The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-11-19
many persons state that they have re-
ceived short measure on wood pur-
chased, especially from rarmers.

many persons state that they have re
ceived short measure on wood pur
chased, especially from Farmers.
Helena, Nov. 14.-After deliberatine
only As minutes the jury before whom
Harold S. Hansen was tried in the
district court here on the charge Of
attempting to rob Frank Skater dur
ing fair week, brought in a verdict OF
guilty Hansen is alleged to have been
involved in the series of rObberies
which took place in Helena during
fair week. Immediately after the YER
dict had been rendered in the Skater
case he was put on trial again Jointly
with George Kelly on the charge OF
robbing a bathroom at the Broad
water plunge.
Butte, Nov. 15.-The right of a
stakeholder to bring suit in equity
before he has used every means to
have the corporation or it's directors
bring the action is denied in a deci.
| sion rendered by District Judge Bour.
| Quin in the case of F. B. Moss, for.
mer president of the First National
Bank of Billings, against ]. M. Good.
hart, the first receiver of the defunct
institution.
Billings, Nov. 15.-What is believed
to be the record cash production from
two acres of land in Montana is re.
ported from the celery farm of Well.
er and Sisel, just south of Billings
The entire output of 5000 dozen
punches has just been sold to the
Northern Pacific dining car service
for $500, or at the rate of 60 cents
per dozen lunches. There are other
tracts in the vicinity devoted to eel
cry growing but none others as large.
Butte, Nov. 15.-Winnifred Rhoades
postmistress at Rhoades, Mont, who
was to have appeared in the federal
court this morning to plead to a
charge of embezIling postal funds, did
not come into the court room today,
as she is at St. James hospital, hav-
ing become a mother yesterday, and
is reported doing very we'll.
is reported doing we'll. 1t is chorged
that she kept $256.51 belonging to the
%postoffice department.
Billings, Nov. 16.-At a fiat price Of
$11 a ton the Alfalfa Products COM
pany of Billings and Big Timber has
contracted it's entire winter output to
the Alto Mills Milling company of
East st. Louis, Ill. The contract calls
for the delivery of 600 tons a month
and a total of $500 tons, representing
a cash value of $49,50O will be ship
ped from the Big Timber plant. The
meal is used for stock feeding pur-
poses and is said to be without an
equal in nutritive qualities.
Bohemian, Nov. 15.-Though no or
ganization was perfected it is believ-
ed that the vocational congress for
girls, which closed at o today, will
become an annual affair under the
auspices of the state college at Boze-
man. The 80 high school girls who
attended followed the work closely,
and when the different speakers held
class conferences along the lines of
their professions, nearly all of the
girls took part, some attending parts
of two conferences.
Miles City, Nov. ia prairie fire
swept the country along the Little
Dry river to it's junction with the Big
Dry, a distance of 20 miles, burning
for two days and a half. 1t destroyed
immense quantities of grazing land
and numbers of haystacks.
Billings, Nov. 1.-THE third pay
day of the season by the Billings fac.
tory to sugar beet growers caused the
distribution last Saturday of $3.50, 900
This was for beets delivered between
October 16 and 81, inclusive. The to-
tai paid beet raisers this year is $780,
900, and there will be two more pay
days. The final total will be in ex
cess of ST. OF 900 and will be divided
among owners of 10000 acres of beet
land.
Helena, Nov. 1.-THE trial of the
case of Harold Hansen and George
Kelly. accused of holding up and rob.
bling William ]. Beckett, September "a
last, in this city, came to an abrupt
close in the district court this after
noon when County Attorney McCon.
nell declared that he had been thrown
down at the last minute by one of the
witnesses upon whom he relied most
for conviction, and asked that the &C.
ton against both young men be dis
missed.
Lewistown, Nov. 17.-An inquest
was held today over the body of Chris
Bailey, aged So of Portland, killed in
the Milwaukee TUNNEL near Denton, it
was found that Bailey did not heed
the warning to leave the tunnel be-
fore a material train went through.
A projection of the train knocked
down s%caffolding and supporters, and
a heavy timber fell on Bailey, killing
him. He leaves a widow and three
children, living at Portland, Oregon.
Livingston, Nov. II. Krause
Rhodes and Dave Black have been CIV