The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-04-27
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana DUR
ing the Past Few Days.

What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
MIssoULA, April 21.-Informa alton
reaches Missouls through the railroad
officials that the rate clerks Of all the
western railroads are at present check
ing over tariffs, with Q view TO finding
on what commodities advances In rates
may be most satisfactorily made. The
roads already have advanced their
rates on oil classes Of dressed beef,
and have announced advances in
rates of coal from the Illinois to
other fields.
MILES CITY, April 2l.-Ergotism in
cattle has often been mistaken by the
inexperienced stockman for freezing;
the effects OF extremely cold weather,
according to . statement made by Dr..
M. E. Knowles, state veterin arisn
of Montana, in q paper read before
the Montana Stockgrowers' associa-
ton which has been holding it's an.
nual meeting in this city during the
past two days. This mistake is the
more liable to be made because OF the
fact that ergotism In cattle usually
follows cold hard winter.
HELENA, April 20.-Eighty passen.
gers had miraculous escape from
death last evening when Northern
Pacific passenger train No. 5 went
through an open switch just west of
Toston at q speed of As miles an hour.
The engine kept the rails and the elk
cars plowed the ground for distance
of 100 feet, tearing it up in places to
a depth of six feet. Trainmen and
passengers crawled out of the shat
tered cars and quickly started search
to take out the dead and the dying. tt
was half an hour before they we're
convinced that not single person
had been killed.
MILES CITY. April 22.-Mr. aud
Mrs. Hiram Farnum arrived here
bringing the body of their daughter
Mary, IA months old, who was drowned
Wednesday afternoon 10 a we'll at
their ranch, eight miles south OF Shir-
ley. The child was playing with her
brother Clayton, three years old, and
fell through hole in the board
covering.
GREAT FALLS, April 22.-Accord.
ing to the monthly statement of the
United States land Office for the
month of March, issued yesterday ,
over $500 entries were recorded in
that Office, which was an average
of 80 for every day of the month, with
the exception of Sundays. An ap.
proxima ate estimate OF the receipts OF
the Office for the same length of time
aggreg ated $4,000, which Is double
that of any preceding month in the
history Of the Office.
HELENA, April pa total of l, 102
cars of immigrants movables, con.
tanning livestock, came into Montana q
between the period beginning Decem'
ber l, 1909, and ending April 20, 1910,
according to the figures compiled
by State Veterinarian Knowles and
turned over to Commissioner j. Fl
Hall of the bureau of agriculture, la
Dor and industry. The figures are
for cars which contained livestock
and do not include hundreds of othel
cars which contained household fur
niture, farm equipment and other
stuff aside from livestock. No RECORD
of these kind OF shipments is avail
able, but the proportion OF cars con
tanning no stock is greater than o
those containing stock.
| DILLON, April 23.-As result Of I
practical joke played in Jackson, il
the Big Hole Basin, Thursday after
noon, Frederick Heagy, aged abou
so years, a barber, is dead and james
Thompson, an aged prospector ant
ranch hand, who made his home il
the basin for q number of years, viii
have to answer to charge of killing
Heagy.
HELENA. April 23.-Four thous ani
acres Of state lands in this county
the largest part near Helena, wer'
sold at public auction today by Dep
uty State Land Register Oker. Th
land was appr aised At from S1O tn 01