The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-21
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

From Various Parts Of the State.
LEwIsTOwN, April Undesirable
public land in this county, suitable
for farming, is disappearing at an as.
tonishing rate. During last month
246 homesteads and desert entries were
filed at the Lewistown land Office. GOV.
ering some 1900 acres of land, and
the cash receipts we're about SIS, 900.
HELENA, April 13.-The sum Of
$3.50. 900 is nov available for the build.
ing of the St. Helena cathedral, the
foundation of which was laid last
year. The announcement was made
at the Easter services by Bishop Car
roll. that the practitioners of the do
cese had raised the 500, 600 which was
necessary to secure a like SUN from q
donor whose nam is withheld.
BUTTE, April 12.-Because he went
broke at a gaming table in the gam
bling fortress of the Mountain View
saloon, Edward Madden held up the
resort in which 30 men were playing
last night, and robbed the banker of
the game of poker Of s58. AS Madden
was making his escape, through q
secret exit, John Selsi, q bartender,
emptied his gun into Madden, fatally
%wounding him. Madden's spinal
column was cut by y bullet. Madden,
on his death bed, declares be ''got
what was coming to him."
GREAT FALLS April. 13.-Mrs.
Ernest Goings, whose husband was
convicted recently of assaulting Ben
jamin Rumney, a well.known stock
man living at Cascade, and was sen.
fenced to serve five months in the
county Jail, has brought suit in the dis
trict court against Rumney. charging
defamation of character, for which
she asks q judgment of $4,000. The
alleged defamation of character is
said to have been contained in q re.
mark of Is words, made by Rumney
outside of the Great Falls hotel In
this city last fall.
HELENA, April 13.--The largest I'm.
divided tract of land in Fergus county
and one of the biggest stock ranches
in Montana, the Mar ranch. belong.
ing to Col. Thomas Cruise of this city,
is soon to be cut up into small farms.
w. j. Cruise has just returned from
Fergus county and he announces that
a deal has been practically closed for
the sale of the property to J. H. Ray.
w. A. Powers and e. A. Torlett of
Chicago. The consideration il in the
neighborhood of 81. 1000. 600. The
transfer will be made ia a few days
and then the new owners will take
steps to Immediately colonize il.
HELENA, April l3.-William Hur-
bert, of Cutbank, who failed to appear
for trial last week on the charge of
selling whisky to two Indian girls,
and whose bonds were forfeited, ap.
peared at the federal building today
and explained he had not been notified
that his trial had been set. An effort
will o be made to have the order
vacated by which his bond was for
feited.
BOHEMIAN, April l3.-Sherif Allen
Sales returned this morning from Pu.
eblo, Colo, with Charles H. Bristow
who left the country with a stallion be-
longing to S. r. Swilling OF Great
Falls. He was trying to sell the
stallion IN Pueblo when arrested. In
the other case he is charged with the
embezzlement of 5000, belonging to
Robert D. Redmon, also of Great
Falls. Bristow lived 10 Bozeman for
two years. Most of this time he tended
bar in the city.
HELENA, April 13.-The state board
of railroad commissioners today pre-.
pared and filed with the attorney gen.
erals department six complaints
the Great Northern Railway company
alleging violations of what is known
as the "dinkey'' caboose law. This
act prohibits the use of four wheeled
cabooses, and it is alleged that the
Hill line ignores the law. The actions
will be filed Immediately by the at
torney general and vigorously pro.
secuted with the view t the strict en-.
of the statutes.
HELENA, April 13.-Not for some
time will it be possible for lands to be
entered under the provisions of the en-.
larged homestead law. Officials of
the Helena land office today received
a circular letter from Commissioner
bennett, advising them that mo
whatever can be acquired under
said act, either by application or
settlement, prior to the time that the
lists are received in the local land
office. The officials are directed to in.
form all applicants that they will