill
yer deposits and may be developed into
large producers.
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A letter received in Helena from
Los Angeles saying that Major Mar
tin Maginnis, the well known Montana
pioneer. is seriously ill there and fears
are entertained that he will not re-
cover.
In addition TO the money Montana
receives from appropriations for the
forest reserve, this state is certain of
So, 490,771 for highway work through
amendment to the postiffice appropria-
ton bill, signed by President Wilson.
This means that Montana will be in
a position to get much work done on its
highways and have many new roads
A total of S150,0O0 for 600 purebreo
Hereford cows with their calves, was
the price received by E. L. Dana,
Big Horn county rancher. Heber
Hoard of Nebraska, was the purchaser.
The cows sold at $3.50 head, the |
calves being included as part of the !
The Anaconda Copper Mining com |
Dany shas announced that it plans to |
Increase its production of electrolytic |
zinc at its Great Falls plant. The com.
1any is now hoisting from 400 to l.. /
100 tons of zinc ore daily from its
Butte mines, and the ore carries IL per
.ent zine. six ounces of silver and some
cad, and 50 per cent. of the metal
content is saved.
The report from the geological sur
Tey of the department of the interior
or the past month shows 1876 acres
# land classified in Montana during
nder the enlarged homestead act. the
ands being nOn-irrigable. This means
hat a number of dry ianders of north
IN Montana are about to have their
nlarged entries allowed.
After a preliminary burst of smoke
rom the vicinity of the operators
ooin ildu -StdTlleu crown gathered
lside and had precipitated n rush to
he door, fire broke out in the Liberty
heater at Sand Coulee and destroyed
ne building. Only the moving pic
ire machine was saved. The build
lg was owned by the local miners
MON and was insured.
ID. W. Raymond. secretary of the
ate livestock commission, has been
by the commission to repre-
mt it at a meeting to be held in
t. Louis March IS, Mt which will be
ken up the adjustment Of claims for
ocl lost in transit and arrangements
n the care of stock enroute and at
eding points.
w. F. Dunn. a representative of Sill
n Bow county in the Montana legis- ,
ture. who recently was convicted at
elena of sedition and sentenced to
" a fine of 5000, has filed his
ndidacy for mayor of Butte on the !
ticket at the primary cleo ]
IN March "a.
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