The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-05-16
MONTANA NEWS RRIEfLETS.
A budget Of Readable Short Items from
Various Parts Of the State.

A budget of Readable Short Items from
Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, May S.-The grand coun-
Gil of the Improved Order Of Red
Men Is in session 10 this city today.
There were forty.seven delegates pres.
ent when the council convened in Elk's
hall. Grand Sachem Matt Ward of
Anaconda is presiding. There are L.
050 Red Men in Montana-25O more
than there were a year ago. During
the last twelve months there were foul
deaths 10 the order in this state.
KAL1sPELL, May s.-Noah Allard
has begun suit in the district court
against the Great Northern Railway
company to recover $4,000 for dam.
ages received by being struck by a
train in August last. Allard was
working as a section hand at the time
between Columbia Falls and Coram,
and charges that through the negli.
gence of the section foreman and the
engineer of q freight train, he was
caught by the train, receiving per.
manent injuries.
HELENA, May S.--The state board
of health sat 10 regular quarterly SEES.
sion here today, but beyond indorsing
the Hey burn pure food bill and listen.
ing to the reading of statistics by Sec.
rotary Tuttle, transacted no business
except routine. The board also list.
ened to the reading of statistics which
show that with two exceptions Mon.
tana, in proportion to population, has
a greater death loss from typhoid
than any other section of the country,
and this fact was greatly deplored as
the disease is Of a p%reventablc nature,
and steps will be urged for better con-
ditions throughout the state.
}, BUTTE, May S.-There was an ad-
vance of s. a thousand feet in Mon.
tana common lumber this morning.
In coast lumber there has so far this
year been an advance in the whole.
sale prices of from 20 to 33 1.3 per
SOuVss tCuSuAOS ~ 0Ou1S AASoUhNCS w
as much as IS a thousand. The cos,
price of shingles to the retailer is
from 80 to Is cents more this year than
. it was last. Although local dealers
the selling price of glass, the cost price
has increased % per cent above tina,
of last year and a, points on the coas,
= the selling price has been raised pro.
: portionately. There has been no ad.
vance by the local dealers in doors
and windows. Cement is soaring sky.
ward in price, the advance this year
' being a good 20 per cent. from the
. figures Of last year. Nearly every
4 article listed in the materials of con
= struction are higher than formerly.
LEwIsTowN, May Two large
grading outfits which have beer
, camped t Harlowtown for the pas,
week have moved down to the Mus
%selshell, and are now breaking sod
on the right.of-way Of the Forsyth *
. tension Of the Milwaukee railway.
BUTTE, May 9.-Powell Reese, aged
20, of Seattle, enroute to Leott, Wich'
tia county, Kansas, to reside with rel
atives, wandered from an e%astbound
Northern Pacific train at Warn
Springs last night and was found
dead 10 q field near the depot there
this morning, evidently of exposure
y A note in his pocket tells his story
The old man had evidently feared thai
9 he might so insane.
~ MILES City, May Y.-Sherif Saw
age has received word from Sheriff
Northway that the body of William
Decker, who it was supposed wat
murdered by a man in the Milwaukee,
; railroad grading outfit, was seen float
- iug in the Yellowstone river a Jop
pa, about 30 miles west of here. Sher
- if Savage also announces that a re
ward Of 5000 Is offered for the recov
. cry of the body.
BUTTE, May 9.-Without taking in
to account the money raised by tn
!, w0men's relief committee, the value o
secondhand clothing contributed O
O the sums forwarded by fraternal ant
y other orders through other agencie
= than the general relief committee, tn
people of Butte have contributed S45,
9 745, o. to the San Francisco earthquake
sufferers. Money Is still coming Il
and sums 10 be added and those 20
accounted for by the general relic
y committee will swell the total sum &
more than $4,000.
1t billings Welcomes Visitors.