The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-07-04

Henry HOagland has returned to
Kalispell from Minnesota with car
load Of registered Holstein cattle. He
intends to start livestock raising on
j larger scale in the Flathead valley.
A Miles City man last week paid
$3.50 for keg Of water, the purchase
being made from two mysterious gen
tlemen who passed through the city in
an automobile. He supposed the keg
contained whiskey.
E. Snyder of Bolton has asked an
injunction against the superintendent
of Glacier national park because the
superintendent refused him permits
sion to operate private launch on
Lake Mcdonald.
The state horticultura1ist has an
nounced that investigations recently
conducted show that Montana is prac-
tically free from barberry, the plant
that harbors wheat rust over the win
| ter.
Cattle are dying from thirst in the
Flatwillow region. say reports to Miles
City. Hhe Musselshell river is dry at
places. Crops are in bad shape
Scarlet fever leads in the report OF
contagious diseases in Montana dur
ing April, according to announcement
by DR.. ]. J. Sippy. state epidemiolo-
gist. OF 1,006 cases for that month,
1868 We're scarlet fever.
Free use of a tract of land lying
south of the university campus has
been granted by the Missoula cham
Der of commerce for the use of visit
ing autoists.
In an effort to save his friend from
drowning. Joseph Wise of Havre was
himself nearly killed. The friend Phil
lip Kiamco, was drowned. The two
men were bathing in a beaver dam
pond above Christina.
The Western Montana Development |
league will be held in Missoula June &c. |
Two representatives from each of eight |
counties will meet at that time to
form plans for the promotion of the |
agricultural and other interests of the |
western end of the state.
Twenty-Five Great Falls business
men motored from their home city to |
the Waller project last week to in |
spect the crops in that neighborhood. |
The trip was made with the idea of |
inducing the Great Falls men to pro- |
mote other irrigation projects in the
district.
Harold w. Blake of Anaconda has
been cited for meritorious service He |
is expected to return home soon. He |
holds the rank of major.
Homer and Howard Criswell, two
wealthy and prominent Shields valley
ranchers, have pleaded not guilty to
charge of cattle rustling. The charge
in Park county against the brothers is
that they stole cattle worth S1,7OO.
Plans are being made for a memorial
park at the grounds of the Midland
Empire fair in Billings, with tree
for every soldier of Yellowstone county
that lost his life in the war.
Carl Smeger. a 6-year-old Butte boy,
was killed while playing in the rail-
road yards of the city. He lost his
balance while riding on a turn table.
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Free tuberculin tests for all cattle
in Montana are provided for in plan
formulated by DIR. r. Snyder of the
federal bureau of animal industry in
Montana, and DR. Butler, state veter-
marian.
Among alien enemies from Montana
who are interned at. Salt Lake and
who will be taken to Charleston, S. c.,
for deportation TO Germany, are Oscar
Schafer of Helena. Carl Won Pohl of
Butte and Carl Schultze of Helena.
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Members of the state board of health
together with many Montana physi-
clans, are said to have prepared
protest against the federal bill which
would prevent the experimentation
on dogs for hospital work.
At the last session of the legisla-
ture law was passed that butter sold
IN the state of Montana. whether man
lfactured on a farm or in a creamery.
must have the makers name clearly
written or printed on the package in
which it is sold. and upon each pound
package of butter so sold or offered
'or sale. the words met weight six
cen ounces shall appear. (Section
%, Chapter 100, Laws 1919
The Cameron clip of 1900 pounds
las been sold in Great Falls for 60
'ents
Stock dipping watts of some extent
ire planned by stockmen in the vicin-
ty of Circle.
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