The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-06-12
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

LEwIsToWN. June 4.-Dick Patter-
son. the Boston wool buyer, is visit.
ing this section for the second time
this season. but ~ yet has closed no
contracts. 1t is understood that Mr..
Patterson IL Offering arouud Is cents.
while the wool growers are holding for
~ ceLts.
HELENA, June 4.-Actual coustruc-
ton work on the bitches of the Prickly
Pear valley pumping project was be-
gun yesterd ay by Boomer and Hughes,
OF Spokane, the firm that was awarded
the contract by the Montana Reser.
voir and Irrigation company to do the
necessary excsv atinR for the bitches,
pipe lines and other parts of the work.
HAMILTON, June 3.-R. r. Sidebot.
tom OF S%tevensville was brought before
Judge Mccullough Ia the district court
today on q contempt OF court charge.
He was charged with taking As milch
cows from the Bass ranch near Ste.
v%ensville and appropriating them to
his own use: also with threats that he
would return and get the rest OF the
ranch's livestock.
HELENA, June 3.-On behalf of the
state of NJ ontana, the state board Of
examiners formally accepted tod ay the
offer Of the Anaconda Copper Mining
company to donate s25, 900 toward the
erection OF the state tuberculosis sani-
tarium. The offer and it's acceptance
explains how it was that the board is
expending SO much more in the con.
struction of the buildings than was
appropriated by the Legislature.
BILLINGS, June 3 BE. E. Rivers is
Ia custody at Great Falls on a charge
Of obtaining several hundred dollars
from Billings merchants by means of
checks to which had been forged the
name of his employer, Charles Trott
of the Trott Printing company. The
young man is said to have drawn
about 80 checks for s25. so each and
had no difficulty in converting them
into cash, as it was known that he
was employed by the company.
HELENA, June 4.-Between now and
September l, a new president Of the
State Normal college at Dillon will be
chosen, the present Incumbent, DR.. Il.
b. Swain, who has guided the des.
TIMES of the institution II years in
forming the state board OF education
tod ay he would not BE- q candid ate for
reelection at the expir alton OF his
present term.
GREAT FALLS, June 5.-His body
almost completely cut in two by the
wheels of q box car, which be is said
to have jumped in front of, John
Harris, q section laborer on the Great
Northern, was Instantly killed this
morning in the yards west of the river.
Harris had been a resident OF Great
Falls for several years. He vas about
As years of age.
LIBBY, June 5.-Approxim ately one
million dollars will be spent by the
Great Northern railway in Lincoln
county this year 10 replacing wooden
bridges and culverts with steel and
concrete. Two bridge crews are now
engaged in the work, n operating at
Libby and the other near Rexford. A
large trestle near Libby is being torn
out and 10 to be replaced with steel.
HELENA, June 5.-Thirty.four in.
dictments were reported TO Judge
Bourquin 10 the federal court this
morning by the grand jury. 1t then
returned to the jury room to complete
it's labors. It is understood about IS
more cases will be submitted for its
consideration. twenty-five of the In
dictments returned today were made
public. All charge b%ootlegging, six
teen on the Flathead reservation,
eight on the Blackfees reserv alton,
and one selling liquor at Missoula to
a Occur d'Alene Indian.
HELENA, June 5.-The annual meet.
ing of the Society OF Montana Pion-
GERS will be held at Deer Lodge, Au-
gust 20-21-22, the date being fixed at a
meeting of the executive committee
held here this morning. Rod D. Leg
gat of Butte, president of the associa-
ton, came over this morning express
ly to be In attendance. The other
officers OF the society are j. U. San
ders, secretary; T. G. Power, treas.
urer; and M. H. Lott, vice president
at large. Elaborate arrangements for
this meeting are being made by Deer
Lodge, and it promises to be one of
the best attended held in recent years.
BUTTE, June 6.-Edward Mcmahon
who was beating his way on a freight
train, or the Milwaukee, vas injured
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