The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-08-03
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al revival of mining on the south
fork of the Fqathsad river, where ore
averaging 5000 ton is said to pc
found, is expected with the compile
f,on of the Coram-Spotted Bear road
ssarseh connects that district with the
railroad at Kalispen. Ore was dis
covered In this district some ten years
$50 but the claims were abandoned
owing to transportation difficulties.
Thrown by bpcking mare he was
rs6ing. Charles Mcbride, 12-year-oid
son of O. J. Mcbride, of Billiugs, was
dragged 300 feet and killed. while
spending his vaectSon at the rancn
home of Charles Colgrove, on the Dry
hea6 60 miles southeast of Billings.
me how had been warned not to ride
me mare on account of her bucking.
indians employed on the hard sur
faced highway from Birch Creek TO
Glacier Park are good workmen ana
the project is rapidly nearing compile
+ion according to the state highway
commissions engineers in charge.
Cari w. Riddick, formerly congress
man from Montana, was married on
Nfav Is to Mrs. Flossie Harrison, OF
Liberal Kansas. in New York CITY:
Tne nrfsrraage was kept secret until
recan&1y.
James Bowden, long time and well
knnwn resident Of Isnay, Is dead FOL
lowing a kick in the abdomen by
vicious horse.
Considerable damage to crops ana
property are reported from the Gaiias
fin valley which was swept by a So
we're hail storm recently. Some OF the
LARGEST growers Of alfalfa in the VII
low creek bottom report that their
first cutting of hay is an entire loss.
Ola residents declare the storm is the
worst that has visited that section IN
many years.
Abandoned as unprofitGble by WASH
ington, d. O., capitalists more tnap
thirty wears ago The Silver Reef, Gil
ver Chain and Hidden Treasure mines
on Silver Hill near Anaconda may Do
geopened.
G. E. Steinhauser, of Harlowton,
reached out into the raging flood that
swept past his home following recent
cloudburst in that section and rescued
a little pig from a watery grave. He
deposited the porker on his sleeping
porch, and, believing the waters were
receding, went to sleep. He was later
awakened by the pig squealing and
Juggling at the bed clothes. He arose
to find the water rising rapidly and
the porch inundated. There is no
doubt, the Harlowton man declares,
that the pig was grateful and desired
to show its gratitude by giving the
knely warning.
When a severe windstorm swept the
KootenM forest in the vicinity of Mis-
SCUBA, recently, large trees were up
rooted. One of the largest fell upon
two men and three horses and crushed
them to death. Names of the victims
have not yet been received by the
forest supervisor.
While Montana's fight fans were
sizzling at Shelby and the thermome-
ter was hitting the top Of the tube in
other parts of the state, a blizzard as
severe as any mid-winter storm ragged
on the Montana-Idaho line near Iron
Mountain, according to reports brought
to Missoula by an old prospector.
An early day tragedy is wildly por-
trayed in discovery Of the bones of
man and moose in the vicinity of
Glacier Park. The position of the
bones indicate that the man had shot
the moose, which charged him and
succeeded in trampling him to death
before the shot took effect. There
is no doubt but that the accident hap
pened many years ago as the gun
stock was almost destroyed by decay
and the barred covered with rust. Old
timers recall the disappearance Of
French Canadian trapper, name I'M
knawn, about 18 years ago.