The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-06-03
THE STATE

Helena-Local street car fare has
oeen boosted to eight cents.
Laurel-Local water rates have
Deen reduced 80 per cent.
Miles City-Sheep shearing will
commence in Custer county about
Miles City-Ten boy scouts in Gus
ter county have organized a radio
club.
Miles City-The local lamb crop
ID reported as running better than
100 per cent.
Butte-Mrs. Georgia Anderson of
this city took a dose of acetanilid, a
neadache medicine. death resulting.
Observation-Disclosures menace is
causing a general feeling of alarm
among the farmers of the Flathead
valley this spring.
AnacOnda-Frank NJ. Fish, SO,
dropped dead here one day recently
while working in the Catholic ceme-
terry.
Miles City-Cornelius Vanderbilt.
wealthy New Yorker, will arrive here
early in June for motor trip through
Montana.
Butte-Three Butte youths have
confessed that they attempted to
burn the Webster school building and
WILL be sent to the Industrial school.
Miles City-Arrangements are be-
ing made to connect the Cat Creek
country with Miles City by wireless
telegraphy.
Miles City-The Milwaukee rail-
road will build 100000 extension
to its power plant, which furnishes
power for its railroad shops here.
Miles City-There is only one man
teaching school in all Custer county.
He is Rollin E. Crane and he is in
charge of the Moon creek school.
Helena-The state board of exam
liners will market $S50,O00 of Sc
curities for the purpose of financing
the state government for the next
seven months.
Great Falls-William Wood, "A,
and Mrs. Celia B. Nash, 81, were
united In marriage here recently.
The groom's great grandson was d
witness Of the ceremony.
Broadus-Ten thousand acres of
land in the vicinity of the Y T ranch,
Epsie & Kingsley, have been leased
to Sloan & Russell of New York for
OIL purposes and it is reported an
other 10000 acres are desired.
Miles City-Plumbers of Miles
City are reported to have made a
voluntary wage cut of 81 per day
and master plumbers announce they
will reduce their charges according
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Glasgow-Roy Smart and Frank
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of life. who are being treated in a
local hospital for spotted fever, are
said to be recovering. A few days
ago their lives were despaired Of.
Miles City-Work on the refinery
of the Miles City Oil Refinery Co.,
which has been under way since last
winter. is progressing. The refinery
will be refining oil by the middle of
July.
Observation-Disclosures assert that
there is an unlimited supply Of ar
tesian water lying about 400 feet
below the surface here and bingham
town council will drill we'll in an
effort to tap this reservoir.
Butte-Archibald L. Clark, q Butte
boy who is serving with the Ameri-
can army of occupation at Coblenz,
Germany, is managing editor of a
newspaper which was recently estab-
lished in Coblenz in the interest of
the American soldiers serving abroad.
Dillon-Bannack Lodge, A. F. &
A. M, which was chartered over half
a century ago when Grasshopper
creek was one of the wonder placer
diggings of the world, has passed out
of existence, having been merged
with the Dillon lodge.
Miles City-According to the testi-
mony of Mrs. William Murphy, her
father, B. P. Barker, killed her hus-
band after the men had quarreled
over spade which Barker had bor-
rowed and failed to return. Barker
went into his house, secured a shot
gun and shot his son-in-law dead.