Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-08-03
MONTANA NEWS NOTES.

ierseIy Told Tales Concerning
the Treasure State and
monta. ANS
Twenty-seven claims aggregatinG
$3.50 were filed against Butte schoo
district No. /, by teachers OF the
schools.
Announcement at Great Falls of the
organization Of the Hanson Petroleum
company has aroused general interest
In oil circles.
Great Falls was chosen by the Mon
tana Elks at their convention at Kali
lspell as the scene of the 1898 conven-
ton OF the state lodge.
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Pellcans In Yellowstone national
park devour thousands of fish every
year, according to official investigators
now at work at Yellowstone lake.
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Bounty on u coyotes killed during
the month of June Is reported by the
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. ae-
cording to an announcement made
recently.
All Officers ind directors of the
Montana Livestock Finance corpora
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meeting, held at the corporations Of
flee In Helena.
Six logging camps. near MIssouls
property OF the Rutledge Lumber com
pany. a Weyhauser concern, with
practically all Of their equipment. have
been burned by recent forest fires.
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With the drilling OF the Mosby Con-
solidated OIL corporation we'll In sec
ton 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 TO approximately
200 men. according TO an announce
ment.
According to a 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
Its owners the Phiipsburg 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 II. 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 80 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 t,
hA h'aa VhS aC6ad
In a bed of hot cinders near the North :
ern Pacific railway tracks, a mile east !,
OF Livingston. The body was badly /,
and bruised. Police said that .
the man was not murdered but met r
Heath under a train.
Because school district No. IA in the =
Souldlng creek country, owed him $40 q
md he had no other means OF collect =
the money. o. c. Wilkerson. school 1,
clerk. forged the of the I
hartman and one member of the board "
4 trustees to a school district warrant n
nd cashed 1t, according to his state u
1ent.
Application for q temporary strike a
Injunction against the shop NJ
at points on the Great Northern +,
was taken under advisement n,
y Judge Bourquin. In federal district q
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