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Show GLENDIVE, MONT. Catholic Poles Coming. (Special Correspondence.) Driven from their native land by the oppressive conditions under the government govern-ment of imperial monarchies, 3,000 Polish Pol-ish families are planning to settle in Montana. The greater portion of them will establish a colony in the vicinity of Glendive, in the Yellowstone valley, although al-though some may take land in the Judith Ju-dith Basin district. I. N. Hill of Glendive Glen-dive has just closed negotiations with the representatives of the coming col-! col-! onists and announces that the families j will arrive and occupy the land during the coming welve months. Rev. Theodore The-odore Suck of Russia Poland, aiid Stanley Stan-ley Mankowski of Seattle, Wash.', and Posen, Germany, represented the colonists. col-onists. Altogether some 16,000 acres is included in the. deal for the proposed colony. Mr. Hill said he expected about 3,000 fgamllies would be settled upon the land within the next year. They are not impecunious immigrants, but well-to-do, and even wealthy people peo-ple from both Russian and German Poland. Po-land. Of those who will occupy the land. Father Suck said probably a dozen do-zen would arrive with less than $1,500, none with less than $900 or $1,000, and the otherse with amounts ranging from $1,500 to as high as $50,000, manv of them having about $20,000 to $25,000. Mr. Hill said one Polish count, who had heard of the opportunities for his peo-i peo-i pie in Montana, had authorized the purchase of 25,000 acres for persons not included in the colonists, but who will come to America in the near future. |