The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-01-30
. MONTANA NOTES
TREASURE STATE TALES
sc TERSELY TOLD

Montana Life Insurance company OF
Helena to collect 5000 he alleges Is
due the estate on life insurance
policy. Gerard Linge was killed In
battle at Bots de Charey, France, from
an explosion of shrapnel, the complaint
says, and added that the policy was
issued in October, 1918, and Linge
met hts death the next month.
A new lath mill is being built at
Lake Five, near Bolton. by H. H. Will
der. The machinery, which will have
a capacity of 40 cords per day, is now
on the ground.
Governor Sam. v. Stewart has des-
ignated February IS to % as father
and son week, during which functions
ana exercises aimed to bring father
and son closer together will be In
order.
A petition to establish Shrine tenn
pie In Billings is to be presented by
Billings Shriners to the imperial coun-
ell at Portland. Ore, next June. This
action was decided at q meeting of
Billings fez wearers.
Alleging that Lewis and Clark coun-
ty assessed machinery worth S5S. 400
at ~ per cent of its value instead of
at 70 per cent. the Northern Pacific
railroad has sued the county for the
recovery of S425.06, taxes paid under
protest
Biaaks on which personal income
tax reutrns are to be made are being
mailed to all persons in the Montana
district who received them last year. |
1t is reported by w. C. Whaley, col |
lector of internal revenue for the dis |
trict, with headquarters in Helena.
Inc corporation tax blanks have also |
been received and will be sent out as |
soon as possible.
A bond issue of 100000 for the con-
struction of new high school building
Is to be submitted to Billings voters
III the regular school election April /
5, according to announcement of the
school board. The present school
completed in 1914, is now
declared inadequate in size.
Inc 1lrst shipment Of elk from Vel
owstene park to II point outside the
JDipsd States left Gardiner last week
or Rocky Mountain park, Banff. AL
'erta. Two hundred one and two
ear old elk were loaded in four cars
Ind shipped by express to the Cana
liam park, where they will be turned
oose- Howard Siebald, chief game
warden for Canadian parks, accompa- /.
led the shipment and promised park
fflclais to return the courtesy by | !
ending mountain goats from Banff TO
,ellowstone, if the park authorities de- ,,
ire them.
Methods of grazing elk herds and '
airing for other wild game on forest s
eseryes. as well as grazing cattle ON q
ne reserves. will be discussed at n r
,eeting of state and federal forestry
nd game officials of western states t
be held in Salt Lake. February Is. d
axe L. DeHart. state game and fish p
arden, intends to be present at the f
eetins. Stockgrowers will also be z
resent S
Approval by the secretary of agri- s.
llture of the United States for two u
deral aid road projects in Montana q
rs been received by the state high IL
ay commission. The projects are. U
o. GA, for construction of IS miles of u
ghway between Great Falls and Belt =
/ the Great Falls-Monarch road. and -
o. 90, for 3S miles of construction on :
e Choteau-Sun River project.
Fifty thousand dollars will be ex-
nded by the Northern Pacific rail-
~ at Pompeys Pillar. in the eastern
ri of the state, this year in rip-rap-i
ng the river bank to protect railway
d other property.
Divorces are a luxury, say members
the Western Montana Bar associa-
N, and hence should cost more So
was decided at the annual meeting
the association at Missoula that {
: cost of legal separations will adj
nee from $50 to $50, as minimum
!. A new scale for services other
IN the securing of divorces also was
opted.
Senator Frank Cone. market investi-
or for the Montana trade commits
n, Is making an inventory of the
ks and records of the department.
len completed he will turn the data
r to the state railroad commission,
h all supplies, and the Montana
de commission will formally cease
exist.
he Great Northern railroad hasl