The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-08-23
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, Aug. 15.-That the Great
Northern intends % push to compile
ton the branch in Valley county from
Bainville to Plentywood, on the Fort
Peck reserv alton. is indicated by
the applications recently filed with the
state land Office for right OF way over
state land. At a meeting of the state
land board the applications were
granted.
MILES CITY, Aug. 15.-Farmers un.
der the irrigated areas along the Vel.
lowstone river are now being dis
tressed by q superabunda nce OF water.
The second cutting of alfalfa has been
lying on the ground for ten days or
nor waiting for a sufficiently long
interval between rains for ii to be.
come dry enough to stack.
MILES CITY, Aug. Is. - w. A.
Walters, q notary public of the Car
lyle country, in looking over the new
registr alton law, finds that although
the law allows him q fee of Is cents
for each name registered he has to
wait until after the next election to
get it, which is over q year hence, and
then II the registered person does not
vote the notary is no, allowed his fee.
| Mr.. w Walters doesn't think 60 much of
the law as a master piece of legisla.
ton o as he did before he made his
discovery.
KAL1sPELL, Aug. 15.-The Farmers
Protective association, one OF the
largest mercantile establishments Of
the city, having q capitaliz alton OF
more th an 5000, 900 and composed Of
prominent farmers throughout the
county, has passed into the hands Of
a receiver. Following the application
for his appointment by several per.
sons prominently identified with the
concern. r. W. Main, q member Of
the board of county commissioners,
and at present manager of the con.
Germ, vas appointed temporarily.
KAL1sPELL, Aug. Is. - Telling q
narrowing story of the impossibilty
to get work enough to keep him from
hunger, l.. G. Scott, emaciated and
wan, explained to Judge Erickson and
Drs. Morrow and Macdonald, com.
prising q sanity board, how he came
to attempt suicide At Whitefish sew
eral days ago by taking a potion OF
insect powder mixed with water. Scott
came here from Seattle several months
ago and declared that only three days
work had been secured by him since
then. He walked from Libby to
Whiteash, a distance OF nearly 200
miles. The man was committed to the
state insane asylum at w arm Springs.
BUTTE, August 16.-F. Aueustus
Heinze, who reached Butte y~esterd ay
was made defendant in an action
brought by Robert Lieons 70 receiver
for the Aetna Banking & Trust Co.,
in which it is asked that Heinze be
held responsible for 800, 600, the
amount of the capital stock of the
bank, and that he be imprisoned until
it is paid.
BUTTE, Aug. LEONE of the mos1
daring robberies in Silver Bow coun.
tvs annals OF crime is reported tc
have occurred early yesterday morn
ing almost within the shadow of thu
city hall. and in one of Butte's larges'
Office buildings. DR.. S. A. Kennedy,
an osteopathic physician, claims hi
was held up, assaulted and robbed o
e57 in cash and q S4OO diamond rims
as he entered his Office. Two men ht
says, held him up and after despoilinf
him of his money and diamond, the,
tied him hand and foot and left him
threatening to shoot ii he uttered
sound.
HELENA, Aug. 16.-An injunctioi
suit to restrain the government from
flooding certain allotted lands on tn
Blackfeet Indian alton by tn
building of the St. Mary's dam, wa
begun in the federal court today b,
David La Breche and George w
Cook, against the United States ant
H. N. Savage, supervising engineer O
: the reclamation service in this district
The complaint sets forth complainant
are mem bers of the Blackfeet and Pie
, gan tribes, and land has been allotte.
to them which the government nov
seeks to food.
HELENA, August 15.-Because hi
. Packard 1907 car remained in Nor
tana the longest length of time an
travelled the greatest number OF mile
the board of directors of the CONNER
cial club yesterday afternoon awarde'
the Louis w. Hill. president of tn
Great Northern Railway company, til
h an6somo Ho1ora oun oforo1 No