The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-15
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
BUTTE, Dec. ga public school and
q miners boarding house burned In
Meadville, q suburb, without fire pro.
lection. The loss is about $50, 900
partially insured. The fire is believed
to have been incendiary.
HELENA, Dec. 8.-W armed sgainst
lobbyists, and instructed to report
Immediately any attempts along
that line to him, Judge William H.
Hunt convened the federal grand jury
of 21 members for q two weeks' ses-
sion, during which 40.odd cases will
be Investigated. Chief among the
matters to come before the body will
be the Lee counterfeiting charge from
western Montana, which is under con-
siderati today.
HELENA, Dec. 8.-According to the
report of State Bank Examiner Pigott.
the 81 Montana state banks and trust
companies at the close of business
Nov. IL last showed an increase of
business in the two months preceding
Of more than million and q Quarter
dollars. In two months there was in
round numbers an increase of mil.
lion dollars in deposits.
LEwIsTOwN, Dec. 8.-Prices now
being paid at the local elevators for
wheat and oats are the highest real
lied since the elevators were estab.
lished in this county. This is largely
due to q war among the eleva ator COM
panies, but other factors contribute
to it. The hauling of grain was very
lively until the cold snap almost put
a stop to it, but the roads are in good
shape and the grain is coming in
large quantities.
BOHEMIAN, Dec. Sit cost Frank
Murray of this city just S64. SO to save
his friend Ward one dollar. Murray
and Ward started on hunting expe.
dition on one license, issued to Muir.
ray and carried by Ward. They were
met before reaching the game region
by Henry Ferguson, the deputy game
warden for this district, and their cre-
dentials examined, As a result Of
this action Murray entered a plea of
guilty before Justice w. Y. Smith and
paid fine and costs which amounted
to S64.5O. This is said to be the first
case of precisely this nature which has
ever been brought to trial in the state.
BILLINGS, Dec. Ex-senator Amin
and Representative Connolly have Sc
cured the signature of SO members of
the legislature to a petition to Cover
nor Norris to call special session to
consider the advisability of appro.
priattng S42, 900 that Montana stone
may be used in the construction of the
capitol wings.
HELENA, Dec. 10.-An additional
force, numbering between 200 and 25O
men, is now being worked at Hauser
lake on the reconstructionsof the dam,
it being the intention of the contrac.
tors to rush the excavation with all
possible dispatch 30 that the laying of
the concrete can be begun as soon as
possible. The works have been wired
with big arc lights and this new crew
will work at night.
HELENA, Dec. 10.-J. B. McDermott
was reappointed by Governor Norris
to the position of state inspector of
coal mines, his term to end Novem.
ber l3, 1913. The report of the board
OF examiners for applicants for posi-
tions In and about coal mines, on Nc
Dermott's application for reappoint.
ment, says that he has given general
satisfaction to both miners and opera
tors, and that it would be lose to the
coal mining interests of the state If he
should not be reappointed.
VIRGINIA CITY, Dec. 10.-Andrew J.
O'Green, who has been an inmate of
the county jail several months on
charge of having killed q number of
sheep and q shepherd dog belonpinp