The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-12
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days,

tney are asked 10 state Wnat they will
do toward passing q direct primary
law.
BUTTE, April 6.-Matt B. Ives, city
ticket agent of the Great Northern,
has received notice that hundreds of
settlers are pouring into Montana
during the first week In April and are
taking up land along the lines of the
Great Northern. The Oriental Limit
ed left St. Paul yesterday in two sec.
tious, carrying nine extra coaches fill
ed with homeseekers for this state.
HELENA. April 5-WhenC Col. Theo.
dore Roosevelt arrives in Helena
Wednesda y morning, April IL, he will
be greeted by Q score of .old.time cat.
tlemen whom he knew when he vas in
the cattle business in Dakota. Con.
rad Kohrs OF this city is planning to
entertain Mr.. Roosevelt at an infor.
NAL dinner, the guests being confined
to old time cattlemen whom Roosevelt
knew years ago.
BILLINGS April, 6.-Msde insane by
family troubles, Cliff Root, we'll
known and old time resident of the
Halt Breed creek country, north Of
here, at l O'Clock this morning went
TO the home OF his father.in.law, F.
A. Render, and shot him down with.
out warning. He then visited the
home of his stepson, James Bridges
who me a similar fate. The home
Of his first wife's sister, Mrs.
Tompson, q widow, was next Wis.
tied and she vas shot to death. Re.
turning to his own room Root killed
bis wife with an OK and then, riding
to his former home at the Star Ranch
he blew out his own brains.
HELENA, April 7.-As q result of
the breaking of a scaffolding on the
st. Helena's cathedral, Pete Bakken
lies In the hospital with q fractured
skull, and Gus Mudrovich with q
broken leg, four broken ribs and a
number of internal INJURIES. Inc mon
fell 40 feet to the top of q stone found.
alton.
BOHEMIAN, April 7.-Louis Maxfeld
Is dead at his Willow creek ranch.
He was 50 years of age and a bache-
lor. For IS years he made his home
on the ranch. No relatives of the
deceased have been located and his
most intim ate friends have no know.
ledge of any living.
HELENA, April IA rate of a fare
and q third from every point in Mon
tana on the Great Northern has been
put in effect by that company for
Roosevelt day according to an an.
nouncement made today. The tickets
coming to Helena will be good on any
train arriving here Tuesday, April II,
or Wednesday, April -; on the return
trip they will be good only on trains
leaving here not later than Thursday,
April 13. Local officials of the North.
ern Pacific have taken the matter OF
reduced rates up with St. Paul and
are expecting an answer shortly.
HELENA, April SC. F. Graham,
q locomotive engineer from Livings-
ton, who was injured in July, 1909,
when he stuck his head Out of the cab
window and hit a standpipe, was
awarded damages in the sum of &c..
600, by q jury in the district court.
Graham sued for $685.
HELENA, April 8.-Jury trials in
the federal court will begin April q,
and May l the United States grand
jury will be convened here. In the
federal court today Judge Carl Rasch
or dered q venire of so names for ser.
vice as grand jurors. returnable May
l. He also ordered q veuire of 80
names as trial jurors, to report April
81.
VIRGINIA CITY, April s.-A suit for
$50. 600 damages and cost of suit was
begun in the district court here We'd
nesday by Mrs. Lucille Paxton of
Butte against the Conrey Placer Min.
ing company and T. D. Prior, the
company's assistant manager, of
Ruby. Harry M. Paxton, husband of
the plaintiff, was electrocuted ian. q,
1910, while working as electrician for
the company at Ruby.
MILES CITY, April S.-Among the
instruments recorded at the office of
the county clerk recently was one Ap-
ril 5 conveying IA. 76l, 81 acres of land,
located in the vicinity Of Whitney
creek and he town of Milred, to G. N.
Thompson from j. G. Felthous. This
land Is q part Of what was known
several years ago as the George Burt
tract, which consisted of some 60. 900
acres and was purchased by Mr.. Felt.
hous and by him sold out in parcels to
a number If Other nuroh aso,s ~