The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-07-01
THE STATE.

Helena - A price of SO 5-8 cents
an ounce will be paid for silver at
the East Helena smelter, it is an
nounced.
Helena - The formal opening of
the Broadwater hotel, remodeled and
refurnished, and supplemented by a
tent city near by, took place last
week, and was marked by a dinner,
followed by a dance.
Butte-C. F. Kelley, president of
the Anaconda Copper Mining COM
pany, with Mrs. Kelley and their chill
dren, have arrived here from New
York City, and will spend a great
part of the summer at their sum-
mer home at Swan Lake.
Helena - Sufficient signatures
have been filed with the secretary of
state to submit at the November cleo
ton the initiative measure by the
labor unions providing for a new
compensation act, it was announced
by the secretary of state.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS young wom-
IN from all parts of the state took
the annual examination for state GER
t~ificates as registered nurses, con-
Quoted at the capital by the nurses
examining board. 1t will take sew
eral weeks to correct the papers, it
is thought.
Miles City-With the raising of
$4,000 in the Miles City territory of
the 100000 estimated to be needed
for the construction of the Miles
City-Broadus telephone line under
the auspices of the Eastern Montana
Telephone company, the balance of
the $4,000 is practically assured by
the residents of the Broadus district.
Great Falls-The Great Falls Mer-
chants association, in cooperation
with the commercial club and other
civic organizations, is preparing an
attractive program for the large
number of Montana retail merchants !
to owen at Great Falls, July IL, Is
and IA.
KalispeI-S. E. Jacobs is exhibit
ing samples of alfalfa that have al
ready grown to a height of AZ inches
and yet show no signs of blossom.
The alfalfa was grown on Jacobs
farm neal Dayton or unirrigated
land. He estimates a yield of three
tons to the acre this year.
Livingston-To determine the pos
sibility of ~reseeding with grasses the
over-grazed areas of the national
forests, 500 pounds of seed of va
rious grasses have been planted DUR
ing the past week on the Horse Greek
by the stockmen and forest SER
vice.
Helena-The completion of the
board of health building at the
capitol and the moving of the offices
of that department this week from
the main building to the new struc-
ture, means that several other offices
in the state house will have new
quarters, according to Jake Fischer,
the custodian.
Butte-Damages of $4,000 are
asked by Mrs. Nora Haran, mother of
Hugh B. Haran, who was accidental
ly killed while guarding the publish
ing plant of the Butte Daily Bulle-
tin during the I. w. w. strike on
April %, in a complaint filed in dis
trict court against the paper, by At
5orney William Meyer.
Observation-Disclosures Albright of
the Yellowstone national park has
devised a plan whereby it may be
possible to open the park to automo-
bile tourists a few weeks earlier than
usual. By using large snow plows
mounted on powerful tractors, Super
.ntendent Albright and his men are !
the road of snow over the {
divide. S
Bozeman-Leslie Gaylord Stevens,
LIZ, son of William E. Stevens, we'll {
.o-do rancher, three miles from here, !
instantly killed by the %acciden-
al discharge of his own shotgun. He E
taken the gun out to kill mag {
lies and stood it against the fence !
attending to some duty. He /
to pull the gun through the {
ience, grasping it by the end of the
Both barrels were discharg- {