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TKe WKitefisK Pilot.
VOLUME 7
WHITEFISH, FLATHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1910,
NUMBER 30
ARE UNDER.
CONTROL
The fire situation all about us is
very much improved since the rain
last week, but on account of the »'art.
they had it was not enough to ext in
gi.s'i them. There is no real dan
ger at present unless a strong wind
comes up and fans the smouldering
embers into flames again.
The ground beneath the trees is
covered with a heavy layer of pine
needles and decayed wood. When
the fire once gets started in this it
is almost impossible to do anything
to extinguish it until it has run its
course oriias been drenched sever
al times with a heavy down pour
of rain. Most of the fires like this
will probably burn until the snow
comes.
The fires in the region of Tally
lake still seem to lie doing business,
from the columns of smoke that is
still rising from there, but a large
crew of men has lieen fighting it
for the past two weeks, and they
have succeeded in getting a ditch
nearly around it, and have back
fired, so they do not think there is
much chance for it to spread any
farther.
The fires in the vicinity of Echo
lake and Big Fork are under con
trol. It is reported about 8,000
acres were burned over, one-third
of which is in the Flathead na
tional forest, and about 300 aeres
of which held a heavy stand of
imber.
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Second Flathead Filing.
The local land office has received
rom Washington the list of those
vbo are to be given opportunity to
make entry in the second Flathead
'ling. It will he remembered that
ast May and June the names of
he first 3,000 who were lucky in
he registration a year ago were
ailed and the people given a
hance to select lands. In the early
all the numbers to 6,000 will be
ailed and those who drew them
vill be allowed to file on lands.
Number 3,001 will be called in
valispell at nine o'clock the morn
ng of September one and in Miss
ula September 8. After these
ates the calling will be continued
n each office, at first at the rate of
00 names a day and later 200 a
ay, until the list is -completed,
his will be on September 22 at
alispell and on September 29 at
lissoula.
It is probable that on or about
he first of November whatever
1 at head lands remain unfiled up
n will lie thrown opeu to settle
ment under the general homestead
iws.—Kalispell Times.
Of Coarse It PayS.
That it pays to advertise in the
dot and that the ads are far readi
ng was fully demonstrated last
veek, when E. L. Geddes sold one
>f the five-acre tracts north of the
rack to Arthur R. Kossbielof San
ablo, Champoton, Campeche,
lexica, who is a reader of the Pilot
nd has become very much inter
sted in our city thru its columns.
Ie was attracted by the splendid
»argains that the townsite company
re offering in their advertisement
nd after a little correspondence
ith Mr. Geddes regarding the
atter and the future of our little
ity, immediately forwarded a check
full for the amount. What Mr.
ossbiel's object is in buying so far
om where he is located we do not
now, but as he was a resident of
e Flathead a number of years
jo, we can only snmrise that he
xpects to return here again some
ay and make his future home in
e best part of the greatest and
st state.
EXPERIMENT FARM I
HAS STRONG CROPS
Splendid results are being ob
tained through the dry farming
methods being carried on by the
Great Northern on the experiment
al stations established this spring at
points along its line in Montana,
says the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Prof. Thomas Shaw of St. Paul
was employed by Mr. Hill to con
duct these stations, and while the
official report from the agricultural
expert has not been finally made
the information given out by the
Great Northern last Monday was
that the crops generally at these
stations are doing splendidly.
Mr. Wilson, who is superintend
ing thèse f: rms, vi ited the experi
ment statio i here that is being con
ducted by Dr. Houston and reports
that he is very well satisfied with
the results.
FORTY FEET OF
TUNNEL COMPLETED
Randall Howell, who has the con
tract to drive the hundred-foot tun
nel on the Micho claims, for the
Comet Mining & Milling Co., was
down from the mineral zone Sun
day and reports that he has now
completed forty feet of it. So far
the rock makes the same showing
that it does on the surface, hut be
fore- he gets to his limit he thinks
he will strike a richer vein of ore.
The situation looks very promising
and it is thought that as soon as
the tunnel is completed another ap
propriation will be made to far
ther extend the developments.
The Girl From
The Golden West.
The big New York success, a
beautiful love story that thrills the
audience and plays on the heart
strings with a master's touch.
Hearts interest runs hand in hand
with the best of comedy and weaves
together a beautiful drama of true
life. The largest and best theatri
cal company playing under canvas
on the road today. Everything as
bright and new as the noon day sun.
Thirty people, special cars, big
tnamouth waterproof tent—a seat
ing capacity of 1800 people. Prof.
Reed's Concert Band and Orches
tra. Big free street parade at noon.
One n'ght only, S iturd iy July 30.
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TRAINMEN WILL
MAKE DEMANDS
An 8-hour day and higher wages,
better working conditions, a full
train crew, white flagman and
trainmen on all trains and a mile
age basis for passenger brakemen,
are among the chief demands to he
made on all railroads operating
between Chicago and the Pacific
coast and the Gulf of Mexico to
and including Canada by represen
tatives of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, who will meet in
St. Louis Aug. 1. The first infor
mation regarding the meeting and
the probable demands to be made
have just been given out.
POLICE STOPPED
WRESTLING MATCH
The wrestling match that was
sheduled to be held in Styles' hall
Saturday night between Brown of
Kalispell and Johnson of Whitefish
was called off by the police on in
formation received from the county
attorney. Since the Jeffries-John
son fight the governor has issued
orders to all county attorneys that
they should see to it that the state
law in regards to prize fights, wrest
ling, etc., is strictly complied with.
Permanent Montana Publicity
In order to place a perman
ent reminder of the fertility
of the "Treasure State"
before the public, both in
Montana and the Eastern
States, the Great Northern
Railway has had large art
pictures made of the Mon
tana Exhibit at the National
Corn Show, held in Omaha,
Nebraska, last November,
the interior of their St. Paul
Exhibition Rooms and the
Montana Exhibition Car.
These have been dis
tributed among their
various agencies, the
Montana Chambers of
Commerce, and Great
Northern Railway sta
tions. The conspicuous
places in which these
pictures are hung will
be sure to attract the
attention of prospective
western settlers, and in
that way work to the
ultimate good of the
"Treasure State."
Press
was
held
tion,
cial
threw
they
be
house
men
ter.
keys
and
They
will
man
for
hills
to
was
they
gram
ONE GAME
FOR EACH SIDE
"They were two dandy games."
That's what they all say. One
apiece for each of them. Such was
the result of the ball games Satur
day and Sunday when Kalispell
and Whitefish crossed bats on the
local diamond. Of course we don't
j care so much about losing Satur
1 day's game, but we showed them
j that we could play hall again when
we had to, and captured the day
t with big gate receipts.
Kalispell won the game Saturday
with a score of 6 to 3, and it was a
rattling good game. Averill and
Spencer were the battery, but in
spite of all their good work those
Kalispell fellers managed to get
three runs the better.
Sunday was the big day and a
host of Kalispell fans came up on
the forenoon train, with colors fly
ing and a lot of noise instruments
that woke us from our peaceful rev
erie, and reminded us that there j
was going to be something doing at
the ball park. Goins and Bar-j
hour, the old stand-bys of the team,
were the battery against Rausch
and Sorenson of our opponents. It
was a straight game to the fourth
inning when the balloon went up
for Kalispell and left us with four!
tallies. In the fifth we got another
and it looked as if Kalispell would
have to go home with a goose egg,
but through some luck they man
aged to get one man around the four
bags in the nineth, making the
score 5 to 1 in our favor.
FAST GAMES
THIS WEEK
Whitefish is in line to witness
another fast exhibition of baseball
for three days,
this afternoon.
commencing with
The Sweetgrass team, one of the
fastest aggregations of hall tossers
that ever toured the state, will cross
hats with the locals in this series,
and there promises to be some very
exciliug games. The Sweetgrass
bunch have just finished a series of
three games at Kalispell, whereby
they have estableshed a reputation
as fast and clean hall players.
Manager Goins has been getting
his men lined up in good shape.
this week strengthening up thtir
weak points, and the visitors will
have to play some ball if they think
they can get away with the big end
end of the deal
GET YOUR
EXHIBITS READY
The Chamlier of Commerce of
Kalispell have secured the services
of Mr. J. H. McAfee, who is mak
ing a complete tour of the valley
gathering up samples of all kinds
of grains, etc., for exhibitoin pur
poses at the county fair this fall,
After these exhibits have been
shown theré? they will lie sent to
the general offices in St. Paul where
they will be divided up among four
exhibition cars that the Great
Northern are putting out this year,
These cars will make trips all over
the country the same as one did
last year, to advertise the products
of Montana. Giving to the fact
that the country all around us is
practically dried up on account of
I
t ie dry season, it will be particular
ly beneficial to the Flathead for in
spite of the drought we will be able
to show some of the very finest
specimens.
j An effort will be made to secure
the very best exhibits possible, and
as those in charge of the project
; may not know of every one who
: who has good samples, it will be
! well fur those who have raised any
! thing in the cereal or fruit line
j this season that looks particularly ;
good to notify either Mr. McAfee, j
I or Secretary Rhodes of the Kalispell ;
, Chamber of Commerce,
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ZUFELT MAKING
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BIG IMPROVEMENT
F. W. Zufelt, the new real estate
man is a hustler from the word go,
and expects to stir things up here
in a very short time, lie fully
realizes the great future that White
fish has before it and is laying ex
tensive plans for an advertising
campaign, by which means lie will
make known to the outside world
as well as the immediate vicinity ■
j the splended opportunities that j
await those who invest their money ;
in, and develope Whitefish stuump- j
lands, there by inducing many new !
j settlers to come in. !
j He has purchased the office of Jos. !
J Reed and is now adding another 1
, story to is which will be used for
! living rooms for the present until
I he gets himself a home built, and I
later on will transform them into
office rooms. He has also ordered;
! new office furniture and a big sign, |
and intends to make improvements '
all around so as to have a real at- !
j tractive place of business ;
WHITE CARS
ON FAST MAIL
We understand that it is the in
tention of the Great Northern to
have the coaches on the fast mail
train painted white so that every
one m ly distinguish it from the
'other trains. White paint will
give the train a distinguished color
and a glimpse will tell what it is
and prove a warning that it is not
safe to cross the track when the
train is very close. A train mov
ing at the rate of sixty miles an
hour as this train does at times is
I covering the ground pretty fast,
about 88 feet per second and it is
wise to give it plenty of room.—
Kalispell Journal.
New Restaurant.
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D. R. Thernber, who recently
returned from Chinook, where he
spent the past year, has decided to
i engage in business here since his
1 return, and in about two weeks he
expects to open up a restuarant
j known as Thernber's Grill in his
building on Central avenue, north
of the bank. He is now remodel
! ing the place and when completed
it will lie fixed up in a modern
way, where he will serve only first
class meals made up to suit the
most fastidious tastes. An expert
chef has been secured to look after
the cooking and he expects to make
Them lier 's Grill famous for delic
ious good tilings to eat.
GETTING BUSY
WITH FOOTBALL
We are going to have a football
team here also this season, that will
ho able to knock the spots off any
thing in the valley if the inthus
iasni keeps up. Joe Cavanaugh,
who was elected captain of the as
sociation last week, has been very
■ successful in rounding up prospec
j tive plavers and has had a hunch
; of them out on the baseball ground
j several times during the past week
! trying them out to fill the various
! positions. It is hoped that our
! neighboring towns will wake up
1 and get busy so they will have
some one to compete with as soon
as the season opens up.
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Van-Hassock.
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| George T. Van, assistant train
' master on this division, and Miss
! Bertha M. Hassock of Belton were
; quitely married yesterday.
WHERE THE PRESS
GANG MET
The meeting of the Montana
Press Association at Bozeman last
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
was one of the best sessions ever
held in the history of the organiza
tion, both from a business and so
cial stand point-.
The good people of Bozeman
threw the city wide open to the
newspaper men, and to say that
they were royally entertained would
be putting it only mildly.
The first evening there was a
public meeting he; 1 in the opera
house at which many distingushed
men spoke including Senator Car
ter. The Mayor turned over the
keys of the city to the press gang
and told them to have a good time.
They did and it will be one that
will remain a long time in their
memories, and the jeopleof Boze
man will always he remembered
for their kind courtesies.
A business meeting was hel l
Friday afternoon at which several
hills were drawn up to be presented
to the Montana legislature next
winter, and that evening a smoker
was held in the Elks temple. Here
they were entertained with a very
unique and original musical pro
gram the fore part of the evening,
that was gotten up specially for the
occasion by the young ladies of
Bozeman, which brought forth for
them a great deal of applause and
commendation. Refreshments were
servered and toastj were responded
to by Senator Carter and the lead
ing citizens of Bozeinen and news
paper men, making an evening of
much merriment that will he long
remembered.
Saturday was the banner day. It
opened with an automoble ride
around the beautiful and flourish
ing* G nlbrVin Valley. A scoiV of
Bozeman citizens loaned their auto
mobiles for the occassion and con
voyed the entire membership of the
State Press Association thru the
most fertile sections for an hour
and a half. The fields attracted
the most attention. Everything in
the valley presents an ideal appear
ance- It can truly he said this is
one of the few places with a reputa
tion that is living fully up to the
press notices of its wonderful fer
tility. A large proportion of the
winter wheat is in the shock, while
the oats arc still green, so there is
a variety of shade. Everybody was
most enthusiastic over the fine
crops which the Gallatin valley
farmers are to get the year, though
most other regions are to suffer.
The large excursion car of the Gal
latin Valley Electric Line left at
11:30 for Sale ville and came back
three miles to Bozeman Springs
where the association enjoyed a pic
nic lunch furnished by the ladies
who are interested in Bozeman im
provements.
A short business session was held
here at which the officers for the
coming year were elected and then
they adjourned to meet next year
in Great Falls.
Fast Racing At Fair.
Preparations are under way to
place the race track at the Fair in
first class condition. The fastest
harness horses in the northwest are
entitled to a good track. It is pro
bable that the 2:10 pace will Lie
pulled off the first day. A tremen
dous effort will be made to get out
a large exhibit of farm products.
Owing to the dry season, the Flat
head Valley is one of the few sec
tions of the Northwest that has any
grain. This is the year of opportu
nity to show the other people what
we have. The people of Big Fork,
Poison, Rollins, Whitefish. Libby
and Eureka have a expressed a de
sire to bring community exhibits,
and other communities expect to
enter.