The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-22
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.
M1ssoULA, Feb. 16.-Mrs. W. w.
Dixon, widow of the late William
Writ Dixon, at one time congressman
from Montana, has announced in
Washington that she will give SIS, OCO
to equip a library for the law school
OF the state university in case the leg
~islature creates this school at the pre-
sent session, the library to be q mem
orial to her late husbund, whose pri.
vate library she has already present..
ed to the university.
HELENA, Feb. 16.--The Great Nor.
thern Railway company acknowledged
Judgment In the action instituted by
the government for violation of the
28-hour law, in the federal court this
morning, but reserved the right to
later state mitigating circumstances.
The complaint against the defendant
company charged that they kept SO
hogs loaded on the cars longer than
% hours. The hogs were in transit
from Condo. N. OAK, to Kalispell,
and were consigned to Henry Bierman
of the Kalispell Meat company. The
penalty claimed by the government is
$500.
HELENA, Feb. 16.-The granite cut
tiers at the state capitol walked out to-
day and for the second time since the
construction of the new wings began,
all is silence in the extensive plant of
Kahn Brothers,, the granite contrac-
tors. According to Mr.. Kahn, the
grievance of the stonecutters is that
the quarrymen, in getting out the
granite, are doing certain work that
belongs to the cutters, that is, getting
the rock as near its final shape as pos
sible. This Mr.. Kahn asserts, has
been done at the quarry from the very
inception of the work. About one
hundred men are involved.
MIssoULA. Feb. 1.-Two of the
three members OF the board of county
commissioners, Chairman D. T. Cur
ran aud Commissioner Frank Nelson,
and a member of the board as it ex-
listed until the first of the year, stand
indicted by the grand jury, on charges
of being interested in county contracts
and of selling to the county while in
Office. The second partial report of
the grand jury contains nine true bills
against Mr.. Curran, four against Mr..
Nelson and one against Tyler Wor-
den, ex-commissioner.
i HELENA, Feb. 17.-Homer Seek, a
locomotive fireman, whose home is in
the city Of Livingston, has started sui,
in the district court against the Nor
thern Pacific Railway company for
damages in the sum of $40, 600. The
!, plaintiff declares an engine on which
he was working collided with a freight
truck at Laurel, August q, 1910, re
} sulting in injuries to his leg and sub
sequent amputation thereof. He sets
forth that at the time of the acciden
! he was % years of age and capable
and was earning between $3.50 and $16(
per month.
GREAT FALLS, Feb. l6.-An IN
known Italian was shot and fatal.
: injured in The Five Taps saloon Of
First avenue south acre late this ever
:, ing. The shot Ia said to have beel
u fired by Francesca NARCOTIC, VIII
y. made his escape a few minutes ate
v the shooting occurred. The injure'
man was taken to the Deaconess hos
pital. He lost consciousness shortl
after, and as he did not have any lei
q ters to identify him, nothing is know
OF what he Is or where he came from
K%ALIsPELL, Feb. 16.-Great excite
ment was occasioned here today by
IN report that q portion of the Flathea
g Indian reserva alton that was reserve
h as q part of an irrig alton project ha
n been thrown open to settlement, an
IS there was a frantic rush Of HON,
IL seekers from Poison. They came b
automobile and horseback, and tt
A night a boat load of belated lant
n
I'd seekers put in an appearance. A
ic rushed pell NELL to the land Office an
he lined up in a string. The land Off
IT, officials were in ignorance of an
Ill throwing open of lands to settlemel
and tried to induce the would.b lar
~ seekers to wait, but in vain. How tt
~ rumor started it is impossible to kno,
nd HELENA, Feb. l7.-That lack Tru
ok colt, alias James II. johnson, held
its the county jail or q charge OF havir
INT robbed the %postofice at Clancy,
wanted at Sand Point, Ida,, for TO
gerry, and that he is a notorious croo
~ is the belief of the local officers. 1t
also believed that Truscott Is a par
~ nan ~ n ~ m ro,nod Polxo. ror 800