The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-20
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
LIVINGSTON, March 13.-One hun.
dred and twenty elk were trapped In
the big corral nea Gardiner today.
The animals will be shipped to Mon
tana cities. Hamilton, Stevensville
Deer Lodge and Thompson Falls
each receiving acarload.
LIBBY, March 14.-Coroner George
| Ottowa has returned from Troy, where
he was called Friday on account of
an accident in the Big Eight mine, in
which Judson Martin, q miner, lost
his life. Martin was lighting a series
of powder charges, when one of them
exploded while he was near it. Both
of his legs were mangled and his body
crushed, but he was alive and con-
scious when discovered, about an
hour later. The injured man lived
for about Ave hours.
GREAT FALLS March 13.-The town
of Largent is the newest town in
Cascade county. 1t is named in
honor of John H. Largent, one of the
| pioneer farmers of the Sun river Sec
ton and is on the Sun river division
Great Northern railroad, the line now
under construction between this city
and Augusta. The plat OF the town
site was filed today in the county
| clerk and recorders Office.
BOHEMIAN, March 13.-W. H. Van.
Horn, representing a big commission
house of Chicago. and who is on a
purchasing tour through the Gallatin
and Shields river valleys, declared
today he has seen more hay in the
G~allatin valley than any other sec
ton of the United States of equal size
where hay Is produced. Mr.. Van
Horn has purchased considerable hay
from the farmers in the vicinity of
Bozeman, and states that so cars OF
timothy hay will shortly be shipped
to his house Ia Chicago.
BILLINGS, March 14.-That the
roads of Montana, particularly those
which run through the irrigated Sec
tions, should be reduced to 40 feet in
width, is the argument advanced to
local business men by T. O. Eaton,
who urges that the next legislative
assembly should be asked to amend
the existing law so that whenever the
county commissioners desired a mar
rover highway could be constructed.
GREAT FALLS, March 14.-Left for
a short while In the home, during
which the house caught fire, the son
of MIR. and Mr.. Thomas A. Meager,
ranchers living l8 miles northwest OF
this city In the vicinity of Power, was
suffocated by smoke before he could be
rescued by his mother yesterd az.
The cause OF the fire ia not certainly
known but is believed to have been an
overheated stove pipe.
BILLINGS, March 14.-Arrange.
ments were perfected last night for
rushing several carloads of hay tc
cattle which are said to be In q starv.
ing condition in the Little Big Horn
river territory of northern Wyoming,
The animals had been on the range
which is Invested of all grass on &C.
count of the long continued dry wealth
err and were even unable to browse or
the fennel which surrounds the prairi,
, dog holes, on account of deep snow.
They were rounded up and brought tt
the railroad and arrangements begun
for getting hay from this city.
:, MIssOULA, March l6.-J. L. Chev
iqny, convicted of arson in the frs
degree by a jury after a sensation a
trial of two weeks, was sentenced t
serve II years In state ~penitentiary a
hard labor.
LIVINGSTON, March 16.-More tina,
300 sheep belonging to Blair Bros.
died in a mysterious fashion in tn
Shields valley yesterday. At first
was believed that the animals ha
been poisoned, but when veterinar,
surgeons from Livingston had exam
ined the sheep, they declared that th
animals died from eating hay whic
had stood in the dampness in such
manner as to become coated with
sort of mildew.
HELENA, March 16.-Probably th
most important hearing called by tn
Montana railroad commission sinc
its creation will be held here April ]
to consider In detail western classif
cation No. 81, because Of the mar
changes in rules and advances
classification. Complete data will |
mailed by the commission to shipper
showing all the changes contemplate
in the proposed classification.
BILLINGS, March 16.-Montan
| grown potatoes are In demand in Il