The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-02
MONTANA NEWS NOTES
TerseIy Told Tales Concerning
the Treasure State and
MOnta. ans

Tw~enty-seven claims aggregatins
1910 were filed against Butte schoo
district No. 1, by teachers of the
schools.
Announcement at Great Falls of the
organization Of the Hanson Petroleum
mpan has aroused general interest
In oil circles.
Great Falls was chosen by the Mon
tana Elks at their convention at Kali
ispell as the scene of the 1923 conven-
ton Of the state lodge.
Pelicans In Yellowstone national
park devour thousands of fish every
year, according to official investigators
nov at work at Yellowstone lake.
Bounty on 72 coyotes killed during
the mont of June Is reported by he
county clerk and recorder of Custer
county, as having been paid during
July.
Forest fires burning in district No.
/ of the forest service are not gaining
much Roadway according to reports re-
ceived at district headquarters at Mis-
soula.
Nineteen patents to homestead lands
have been received at the Helena land
office, department of the interior, ac-
cording to an announcement made
recently.
All officers and directors of the
Montana Livestock Finance corpora
meeting, held at the corporations Of
flee in Helena.
Six logging camps, near Missoula
property of the Rutledge Lumber COM
pany, a Weyhauser concern, with
practically all Of their equipment, have
been burned by recent forest fires.
With the drilling of the Mosby Con
solidated Oil corporation well in sec
lion 22-15-29, much interest is being
taken, by oil men, in the possibilities
of the south extension of Cat Greek.
The Great Northern locomotive
shops at Great Falls, closed since
February 10, 1921, will be ~re~opened,
giving employment 70 approximately
200 men, according to an announce
ment.
According to q notice sent Mrs.
Nellie B. Small, county superintendent
of schools, by the state board of edu-
cation, none Of Silver Bow county's
four high schools is on the fully ac-
credited list of secondary schools In
Montana.
Condemned as a menace to safety,
the old Hope mill, the first silver mill
in Montana. erected in 1867 at Philips
burg, has been torn down by order of
it's owners, the Philipsburg Mining
company.
Appraisal of the Butte Water COM
pany's plant by the state public ser
vice commission will not be completed
until sometime in September, accord
ing to Chief Engineer James III. Bon
ner of the commission.
Mosquitoes are so thick now in the
east section of Miles City that smudge
fires are kept burning most of the
night. Residents declare the pest are
of the most vicious species, their bites
seeming to be quite poisonous.
According to Charles Potter, state
club leader for the Montana extension
service, about 60 boys from four south
ern Montana counties are attending the
annual Junior camp on the campus of
the State college at Bozeman.
With his stomach slit open, the body
of an unidentified man was found
in a bed of hot cinders near the North
ern Pacific railway tracks, a mile east
of Livingston. The body was badly
burned and bruised. Police said that
the man was not murdered but met
death under a train.
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Because school district No. Ia in the
Goulding creek country, owed him $50
and he had no other means of collect
ing the money, o. C. Wilkerson, school
board clerk, forged the names of the
and one member of the board
of trustees to a school district warrant
and cashed it, according to his state
Application for a temporary strike
violence injunction against the shop
at points on the Great Northern
was taken under advisement
by Judge Bourquin, In federal district {
court at Helena, following a hearing ]
at the roads request. In the mean 7
time counsel for both sides are to {
authorities of questions of law. {
Stub trains between Logan and