The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-04-23
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFlETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

elee,,itica:!ou y. toe E.t.e, Anacon-
da& Pacific railroad has been resumed
after y Suspension ~ several mouths !
due t. labor difficulties. The COM
pany has acceded u the dem hands OF
the electricians for IS a day and tina
the eight hours constituting n days
work shall iucl"de the time spent in
going to aud from the shop.
MILES CITY. April l5.-Dr. A. W.
Miller, q federal veterin arian. 10 here
with . corps of nina assistants for the
purpose Of conducting invessig atoms
among horses IN certain sections OF
Custer and Dawson counties. The In.
vestig alton has to do with the disease
of dourine, for the detection and OK
tirpation of which the horsemen and
state and federal veterinary depart.
menss have been jointly laboring.
HELENA, April 15.-Montaoa ship.
ped to market last year 188, 675 head
of cattle, and about $4,000 head Of
horses, according to the annual re-
port OF D. W. Raymond, secretary of
the state board of stock commission.
ere, 10 his capacity as secretary OF
the Montana Stock Growers associa.
ton. which began meeting At Miles
City today. The secretary estimates
last fall and this spring Q total Of 25,.
600 head of southern cattle have been
shipped into Montana.
MILES CITY, April l5.-Encrosch-
ment of the homesteader and farmer
on the free stock ranges Of Montana
il driving the sheep raising industry
out OF the state was the statment made
by President Hammond of the Mon
tsna Wool Growers association,
which opened its 9th annual session.
Mr.. Hammond In his address to the
association predicted that this would
be the last session OF the organiza-
ton.
BILLINGS, April 15.-Six car loads
Of Holstein dairy cows arrived In Bill
lings Sunday and this week they were
distributed among farmers in the Vi
entity of Billings, Laurel and Lowell,
Wyo. The purchase is being financed
by local banks and is for the purpose
of encouraging dairying as q side
line to intensified farming. The cows
will be sold to farmers who have had
some success in dairylng and on such
terms as will permit payment from
their earnings.
ANACONDA, April 15.-Steers that
will net the owner 1920 each is not en-.
couraging to those Who are seeking
lower cost of beef, aud that is the
price to be paid tor five carloads of
Big Hole cattle purch aeed last week
by Henry Wsctter from the Bob
Jones Cattle company. The same
price ruled Tor those bought of j. E.
Morse, making up a shipment of 10
cars that will be brought TO Anacon-
da and sent to the Alaska market this
month. This tops the market for Big
Hole cattle, though other ca,tlemen
are getting high prices.
HELENA, April l6.-Judgment in
the sun OF Sl2. 500 is demanded in .
suit filed by District Attorney Free
man against the Great Northern for
Is alleged violations of the hours of
service law. A penalty OF $500 is fixed
for each violation of the act.
LEw1sTowN, April l6. - A spark
from IN incoming Milwaukee locomo-
tive Ia believed TO have started q blaze
At the Pure Oil company's storage
tanks near the depot, last evening.
The company's buildings, With 5000
gallons of coal oil and $4,000 gallons
ct gasoline, were soon . mass OF
flames and q great column of dense
smoke rose hundreds of feet in the
air.
TROY, April l6.-A portion OF the
rock cliff o~verhanging the Great
Northern tracks, one mile west of here,
having become loosened by the frost,
slid down yesterday afternoon, bury
ing the track 20 feet deep for q dis.
lance of 100 feet The first intim alton
Of the slide vas telephoned to town by
George Waters, a rancher living on
the opposite side of the Kootenai
river, who was attr by the rumb-
ling noise. The news was reported to
the depot just ia time to hold the ORR
entail Limited, which was pulling out
| of the station.
GLEND1VE, April 15.-Grant Wat.
son, homesteader, residing about 40
miles north of this city, was killed by
a runaway team last evening. He
had been blowing with a pair of bron-
chos and it il presumed that they be.
came frightened and got from under
his control. When he did not appear
at the ranch house late In the evening
search vas made and his dead body