The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-15
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.
HELENA, May 9.-The contract for
the erection of Helena's new half mil
lion dollar hostelry was entered into
yesterday with the James Black Ma.
sonry & Construction company OF St.
Louis. The contractors agree to have
the building finished by January l,
1918. It will be seven stories high and
the largest hotel in Montana.
HELENA, May 9.-Notice was re.
ceived by the local land Office of the
withdrawal from settlement of an area
sixty miles in length and from q mile
to several of them in width, extending
from q point short distance south Of
East helena to near Helms Vile, in
Powell county. 1t has been Withdrawn
as q phosphate reserve, and is the
second reserve of that nature in Mon
tana.
BOHEMIAN, May 9.-Overton Tudor
has been sentenced to seven months In
the county Jail and q fine of $500 by
Judge Stewart on conviction of parti-
cipating in gambling game. The
sentence came after two-day trial.
The evidence upon which Tudor wis
convicted was provided bv two detec-
tives who were in the city last fall.
LIVINGSTON, May "a vote on the
question of striking will be taken some
time this month by the shop and
roundhouse men on the railro ads op-
Grating In Montana, as we'll as on all
lines west of the Mississippi river, &C.
cording to local railroad men In touch
with the general situation. The trou'
BILE, they say, may also include tele-
graph operators, freight clerks and
switchmen. Three hundred thousand
men will be affected, it is claimed.
HELENA, May 10.-After lingering
in q precarious condition all dav,
Burt Elston, the York miner who was
accidentally shot in the neck bv his
son on the previous day, expired
Wednesday night at 7 O'Clock at St..
Johns hospital.
BIG TIMBER, May 10.-The jury in
the case of Mel Jewell charged with
the murder of Deputy Sheriff Joseph
Branin at Melville, Mont, last No.
vember, returned verdict last night
of murder in the second degree and
recommended that Jewell be sentenced
to % years imprisonment.
BOHEMIAN, May 9-President Walter
Cooper of the Bozeman chamber OF
commerce this morning wired to the
interstate commerce commission pro-
testing vigorously, on behalf of Mon
tana and intermountain shippers
against the proposed compromises be-
tween Spokane and transcontinental
people, which would result in raising
railroad rates for Montana and the
people of this territory in general.
ANACONDA. May 10.-The annual
encampment of the Grand Army,
United Spanish War Veterans,
woman's Relief Corps and the Ladies
OF the Grand Army opened in Ana
conda yesterday morning with one ol
the largest delegations that has ever
attended one of the encampments. The
program for the first day was carried
out to the letter. In the morning the
visitors we're taken through the
Washoe emelter and in the afternoon
they paid q visit to Washoe park ane
the state fish hatchery.
ROUNDUP. May 10.-A movement ii
being made by M. a. Wall for state
wide campaign in opposition to th'
purchase by the state of the property
at Warm Springs which Is now usee
by the state for the care of the insane
Mr.. Wall points out that the best in
terests of the state require that cit
be selected in some portion of the stat
where the altitude 10 not 90 great ant
where the patients could be employed
in agriculture and other outdoor
work, and determined effort will b.
made to have the hospital removed tt
eastern Montana.
HELENA, May III. M. Good
heart, q saloon keeper OF Savoy, nea
the Fort Belknap Indian reserv alton
was found guilty in the federal cour
today of having sold liquor to Indian
last December and was sentenced t.
ninety days in the county jail and t.
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