The river press., 1910-12-07
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, Nov. 29.-Notice has been
received by the state bank examiner
tn at the Hewett state bank at Basin
has decided to 60 out of business.
Creditors will be paid in full aud the
surplus divided among the s:ockhold.
wound up by member OF the state
bank examiners force. There was
not business enough in the town or vi.
cinity to justify q continuance OF the
bank.
HELENA. Nov. 29.-Henry Lewis
was 6ned slO0 in the federal court to.
day by Judge Carl Rasch, after plead.
ing guilty to an Information fled
against him by District Attorney
james w. Freeman, charging him
With violating the interstate commerce
laws. The inform alton alleged that
Lewis used free p ass to travel from
Seattle to Butte which was not made
out for him, but to another man, an
employe Of the Northern Pacific Hail.
way company.
BILLINGS, Nov. 29.-To provide an
additional judge for the Thirteenth
judicial district. which includes YELL
lowstone, Carbon and Rosebud coun.
ties, q bill will be introduced in the
legislature this winter by w. B.
George, senator. elect. The proposed
bill is the result of meeting OF the
Yellowstone County Bar sssoci alton,
which urged the necessity Of another
judge, ss the work has become so
heavy as to be more than one man can
attend to.
LIVINGSTON, Nov. 29.-Over 200
hunters left here today for Gardiner,
60 miles distaut, attracted by the re.
port that 5000 head OF elk have been
driven out OF the bound aries OF the
Yellowstone National park. Accord.
ing to . report here today, fully 500
elk we're killed yesterday. A message
from the superintendent Of the park
states that between 5000 and 1900
elk have been driven from the reserve
by the heavy snows.' It is expected
that the troops from Fort Yellowstone
will be called out to drive the elk
back into the park.
BILLINGS, Nov. 29.-What is be.
lieved to be the largest sugar beet ever
seen In Montana is on exhibition al
the chant Der of commerce building.
The monster tips the scales at 264
pounds, and is almost perfectly form.
ed. It was raised by J. W. Hornad ay
on his ranch about two miles west OF
the city. Another display that Is at.
tracing considerable attention is that
of turnips, which weigh Eve pounds
each, and potatoes weighing nearly
two pounds. While these weights are
exceeded by many others from the ir.
rig ated districts, the vegetables refer
red to we're raised on dry land, which
was cultivated for the first time this
season and under particularly ad-
verse conditions.
HELENA, Nov. 29.-Victor Verlind q,
who sued the Stone Webster corpora
tion 10 the district court to recover
damages for injuries alleged to have
been received while working for the
corporation, was today awarded S8,.
500 by q jury. Verlinda was struck
by q chain while working on q der.
rick and lost the sight of one eye.
HELENA, Nov. 30.-F. H. Ray, reg
ister of the state land Office, today
submitted to Acting Governor w. r.
Allen, the report of the operation of
his department for the fiscal year end.
ed today. With a single exception,
the receipts are the largest on record
and even this exception would not ex-
let save for large cash sales of timber
lands in the Flathead country in 1907.
The receipts for the year amounted to
1926, ,573 IS.
VIRGINIA CITY, Nov. 29.-Latest ad.
vices received from the Upper Mad
ison basi. to the effect that Or
Vile Tuttle, who has been lost in the
Upper Madison valley for more than
week, has not been found and that
his friends have practically given up
all hope of ever finding him alive. A
telephone message from the Upper
Madison basin tonight said that 100
men were in the mountains on snow.
| shoes hunting for the lad.
KAL1SPELL, Nov. 29.-Sult for $25, .
600 damage was started today in the
district court here by Augeline Par.
iseau, widow of Antoine Pariseau, the
Indian policeman who fell from the
steamer City OF Poison, Sep. Is, and
waa 0rOwnp6 in tho narrOws ~ Fla