The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-07-30
The STATE.

M1ssOula-During the first 10 days
in July there were SO fires in fores,
district No. /.
VAlier-Crops on the Waller pro
ject are well advanced and a good
crop is assured.
Butte-P. L. Wills, the new mana
ger of the Butte chamber of COM
merce, has arrived to begin his work.
Great FalIs-Cascade county has
received 100000 in cash, the pro-
ceeds of the highway bond sale made
recently.
Missoula - Darius Pingle, auto
bandit, caught with stolen car, en-
tered plea of guilty and was sem
fenced to from six to IL years in the
penitentiary.
Butte-If plans of the members of
the local order of Elks materialize, a
big game preserve for elk will be es-
tablished somewhere in the Flathead
country.
Miles City - According to Deputy
County Clerk w. j. Malloy, just 1000
voters in Custer county are eligible
70 vote at the August primary cleo
lions.
Bozeman A Montana pioneer,
Clinton Williams, died from influenza
at the ranch where he had lived since
his arrival here July 8, 1886, near
Willow Creek on the border of JEFF
ferson county.
Grass Range-More tourists have
passed through Grass Range in the
past two weeks than have heretofore
visited this place in six years. The
reason for this has been given as the
opening of the Custer highway.
Hardin - During the electrical
storm, a Mexican, Helano Aramo,
working for the Holly Sugar company
at the j. R. Baldwin place three miles
south of Hardin, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
Livingston - The experimental
plots of sugar beets planted in this
county are looking exceptionally good
according to reports being received
from the ranches by the chamber of
commerce.
Kelly showed that the valuation OF
property in Silver Bow county for the
assessment period ending May 81,
GVs IdQ luCIGdScu n6dTly 4,U -
600 over last years figures.
Miles City-Secretary w. G.. Fer
guson of the chamber of commerce
returned from Terry, Wibaux, Glen
dive and Sidney, where he has been
arranging for county EXHIBITS for the |
coming state fair which will be held
in Helena in September.
Unsatisfactory arrangements |
having been completed with the coun- |
ty commissioners and a rental of |
$1,000 a month having been agreed |
upon, all the municipal offices in the |
old city hall will be moved into the |
courthouse.
Red Lodge-An information has
been filed by County Attorney H. A. |
Simmons charging Clarence Davis
with perjury Davis was picked up |
and Jailed after marrying Helen Root
and giving her age as 18 when her
mother, claims it to be Is. He is
but On 81, 900 bond
Butte - The Montana Soldiers
home at Columbia Falls is in fine
condition and credit to the state,
according to Gen. Charles S. Warren,
who has just returned from the in
stitution. At present there are 1901
IN the institution, of which 25 are
widows or wives of veterans. Last
month there were seven deaths.
Ingomar - The Rocky Mountain
Royalty company, of which ]. E.
president of the DAILY
Bank and Trust company of Butte, is
PRESIDENT, has taken over leases on
several thousand acres on Ingomar
Iona onJ will ooro y,,opoa dri1lipu FOR
Ill by October 1.
Helena-Culminati of friction in
he Helena fire department and let
ers to local agents by insurance COM
'anies protesting against the man.
cement of the Helena department,
las led the. city council after pro-
racted hearings to denote Tom DAILY
he chief, to grade of private in the q
ear rank.
Kalispeli-Peter L. Jaquette, IA
her of Walter P. and Charles N. ia
uette, well known farmers of this i
ounty, died at the age of SO years 7
t the home of his son, Walter, where 9
e has made his home since 1907.
Ir. Jaquette came to Montana 1907
rom Pennsylvania and in 1910, at t
he age of S3, filed on homestead Fl
n the Flathead reservation and lived !,
n the place. .
Helena. w. Seiden, of Lewis
OWN, was reelected president of b
ne Montana Pharmaceutical associa- a
on at the closing session of the an ),
ual convention; j. N. Starbuck of :
alier, first vice president; Charles p
uist of Wisdom, second vice presi-
emit; ]. R. Riedel, of Boulder, was Il
e-elected secretary, and ]. N. Talbot 9,
Manhattan, was reelected treas
rer. Helena was the choice of the d
ssociation as the convention place ii
ext year. Of
Butte-Outlook for the copper in fl
ustry is somewhat improved, ac- a.
,rding to gossip heard in local pro- tie
lction circles and the July output CO
metal is expected to range about cl
le same as for June, when an in
ease of 100000 pounds over May tn
as reported. May recorded fall ia
6 off of 100000 pounds as COM OF
Ired with the previous month. er
nelter operation at the Washoe hi
Orks, Anaconda, is showing an In
ease. Labor efficiency also is re- di