The Harlowton news. [volume], February 12, 1909, Image 2

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Counterfeit $20 gold pieces are be
ing circulated in Butte.
The new agricultural building of the
college at Bopeman will be dedicated
tomorrow.
Montana's contribution to the fund
for the relief of the Italian sufferers
exceeded $6,000.
Miss Margaret Gillett, a trained
nurse of Helena, married a Chinese
cook, Ye Hoe Joe, at Helena this week.
B. S. Thresher, the Butte attorney
who was disbarred some years ago, has
been reinstated by the supreme court.
M. A. Hickey, the original locator
of the great Anaconda mine at Butte,
died in that city last week, aged 73
years.
The big cement plant at Three Forks
is to begin operations at once on a very
large scale, according to the manage
ment.
It is thought that drilling in the St.
Paul Pass tunnel will be completed
February 8.
There are thirty places of business
in Judith Gap. Five months ago there
was none.
The third mail to arrive in Babb
since New Year's day came last week,
on Wednesday.
Brick work on the postoffice at Boze
man is completed and work on the in
terior begun.
The Northern Pacific freight block
ade in Western Montana was broken
the first of the week.
The Livingston Chamber of Com
merce will give a dollar dinner the first
week in February.
The new town of Hedges, on the
Great Northern road, near Judith Gap,
is enjoying a building boom.
Kalispell residents have asked for
an appropriation to dredge the channel
at the foot of Flathead lake.
Preparations are being made to de
velop, the Half-Moon Pass Mining
company's property near Judith Gap.
Thomas E. Gray has been commis
sioned postmaster of the fourth class
and money order grade at Jackson.
A meeting will be held in Helena
February 1 I for the purpose of form
ing a Montana agricultural association.
Remarkable real estate movements
are in progress at Conrad. Business
and residence buildings are being
erected.
A four-story addition is to be made,
along with other improvements, 'o the
Missoula Mercantile block in Mis
soula.
On Wednesday, the first anniversary
of the death of D. J. Hennessy of
Butte, special services were held in the
Catholic churches of that city.
A special stock train was sent to
Spokane from the Bi:ter Root Stock
farm last week, composed of nine cars
of cattle and two of sheep.
About 18,500,000 feet of timber
under the contract to cut 50,000,000
feet have been cut by the Big Black
foot Milling company near Seeley lake.
"The Radium" is a paper to be
published in Butte by club women,
dealing with club topics, general litera
ture and matters connected with the
home.
Lieutenant Liovernor Allen delivered
an address on "Citizenship" before the
Men's club of St. Paul's Methodist
church of Helena on Monday evening.
Sam Resurrection of the Flathead
Indian tribe presented Governor Norris
with a petition on Monday protesting
against the opening of the reservation.
The Montana Assessors' association
will meet next year in Billings. A.
P. Smith of Billings was elected presi
dent and Frank Steel of Helena, secre
tary.
Besides having the highest average
daily circulation of any December in
the history of the institution, the Mis
soula public library during December
gave out the lowest per cent of fiction
in its history.
G. M. Johnson of Anaconda,
charged with ,sealing more than $10.
000 from the county while acting as
deputy treasurer, was this week con
victed on one charge of grand larceny.
Johnson fainted in the court room when
the verdict of guilty was returned.
Under an order received at the Hel
ena land office, hereafter no entries of
any form will be permitted on lands
within two mites of each bank of the
Missouri river in this district. The ef
fect of the order will be to inhibit all
future power development unless sanc
tioned by the interior department.
The Montana Mining as*ociation, in
conven:ion at Helena this week, elected
the following officers: President, T.
L. Greenough, Missoula; vice presi
dent, W. G. Conrad, Great Falls;
secretary-treasurer, F. B. Linderman,
Helena; executive committee, A. E.
Snrings, Townsend; D. Peter S. Mus
sigbr..d Owen Byrnes and J. A. Row
and, riJena, Mont.
William Hayes must hang for com
plicity in the murder of Guard Robin
-on at the Deer Lodge penitentiary last
year. This was so decided by the su
preme court Monday in an opinion
written by Justice Smith affirming the
recision of the lower court. Hayes
will again be arraigned and re-sen
tenced, the date of his execution to be
fixed by the lower court.
Commander Edward C. Kinney of
3ozeman, of the department of Mon
tana, Grand Army of the Republic,
ias notified the Great Falls post Qf the
G. A. R. that the state reunion of the
department will be held in Billings on
April 15, 16 and 17, instead of the
last of June, as heretofore contemplat
ed. The ladies of the auxiliary, or re
lief corps, will meet in Billings the same
time that the G. A .R. holds its ses
;ion.
Under its grant for benefit of public
building funds the following lands
have been approved to the state of
Montana: Helena district, I, 120
acres; Missoula, 280 acres: Bozeman,
90 acres; Glasgow, 68 acres; Great
Falls, 160 acres; Kalispell, 6,164
icres.
Among improvements in the city of
Great Falls, there is to be constructed
a boulevard extending along the lands
4f the Missouri river, connecting with
Riverside drive at its present terminus
and extending to the city limits and pos
sibly ;o Giant Springs.
The Cooper-Hughes Land & Lum
ber company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
on Tuesday purchased a tract of 8,500
acres of land southeast of Great Falls
From J. B. Long & Co. It will be
sub-divided into tracts of 160 acres
and colonized for dry land farming.
The civil service examination set for
February 17 at Helena has been post
ooned to February 24. The examina
tion is to secure for the government a
stenographer and typewritist familiar
with German for $60 a month, to work
*n the geological survey at Washington,
and to secure other persons for similar
employment.
The Fiathead county representative,
Mr. James Harbert, has been inspect
ing the fish hatchery in Anaconda, pre
oaring for the discussion of the bill
before the le:islature providing for the
establishment of a fish hatchery at Flat
head lake.
The Montana-Blair Land & Irriga
'ion company was incorporated in Hel
°na last week Thursday. The capital
stock is $50,000. Incorporators are
F. M. Clark, C. A. Latham and T.
B. Weir. Helena is to be the prin
cipal place of business.
The Retail Merchants' association
will meet next year in Butte. The
officers elected at this week's session in
Helena are as follows: Louis Weigel,
president; H. W. Stringfellow, Havre,
first vice president; S. L. Tripp, Butte,
second vice president; Charles Austin,
Bu.te, secretary; Henry Fisher, Hel
ena, treasurer; F. K. Turner, E. P.
Grady, R. C. Wallace, of Helena, F.
M. Lockman of Missoula, J. Berg of
Townsend, S. L. Smithers of Helena,
and P. M. Reilly of Missoula, di
rectors.
PRESS COMMENTS.
The Mussellshell News refers to
Sam Small, of the Judith Gap Journal,
as the "supreme stinger of Central Mon
tona." Stung!-Inland Empire.
Editor Eislein of the Roundup Rec
ore, call. that town the pearl of the
Mussellshell; the editor of the Mussel
shell News calls Harlowtown the pride
of the Musselshell: Martinsdale is cer
tainly entitled to the diamondship.
Meagher County Republican.
A. H. Eiselein has purchased the
Mussellshell News of Harlowtown
from A. C. Graves and E. F. Ross and
took charge of the paper last week.
The new owner is a brother of the pub
lisher of the Roundup Record. He
comes of a family of good newspaper
men, and we hope he will put a lot of
ginger in the sheet and wake the town
up. The Journal wishes the new pro
prietor unbounded success.-Judith
Gap Journal.
Some time ago a Montana man
couldn't find his false teeth when he
wantei them to crack hazelnuts with
and he came to the conclusion that he
must have swallowed them. He called
in three doctors and they rummaged
around among his insides trying to find
the teeth, and while they were thus
employed he died of ennui. Now his'
widow will bring suit for damages
against the doctors, charging them with
malpractice.-Lovell, Wyo.. Chron-,
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ROUNDUP
Frm the Local Roundup Ia the
Record.
On Saturday (tomorrow) afternoon
at 4 o'clock, the corner stone of the
new Methodist Episcopal church will
be laid with appropriate ceremony.
G. C. Moore aurd Miss Eleanor
Anderson. society editor of the Har
lowton News, were in attendance at
the band dance Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Sprague of
Harlowton were down Saturday even
ing to attend the band dance. They
returned Sunday evening. Mr. Sprague
is a civil engineer employed by the
railroad company.
The Musselshell meat market is the
name of a new concern doing business
in Roundup, having opened its doors
to the public yesterday. It is located
in the Schlaberg building, just north
of the Record office. The promoters
of this new enterprise are J. O. Ab
sher and L. Tillman, who also conduct
a meat market at Musselshell.
A. X. Schall, of the general office
of the Minneapolis Brewing company,
was in Roundup yesterday perfecting
arrangements to make this a distribut
ing point for their products. While
here he appointed F. M. Wall com
pany their local agent. The cold stor
age owned by the Wall company on
the house track will be used.
W. H. Homer Martin and Miss
Buckey, two of Roundup's most popu
lar young people, have decided to
share life's joys and sorrows with each
other, and were married at Lewistown
Tuesday at 7 o'clock p. m., by Rev.
Binnick of the M. E. church. The
wedding took place at the Methodist
parsonage in the presence of a few
friends.
LEWISTOWN NEWS
Items Worth Reading Taken From the
Fergus County
Argus.
Grant Robinson will take possession
of the county treasurer's office the first
day of March. Under the law, he is
required to do this on the first Monday
in that month, and that happens to be
the first day of the month this year.
The new school house to be built in
Lewistown this year will probably go
up in the section known as Buckskin
flat. The other sections of the city are
provided with school houses, and fairly
desirable sites have been offered the
trustees in the locality named. It is un
derstood that the members of the board
favor this location, although no formal
action has been taken on the matter.
John D. Waite returned home last
evening from the east after an absence
of some three weeks. While away he
spent considerable time in Boston look
ing into the wool situation, and his view
of it is best shown by the fact that he
contracted for his own clip while there
to Hecht, Liebman & Company. The
clip will make about 200,000 pounds,
for which the firm paid 20 cents a
pound.
Register C. E. McKoin, of the land
office, returned home Wednesday even
ing from a trip to San Diego. Mr.
McKoin went to southern California to
place his children with relatives during
the winter. While at Los Angeles and
San Diego he met a number of Fergus
county people. Ernest Cloes, who has
located at San Diego, has purchased
C. J. Bach's interest in the Encanto
Heights tract. Mr. McKoin visited
William Medigar's beautiful place, and
says his children were picking oranges
there a few days ago.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Clerk and Recorder George Fowlie
left today for Bozeman on busir*ss
connected with the county roads.
Superintendent of Schools A. Belle
Francisco is in the lower part of the
county this week on official business.
There are rumors and rumors of
railroads, but one business man in town
says he is still a "doubting Thomas."
County Attorney W. L. Ford spent
a few days in Helena this week on bus
iness and calling on members of the
upper and lower houses now in session
at the capital.
Rev. S. Alexander of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, who has been invited to
fill the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church, will not be able to reach here
for next Sunday, but expects to be
here by February 14th. Announce
ment will be made next week.
A petition has recently been circu
lated along the Diamond stage line by
the ranchers on that road, asking that
the stage line between White Sulphur
Springs and Helena be continued, as
there is now a project to discontinue it.
Dr. S. W. Richards, who for the
past few months has presided in the
Presbyterian church at this place, left
Tuesday morning for Scotts Bluff,
Iowa, where he has accepted a call
from a church. Dr. Richards has
made many friends in this town, and all
wish him success in his new field of
duty.
Wedding cards have recently been
recived in White Sulphur Springs an
nouncing the marriage of Dr. Frank B.
Norris of Helena and Miss Augusta
W. Cole. which took place on Satur
day, January 16, at Oakland, Cal.
Dr. Norris has many friends in this
town who extend congratulations.
On Monday evening, at the home of
the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. I.
J. Wilson, a pretty wedding occurred,
at which time Miss Ida Wilson and
Guy Darnall were married, the Rev.
Dr. S. W. Richards of the Presby
terian church officiating. Only the rel
atives of both families were present,
with a few neighbors. The bride was
very charming, gowned in white silk.
trimmed with lace. After the cere
mony best wishes were extended to the
happy couple, followed by a delicious
supper.
JUDITH GAP NEWS
Items Clipped From the Judith Gap
Journal.
The Great Northern, Northern Pa
cific and Milwaukee railroads announce
that immigration will be extraordinar
ily heavy into the Judith Gap country
this spring and summer.
Miss Della Keene and Miss Edna
Chatten, professional nurses at present
residents at Kendall, were in the city
Wednesday and purchased two lots in
block one, and before many months will
build a private hospital on the same.
J. R. Bain and several more gentle
men are opening up a coal mine in the
Little Belt mountains, about six miles
from Judith Gap. A shaft is being
sunk in the hopes that the vein will
widen out, in which event the supply
will be more than sufficient to supply
the wants of Judith Gap people, and
will be a valuable proposition. The
coal is of a superior quality.
Deputy Sheriff Tullock of Lewis
town was in the city Tuesday on his
way home from Miles City, where he
had been to subpoena witnesses in a*
murder trial soon to be heard at Lewis
town. It was Mr. Tullock's first visit
to Judith Gap and he was surprised
that any town could become so big in so
few months, and predicts a great future
for the Gate Way city.
Kitchen Cars For Troop Trains.
An order has beeu issued from Wash.
Ington that all American troop trains
shall be provided wIth kitchen cars
and tables so that the men may eat in
comfort. The meu hereafter will not
be compelled to carry lunches or storm
wayside restaurants.
DANCE ATTWODOT
Knights of Pythias of Twodot Will Have a
Big Blowout at Ninth Annual Ball,
Feb. 19th 1909.
The Knights of Pythias of Twodot kind a big success. The following is
are making big preparations for their a list of the committees.
Ninth Annual Ball to be given at A glance at the names on the dit
Twodot on the night of February 19. ferent committees, will warrant the
They are endeavoring to make this prediction that the little historic
the most enjoyable annual yet held. town of Twodot, will be aglow with
The Twodot people are unsparing in excitement and merriment on the
their efforts to make an affair of this evening of February 19th.
Arrarttgemnt:
1. F. Kiehl Geo. R. Lyon N. R. Hutton
F. E. VanCamp Frank Wright Otto Vestal
Jin or (enanittter:
Alfred VanCOamp C. M. Clinger Laurie C. Capes
S. G. McGregor Noah Brown J. F. Kiehl
mintttrin a~.natittne:
J. A. Freeser James Hanvey
C. G. Danenhour Chas. Holl;day
Reapitnatn Gentaitter:
C. P. Tooley W. L. Starrett G. K. Robertson
E. C. Baxter T.. A. Gunby Sanford Holiday
Perry J. Moore John T. Noble J. H. Grant
H. G. Vestal Luke Brown W. E. Sherman
E. W Orr E. L. Shumaker C. W. Shumaker
Sanford Moore John A. Muir A. D. Nichols
G. D. Martin W. F. Ryan W. H. Freeser
Harry B. Tice C. V. Bardot O. B. Anderson
(ieo. W. Moore J. W. Blashill Emmet D. Gillis
M. M. Johnson J. W. Duncan Frank Williams
A. F. ROBERTSON
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