The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-05-13
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

A Budget OF Readable Short Oteno
From Various Parts Of the State.
Helena, May 5.-Montana citizens
last month expended the trifling sum
of six hundred thousands dollars upon
automobiles, providing that the aver
age cost of each machine purchased
was n thousand dollars. At all
events, during April licenses we're is
, sued for more than six hundred ma
chimes from the Office of Secretary of
State Anderson, and the number of ap.
plications is continuing undated.
! Helena, May 5.-Jerome Locke has
rendered his resignation as United
States surveyor general for the dis
trict of Montana to the interior de.
partment, to take effect as quickly as
his successor is appointed. Mr.. Locke's
reason for this action is to permit him
to assume the active management of
the Livingston Post and Enterprise.
which he and his friends recently
purchased. He had about a year long.
, er to serve.
Kalispell, May 5.-The body Of
Ralph Herbert, q years old, was
brought to Kalispell last night by Cor
oner Wagner from Fortine where the
young man was killed on a log drive
Sunday. The accident occurred while
Herbert was breaking out a log jam
; and working neal the river bank. A
: tree close by had been undermined by
the current and was hanging over the
jam. AS Herbert a working under
the weakened roots gave way, and it
fell striking him across the body.
Great Falls, May 5.-Loren Beatty,
a former Great Falls restaurant wait
er, who. with his brother, Merle Beat
ty, had been arrested shortly after
last Christmas, charged with the burg
larizing of Arkell's store and the theft
of furs valued at $437.5O. failed to ap
pear in the district court today at the
time set for his trial and his cash
bail of 81, 900 was declared forfeited.
A bench warrant was issued for his
arrest, but as he was see in Seattle
a few days ago, it is believed he is
now out of the country.
Dillon, May 5.-The first shipment
Of the Montana exposition dollars
was received this morning from the
east and are being distributed to the
various places in the state and out Of
the state where orders have been
placed. Shipments of the coins will
be received now on every day until
the entire order has been distribut-
ed. The coins are perfect beauties,
part of them being a copper bronze
and part a golden bronze. Both are
the size of a dollar and are an eighth
of an inch thick.
Butte, May 5.-The suffragists of
Montana have planned a %self-denial
week from Sunday, May 18th, to the
oath, in which every m interest
ed in the cause has agreed to give
up all her luxuries, such as the thea
tres, moving picture shows and after
noon teas, and donate the amount saw
ed thereby to the campaign fund for
woman suffrage. This plan was car
ried out in California and a substan-
tial sum was raised for the benefit
, of the campaign states, so the women
all over Montana agree with enthu-
siasm that, if the women outside of
the state are willing to inaugurate
such a plan, they a certainly show
the spirit of self-sacrifice for a cam
, paign which affects them so vitality.
Butte, May 6.-The body of Charles
Lund, who was caught by a fall of
ground in the West Colusa mine last
night, was recovered this morning at
ter a large force of men had worked
necessarily for Is hours. Death must
have been instantaneous, as his skull
was crushed.
Billings, May 6.-Entering a plea of
guilty to the robbery of a store in
Huntley, where he was caught in the
act, Thomas Nikola was sentenced by
Judge Pierson in the district court to
three years at hard labor in the state
p~enitentiary. Jesse Delaney, a former
: ,, prize fighter who is charged with rob-
berry from the person, denied his guilt
and his trial was set for May II.
! Helena, May 6.-With the arrival of
Is expert veterinary surgeons from
the agricultural department in Wash.
ington, in eastern Montana last week.
a determined warfare is now being
waged to stamp out dOurine among
, horses and will 90 forward until every
trace of the disease has been eradicat.
ed from the valuable herds of Mon.
tana stock men. The campaign to
! eradicate this disease was made pos.
:. sible through an appropriation OF
l 500, 900 secured from congress by
) the efforts of Tom Stout, and the 9th.
err members of the Montana delega.
ton in Washington, assisted by State
Veterinary Surgeon w. ]. Butler.
Butte, May 6.-When Roy w. Hub
bard, foreman of the Butte Gas com
, pany, walked into his home at 1916
: Oregon e last night he was
81, 900 richer than when he left al
noon. He tossed a check into the lar
: of his wife. 1t was the $1,000 reward
given him by the Carnegie hero fund