The river press., 1911-03-01
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

passed last night by the retail mer-
chants of Flathead, Lincoln, Chou
| teau and Teton counties at the first
annual banquet OF the retailers Of
northwestern Montana demand that
| in the redstricting OF Montana to
provide for new congressman none
of the northern counties be included
in the same district with Butte and
Helena.
HELENA, Feb 23.-Frank and Joseph
Mares, owners of pond at Central
from which ice has been cut, we're ar.
rested today on complaints sworn to
by the county board of health. This
action was taken to prevent the fur
ther cutting of ice from the pond
which has been condemned as uns ami.
tary. The board has also condemned
two other ice ponds and will proceed
to prevent the further cutting of ice
on them.
LIBBY, Feb. pa. r. Gibson of
Libby is making arrangements to
start mink farm, the stock for which
he will purchase from trappers in this
locality. Mr.. Gibson owns q ranch q
short distance west of town, q portion
of which he intends to use in raising
the animals. He has proved by ex-
periments, he says, that mink may be
successfully propagated in captivity,
and as the fur of the animals has
reached quite high price, with no
prospects of ever going lower, Mr..
Gibson figures that the time is ripe to
engage in the business of raising
them.
GREAT FALLS, Feb. 23.-Jay h.
Chenoweth of this city today began an
action in the district court az ainst the
Great Northern Railway company, in
which be seeks damages in the sum of
S25. 900. He alleges that on Oct. 10,
1910, while crossing the railroad
tracks at the Boston & Montana
smelter, an engine hit a number of
empty ore cars, which knocked him
down In such manner that he lost
his right arm, and that since the ac-
cident he has been q physical wreck.
HELENA, Feb. 25.-The four orph an.
ed children of John and Mary Will
man, who were killed while crossing
Northern Pacific tracks near Billings
June 26, 1909, have brought suit
against the company. asking $1,000
damages. 1t is alleged the engineer
failed to give warning when the train
was approaching the crossing.
LEw1sToWN, Feb. 25. Andrew
Jackson Ely is contesting the home.
stead entry of his wife, Lydia Ely, in
the local Office. The contestant origi-
nally filed upon the tract in con.
troversy himself, but following an &C.
cident, which made it necessary for
him to go to Chicago for treatment,
he filed relinq he says.
Afterward he brought suit for divorce
against his wife.
i MIssOULA: Feb. PA disastrous
fire at the ranch home of the late
Daniel E. Bandmann, who was long
one of the foremost Shakespearian
actors in America, this afternoon to.
tally destroyed the building and burn.
. ed the whole collection of the actor's
writings and the whole wardrobe th at
he had used in connection with his
, stage life. In the collection were
, numerous manuscripts of plays, poems
and stories of his career that have
! never been published and which were
priced very highly by Mrs. Band
man and his children.
BUTTE, Feb. 27.-Retrenchment has
begun by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
! Puget Sound Railway company, the
> coast extension of the St. Paul EN-.
: ployes along the line in Montana to
q the number of nearly 100 being laid
\ off. The forces will be further re.
$ duced, according to insinuations by
Y local officials of the Puget Sound com.
# pany.
BILLINGS, Feb. 27.-That virtua ally
every ton of alfalfa grown in this par,
of Montana during the last season hat
n been sold at satisfactory prices, is the
l. report given out by commission mer
L who are in touch with conditions
y Throughout the winter the hay ha,
- been sold on the streets of Billingl
= for from go to sl2 per ton in small
q. quantities, and sS per ton In the stack
Is was generally paid. The crop through
outthis section was exceptionally goot
last season, many OF the farmers cut
ting three and in some instances fou
e. times.