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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1911
Page
1
A compilation notes Michigan forest fires and Kansas drought easing but milkmen facing indictments and a bonus for rural mail carriers. It reports Yankee weather, a large Atlantic balloon race, a Japan coast quake toll, crop prospects, and a pending tariff debate amid calls for direct senatorial elections and Alaska coal claims ruling.
A Spokane farmer describes a home remedy combining flour salt sugar and strychnine to kill ground squirrels. He reports success using a batter placed in each burrow, claiming fifty to sixty squirrels died after exposure.
A board of consulting engineers is ordered to convene immediately to set the construction order and canal system plan for the Sun River project. The Willow Creek dam is nearing completion and diamond drill borings are underway at the diversion dam sites. Topographic surveys of irrigable land are being conducted by multiple engineering teams.
Representative Martin Jacobson of Cut Bank declares in a letter to commission secretary B B Law that he favors the primary election bill drafted by Governor Norris's committee. Law and the legislature await further replies as time for deliberation stretches on. State Senator Larson has not yet decided but plans to respond to Law soon.
Acantha publisher and family visited W. W. Gamble's ranch last Sunday and learned of promising fruit prospects in the region. Gamble strawberries, currants, gooseberries, and young apple trees yield well, with a five year bed still bearing and new beds starting to fruit. The hospitality of Mr and Mrs Gamble accompanied the informative tour and showcased the area's fruit potential.
Miss Anna M Bamberg of Orange City Iowa and Mr Clem E Bowers wed last Thursday in Conrad with Rev Father Dunne officiating They plan a brief honeymoon to Great Falls and then reside four miles northwest of Chateau at the Rieckhoff ranch with Mrs Bamberg accompanying her daughter Hereafter Mr Bowers works with his father in ranch management and the bride’s father will stay for a spell.
The new registration law effective July 1 makes registration permanent with conditions for removal and voting nonattendance. It covers school elections for women, defines precincts by district, and lists 29 regular voting precincts in Teton County with separate school precincts and notary registration options.
A party of Independent Telephone company representatives visited town yesterday. H.R Riskey of Butte, general superintendent, W.I. Young and W McKee of Helena and Great Falls discussed a complete metallic circuit from Chateau to link with a Conrad Great Falls line. Work will be rushed on the new building and other local improvements. The Chateau exchange remains under C. L. Anderson at Concord with Bronner as local superintendent.
E L Summerlin, longtime county courthouse and grounds keeper, learns of his wife’s death at the family home in Doniphan Missouri. The cause is not stated and a daughter remains at home while another lives in Little Rock. Summerlin plans to depart for Doniphan tomorrow unable to arrange an earlier successor due to bond requirements. The community offers sympathy amid his shock and grief.
Bills billings fire kills horses and damages two livery barns. John M. Evans becomes Missoula's first mayor under the commission plan. Express tariffs cut across Montana effective August 1. A hail storm north of Yellowstone near Miles City devastates livestock. A youth is shot near Red Lodge over fishing on land. W. T. Metcalf kills Edward Teske near Hardin over irrigation dispute. Governor Norris and state officials seek tuberculosis sanitarium site per last legislature. Catholic colonization firm buys 10,000 acres near Great Falls for development. A youth drowns helping ferry on the Missouri near Lismas. Legislature supports primary election bill. dental board sessions and reciprocity with several states noted. Musselshell county records transcribed by six weeks’ work. Fred Schmidt dies by self-inflicted drowning after selling ranch. Hom Sung, a White Sulphur Springs resident, may be first Mongolian to file for a Montana homestead, claiming U.S. birth.
W F Rieckhoff G M Clay P D Van Osterhout and Mr Bradley from Orange City Iowa travel to Spokane to advance the Chateau railroad project. Rieckhoff says he intends to build the road. The party pursues railroad business and surveys land offers near the townsite amid speculative rumors of start dates.
A new central exchange building for the Indepen dent company rises on J. G. Bair's Main street lot beside his office. C. W. Wymer oversees the project and aims for quick completion.
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