The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-09-09
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Deer Lodge-The illness of Dis
trict Judge Winston, who is in {
hospital at Anaconda, with a slight
operation, has necessitated postpon.
ing a session of his court at Deer
Lodge.
Helena - Mrs. Bozo Masonvitch
aged 20, wife of a rancher in Nit
chell gulch near here, shot and killed
herself, according to officials. The
motive is unknown. She leaves the
husband and two small children.
Miles City-Miles City will send
10 representatives to the irrigation
and development congress to be held
at Seattle September 16 and IT, il
as decided by the chamber of com
merce.
Miles City-Authority having been
received from Adjutant General
Greenan for the organization of a
national guard company at Miles
City, the move will be started at once
by H. L. Anteny, physical director OF
the "Y" here.
Helena-At a formal ceremony
last week, ground was broken for the
Van Orsdel memorial, a $4,000 ad-
dition to the Montana Deaconess
school here. The ceremony featured
the days sessions of the Montana
conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church.
Helena - Members of the Joliet
and White Horse bench irrigation
district in Carbon county have ap-
piled to the Montana irrigation COM
mission for it to assume jurisdiction
of the district under the state law.
1t is the first district created under
the 1909 statute, or old law, to ask
h state body to control.
Kaiispell-Fook Joe, a Chinaman,
who came to Demersville in the old
days and to Kalispell when this city
was started and Demersville moved
bodily to this site, died last week.
Joe came into this country as fore
man of a Chinese extra gang when
the Northern Pacific was built. For
more than 20 years he has been in
charge of A. H. Hays store. He
was past 70 years of age.
Helena-Timber lands in Montana
will be assessed at SIT an acre as
the full and true valuation judging
from the action of the state board of
equalization, which heard the APP
peal of the Northern Pacific and
Anaconda Copper Mining company
from the assessments of the Ravalli
county board of equalization. The
board granted the reductions for
which the appeals were made.
Helena-Patrick Dougherty, who
connected with ranches in Mon
tana from 1853 to 1870, particularly
the Round Grove ranch neal Helena,
died at his home in st. Paul. He was
years old. Also he was a pioneer
of Minnesota, in 1856 having aided
in the development of Mississippi
river traffic and in the building of
railroads. A wife and five children
survive.
Malta-Appreciating the necessity
of making a determined fight to re-
tain the waters of the Milk river,
stream rises in Montana and
courses into Canada, returning to the
Treasure state, instead of permitting
interests to take most of
the water, the farmers of the Malta
r preparing to be we'll rep
resented at the next international
hearing on the subject.
Observation-Disclosures by the
Montana railroad commission to the
Interstate commerce commission for
publication on one days notice of a
ate of 35 cents per 100 pounds on
rude oil from Winnett and Cat
Creek fields in Montana to the Grey
Bull %refineries has been made, on
of Montana producers,
Who claim there are no refineries
lere and storage facilities are mea-
,er.
Helena-Samuel Cohen, one of the
rail blazers of Montana, died last
week at the age of so years. He was
me of the best known men in the
tate and during his As years resi-
Ience here contributed much to the
of Montana. He was well
,nown in Helena, Virginia City,
treat Falls, Choteau and Butte,
Vhere at different times during his
ife he was a figure in the business
Ife of those communities.
Butte-To prevent a possible coal
anime in Butte, such as afflicted the
ity last winter, directors of the
hamber of commerce at the weekly
luncheon in the Silver Bow club took
ction to seek to obtain sufficient
ars for coal from the mines to
lutte. Ed Lang and P. L.. Wills,
manager, were appointed a commit
of two with full power to act in
rder to insure Butte an adequate
oal supply for domestic purposes.
Helena-Visitors in Helena state
air week will be asked to pay $3.50
a firstclass single room and 50
a first class double room each
light, according to M. Max Goodsill,
ecretary of the Helena Commercial
Tub, who is listing all available
Ooms in private homes. All reser-
atoms at the leading hotels have