The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-20
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

HELENA, July 11.-W. G. Conrad,
banker and capitalist of Helena and.
Great Falls. tonight announced that
be would be q candidate for the
United States sen ate at the forthcom.
ing session of the legisl AZURE. Mr..
Conrad 10 q democrat and has long
been prominent in political off airs.
HELENA, July 1l.-Chsrles K. Pow.
ell, . Blsckfeet breed, was sentenced
by Judge Rssch to serve six months
in the county jail and to pay . fine Of
$3.50. Powell was convicted on two
counts, OF having given Chief Cow.
ard liquor last November. 1t 10 u.
legged that. % . result OF the liquor
Powell introduced IN the reservation,
Mrs.. Lazy Boy was either accident.
ally killed or murdered.
LEw1sTowN, July r.. John a.
Shober, Jr., of Helena, yesterday
brought suit in the district court
against the estate of the late Philip I.
Moule to recover the sum of Ola, 600
alleged to be due % commission on
the sale of the Moule ranch OF thirteen
thousand acres to the Giltin an.Pen.
we'll company. Prior to the death Of
MIR. Moule, the plaintiff entered into
an agreement with him for the sale OF
the ranch on . stipulated commission.
HELENA, July 12.-Charles Brandt
and John Wilson were arrested yester.
day at Wolf Creek and brought to
Helena today by Deputy Sheriff Ed.
Wilson and locked up in the county
jail. The men are charged with steal
ing q tent from q party of railroad
laborers camped near Wolf Creek. II
is said that while Chris Peterson, one
of the occupants was sleeping of the
effects Of q drunk, the two defend ants
cut the guy ropes and hiked away with
the tent, leaving the wner sleeping in
the hot sun.
BROWNING, July 11.-While riding
in q stage coach near Browning early
yesterday. Mrs. Lillian Bennett, .
resident of that place, suffered injuries
from which che died q few hours later
in q local hospital. The stsge coach
In which Mrs. Bennett wac riding WAS
struck on . road crossing by q Great
Northern train. Mrs. Bennett was the
only occupant OF the coach. The driver
escaped injury and probable death by
jumping before the train crashed into
the coach. The team of horses attach.
ed to the coach we're instantly killed,
while the coach was badly demolished.
KAL1sPELL, July 12.-Indians of the
Flathead are surprising every one
in the name in which they have set
to work in the development and irriga.
ton work done upon the newly opened
country, according to Engineer H. N.
Savage of the reclamation service,
who is on his way to meet Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger today. Mr..
Savage said that at present there are
$4,000 acres of land under irrigation
and that the work done had been mar.
velous. The Indians, he said. realize
the necessity Of putting all of the land
under water and are working hard to.
ward that end.
HELENA, July 12.-The assessed
valuation OF Lewis and Clark county
this year is sl8. 322. $40, exclusive of
the railroad assessment being $500, 900
greater than last year. The railroad
assessment will bring the total to over
$40, DOC, 600, making this q second. class
county.
DEER LODGE, July IL. - Herbert
Blsklee, q carpenter who had been
working at Garrison and who was on
his way to Deer Lodge to do some
carpenter work At that place, was
struck by No. 8, Northern Pacific
passenger train yesterday about three
miles this side of Garrison and killed.
HELENA, July 1.-Two months in
jail q and hundred dollar ine was the
sentence imposed by Judge Rasch
this morning upon John Place, who
pleaded guilty to Introducing liquor
on the Blackfeet Indian reservation.
Marison Deschamps, through his at.
torney, D. w. Rankin, pleaded not
guilty to the indictment charging him
with the introducing of liquor on the
Flathead reserva alton.
LEw1sTowN, July l3. The fact
that the Milwaukee has decided to put
old Tibet back on the map is very
pleasing to the old timers and q big
crowd will go down to that place July
26, when the company will sell lots at
auction. 1t is stated here that the
Milwaukee intends to make Tibet a far
more important place than it ever
dreamed OF being in the old days.
HELENA, July 13.-Albert J.. Galen,