The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-06-13

have sold 500 head Of whiteface year
lings to Indians of the Cheyenne reser
walton in South Dakota.
The Yellowstone Trail association
has installed an information bureau a
the Billings Commercial club building
with A. A. Schwartz in charge.
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Charles N. Pray of Great Falls has
announced his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination for United States
senator at the forthcoming August
primary.
Pipestone Springs hotel, located on
the east slope of the continental di-
vide, 26 miles from Butte, was destroy
ed by fire, the loss being estimated
at $4,000.
bikes are being rapidly built to saw
oil which is spouting an estimate Of
1000 barrels a day from the Clayton
No. 2 well, drilled in by the Mid-North-
ern near Winnett.
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The Northwestern Grain Dealers
association will hold its annual 0 n
vention at Great Falls, June % and %.
One hundred and fifty grain dealers
are expected to attend.
Half starved, his clothing in shreds,
George Pease, 85-year old civil war
veteran, was found along a roadside,
~ miles south of Missoula, after a
search of five days following his dis
appearance.
All officers of the Montana Tax
payers association board of directors
were reelected at a session of the
board held recently in Great Falls,
attended by representatives of l6
counties of the state.
Miss May Trumper, mentioned as a
possible candidate for the office OF
chancellor of the Greater University of
Montana, to succeed DR.. Elliott, re-
SlSucu, HIS utulcu Hel SoHuiudNs -
a recent letter addressed to county
superintendent of the state.
The HObson summer tillage club,
with 90 farmers pledging 11,0O5 acres,
the state. Membership in this
movement, organized under the aus
pieces of the Montana Development
association, now reaches 2,792 while
the total acreage pledged is 142,294.
r. B. Dana of Chadburn believes he
has a flock of hens that has set a rec
ord In Park county for continuous egg
laying. He claims his flock of 60 pure
bred Rosecomb Rhode Island Red hens
laid 6,12O eggs in the past six months,
which is an average of 102 eggs each.
Winnett was visited by a heavy cleo
trical storm that struck a grain ele-
vator, damaging it considerably, and
another bolt struck an oil storage tank
at the Weona refinery. A hail storm
lasting less than half an hour did dam
aye 10 CIODS anu DlOhc illuiy HiiuV"o-
Articles of Incorporation have been
at Great Falls for the o%rganiza-
ion of the Louis Oil company, with a
of 100000. The COM
Dany will develop permit land near the
Gordon Campbell-Kevin syndicate No.
|, and is now hauling a rig to the field.
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Posters are out announcing the first
lnnual meeting of the Carter County
livestock Protection association at
'iniele on Monday, June &c. The as
ociation was organized about a year
following a visit there of Attorney
w. d. Rankin in which he
ublicly named several cattle rustIers
advised the stockmen to ''clean up
n them.'' The stockmen give prom
hence now to the statement that they
ave come to stay.
With both bones of his right leg
roken between the ankle and knee,
ohm N. TOlman, stOckman and banker
{ southern Carbon county, e~xtricated
FRS. L. M. LeMotte from beneath a
eavy automobile and probably saved
err from drowning. The car In which
ley were riding with three other pas :
,ngers plunged from a concrete
ridge over the Sand creek canal three
lies south of Bridger. :
Administration of the Montana vet !,
ans welfare fund has entailed an :
expense of 31.664 per cent :
id 6S.336 per cent has been the total :
d to soldiers, according to an audit !
the veterans welfare commission .
fairs, begun January %. 1922, and :
mpleted March II, 1922, a report on :
hich has just been filed by L. Q. 9
,elton, state examiner, with Governor :
seph M. Dixon.
armed men backed Ed Taylor, :
rage man at Missoula, in a corner :
d escaped with a big roadster, re- .
ntly confiscated by Sheriff Cole from :
liskey runners. This is the second :