The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-07
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
LIBBY, March 3O.-Failing to find
any property of the Great Northern
railroad company on which he could
levy on a judgment secured by c. E..
Kemp for stock killed, W. T. viii.
liams today chained the locomotive Of
a tie train, standing On q siding, to
the track. The judgment was for s2OS
and the engine will remain where it is
until the money lie paid.
HELENA, March 30. - The state
board Of railroad commissioners to-
day issued a call for q hearing in this
city on April IA, OF the question of
coal rates between all points in Mon
tana. The commission has received
numerous communications on this
subject and that it may adduce evi.
dence covering every phase of the
Important situation, has determined
upon the public hearing, to attend
which all interested persons are in.
vited.
M1ssoULA, March 30.-John Peter.
son, q Northern Pacific railway
Iaborer, vas killed two miles west OF
Clinton thia afternoon by passenger
train No. 3. The man was walking
along the track facing q fierce snow.
of0rm and uy0S mt oonr h, th4
engineer in time to stop the train.
He was struck by the pilot and knock
ed from the track, and when picked
up by the crew q few minutes later he
was dead. His neck was broken and
other ~injuies showed by their nature
that death was instantaneous.
M1ssoULA, March 9.-Marking the
completion of the steel-laying connect
ing Chicago and Seattle, the last spike
in the e tra nscontinental road, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound,
was driven at 6 o'clock this evening,
one and three.quarters miles east of
Missoula. There al no golden spike
ceremony. Besides the crews Of the
track-lsying outfit. there we're present
at the conclusion of the work, Chief
Engineer Dauchey and several officials
of the road from M~issoula. Bridges
on the line not comdletep will be ready
in three weeks, and within 60 days it
IL expected the road will be turned
over to the oper rating department., and
through train service established.
The total length of the new road is
2,436 miles.
ANACONDA, March 31.-The state
feb hatchery today began the distri.
button of fry throughout the state
with a consignment of 20, 900 for dis
tribution in streams near Butte. The
distribution will continue until the
hatcheries have furnished the en-
tire state. Every stream will get some
fry.
KALISPELL, Mar. 3O.-Shot through
the temple with a .32-caliber revolver,
the body of Ed. Klien, a lumberjack
working at Walter Penny's camp near
Swan lake, was found by a companion
stretched ~lifeless on his cabin floor at
IL a. m. yesterday. Klien, who had
been slightly i'll, had remained 1T the
cabin for the day and his body was
found when the men returned for din.
ner.
BUTTE, March 30.-A copy of the
schedules prepared by the state rail-
road commission for the transporta-
ton of wood for use as fuel was re-
ceived today. Material reductions
are provided for as the result of q
hearing on the subject held by the
board at Missoula, on March 3. At
the hearing the rate of s1.624 a cord
for II cords in a car shipped a dis
lance of 81 miles was complained of
as excessive. Under the new schedule
the rate is reduced TO S1.2O. Similar
reductions are made for greater dis
tances.