The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-31

HenlSC0 we're reColVeu tOO8y ana the
new appointments become effective
Immediately. Governor Norris acted
under the authority given him al the
meeting of the state board OF education
in December.
HELENA, Jan. Establishments were
made public today against two promi-
nent residents of Poplar, Valley coun.
ty, each charged with wholesale boot
logging on the Fort Peck Indian reser.
vation. One is Frank Underwood, q
druggist and practising physician at
Poplar, charged in fifteen counts with
introducing liquor on the reservation;
and the other is Louis L. Brink, for.
merIy q teacher in the Indian service
and now manager of the Poplar mer.
camille store, indicted on eleven counts
on the same charge.
CuLBERrsoN, Jan. 24.-The coro-
ner's jury summoned to inquire into
the death of Michael Fay, whose body
was found in the claim shack OF Eface
IP. Goss, two miles north of Culbert.
son, last night returned q verdict OF
death from causes to them unknown.
Fay was we'll known in Culbertson
having come here from Devils Lake,
N. D., about six years ago. He was
living 10 the Goss claim shack look.
ing after Mrs. Goss's stock during
her absense. She left for an extended
trip through Canada on the seventh.
Fay was last seen alive January IL
and it is presumed be succumbed to
heart failure shortly after returning
to the claim.
HELENA, Jan. %. Alleging the
Great Northern Railway company vio-
lated the nine.hour law at Great Falls,
Sept. 80, 1911, in that it compelled Joe
F. Schwab, train dispatcher, to work
more than nine hours in q period of
"a, District Attorney J. W. Freeman
began suit in the federal court against
the company to collect the statutory
penalty OF $500.
LEwIsTOWN, Jan. 25--With two
handsome silver cups won two and
three years ago at Billings and Spo.
kane, for displays of grain, Fergus
county has just added three more to
it's collection of trophies, which In.
cludes also edals, etc., o at fairs.
The three new cups were won at the
land show at St. Paul, one being that
given for the most attractive county
display, while the other two were OF.
fered by Charles Clark of Butte.
BILLINGS, Jan. 25.-That the two
leading crops of Montana in the future
will be wheat and fax and that IN them
the Treasure state will EXCEL the Da'
kotas, is the opinion OF William Elan
!, merry of the Gallatin valley, who, dur
ing last year, harvested fax from
l 900 acres in the southern part o.
Yellowstone county. The matter o.
fax GUILTY. alton in Montana, however,
is comparatively in its infancy, and
, according to Mr.. Flannery, the indus,
:. try will require careful study on thu
y part OF the farmers in order that /
may be q complete success.
BUTTE, Jan. 27.-Because q master
carpenter connected two pieces of hos
"a job which the walking delegate o
the building trades claim should b
done by q plumber-he vas fined $40
and, the carpenters considering tn
fine unjust and refusing to permit tn
master to pay it, all hands engaged Il
construction of q new theater her
have been laid off.
HELENA, Jan. 27.-Bids were re
ceived and opened today by the stat
board of examiners for fixtures an
materials necessary to the completion
! of q new cell house at the state priso
at Deer Lodge. The building itself
being built by the state with priso
labor. The cell house will accomods,
I 400 prisoners and will contain q
cells. Awards will not be made for
day or two
HELENA, Jan. 27.-Charging tn
Chas. Gustafson acted as a dunn
!. entrymsn for VIM. H. Albright &C
Villa C. Albright. In acquiring tit
under the Homestead law to Il
acres Of land near Albright, Cascas
lie county, District Attorney Freem,
be has begun suit in the federal court
d: cancel patent to the tract. The cor
plant sets forth that Albright paid
the necessary fling fees, and that VIII
patent was secured Gustafson deed
the land over to him.
BOHEMIAN, Jan. 27.-That q herd
-" dairy cows is Q paying proposition
Ter properly managed and given go
he care ia shown by the report made CO
corning the college herd of the Nc
tana State college. The herd, which