The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-13
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA. March 5.-The old Wilmer
ranch near Augusta has been cold by
John A. willard to Edward s. An.
derson of Augusta, according to a|
deed filed here. The ranch contains
800 acres and was sold four years
ago for &c. coo. The consideration at
this sale is not known, but Anderson
gave the Willards q mortgage for
500 900, Indicating that the purchase
price was in excess OF that amount.
HELENA, March SIN an opinion
handed down by the supreme court
10 the case OF Smith against q road
supervisor aud the county commits
sioners Of this county, it ia held that
the commissioners are liable for
dereliction of duty by q road super.
visor and that it is their duty to see
that he keeps the roads In q safe con-
dition. The lower court granted .
non.suit, and the supreme court says
that the evidence shows that Smith
LOO AA0NO OuV . RAA010 NOSO O0~
orders that the issue be tried.
GREAT FALLS. March 5.-The Great
Northern Is handling on the average
from three t q five cars OF immigrant
stock now and the rush has been on
for about 10 days. The stations re-
ceiving the larger portion Of the traf-
6c have been Big Sandy, Benton.
Collins, Powers, Conrad, Hobson md
Stanford. The cars are coming from
points in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas,
Illinois and as far east as Ohio. The
rush started earlier this year than
usual and II it keeps up at the same
rate with the increase ordinarily &C.
curing, it is claimed that the addi.
ton by new settlers this year will
far outstrip all previous records for q
single season.
MIssOULA, March 6 Lafayette n.
Parker, aged so, of Forsyth, q pioneer
cattlemen of Montana, died at noon
today of tuberculosis at the home of
his brother in this city.
M1ssoULA, March 6.-Missoula
officers have secured q confession of
Robert Burke, who had been under
arrest here for q week, to a Pueblo
diamond robbery amounting to S11,.
. 900. Burke made the second comics.
sion admitting that be robbed the
home of B. L, Gordon of Spokane
last November, securing iewelry to
the value of about IS, 00U. 10 addition
to securing the confession the officers
recovered most of the Gordon jewels.
\, GREAT FALLS, March 5.-County
Attorney Greene today filed an infor-
: N nation against A. Beckstad, q Havre
rancher, brought back from Idaho
recently for alleged illegally procur.
ing o loan from the First National
Bank, in which the claim is made
that Beckstad falsely represented his
wealth. He il prominent in northern
Montana, having at one time been re-
garded as one of the wealthy men of
that section.
HELENA, March Sit is under
stood here on good authority that
heads of the Great Northern road
will issue orders this week to break
ground for the new 1925, 600 depot in
D this city. The original plan was to
start operations simultaneously on
the Butte and Helena depots, the COM
pany planning equal expenditures in
both places. The breaking of the
ground in Helena has been postponed
pending action in Butte on the clos
. ing of a street to make possible the
building of the depot along plans
drawn for the company.
HELENA, March 6-Annoucement
Is made that the Great Northern will
not run special trains between Helena
and the fair grounds at the next fair
but will leave the business to be
handled by the street car lines. 1t is
expected that q number of counties
this year follow the plan of Beaver.
head last year aud have specials, and
with the discontinuance of the Great
Northern passenger service there will
be ample trackage room at the fair
grounds for the specials.
HELENA, March 6.-Representatives
OF the state board of health, railroad
commissions and the railroads Of
Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota,
Idaho and Washington, will meet
here Thursday and Friday of this
week to draft sanitary regulations
governing the railroads 10 the five
states. There is at present no uni
formity in the regulations and the
meeting is for codifying the rules OF
the different states.