The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-19

by Michael Gill, Waterman Tor the
Northwest Coal company, ha.
brought suit against the compan!
for 100000 damages.
Butte-The Plasterers' union o.
Butte insist that the members o.
their organization must be employed
on the building of the hard sur
faced road which is to be construct
ed from Butte to Anaconda.
MISUNDERSTANDING of lands
in forestry district No. l shows that
the total area of the district is 26,-
645,848 acres, of which ~4,164,66S
acres are alienated, leaving a net
area of 22,4S2,1S0 acres.
Deer Lodge-Frank Conley, chair
man of the state highway commits
sion, has written the Montana con-
gressional delegation, urging the APP
preparation of $8,000,000 additional
for road building in this state.
Glasgow-Captain Mark Hoyt was
recently operated on in Philadelphia
for gall stones and appendicitis, and
is reported as doing well, according
to a telegram from Archie Mahon,
who accompanied him east.
Deer Lodge-The Champion mine,
an old time silver producer which
has been closed for a number of
years, is being re-opened, having
been taken over by a New York COM
pany of which w. H. Nichols is the
president.
Deer Lodge - Deer Lodge will
build a new city hall, to cost $4,000.
Construction will commence as soon
as the weather will permit. Besides
the municipal offices it will contain
an auditorium capable of seating 800
persons.
Helena-Aside from influenza, the
states weekly health report is as
follows: tuberculosis 10, smallpox
20, diphtheria 6, scarlet fever %,
measles Z, whooping cough 8, chick
en- pox 16, humps 1, pneumonia 10,
erysipelas 2.
Glasgow - Herb Hester, former
manager of the Great Falls profess
sional baseball team, has been en-
gagged as manager of a semi-profes-
sional team which is to be organized
here. He has been given a free hand
engaging players.
Helena-A bulletin from Wash
announces a thrift stamp
week beginning March /. The prin-
cipal sphere of activity will be in the
schools, and every school in the
Ninth reserve district, which includes
Montana, is asked to cooperate.
Every educator, pupil and parent is
asked to make the thrift stamp week
I success.
Butte-The hard surfaced road to
be built between Butte and Anacon-
Ia is expected to become one of the
greatest speedways in the state. The
road will be of concrete, 10 feet in
and will be constantly patrol
ed by traffic officers. 1t is expected
hat fines collected from the speed
lends will go far towards the high
maintenance.
Virginia City-The Vigilante trail,
which uns from Whitehall to Vir-
sinia City, and over into the Madison
is to be marked with a circle
with red, white and blue
tripes. On the white will appear I
he mystic figures, "3-7-77," which {
used in the old days by the Vigi-
antes to warn d~esperadoes that their
in the country was no long
r desirable. /
Helena-Miss Bessie Little, a well {
Helena girl, who has spent j
be past two years in France, photo {
raphing graves of American sol I
iers for the Red Cross, has return t
d to Helena. The next of kin of
very soldier dead will receive a /
photograph of the grave of his rela- t
i've killed in France. These photo f
raphs are being sent out from /
Washington at the rate of 5000 per
ay. Y