The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-05-10
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.
BUTTE, May Ain pursu ance OF a
campaign of reform, Mayor Duncan
today announced that gambling must
cease. Poker chips and cards we're
seized in q raid made q few hours
after the order went forth.
BUTTE, May 4.-Former City Treas
urer Phil c. Goodwin, alleged to be
short in his accounts by a recent audit
of the financial accounts of Butte by
Pogson, Peloubet & Co., against
whom q suit for Sl7, 471,12 was brought
by attorneys for the city of Butte, is
made defend ant in another suit by the
city for the recovery OF Oil, 847.2 2
BUTTE, May 4.-Veterans of two wars
are assembling in Butte today for
their annual reunion. The 9th en-
campment of the Montana department
Of the Grand Army OF the republic was
convened this morning, and the Mon.
tana Spanish War Veterans will also
hold sessions during the next three
days. A joint parade of young and
old veterans will be held tomorrow
evening.
GREAT FALLS, May 4.-The litiga.
ton of the Sun river case is ended.
The decree OF the court, which will
remove all hindrance to the govern
ment improvement by irrig alton Of
that great project in which when COM
pleted, more than 80 900, 900 will be
| spent, will be of record by the middle
of May. The attorneys said today
that by June 7 the federal govern.
ment's forces will be pushing with
great activity the work Of irrigating
the Sun river benches.
BUTTE, May 4.-Major q. Brownson
Smith, aged II, one of the old-time
pioneers Of Butte and one of the char
ter members of the Silver Bow club,
died tonight of a general breakdown.
For years he was engaged In the bust
ness of insurance adiuster.
HELENA, May 5.-Members of the
republican state central committee
came to Helena today to attend q meet.
ing called for this afternoon at four
O'Clock to elect q successor to Thomas
G. Marshall OF Missoula, national
committeeman. Thomas A. NARROW
OF Helena was elected to the place.
BUTTE, May 5.-A protruding spike
is the of q damage suit for
S7,174 being filed against the Butte
Jockey Club and Fair association by
Mrs. G. Phipps, who alleges that she
caught her dress on this little spike
in the race track grand stand and wal
thrown forward down the stairs, which
resulted in serious injuries.
KAL1sPELL, May 5.-The bleached
skeleton of a man believed to be q
Great Northern surveyor who wat
drowned in q tributory of the North
Fork four years ago was brought to
Kalispell by Coroner J. E. Waggene,
and is being held at the undertaking
p~arlors while efforts are being made
to identity the discovered bones. Tht
skeleton was discovered by a logging
crew buried in q sandbar in Flatheai
river near Columbia Falls.
LIVINGSTON, May en-. McCurdy,
representing the labor unions and rail
road men, today informed the cit,
health officers that beef from cow
condemned for tuberculosis had beer
shipped to meat markets in Billings
Local health officers are investig ating
and the Billings officers have beef
ordered to make an inspection of tn
markets there.
BUTTE, May 6.-John j. Rohrbaugl
OF Helena, one OF the best know
veterans of the civil war in Montana
yesterday "a chosen department
commander OF the Grand Army to sue
coed r. j. Huston of Butte by tn
veterans in attendance at the twenty
seventh annual encampment of the de
partment of Montana. Mr.. Rohr
baugh's election was unanimous.
GREAT FALLS, May 5.-Auothe
lawsuit which brings out the fact tina
somebody has been losing in q black
jack game was filed in the distric
court today by E. E. Vaughn sgains
J. F. Hagenson and Samuel Smith
Waugh Is seeking to recover TO
alleged losses in q game which b
AYERS was conducted in Hagenson'
cigar store. This ia the secon
= gambling suit within q month.
HELENA, May Gan order wa
t made in the federal court today b
Judge Rasch for judgment to be ente,
ed for sl35, 900 against the defend ar
. in the suit Of Philip Tillinghast, RI