The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-20
! MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short items
From Various Parts Of the State.

A Budget Of Readable Short items
From Various Parts Of the State.
KALIsPELL, March IL The county
board has appropriated S25, 900 for
building q county road from Colnm-
bia Fails to the settlements in the
North Fork valley on condition that
the department contribute q like
AMOUNT. With subscriptions OF citi-
zens of Columbia Falls aud North
Fork, the fund is expected to reach
nearly $1,000. Supervisor McLaugh-
lin of the Blackfeet forest has pledged
aid in building the road, part of
which %traverses the forest reserve.
HELENA, March ia call has
been issued for the republican state
central committee 10 meet here Fri
day March %, to fix the time and
place of holding the state convention
that will select delegates to the ma.
tional convention at Chicago, June 18,
and to appoint q national committee
man to represent Montana In the ma
tional councils OF the party. 1t Is ex-
pected that there will be practically q
full attendance Of all the state COM
mitteemen at the meeting here this
month.
KAL1sPELL, March lin struggle
With three highwaym 70, who attacked
him on his way home at 2 O'Clock in
the morning on second avenue west,
f. E. Peterson was relieved of a wal.
let containing s65 10 cash aud a num
Der of checks, but succeeded 10 over.
towering one of his assailants, whom
he turned over to the police a few
moments later. The mar arrested
gives the name of John McCarty, but
no clue to the others has been found.
BUTTE, March 1l.-Judge Geo. M.
Bourqutn moved into the federal
building today and assumed his Office
of United States district Judge. He
a. onc reappointed Geo. W. Sproul
for clerk of the court. The appoint
ments OF United States commissioners
for which there are more than q dozen
applications, will not be made for a
few days yet. Butte will be the
judges headquarters and except when
be is holding court in other towns
he will remain in Butte.
KAL1sPELL, March 11.-Reports
from the mountain sections of this
county that deer are starving by the
hundreds has led homesteaders to
urge the forestry department to detail
a crew of rangers to go into the for
ests and fell fir and pine trees upon
which grow a s%ucculent moss, that,
when obtainable, is a substantial
portion of the winter diet of the deer.
In some regions homesteaders have
been feeding the starving deer from
haystacks and the young orchards
along the valley borders have been
menaced at times by the hungry ami.
mails.
MILES CITY, March 13.-Nickola
Sanchelli, who shot and killed his
father as a result Of a quarrel last
December, was sentenced in the dis
trict court to five years. imprisonment
The son pleaded hat he shot ia self
defense.
BUTTE, March l3.-Due to the
steady increase in the postal saving
department 1T the p~ostotice, Postmas.
ter ellis yesterda y applied to the de-
partment at Washington for more cler.
ical help in that branch of the service.
When the Office closed last evening, the
total amount of deposits IN the Butte
p%ostof8ce bank was s2l0, 600, divided
among 1,277 depositors.
TOWNSEND, March 1.-Two more
convictions have been secured in the
cattle stealing cases in this county
and q result Sam Wisemiller and Ray
Wilson will join John Morris and
Glen Henderson at Deer Lodge. The
energetic action OF the officers, par
ticularly Stock Inspector Daniel Re-
gan, has resulted in breaking up the
most notorious gang of rustlers that
ever infested this section OF the state.
BUTTE, March l2-Mayor Duncan
this afternoon stopped the showing of
the pictures of Mcnamara trial at a
local moving picture house. The
mayor gave as his reason that they are
not in violation of the city ordinance,
but those who operate the pictures
declare that the mayor, who is a Soc
ialist stopped the show for POLITICAL
reasons. The city ordinance prohibits
the display of pictures depicting
"acts which would constitute a fell
ony." Accompanying the scenes of
the Mcnamara trial are pictures
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