The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-01-16
MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
TERSEIY TOLD

league have pledged themselves to use
no eggs until the price Is lowered. The
price has been between IS and 0(
cents dozen The league considers
that between 40 and so cents would
be reasonable price. Each member
of the league promised to enroll three
friends in the boycott movement.
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Dir. w. J. Butler, state veterinarian
in his annual report expresses great
| regret that the plan to slaughter the
| range horses of the state and con-
| vert them into meat for European use
| fell through. Congress provided fund
of 100000 toward the project, but the
high rates of exchange, it is said, have
prevented further effort. The range
horses are worth nothing as horses
and they eat up vast tracts on which
cattle and sheep could be run profit
ably if the horses were only disposed
of, it is asserted.
| F. w. Morris, under bonds of $500
| at Missoula on a charge of murder as
| the result of the death of Mrs. Eliza
beth Williamson, following an alleged
criminal operation, died at his home
there of cancer of the tongue. He
was 80 years old. Morris was engaged
in the practice of medicine, though in
vestigation was unable to reveal that
he had ever been qualified for practice.
Snow and cold weather make log
ging ideal and the numbering industry
of Montana has received a new i'm
petus, with the combination of good
weather and higher prices, according
to State Forester J. G. Van Hook. He
added that he is receiving many more
applications for contracts to purchase
larch, pine and fir from the state than
has been the case in some time.
After hearing the arguments of at
torneys for the state and board of
equalization on the referees report in
the matter of assessments Of power
companies, the supreme court at Hell
ena took the case under advisement.
Arrests by the Billings police de-
partment in 1919 were not noticeably
lower than in 1913, according to the
department records. During the year
ending December 81, 1919, there were
2,111 persons arrested in Billings on
various charges, as compared with ap-
proximately the same number for the
previous year.
In answer to plea by Jake DeHart,
Montana game and fish warden, for
starving elk in this state, Superinten-
dent Albright of the national park
service has decided to rush hay to the
wagon.
When Dr. John ]. Sippy. state cpl
demiologist, asked the county health |
officer of Mineral county why he was
not more prompt in his reports, the |
health officer replied that he was
liz the regulations which he |
daily enforces himself and. is unable |
to leave his home because his two |
children have the scarlet fever and as
health officer he put the house
under quarantine.
In the war against the gopher, the !
of Montana used more than
one-half ton of strychnine, 1852
ounces, to be exact, 1T is announced.
This poison was used TO treat 1885,
100 acres of private land, 475,200 acres
If state land. and 510,520 acres of fed
,ral land. More than 1900 Montana
armers co-operated in the spreading
# the poison on the areas.
J. L. Fox and H. B. Greenleaf of
Billings are preparing for the opening
f large fox farm near that city
within few weeks. Construction OF
he pens already has been begun, and
mall shipments of foxes, including a
air of the valuable variety have ar
ived 1t is said the farm will be
epulated by 800 pair by next fall.
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During the past week 80 new cases
f scarlet fever were reported by
ounty health officers in all parts of
ne state, according to the weekly NOR
idity report of DR.. John ]. Sippy,
tate epidemiologist. These cases were
,ported as follows: Big Horn county,
/; Fergus, q; Flathead, 8; Kalispell,
!; Lincoln, / Missoula, &; Mussel- ,
lell, s.; RavalIi, 3; Butte, 4 Wheat
nd, and Wibaux, 2.
Rev. J. III. Durand, pastor of the !.
irst Methodist church at Roundup,
is been appointed by Bishop r. ].
poke to succeed the late Rev. w. :
:. Van Orsdel as. superintendent of !,
e Milk River district of the North !.
ontana conference. The new super +
tendent will remain at his duties in q
Dundup until successor can be OBJ =
med for his church. -
Joseph Hogue of Billings has APP
led for compensation to the state
cident board for compensation on
e claim that while employed az q =
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