The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-01

ditiOns will warrant, was made b,
President Hannaford in a speech at
luncheon given the presidential part,
by the Poison Chamber Of Commerc,
today. The president went furthel
in his reasons for not fastening con
struction by saying that the railroad.
have been bampered to some extern
and made cautious by u%nintelligen'
acts of state legislatures.
Great Falls, Sept. 27-After writing
letters to his father and some othel
members OF his family which were
sealed and left in his room and ad
dressing another to the public, DR.
B. D. Butler, camp physician for the
construction crews along the west
end of the Great Falls-Lewistown line
of the Milwaukee railway, ended his
life a suicide at his camp Office on the
line east of the city neal Belt creek
Saturday night about II. DR.. Butler
chose morphine as the means of in
ducing death.
Livingston, Sept. PIN. A. Cough
nor of the Paradise valley, south OF
A1V11l6otOllS Has IA1A04OO I'LL d0A11u6 U16
grains and reports that his twenty.
thr .e acres of oats went 90 bushels
to the acre. They were grown on non.
irrigated land. His fall wheat aver.
aged a little more than 40 bushels to
the acre. This is the nrst year that
Mr.. Goughnor has grown all his po-
tatoes and grains without irrigation
and he never had better yields. On
Wednesday there were more than rs
inches of snowfall on his ranch and
considerable still lies on the ground.
Butte, Sept. 27.-A demand is to be
made upon Governor Stewart in the
near future to call a special session
of the legislature for the purpose of
enacting legislation abolishing horse
racing in Montana. The demand, &C.
cording to announcement today by
the Butte Ministerial alliance, will be
made upon the governor by the Moral
Reform league of the state, which
held a meeting in Helena yesterday.
Another meeting is to be held in
Butte during the week beginning Oc-
tober 10, at which final plans for the
demands on the governor will be for.
mulated. All ministers of the state
will gather in convention here.
Great Falls, Sept. 2S.-William
Newton Manning, a Great Northern
brakeman, was fatally injured early
this morning in the west side yards
when he fell between a couple of
cars Of the train upon which he was
working, and died before medical at
tention could be provided. He was
OF age and the o Of Mrs. R. c. No.
Fall of this city.
Helena, Sept. GAS the result of
illness Governing several months
Sandy Cameron died last night at
st. Peters hospital. Mr.. Cameron has
been a resident of Montana As years,
been n of the first miners
to locate in the Blackfoot country.
Later he took up a ranch and has
followed this occupation. His
brother. Angus Cameron, died here
three years ago.
Malta, Sept. 2S.-Jack Leslie, who
is charged with having stabbed Roy
Hull, in this city On July IS, has been
arrested by Under Sheriff Casary. He
was identified by two ey~e-witnesses
of the affray, and was taken to Glas.
His hearing will be held in this
city Oct. 4. Hull was partially recov.
cred and will appear against Leslie.
Forsyth, Sept. 29.-The Rocky
Mountain Bee company is busily en-
gagged in preparing its honey crop for
market. A force of eight men is grad
ing and casing the crop for this sea.
son, constituting of about 1900 cases
of comb honey and 10000 pounds of
extracted honey. They have already
shipped several hundred cases and
find a ready market for the crop.
Libby, Sept. 29.-The Montana Pulp
and Paper company, according to Ed
ward Donlan, president OF the com
pany, is making preparation for the
purchase of the 700, OO0, 900 feet of
timber in the Kootenai National for.
est, which the government is adver-
Using for sale. The company is fig
uring on building a large pulp and pa
per mill, and also a large saw 0aill at
the mouth of the Kakt river. The
timber lies along this stream.
Butte, Sept. 29.-Fire that started
in the store of the Clinton Mercantile
company destroyed the principal
block of Whitehall, As miles east of
Butte this morning, causing a loss es.
timated at $4,000. The volunteer
firemen of the town were handicapped
by inadequate water supply. A frame
building next to the Whitehall, the
leading hotel. was blown up and the
course of the fire stopped at that
point.
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