The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-13
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS,
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

" S0O6O VI VC0O0O00 SUOTt uI0U1s
From Various Parts Of the State.
BUTTE, Jan. 5.-Overland trair
service on the Northern Pacific anG
the Great Northern is in a bad con
dition as the result of the prev ailine
storm. Northern Pacific trains are
many hours behind their schedules,
the west. bound North Coast Limited
being reported 10 hours late.
BILLINGS, Jan. 5.-As the result OF
blood poisoning, caused by slightly
wounding his arm by striking i,
ag ainst an iron set screw, A. r. Dur.
kee, a workman at the Billings sugar
factory, died early this morning.
The accident was 81 slight that no at.
tention was given it by Durkee.
Blood poison developed, and all
efforts to save the mans life were uu.
availing.
BUTTE, Jan. 5.-Temperatures rang
ing from 10 to 40 below zero prev allied
generally throughout Montana from
early morning today up to 6 O'Clock
this evening. Three miles below this
city registered 81 below at 8 o'clock this
morning, while in Butte it was Is be-
low. At Armstead the temperature
reached 40 below, while higher in the
mountains this figure may have been
exceeded.
BUTTE, Jan. 5.-Petitions, approved
by the executive committee of the Mer-
chants association and requesting the
representatives and senators of the
Eleventh legislative assembly now in
session to enact laws abolishing pool
rooms and restricting pool selling at
race tracks in this state, were drawn
up yesterday and are now being circu-
lated in the city preparatory to pre-
sentation to the Legislature in
Helena.
HELENA, Jan. 5.-Judge Hunt to-
day ordered the two suits of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company
against the Montana Federation of
Labor and others dismissed. The
suits came up yesterday on the matter
OF granting a permanent Injunction
and on exceptions to the masters
report. The suits were ordered dis. |
missed because of the agreement en-
tered into between the parties several
months ago, when they adjusted their
troubles.
HELENA, Jan. 5.-The production
OF coal in Montana for the year end
ing November l, 1908, amounted to
l,979,2l7 short tons, according TO the
biennial report of State Coal Mine
Inspector McDermott. This is a de-
crease over the previous year of 2.5
per cent or 50, PIT tons and was caused
by the panic of 1907, the shutting down
of mines and smelters and the stagna-
'icn OF business generally caused by
the floods last spring.
MISsOULA, Jan. 6.--By a vote Of
DOL to ~, the taxpayers OF Missoula
granted to former Senator
A. Clark a 5O-year franchise for
a street railway system. The exten
'lon OF the electric light franchise to
make 1t co~-continuous with the street
lar franchise was carried by a vote of
100 to 81.
LEW1sTOWN. Jan. 6.-Sheriff Mar
IN yesterday received a telephone
Message announcing that in a battle
Deputy Sheriff AL Morgan
nd John PLACER south of the Snowy
Mountains, Paager was shot and
,illed. Morgan left with a war;
ant for Players arrest on
barge of horse stealing a couple of
avs ago.
HELENA, Jan. 6.-R. F. McLaren {
# Belfry, formerly general manager !
# the Yellowstone Railway company, !,
'as yesterday appointed secretary of
he railroad commission, succeeding =
|. K. Howry. No other changes we're
1ade in the personnel of the force,
'h1ch includes o. w. Tong as rate y
Jerk, Sam Ross as inspector of safety :
p%pliances and Miss Alma Mohr as :
'enographer.
HELENA, Jan. 6.-Roused to action :.
y she cries of starving Indian babies, b
'hief Rocky Boy Of the Chippewa
'lbe OF Indians, numbering 900 souls,
no are encamped at B%irdseye, a few
lies west of Helena, accompanied by ..
70 members Of his tribe, Joe Little .
inc and Alfred Agapic, visited Judge a
unit this afternoon after the adjourn h
OF court, and besought him to fhl
se his influence to have the coudi. n
of the Chippewas ameliorated o,
rough the federal government. A
ldge Hunt promised to do what he
,uld for his visitors