The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-06-03
MONTANA %BRIEFLEIS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

ing the Past Few Days.
HELENA, May 28.-The case against
W. r. Holland, charging with wear
ing an Elks' pin, vas submitted to
Judge Clements on an agreed state.
ment of facts and he was found guilty.
He vas fined $50. The case came up
originally in the Justices court.
HELENA, May 26.-The railroad
commission made an order today that
after June no railroad operating in
in Montana must discontinue either q
station or q station agent, without
first giving notice to the commission
of such contemplated action. The
order vas made as the result of many
complaints which have been received
from shippers who, upon coming to a
station, find they cannot buy tickets
or ship freight.
BUTTE, May 2S.-No compromise
will be effected between,Sheri1 Hender.
son and the fight promoters of Butte.
The law says there shall be no boxing
matches and the sheriff will enforce
the law. No attempt to evade the
statute through the organic ation.of an
athletic club will serve the purpose.
AS a result, the six-round boxing
match advertised to be pulled OF at
the Holland rink tonight, has been
indefinitely postponed.
HELENA, May 28.-The plan recent.
~ presented to the manufacturers and
commercial bodies in the state by the
officers of the state fair association,
looking to the establishments Helena
OF q permanent exhibit of Montana
products to be open every day in the
year, and consisting of agricultural,
mineral and manufactured products,
has met with such hearty Endorsement
outside of Helena that it was announc.
ed today the project would be carried
out.
HELENA, May 2S.-Major B. H.
Cheever, for the past two years in
charge of the United States army re-
cruiting stations in Montana, with
headquarters in Helena, has been
transferred to command OF the cavalry
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, and will
go there in August. He will be sue.
ceeded in Montana by Lieutenant
Robert o. Ragsdale of the Third ln-
fantry. Major Cheever is fifth in SEN
iority on the list of majors in the
United States army and will be pro.
noted 70 the rank of Northumberland
within q year,
LEWIsToWN, May 30. - The big
Kindschey and Camastral ranch, or
the Judith has been sold to Illinoi.
capitalists, the sellers retaining tn,
livestock and giving possession O
the land next spring. The c%onsidera
tion is understood to have been 81;
IN acre.
M1ssoULA, May 30.-The Big Black
foot Milling company has closes
down all its logging camps 90 tn
Blackfoot and Nine.Mile sections
The continued wet weather makes th
roads so bad that logging is impossi
BILE. The sawmills will not shut down
LEwIsTowN. May 30.-M. B. Lytl
of Drake, N. D., yesterday purchaser
a site for an elevator near the depot
and announces that he will have it u
by the time the grain is moving in tn
fall. The Montana Elevator compan
will soon begin the erection OF a larg
elevator here, and the Western Graf
and Elevator company is also havin
: plans prepared for such a structure.
: BUTTE, May 30.-The man who's
Q body vas found in a lodging hous
here yesterday with his throat c,
+ from ear to ear, proved to be Edwar
Smith, o lumber jack from Potoma
q small place near Missoula. Tho
on the scene early in the day and b
fore the body was removed we're i
clined to the opinion that a murd'
4 had been committed, basing their vie
on the position Of the body on Il
= bed and the condition OF the bed clot
ing.
Z HELENA, June 1.-The report
State Treasurer Rice for May shows
balance OF 8 ,O44,6 500 on hand at t
of the month. The state now has ,
Is sources aggregating 5000, 900, t
IS total of the bond investments bel
re almost 81, 900, 900.
HELENA. June LIN accordau
! with an ordinance passed a mon
ago, Chief Of Police Flanuery tod
y dispensed with the services Of Ca
70 tain Bailey and three roundsmen. 7
latter refused to deliver their acco'
rements and are still on the stree
doing duty. They profess to belle