The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-08
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFlETSl
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, April 3O.-W ater in time
for fall irrig alton will be delivered on
the 6, 900 acres of land under the first
unit OF the Prickly Pear valley pump |
ing project, according TO Nj. II. Gerry, !
jr., connected with the Montana Res
ervoir & Irrig alton company, which
contemplate, the ultimate reel IN alton
OF Al, 900 acres OF land, all within q
radius OF fifteen miles of Helena.
ROUNDUP, April 30.-Suit has been
instituted in the district court at the
instance of the state railway commis.
sion, q against the Great Northern and
Chicago, Milwaukee, g. Puget Sound
railway to force these roads to put in
q station house and q connecting
track at the crossing of the two roads,
about FIVE miles west OF Lavina, in the
western part of Musselshell county.
BOHEMIAN, April 3O.-Some alarm
Ia felt among grain interests here
through the discovery that wire worms
have played havoc with some fields of
winter wheat in the valley, and that
q considerable portion OF the acreage
in the valley will have to be resown
The crop is not far enough advanced
to determine the a%pproxim ate damage
done. Some fields have already been
resown.
GREAT FALLS, April 29.-Suit for
$4,000 damages was today filed In
the district court against the Anscon-
da Copper Mining company by Bessie
Jones, widow of Alfred NJ. Jones,
who was employed in the ore crushing
department of the Boston & Montana
smelter and who had his skull crushed
May -, 1911, by being struck by q
bolt protruding from a rapidly NOV
ing belt, his death ensuing Y hours
later. Jones was survived by his wife
and two minor children, now residing
in Minneapolis.
ANACONDA, May 1.-The Anaconda
Cooperative store was sold out today
after a year and q half of business.
The store was started by members OF
the Mill and Smeltermen's union and
was partially controlled by the union,
but 1t did not prove a money maker.
LEw1sToWN, May Jack Owen,
alias Jack Dennis, one of the men i'm.
plicated in a robbery on the Judith
river yer a year ago, Yesterday
pleaded guilty in the district court
and was sentenced to q year in the
pen.
BUTTE, May deer Lodge peni-
Tertiary will o on have quite q large
portion OF the male members of the
dope fend colony within its walls If
the present rate OF prosecutions is
kept up. Yesterday four members Of
the colony came into court and we're
sentenced to one year each for burg
larizing the drug store of r. S. Fair
on the morning of April IA and steal
ing morphine valued at 500. This
morning three more came into court
and pleaded guilty and were given one
year in the penitentiary.
HELENA, May 1.-The state treas
urer received s107, 7l4,5 50 today as the
semi-monthly settlement Of the state
land Office. This ia four times larger
than any previous settlement for the
same period ever made in the history
of the state. The large sum was
chiefly derived from annual payments
on state lands which came due at this
time. A great amount OF land has
been bought from the state in the last
few years by settlers and big corpora
lions.
BOHEMIAN, May. 1-Strong efforts
are being made locally TO encourage
the business OF growing sweet peas,
Bozeman's official flower, for seed pur-
poses. The prolific growth of the
flower here leads many to believe that
the industry would offer returns al
most beyond belief. It is figured that
at the prev ailing rate for sweet pea
seed, 80 cents an ounce, the value of
an acre of seed would be anywhere
from 81. 900 to 1920. That rate would
be $3.50 per pound or 1888 a bushel.
1t is estimated that an acre would
yield Is bushels and might go to rs or
80. 1t is proboble that some enter.
prising grower will experiment on the
project this summer.
} Bids On Milk River Project.