The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-04-03
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

OrlOgS the snort course OF agriculture
at the college to q close. Three per-
ons will graduate from the course
this year. These are William A.
Dufield OF Joliet, Walter Schurch OF
Deer Lodge aud John Seidensticker
Of Twin Bridges. The course has
been entirely satisfactory this year
a total of Sc being enrolled in the
course, more than twice the numbe
enrolled two years ago. The course
lasts three years for six months each
year.
HELENA, March % Bids for the
construction of buildings at the state
tn berculosis hospital neal Stevens.
Vile, Ravalli county, we're opened by
the state board of examiners, but al
only one offer wss received, the
board deferred action. William v.
Murray of Helena bid s28 900, agree.
ing to build the administra alton build
ing for s19, $50; six open air cottages
for %, 500; q stable for $500 and q
chicken house for 81, $50.
BILLINGS, March 25.-As result, it
is believed, of being attacked with
cramps, Fred Hahn, travelling sales
man of Chicago, was drowned In the
Y. M. G. A. plunge in this city late
Sunday night. He was alone in the
plunge at the time.
MILES CITY, March 23.-Up to date
during the month of March 100 cars
OF immigrants have passed Mobridge
on the Puget Sound line destined for
points in Montana. Eight Of them
stopped at Miles City.
HAMILTON, March 23.-At the home
Of q. W. Fagley On Hamilton heights
about six miles northeast from this
city, an acetylene lighting plant ex-
| ploded last evening, instantly killing
Sterling Lawson. II years old, en-
ployed on the place, completely de-
molished the pumphouse, in which the
plant was located, and badly damag-
ed the residence and barn on the
place. The se Of the explosion is
unknown.
BUTTE, March 26. - For the first
time in the history Of Montana, women
called q macs meeting last night and,
presided over by a woman, nominated
an independent ticket for five school
tru stees. This action followed their
exclusion from the so-called regular
slate.
GREAT FALLS, March 25.-Carry-
ing out an oft-repeated intention,
Veronica Bordeski, a pretty Polish
girl, % years of age, employed as a
cook at the county Jail, this afternoon
drank the contents of a bottle of car
bolic acid and died shortly afterward.
BUTTE, March 26.-The strike buga-
boo which has lowered over Butte for
the past four days was all but dis
PEELED last night when the socialist
mem bers of the Miners union, who
have been urging a walkout to en-
deavor to call an immediate strike.
At a meeting attended by more than
loo miners, held In the Orion theater
building, the miners rejected the re-
port of the majority of the investiga.
ton committee, recommending a walk
out today, and decided to submit the
proposition to a referendum vote.
HELENA, March 27.-William Nor
by, charged with selling whiskey to
Indians at Culbertson, Valley county
pleaded guilty before Judge Bourquir
in the federal court today, and was
sentenced to serve sixty days IN jail
and pay q fine of one hundred dol
lars.
BUTTE, March PA half hundred
Butte school marms, who have taker
up homesteads in varions sections OF
the state, made q mad rush to the
court house here to take their names
from the registration lists for thu
local elections. The had just learn
ed that il they vote in this county
the ballot automatically cancels their
homestead claims elsewhere. None o:
the s~uffragette leaders knew this unit
today.
KALIsPELL, March 27.-The ice or
the Flathead lake, which, has helo
traffic In thrall for more than four
months, suddenly broke and opened
the way for navigation, according to
information coming from that section
today. It is stated that all boat line
will doubtless be ia readiness before
the end of the week and that immedi
ate relief for the congested traffic a
I both ends of the lake.
BUTTE, March 27.-"Mitts up
said tall masked bandit as he walk
ed into the National hotel at LIZ
o'clock this morning in advance OF
shorter bandit, who also brandished
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