The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-18
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

leaders of Butte society, today lost
her suit for $4,000 damages for al.
legged injuries sustained by falling
through her front yard into an old
stope of the Davis.Daly Copper com.
pany. Mrs. Tower claimed an inter-
nal injury, but the defense proved she
had led several gay cotillions since
her yard caved in. and the Jury de.
cided against her.
LEwIsTowN, Mar. 12.-Harold Hen.
ninRson, aged Is yesrs, who has work.
ed at various ranches in this section,
this morning undertook to commit
suicide by swallowing q big dose OF
carbolic acid at his room on Main
street. HE act was Immediately dis.
covered and q physician called, but
when he arrived II was almost i'm.
possible to tell whether Heuninpsou
was dead or not. After working for a
long time. the man was brought
around.
MILES CITY, March. 12.-The saloon
men of Miles City have organized
themselves into an association.
Their first move was to raise
the prices of all drinks, including
beer, to Is cents, and then they sue.
ceeded in having ar ordinance passed
that the number of saloons in the
town be limited to sixteen, the present
number, until the population shall ex
coed 1900. After that only one
license shall be granted for each 80
additional popul alton.
HELENA, March 13.-W. B. Dolenty
Of Townsend, who is in the city today,
announces that surveys have been
completed for the reclamation of 3d..
900 acres of land under the community
method in the Missouri river valley.
A ditch II miles above Townsend will
be taken out from the Missouri river.
BUTTE, March 13.-Thinking that
some wolf poison tablets which they
had found in a cupboard were candy,
the 3.year'old son of John Stephens,
a chicken rancher, who lives south
of Butte, fed his 2.year-old sister
Margaret on them. The little girl
died several minutes later in the
arms of her father.
HELENA, March 13.-Edward Card.
we'll, of Yellowstone county, was
found guilty of maintaining an unlaw-
full enclosure around 6,040 acres of
public land in the federal court this
morning. Sentence will be passed by
Judge Hunt Wednesday morning.
This lie the second time Mr.. Cardwell
has lost a fencing case, the first be-.
ing a civil suit several years ago.
ANACONDA, March 13.-Four rever.
batory furnaces at the Washoe smell
tiers were fired up yesterday afternoon,
and for the first time since the shut
down of the mines smoke issued from
the mammoth stack, the event of which
was ~signalized by the whistles OF the
plant. The furnaces and the conver-
ters will follow in a short time.
HELENA, March 13.-New regula.
tions will be required in Montana
hereafter in the forest reserves, and
instead of the old.fashioned alkali
ticks, which have been frequentsd by
game and livestock since the earliest
days of the West, there will be
regularly established sailing places,
which must be maintained by stock
men who own cattle and horses on the
reserve, according to one Of the latest
regulations of the bureau.
BILLINGS, March l4.-After spend
ing several weeks in drilling for
artesian water on the lots of the Bill.
ings Sugar company, near the factory,
the work has been abandoned. The
drill was put down to q depth Of 1900
feet, but no flow of artesian water was
encountered. The drilling company
will remove their machinery to the
fields of the Billings and Cottonwood
Oil company.
HELENA, March 1.-THE state vot.
ing machine commission has sent cir.
culars 10 all manufacturers OF voting
machines notifying them OF the legis.
lation which requires the installation
| Of the machines in f~rst.class cities in
Montana. Manufacturers are invited
to send on their machines to Helena
for purpose of demonstration and ex'
animation. No date is fixed when the
tests are to be made.
LEWISTOWN. March 1.-THE adver'
Using campaign being conducted by
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul i.
certainly bearing fruit, so far as Fer
gus county is concerned. The loca'
real estate offices are receiving score:
Of letters from all parts of the east
asking for detailed information as t
farm lands in the Judith basin, an.
nearly all of the writer's saw thav in