The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-12-11
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

man had been dead.
BILLINGS, Dec. 2.-Harvey James
has been held to answer ia the district
court to q charge of attempting to OBJ
tain money under false pretenses. It
is alleged that while foreman for the
| Billings Traction company, he plan
ned with Q number of the employees to
present vouchers calling for about
$3.50 more than they had earned.
HELENA, Dec. 3.-Geo. E. Boos,
commissioner of the Panama-Paciic
exposition for the states Of Montana,
Idaho, Washington and Oregon, is
here to try to induce this state to take
part 10 the exposition. Mr.. Boos will
interview Goveruor-elect Stewart and
some of the members of the legisl ature
and hopes to meet with the same en-
couragement he has had in other
states.
RED LODGE, Dec. 3-Obert G. Var
darovo, an Italian coal miner, acci-
dentally shot and Instantly killed him
self while returning from a jack rab-
bit hunt. He undertook to remove his
shot gun from the rear of a buggy by
grasping hold of the muzzle. He pull
ed the weapon toward him. the ham
mer caught and the gun was dis
charged, the charge striking him full
in the breast.
HELENA, Dec. 2.-Receipts OF the
state land Office during the year
ended Saturday broke all previous
records. The grand total for the
year was 81, 3O6. 1922 Is compared with
a total of 1881, 900 last year. This
increase, amounting to almost forty
per cent, is accounted for by the
large land sales held this year and
the enhanced value of the lands sold.
M1ssoULA, Dec. 2.-John M. Evans
congressman elect, has just returned
} from the reservation country after an
investig alton of conditions there and
, says that the farmers of the Moiese
valley must have water or they will be
! unable to stay on the land another
, year; and they can't get water unless
congress appropriates between $3.50,
900 and 5000. 600 to carry on the rec
lamation work before next spring.
BUTTE, Dec. 3.-The socialists have
filed three suits with the clerk OF dis
,rict court contesting the election of
J. W. McCaffery as county attorney,
B. McGrade, county commissioner,
r and Daniel Drew, coroner, all demo-
: Gratis, %contending in each case tina,
{ false and incorrect returns we're made
8 In favor of the democratic candid ates,
8 and thai if correct returns had been
? made the socialist candidates named
0 would have been elected.
; BOHEMIAN, Dec. 4.-Ole Jacobson, a
poor ranch hand employed here al
4 driver by DR.. j. F. Blair, has Learned
through a newspaper advertisement
g that he is the sole heir to S2l, 600 LEFT
him by a lone sailor uncle, who dice
t recently at the age of "A while sailing
i the great lakes. The fortune repre-
e sents the uncle's savings for so years
y BILLINGS, Dec. AT an auction
9 sale conducted here yesterday after
e noon, 100 tracts of land, all of the re
naming part of the coded portion o
e the Crow reserv alton, we're sold b,
Judge James W. Witten. The tractl
were those which had been bid In ant
= not paid for a preceding sales. Thu
n prices ranged from $3.50 to s.. so pei
acre.
HELENA, Dec. 4.-When the stat,
board of education discovered tina
only about $4O0, 900 will be available
> next year and the same amount in 1911
> for maintenance and improvements q
y the seven state educational institution
the reports of the heads of the institu
tions containing their recommends
=. tions were withdrawn, and the boart
:, adjourned until the latter part of thu
month, when it will meet to formulat
. it's recommend atoms to the governor
and the legislature as to the needs o
, the several institutions.
ROUNDUP, Dec. A. Remarkabl
Y human endurance and courage wa
displayed here when q score of men IL
y a zero temperature plunged into tn
l. M%ussellshell river to rescue little 6
yesr.old Ada Tomlins, who while play
ing with other small children upon tn
1t ice, was p%recipitated into the swift
d current. Before rescuers could reacl
A. her she was swept under the ice ant
drowned. The ice was hurriedl,
is broken with dynamite and several me-
spent more than two hours diving TO
ID the body.
O.. BILLINGS, Dec. 4.-Voters of tn
g territory embraced within the pre-