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.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, April 1.-The Kalispell
Lumber company and other concerns
will have to begin q new suit II they
hope to secure equitable rates. Today
Judge Hunt dismissed the complaint
OF the Kalispell Lumber company and
others against the Great Northern,
for want of jurisdiction. The case was
brought to restrain the railroad from
putting into effect q higher lumber
tariff.
M1ssoULA, April 10. W. Kerr
company of Minneapolis today con.
pleted n of the biggest deals in the
Bitter Root valley since Montana was
settled. The purchase made by the
Minneapolis concern includes 1900
acres, fromerly owned by the Calomo
Orchard company, and the price is
said to have been in the neighborhood
of e3O0, 600. The o. W. Kerr company
will divide this enormous tract into
email orchard home lots and bring
settlers from the east to people it.
BUTTE, April Judge MCGOWAN
imposed the heaviest bond in his
career on the police bench on Martin
Lee charged with beating his wife so
severely that for a time her life was
despaired Of. Judge MCGOWAN placed
Lees bond at $50, 900 and sent the of.
fender to the county jail for safe keep
ing. He postponed the case for a
month, a. he explained the woman
might die. A charge of third degree
assault stands against the man, but
this may be . changed to one more
serious.
HELENA, April 81. q. Hall, com.
missioner OF agriculture, labor and In.
dustry, today appointed William
Buskett of Butte as his deputy, to
take charge of the state publicity
bureau.
HELENA, April 2.-The Montana
Rapid Transit company fled articles
OF incorporation with Secretary OF
State Yoder today. The company ia
capitalized for 5000, 900 and is au.
thorized to build an electric line from
Helena to Butte.
GREAT FALLS, April 1.-The mem.
bers OF the Great Falls Painters and
Decorators union, who have been
working for $3.50 per day for the past
few years, today went out on strike
for S5 and for an eight-hour day. the
contractors having refused to pay the
new schedule demanded. There are
As members of the uuion.
HELENA, April 3. - Harrison AS.
bury, civil var veteran and Grand
Army man, and q miner in this city
for many years, died here today,
aged 10. He recently left the Soldiers
home at Columbia Falls, preferring tc
struggle along where he had spent &C
many years rather than to take II
easy in a strange place.
LEWIsTOWN, April g.. Recently
horse thieves have made a couple O
successful raids in this vicinity, driv.
ing OFF Two bands of horses which
were taken over the border into Can.
ada. On March q Sheriff MARTYR
started deputy AL Morgan on the
trail. He was accompanied by Char
Cook, who lost ID fine animals in the
last raid, and they have followed thei,
men into Canada.
MIssoULA, April 3.-The polling
place of district No. 30 in Ravalli
county was the scene of a fierce fight
and stabbing ARRAY this afternoon, in
which j. D. McGa AIRY, while fighting tc
protect himself from a revolver in the
hands of G. E. Smith, badly cut the
latter with a pocketknife. McGary
was arrested and placed under bonds
and Smiths condition is considered
serious. The trouble started over
some question pertaining to the school
| election.
MIssoULA, April 3.-After II hours
elaboration the jury in the case oil
Joseph Brown, charged with the muir.
der of Robert Gilruth, a ranchmau
near Lolo, Montana, February %, this
morning returned q verdict of man.
slaughter and fixed the penalty at ten
years. imprisonment, the maximum
penalty. Gilruth was shot and killed
by Brown during a quarrel over the
boundary lines which enclosed their
respective mining claims. The de.
fendant's plea was self defense.
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