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

ouuSIoH mas De5u started frO-
the new Red Lodge mine of the Mort,
!, western Improvement company. know
as the No. vein.
Net operating revenue of tbe Mon
tana Power company for 1922 was So
I16'07S, according to its annual report
filed recently with the public servic1
commission.
The leghorn pheasant, a new game
bird, has made its appearance Oh. Ger
tain farms of western Montana, ant
according to sportsmen who have
watched the new breed with interest
win become common in that part OF
the country.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed by the Coulson Water Users as
ISOLATION, an organization of Billings
residents. The articles were signed
by J. e. Burgeson, Chris vollquardt
and P. Yegen, as directors of the new
corporation.
The convention of the intercollegiate
Association of Forestry clubs, held at
the state university at Missoula, was
one of the important events in the uni
versity year and, according to visiting
delegates, the best meeting in the his
tory of the association.
G. J. Moody engineer in charge Of
the Flathead reclamation project, re-
ports that with the appropriation of
$550,000, which is the first adequate
sum received since the war, he will
be able to improve the project in a
most substantial manner this season.
After having been thrown with ter
rifle force against the sharp corner of
building by raging wind, Laura
Linnell, nurse, was killed in Red
Lodge when she fell to the sidewalk
and fractured her skull. She was a
of Nurses.
Rosebud county will hold its annual
fair at Forsyth on September II, II,
13 and a. The fair will be one week
in advance of the Midland Empire fair,
which will be held at Billings, Septem-
Der IS, 10, 20 and q, and two weeks
ahead of the Montana State fair, which
will be held at Helena, September %
to 20, inclusive.
Charles Jarrett was found guilty Of |
murder in the second degree by the |
jury in the district court at Lewistown,
for his alleged connection with the kill
ing of Allison Mccain, of Roy, last
June. The defendant waived time and
sentence was pronounced in the same
proceeding, that he serve not less than
10 and not more than % years in the
state prison.
Montana is required to pay higher
freight rates on intrastate shipments
than virtually every other state in the
Union, while net earnings of those por-
lions of railroads operating in Mon
tana are proportionately higher on that
intrastate business than on the total
business of the same railroads, accord
ing to an opinion issued by Attorney
General w. d. Rankin.
Invitations have been sent out to
commercial bodies and individuals in ,
cities, towns and rural districts in
eastern Montana to attend meeting /
In Billings March % of farmers, bank
ers and business men with representa-
tives of the federal reserve board at
The invitation was ex- ,
tended by a committee Of the Billings !
club which is arranging .
FOR the meeting.
Matthew Brown of ATissoula was re
Gently appointed by Governor Dixon a
member of the executive board Of the
state university at Missoula for the re-
mainder of the term ending April 10, !
1926 to succeed j. H. T. Ryman of !
Missoula. Mr.. Ryman was recently APP :
pointed a member of the state board
Of education to succeed A. J. Violette
Of Missoula, who is one of the members :
If the newly created state board of !.
equalization.
Cattle and sheep in Montana are
coming through the winter in better
than usual and the supply of :
'ood on farms and ranches is ample !,
o insure more than 80 per cent of the =
stock going on grass in good condition, :.
according to the March livestock re- :
,ort issued recently by George A. Scott :
# the Montana Cooperative Crop and !.
livestock Reporting service. Despite !.
cry severe weather for several days in +
February, losses have been very light, :
nd shrinkages small. !,
Seventy-six independent telephone :
in Montana, serving SO
owns, and rs exchanges in the state =
wned by the Mountain States Tele- =
hone and Telegraph company are :
nder investigation by the state public z
ervice commission. The investigation u
ill meet the request made in a reso- y
ltion introduced in the house of the 7
ecent legislature by John T. Caplis -
f Butte for a thorough investigation y
ito the matter of telephone rates and .
harges obtaining in Montana.
At the last meeting Of the Beaver y y
cad Anglers association at Dillon, re :
bonding to the appeal from the Dillon a.
oy Scout troops to provide work for
embers of that organization so they W
an buy uniforms, and at the same q