The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-05-05
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

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From Various Parts Of the State.
BUTTE, April 26.-The rival sur.
veying parties Of the Great North
ern and the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound railways who are racing
to secure q right.of-way through the
Flathead country, are shoveling their
way through three to ten feet of snow,
according to United States Marshal
MerriAeld, who is in Butte today.
The marshal resides 10 Flathead
county.
LEw1sTowN, April 28.-Leslie q.
Hamilton, who over 20 years ago
came to this section and engaged in the
sheep business on a very limited scale,
and who was long the head of the Sage
Creek Sheep company, which has
wound up it's affairs, leaves here next
week for his old New England home,
taking with him q fortune.
KALIsPELL, April 26.-On behalf of
the heir of Nicholas Helm, who was
killed in the Whitefsh yards. on
August 81 last, j. H. Crum, admins.
TRAITOR of the estate, begun suit in the
district court this morning against the
Great Northern Railway company and
their yardmaster, Nj. P. Fitzpatrick,
to ecove damages to the extent of
S25, ZOO. Helm was coupling cars in the
Whitefsh yards and accidentally
caught his foot in a frog. 1t is alleged
the frogs were not properly set and
this caused him to get run down and
killed.
HELENA, April 26.-The entire con.
struction equipment of the railroad
contracting firm of Cook, Decks &
Kinds, consisting of 237 carloads OF
steam shovels, scrapers, dumping cars,
rails. track laying machines, horses
and other stuff, il being SHIPPED to
Helena from Livingston. It is given
out that the plant will be stored here
but it is rumored that the real reason
for the transfer has been to have the
plant where it can be quickly sent
over the Great Northern or Northern
Pacific.
HELENA, April 26.-General Pas.
senger Agent H. A. Jackson of the
Helena Office of the Great Northern
railway, is making final arrangements
for the through passenger train which
will be u between Kansas City and
Seattle, over the Billings & Northern.
beginning May %. The new trains
equipment will be of the latest stand.
ard and tourist Pullmans will be used.
1t will be run on a fast schedule. The
train will leave Kansas City over the
Burlington tracks and will arrive in
Great Falls al 3 p. m. The e%astbound
train will arrive in Great Falls about
9 a. m.
BUTTE, April 27.-The county clerks
and recorders of Montana are holding
a convention in :his city today. A
state organization will be effected
having for its object the framing of
rules which will make more uniform
the fees of the various offices. The
question of extending taxes is promi-
nent before the convention.
KAL1sPELL, April p. - Traffic
through the mountains east of here
on the Great Northern has been com.
pletely blocked for the past "a hours,
as the result of disastrous snow, earth
and rock slides, which continue to
occur at a point about a mile east of
Nyack. A large crew of men was dis
patched to clear the first slide, but is
making little headway, as the slides
continue to come down. 1t is impos.
sible to estimate the damage to the
tracks.
HELENA, April 27.-Another suit,
involving the issue of $500, 900 of
water works and $40, 900 of sewer
bonds, was instituted in the district
today. The plaintiffs ask for
ao injunction to restrain the city from
selling the proposed bonds and to
restrain it from carrying out a con-
tract for the construction of a pipe
line to bring in an Independent water
supply. The complaint alleges the
city is not financially able to make
the issue and that the present water
plant is adequate to furnish a supply
for the city, now and in the future.
MIssOULA, April 2l.-The final sur.
vey of the Montana national bison
range, located on the Flathea d reser.
Walton, has been completed by Engi.
neer E. w. Cramer, connected with
the local forestry Office. On the fig.
ures furnished by the survey the call
for bids for fencing material was is
sued from the forest headquarters to.
day. 1t is expected that the work of
fencing the reserve can be completed
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