The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-02-17
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS

MON ANA NEWS BRIEFltIS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, Feb. "a jury in the die.
trict court today returned a verdict
awarding A. N. Spratt and wife ludg.
ment for s32. 600 against the Helena
Power Transmission company for the
flooding of their lands by back waters
created by it's dam across the Mis-.
souri, river near this city.
BUTTE, Feb. 9.-W alter S. Bay ard
brought suit today sfor $50, 900 dam.
ages against F. M. Grady for alien
alton of the affections of his wife, Eva
A. Bay ard, and breaking up Of his
home. Grady is a we'll known bust
ness man, aud, it is alleged, he is
harboring Mrs. Bayard.
BUTTE, Feb. 9.-Struck by q train
as he worked upon q high railroad
bridge on the St. Paul road near
Donald, 9 small town about thirty
miles outside of the city, ]. j. Ford,
a boss carpenter, was hurled eighty
feet to the bottom of q ravine this
morning and miraculously escaped
death. One leg was broken, his hip
fractured and his arm smashed above
the wrist, but he will live.
ANACONDA, Feb. 9.-All the drug
gists of this city have forwarded pro.
tests to the Deer Lodge members Of
the legislature asking them not to
support the bill introduced by Hall of
Helena, which the drug store men say
will make unlawful the sale of any of
the remedies In use in every house.
hold without q physician's order.
The bill is designed to prevent the
sale of all medicines that contain
morphia, cocaine or other harmful
drugs, unless sold under the written
order of q physician.
MISSOULA, Feb. 9.-The Taft tunnel
of the Chicago Milwaukee & Puget
Sound railroad, the longest on the
coast ~extention of the St. Paul COM
pany, vas pierced this afternoon,
marking the practical completion of
one of the most important engineering
events in the history of railroads in
the United States. The tunnel is $50
feet long, "a feet 3 inches high and 18
feet and 6 inches across the floor, and
pierces the Bitter Root range between
Id aho and Montana. The officials,
who today witnessed firing of the last
shot. predicted that within a months
time they will have through freight
trains in operation to the coast.
BUTTE, Feb. 1O.-John Tomulty esti-
mates that the life of his 9.year old
son, John, is worth 100000 to him.
He began a damage suit today against
the Red Metal Mining company for
that amount The child walked into
ar open shaft while at play aud vas
killed.
GREAT FALLS, Feb. 1O.-Lloyd Col
lier, a ranchman who recently took up
a homestead along the line OF the Bill
lings Northern railroad ten miles from
Judith Gap, "a killed yesterday by
being struck by a train. Collier was
walking along the track. He was
slightly deaf and had his cap pulled
down oven his ears, preventing him
hearing the approaching train. He
vas 30 years of age and single. He
was placed OF the train and taken to
Great Falls for medical treatment, but
died en- route.
LEwIsTOwN, February ~lO.-Sherif
Martin received a telephone message
from Gilt Edge this afternoon stating
that lack Taber, q former we'll known
cattle man of this section, had shot
| and killed Daniel Rowan while they
were on their way to Gilt Edge from
Grass Range by stage. 1t is said that
while they were travelling they drank
considerable liquor and became en-
gagged in a quarrel, the shooting fol-
lowing. Taber returned to the county
a year and a half ago from Alaska,
where he was engaged in mining for a
time. He remained in Lewistown for
some months. Little is known here
concerning Rowan.
HAMILTON, Feb. lO.-Today's ses-
sion of the State horticultural society
was occupied with the reading of num-
erous papers relating to fruit growing
and the industry in general. Greet.
ings from the Billings Chamber of
Commerce were read, with the request
that the delegates of the Horticultural
society to the Trans-Missouri Dry
Farming congress at Cheyenne, this
month, lend their support in securing
for Billings the ext session of the
Dry Farming congress.