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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1919
Page
3
The state land office reports total cash receipts in 1918 at 1,828,712.43, up from 1,128,? in 1917. Major sources include land sales and contract payments 967,571.49 interest on contracts 376,999.33 leases 439,169.24 timber sales 22,476.11 coal royalty 14,355.53 sale of gravel 160.11 and fees 7,980.62, with total nearly two million dollars.
A collective update covers ROTC at the State University of Montana, Ronan lawsuit against the city, a Chinook farmer hay harvest, Yellowstone TB cases and nurse hire, state fair attendance and receipts, a Roundup building boom, Cascade seeking prohibition deputy, Butte attorney retirement, cattle and meat trade notes, Montana feeble minded statistics, Red Cross canteen fraud alert, teacher training needs, Roundup snow glare bandit, Lewistown jail escape, Silver Bow undertaker bid cartel, Butte worker compensation ruling, Fort Benton kidnap suit, Roundup Mer cer rail suit, and a coal car accident involving Q Price.
The post office issues six cent airplane stamps for mail by air with a 16 cent stamp for special delivery and 24 cent for heavier letters. Chicago to New York service is planned to cut delivery to nine hours, with other routes to follow. Large savings expected on night letters, with at least 60 million sent yearly.
A wide array of brief reports covers postwar concerns: U.S. labor shortages and public works in Italy. potential depots of poison gas in the Atlantic. Boston brass tokens for transit. art theft at the Morgan Academy. Germany war debt pressures. train workers strike in Kansas City. France’s Christmas remembrance for American dead. labor split on railroad ownership. Bolshevik decline and a speculative Russia-US federation. Turkey’s grave financials and lack of coin. reforestation in France and wartime reconstruction. U.S. budget and bond plans. Toboga island purchase near the canal. North Pole air survey plans. British weapon innovations. Wilson’s hospital visit. a California drowning and rescue tale. hunger-driven milk and food relief efforts in New York. German influence in Mexico recalled. and record bank earnings.
A Great Falls committee drafts a bill to build a state owned storage elevator costing 250000 dollars funded by recent bonds. It outlines a three member managing board with two Great Falls residents, a hired grain expert, per diem pay, and storage limits to ensure farmer access. The plan seeks early passage so operation begins next fall amid questions on capacity and cost.
The Industrial Accident Board considered if a worker’s broken wooden leg, requiring three to four weeks of repairs, warranted compensation. It ruled no compensation is due though it hopes the Grant Smith Company of Toole county will pay $28 for repairs.
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