The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-25
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS

MUM ANA NEWS bkIctLcIS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
BUTTE, May 16.-with life hanging
by q slender thread and his right arm
gone, Frank Wilson,, q we'll known
electrician, lies q patient at St. James
hospital as q result of q frightful &C.
cident on the l,300-foot level Of the
St. Lawrence mine. Wilson was ad.
justing a ventilating fan when the
disaster happened. His sleeve was
caught 10 the flying machinery and in
an instant the arm was torn clear
from the body, Wilson being hurled
to the ground in q bleeding heap.
HELENA, May 1.-THE state board
OF health has granted to the city Of
Glasgow in Valley county, permits.
sion to install its sewer system to
empty into Milk river. This action
was taken by the board after having
secured an opinion from Attorney
General Galen to the effect that mas.
much as 1t had been shown that the
waters of the Milk river at that point
and below 1t were already unfit for
domestic use there existed 40 reason
why the river should not be used as q
dumping ground for the sewage at
Glasgow.
ANACONDA, May 16.-The Montana
Protective association, the organiza.
tton OF the saloonkeepers of the city,
formally petitioned this city's council
this evening TO restrict the number of
licensed saloons in this city to forty.
At the present time there are Al Ii.
censed saloons, and the substance of
the petition is that no new licenses
shall be issued; and that those which
may be cancelled by the owner retiring
from business or otherwise, be not
renewed, and that no new licenses shall
be Issued until the number is reduced
to the limit proposed by the associs.
ton. The petition was referred to
the judiciary committee.
BUTTE, May 17.-Twenty.on days
without food, with the exception Of
water and lemon and orange juice, is
the record established by Henry Rob-
erts Of this city. Roberts is endeav.
oring to correct stomach trouble.
GREAT FALLS, May II. - Fred
Goodrow and Glen Collard, two
youths arrested for stealing four re-
volvers from Gerspach & Charters,
on Central avenue, we're ordered TAX.
en- to the reform school today by
Judge Ewing and they left for that
place this evening in charge of Deputy
| Sheriff Kommers.
HELENA, May 1S.-B. F. Holcomb
of Livingston, has been appointed by
Commissioners Hall of the bureau OF
agriculture, labor and industry, to
the position of chief clerk in that de.
partment to succeed l. p. Benedict,
who resigned on the first day of May.
Mr.. Holcomb will assume the duties
OF the position June l.. Mr.. Holcomh
is a native Of Montana, having been
born and reared in Dillon.
GREAT FALLS, May 1.-THE public
| welfare committee of the city council
has turned down the petition of nearly
1000 ladies of the city to close all OF
the saloons of the city from II O'Clock
at night until 6 O'Clock the next morn.
ing and all day Sunday. The com.
mittee believes that it would not be
right to close the saloons early al
present, as hundreds of railroad men
can find no place to go.
HELENA, May 18.-New regulations,
governing the good time allowance OF
prisoners who are worked on the pub.
lie roads, we're announced yesterday
by the state board of prison commits.
sioners. The board acted with uous.
ual liberality in the treatment of pris.
oners who faithfully performed out
eide work assigned to them, q good
time allowance of ten days upon each
month Of their sentence being awarded
In addition to the statutory good time
allowance. In addition, the board
provided that hereafter no prisoner
was to be considered for a parole I'm.
less he shall have been SO recommend.
ed by the wardens in consideration,
among other things, of his diligence
in performing work directed by the
board.