The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-22

cial will traverse Montana from one
end to the other over the Northern Pa.
cifc lines at the expense Of the rail. |
way company under the auspices OF
the Montana state college and expert
ment station. Prof. F. s.. Cooley, |
superintendent of the farmers insti-
tute work, is to have full charge of
the train. This is the second annual
tour of q train of this kind in the
state.
GREAT FALLS, March 15.-After a
trial lasting three days, H. Lawson
was convicted of grand larceny today /
in the district court and sentenced to
one year in the state prison. Lawson
was charged with abetting the robbery
Of q Sand Coulee coal miner, securing
the robbery through the agency OF two
young girls, who, it al charged, took
5000 from the victim.
HELENA, March 16.-In accord ance
with house bill No. 1853, Governor
Norris yesterday appointed the mem.
bers OF the state board of poultry
husbandry. The members will serve
four years without compensation. 1t
is the object of the board to encourage
the poultry industry in Montana.
The members of the board are G. R.
Siegel of Helena, Sig. Goodfriend OF
Anaconda and J. G. Ramsey Of Miles
City.
BILLINGS, March Is. About $50
cavalry horses from the remount sta
ton at Fort Keogh arrived in Billings
today enroute to San Antonio, Texas,
where they are to be used by the Unit
ed States army. 1t ia understood the
order to forward the animals was re.
ceived yesterday and they we're loaded
| and hurried west over the Northern
Pacific. They were tr transferred to the
Burlington and started south this
afternoon.
BILLINGS, March 15.-That the To-
cal sugar company has secured con-
tracts for an acreage which will sup
ply all OF the beets which it is feasible
to handle during the coming cam.
paign, Is a statement given out by
Manager Garnsey. According to the
manager beets will be supplied from
Is, 500 acres, which is an increase over
last q OF exactly 5000 acres,
and it is understood that it would
have been an easy matter to have Sc
cured contracts for fully 1900 acres
additional, but that the mill would be
unable to handle them.
MILES CITY, March 16.-Acting on
a petition signed by George Mills,
Miles Milligan, John Holt, Ernest
Rohde and q number Of other promi.
nent citizens, District Judge Sanner
has ordered that a venire be drawn
for a grand jury to make an i~nvesti-
cation into the aft airs of Custer county
in general, but more particularly d.
rected towards the manner in which
the public money vas expended on
the roads of the county. The conduct
OF the aft airs of Miles City will prob
ably come in for a share of the jury's
attention, though there was no NUM-
cipal matter mentioned in the petition
to the court as necessitating the serv.
ice of q probe.
HELENA, March Ex-Governor Nor.
ris this afternoon Issued a call for q
meeting of the proposed northwestern
development league to be held here or
Thursday and Friday, May 4 and 5,
) the invitation being addressed to the
l governors of Minnesota, North Da'
: kota, South Dakota, Idaho, Washing
ton and Oregon, together with al
. commercial organic atoms.
b MILES CITY, March ls.-The body
o of George Raymond was found b,
Q Abrsm Hall behind his barn with
bullet in his right temple. Raymond
9 had evidently committed suicide will
9 q small rife by placing the butt on
. horse rake and pulling the trigger
He was 50 years old and leaves q sol
aged %, another boy and a widow
The verdict OF the cOrOner's jury va
suicide.
HELENA, March fitzpatrick Kest
a ing, who was arrested last week an,
charged by County Attorney Hey
wood with the crime OF grand larceny
entered q plea Of guilty and was sen
!, fenced to one year in the penitentiary
:. Heating was a former employe at tn
Hauser lake dam. When leavin,
there he took three pay checks belong
:, ing to fellow workingmen. He a,
i" tempted to cash them, and this result,
ed in Keating's arrest.
# HELENA, March 1.-THE state boa
of health at its regular meeting her
I. today reelected DR.. William Treac
of this city president and DR.. T. .