The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-04-27

II I1ulAnS from Lame OeeT Reservation
+ are pouring into Miles City with view
y Of getting employment on the new rail
road construction. These Indians ar,
/ progressive and have some of the bes
: teams In the west.
/, According to reports the street cal
9 tracks, which have so long been {
curse to the automobile drivers III
2 Bozeman, will be torn up as soon as
the weather conditions will make il
possible to relay the paving.
Plans for $1,0Oo000 development
campaign through 10-year period be
ginning in the fall of 1924, in behalf
Of Montana Wesleyan college, were dis
cussed at the spring meeting of the
trustees of the college at Helena.
Preliminary steps have been taken,
by the filing of articles of incorpora-
ton at Butte, toward the formation
of 100000 implement company for
the purpose Of manufacturing and deal
ing in farm machinery and implements.
The proposal to create Lake county
in northwestern Montana has aroused
more than a passing interest among
the Flathead Indians, one of whose
tribal claims to distinction lies in the
fact that they never made war on the
white man.
A conference of state and provincial
health officers will be held in Missoula
April and for the purpose of dis
cussing the Rocky mountain spotted
fever problem, according to Or. w. E.
Cogswell secretary Of the Montana
state board of health.
In the purchase by Daniel J. Burke
of the Bright hotel for $4,000 cash,
one of the biggest deals in Lewistown
realty circles for many years was con-
summated The deal includes the
building, the furnishings and the
ground on which it stands.
The Bagley Elevator company of
Miles City announces that it will take
all the northwestern and navy white
hand picked beans it can get. Seven
thousand pounds of beans have been
freighted in from Powder River county
and the company announces it will buy
$4,000 pounds more.
In connection with the laying of the
nine miles of 9O-pound steel through
Ringing it is announced that six miles
of 9O-pound steel will be laid between
Maudlow and Fanalulu, which will
complete the laying of 90-pound steel
from Harlowton to Lombard on the
main line of the Milwaukee.
There were 1878 births in Montana
in 1922, a decrease Of 1894 from the |
1921 figures, while deaths in the state |
in 1922 were 5000, an increase of 342
over the 1921 total, according to figures
completed recently by the bureau of
vital statistics of the state board of
health.
Preparations are being made to con-
struct the railway from Columbus up
the Saltwater river to the New World
mining district as soon as the weather
will permit, according to a statement
made in Billings by A. w. Barker of
the firm of Ernster & Barker of Co
lumbus. This line will connect with
the Northern Pacific at Columbus.
That there will be a great shortage
Of farm labor in Montana, is the belief
by Chester G. Davis, COM
missioner of agriculture for the state.
Mr.. Davis believes that the spring
Of crops this season will be
about the same as last and that the
scarcity of farm labor will be very
nearly as it was during the World war;
Custer high school basketball team,
champions of Montana, and close to
he championship of the inter-moun-
ain district, have returned to Miles
yty from Salt Lake, where they
lcquitted themselves with credit to the
tate and Miles City, regardless of hav-
ng lost the first game they played, but
Won all the other games, tieing with
Weston, Idaho, in percentage.
Plans for the annual state conven-
ion of the Disabled American Veter-
ms of the World war, which will be
leld in Missoula, May 1926, were dis
ussed at a meeting Of the state execu-
i've committee in Helena recently. The tt
have granted a special rate
f a fare and one-third for the conven-
ion and the Missoula people are pre- &
airing for elaborate entertainment OF
he veterans.
Residents of the Pablo vicinity on
he Flathead reservation have COM
leted arrangements for the securing :,
{ carload of Hoistein cattle through
he Montana Mutual Dairy Loan asso-
iation of Missoula. Interested farm
RS met with j. A. johnson of Poison.
irector, and G. w. Fowler, manager of u
ne association, and perfected the p.
lans There will be % 3-year-old
eifers, two purebreds and a purebred
ull They will be distributed to seven f.
ir1nerS. III
Action of the state fish and game 81
ommission in closing Limestone and Az ~
rout creeks permanently to fishing -
fleets the favorite fishing streams of ~
number of Yellowstone and Still -
alter county anglers. Limestone creek
tiers the west fork of the Saltwater