The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-10-05
THE STATE

uT1il6u On the benton lake OIL dome
Winnett-In drilling the Neudi
gate oil well near here the bit pene
trated a 98-foot coal seam.
Butte-Fred Brown, mail carrier
struck down by an automobile on the
Gregson road recently, is dead.
Poplar-George Ledeaux, pioneer
of western Montana, is dead at the
age of rs.
MISUNDERSTANDING carloads OF
beef were shipped from this point
during the past week.
Great Falls-A post of Veterans of
Foreign Wars was organized here a
few days ago.
Great Falls-One hundred cars are
needed on the Butte division of the
Great Northern for stock shipments.
Anaconda-Fred Gangner, former
mayor, is under arrest on a charge
of having violated the Volstead act.
Lewistown-Wet gas has been dis
covered in an oil well that is being
drilled on Western Brush creek.
Lew1stOwn-Ten butchers in Fer
gus and Judith Basin counties are
under arrest for failure to take out
licenses under the new law.
Bozeman-Students of the agricul-
tural college, operating large mess,
are enabled to board themselves for
SIS per month.
Winnett-The Gilt Edge oil struc-
ture will be tested by the Sherrard
interests. A we'll will be spudded in
in few days.
Hamilton-Millard Fillmore Sher-
rill, 70, who came to the Bitter Root
valley in 1865, and was veteran of
the Battle of the Big Hole, is dead.
Butte-A brand new faro outfit,
the first seen in Butte in years, was
taken by the police in a raid on
place suspected of bootlegging.
Shelby-The new Howling-Home-
stake we'll has settled down to pro-
duction of about 1900 barrels per
day.
Chinook-A pocket of gas was
struck few days ago in the test
we'll being drilled on the Bowes
structure.
Butte-An underground still, with
a capacity of 1000 gallons of moon
shine a day, was discovered a few
days ago near Butte.
Great Falls-An irrigation project,
to cost 100000, will be constructed
to irrigate land in the
of Ulm, on the Great North
ern railway.
Poplar-Major James e. Kitch, SUI
perintendent of the Fort Peck Ind
ian reservation for the past two
years, has been transferred to Arr
IONA.
Woodside-A large portion of the
Bitter Root apple crop, which was
damaged by hail during July, will
be manufactured into cider this sea-
son.
Forsyth-A rich bed of coal un-
derlies the farm property of Arthur
rancher whose place is
80 miles south of here. Until he
took over this property he was a
farm hand, and the discovery will
probably make a rich man of him.
Butte-Mike Mclaughlin, miner,
who was struck down by an automo-
bile, recovered consciousness S.
hours after the accident. Both ear
drums were broken and heis stone
leaf.
Tor an increase of pay to $40 for
.hree hours work in dance halls
where the ticket system is in vogue,
ind theater musicians an increase of
is weekly.
Forsyth - John Kline, rancher,
Who has resided here for the past
our years, has been identified as
fohn Foley, convict who escaped
rom the New York state peniten-
larry in March, 1912.
Livingston-John Vandolah, Clyde |
Park raneher, has confessed that
While under the influence of moon |
hine he shot and wounded his wife. |
Ie was sentenced to one year in the |
Great Fails = Robert Sutherlin,
ditor of the Rocky Mountain Hus-
andman, estimates the wheat crop
o be worth $40,000,00o, and the
eef and mutton crop about as much |
lore.
Fort Benton-Berry Mackey, one
the best known farmers of the
olony Bay section, dropped dead
lille he was hunting. He was about
} fire at some ducks when his COM
anions saw him fall, and death re-
llted before he could be removed to
is home.
Corvallis James e. Hixson
as awakened one night recently he
)und his wife in commissions. He
astily summoned physician but the
oman died just as the doctor ar
we'd. Under her pillow was found
half empty bottle of strychnine. She
1T a note in which she said no one
as to blame but herself, and asking
er husband to take good care of
or baby.