The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-28
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing tho Past Few Days.

What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.
BUTTE, Feb. 2l.-samuel A. Hall,
Butte banker and broker, who was
arrested Sunday at Edmonton, Alta,
on q charge of grand larceny, has re-
fused to return without being extra
dited. Papers we're sent from Mon
tana to Washington today. Hall is
under go, 900 bond pending an appeal
from q 14-year sentence in the peni-
Tertiary following q conviction for
grand larceny.
BUTTE, Feb. 22.-The Henningson
Produce company yesterday was con.
victed OF selling short weight butter.
and fined 5000 by Police Judge Thomas
j. Booher. 1t was charged that the
company, one of the biggest in Mon.
tana, had sold packages purporting
to contain l6 ounces Of butter, where
as the actual weight fell shy of that
amount.
KAL1sPELL, Feb. Ala writ of
mandate to compel the Great Northern
Railway company to rebuild and
operate that portion OF it's line be-
tween Jennings ia Lincoln county and
Marion, in Flathead county, which
was abandoned in 1904, is sought in
an action begun in the district court
by Knute Tideman, q we'll known
ranch owner of Pleasant Valley.
GREAT FALLS, Feb. 2l.-The Mon
tana Horticultural society opened it's
18th annual convention in this city
with what the leaders declare is the
best attendance in the history of the
org aniz alton and with the finest apple
display ever seer in this city. The
sessions are being presided over by
c. G. Willis of Plains, the president,
and are being held in the Rainbow
hotel.
BOHEMIAN, Feb. 22.-Believing that
Gallatin county offers great possibili.
ties for the production OF mint for
extract of peppermint, DR.. Charles
Lord of Manhattan is preparing to ex-
pertinent on q large scale this sum-
mer. DR.. Lord was raised in q sec.
ton of Michigan where peppermint ex-
tract industry is an important and
profitable one.
PLAINS, Feb. 22.-By the dropping
of q double pronged unloading hay
fork from the gable OF Wells &
Remick's livery barn 81. G. Shaw was
so badly injured tonight that he died
about forty minutes later. One prong
entered his right neck, passing down
ward through the lung. At the time
he was coming out of the barn and in
some manner probably touched the
trip rope. The deceased was so years
of age and leaves a wife here and two
children in Manchester Wyo.
BOHEMIAN, Feb. 22.-Aroused by the
success last year of the industry oil
raising garden peas in large amounts
for seed purposes in this valley, many
other sections of the state are cOntem'
plating experiments with the crop thit
year. Letters have recently been re
ceived from K%alispell, Poison, Twin
Bridges, Columbus, Billings and Rec
Lodge asking for Information con
corning the crop. The 1912 acreage II
this valley has now passed the 10,O0(
acre mark and bids fair to grow to-
some time yet.
BUTTE, Feb. 25.-An unknown mai
was struck by q Puget Sound freigh
train two miles south of Butte las
evening under conditions which nigh
point to suicide, and died while beinI
rushed to Butte on the pilot of th
engine. Both legs we're completed.
severed from the trunk, the foot GU
off the dismembered right leg and hi
n face was badly cut. An envelop
a found In his pocket may furnish a clu
IS to his identity.
MILES CITY, Feb. 23.-Another hi
ranch deal to be added to the three G
!. four that have been made in Custe
30 county recently was completed We
nesdsy, when L. w. Stacey, preside'
OF the Commercial state bank of tn,
T. city. purchased the Ralph Gilmo'
tract of $40 acres, lying between Shi
n ley and Blackford, for $40, 900. II
re deal includes all the improvement
q but not the cattle, which are retainE
by Gilmore.
BUTTE, Feb. a. Walter Wis
st one of the we'll known spo rting mi
n of Butte, appeared before Judge Do
In Ian this morning and entered q pl
DIS Of guilty to conducting q gambli'
to game on or about February 10, at t
Bungalow, q resort he conducts j.
y outside the city limits. Mr. Wise SO