The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-04-03
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

W.
ing the Past Few Days.
LEw1sTowN, March 2S.-The pas,
senger train leaving here on the Mon
tana railroad this morning jumped
the track near Glengarry, q few miles
this side OF Moore. Some of the car:
were considerably damaged, but nc
one was hurt. The track was torn ur
for q considerable distance and traffic
Is again temporarily suspended, there
being no train in tonight from LON,
bard. The passengers who left here
this morning were brought back IL
the afternoon.
HELENA, March 28.-Eight residents
OF Helena were arrested today, charged
with unlawful practices during the re.
publican primaries Tuesday night, i,
being alleged that three of them at.
tempted to unduly influence voters to
cast their ballots for a certain alder.
manic candidate. Among them are
Patrick l.. Duffy, candidate for the
legisI ature on the democratic ticket
last fall; Edward Jessick and r. G.
Hoffman, all we'll known citizens.
The other five are charged with hav.
ing voted in the Fifth ward when not
legally entitled to do so. The con.
troversy in the municipal election this
year is not 90 much along political
lines as the regulation of public utili.
ties.
BUTTE, March 2S.-By a vote that
was decisive, if not almost unani-
nous, the Butte Miners union has
accepted the sliding scale agreed upon
by the mining companies operating in
this district aud a committee appoint.
ed by the union. The vote was taken
yesterday and the count completed to-
day. For the agreement 2,262 votes
we're cast, while 1853 votes were polled
against it. There were 1872 multi ated
ballots, which were thrown out. When
the proposition to increase the wage
scale of miners from SO. so to 81 q day
was voted on last month there were
1864 ballots cast, which is 9O2 more
than the votes polled yesterda y.
HELENA, March 28.-The present
season will involve q greater expendi.
ture Of money for surveys by the gov.
eminent in Montana than any Of its
predecessors, and among them will be
the Blackfeet Indian reservation. AL
together, there has been appropriated
for this work approximately $500, 900,
of which SO, 1000 is for the reservation.
which it is proposed to open to settle.
ment. Surveyor General Frank E.
Cone has received instructions from
the department at Washington to
make estimates as to the cost of the
reservation survey, together with a
grouping. Altogether there are about
IS townships within its confines to be
surveyed, and estimates as to its cost
are now being prepared by the force
in that Office. AS soon as they shall
have been completed they will be sent
to the commission for approval.
kALIsPELL, March %. Suit for
$50, 900 against the Great Northern
has been instituted in behalf of the
heirs of Xauthus N. Carpenter, q
brakeman killed in the freight wreck
at Rock Hill, last October. The suit
is brought in the name of Burton o.
Mullin, guardian.
HELENA, March 29.-At the Canyon
Ferry house near this city Thomas
Pink, q workman, yesterday was &C.
cidentally electrocuted and killed.
He came in contact with q grounded
wire, and received 1923 volts of cleo.
tricity. Every effort was made to re-
vive him without result. Pink had
no known relatives in this country,
but parents and a brother survive
him in Wales. He had worked at the
Canyon Ferry house for six months
BUTTE, March 29.-The body Of
Andy Henselm, switchtender on the
Northern Pacific, was found this
morning frozen in the ice of a poo
near an old pumping station. The
corpse was firmly imbedded in the ice
the left leg only extending out of the
frozen mass. Henselm apparently
had fallen into the pool while in al
intoxicated condition and. unable Il
extricate himself, had slowly died o
exposure. Henselm, from all appear
ances, had been dead for two days.
HELENA. March 29.-The substance
o: an opinion rendered today by At
torney General Galen is that, withou
inquiring into the constitutionality o
law requiring the union label to b
affixed on state printing, it is no
necessary for the union label to be O.
q newspaper which has the printin,
of the state tr%easurer's quarterly re