The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-14
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFlETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
Missoula, Jan. 6.-Safe crackers
opened the safe Of the Valley meat
market last night and cleaned it of
$112.10 in cash and checks to the am
cunt of $1O6.21. The police believe
the job to be M by expert yeggmen
and 80 far have no clew. Patrolman
Brooks, whose beat included the meat ;
market has been suspended.
Livingston, Jan. 6.-S, D. Parkin-
son, the prominent Musselshell stock
man, who was charged with altering !
brands, obtained his freedom today |
on a writ of habeas corpus asked for
by his attorney. Parkinson vas re-
i Gently bound over on this charge for
trial in the district court. He was out
on $4,000 bail but was surrendered
yesterday by his bondsmen so as to
bring the case to a show down.
Butte, Jan. 6.-Word was received
from Washington, D. c., to the effect
that r. A. and c. B. Murrill of Gil
man, Mont, have been awarded the
contract for freight hauling services
in connection with the Sun River pro-
ject. The agreement has been u.
thorized by the secretary Of the inter-
Tor, and involves $15,S00. The total
estimated quantity Of material to be
delivered embraces about 100000
pounds of miscellaneous freight, and
will require the service of teams and
men.
Helena, Jan. 6.-Cascade county
will shortly be made defendant in an
action brought by Secretary of State
A. w. Anderson as state sealer of
weights and measures and ]. ". Sim
on, to compel the county to pay ST.
mons salary as inspector in Cascade
county for August, September and
October, amounting to 1915, and for
a decree that the district court of Fer
gus and Cascade counties is legally
created, and Mr.. Simon the qualified
and acting inspector in the district.
Helena, Jan. 6.-An echo Of the jail
break at the Deer Lodge p~enitentiary
in 1908 when Guard John Robinson
was murdered and Warden Frank
Conley was set upon and badly
wounded came from the supreme
court today when, in a decision by
Justice Holloway, it ordered that the
$4,000 personal injury suit of Dram
Stephens against Conley go to trial.
The court dismissed two cases of &C.
ton, one claiming damages for assault
and other personal i%ndignities, and the
other for false Imprisonment.
Lewistown, Jan. 5.-A weeks ses-
sion of the farmers short course
opened here today under the direction
of Superintendent Cooley of the State
Agricultural College. Twenty farmers
were enrolled and the attendance of
others interested was large. The pro.
, gram for each day is composed of
. farm subjects of vital interest and
! value. and much enthusiasm is being
I shown by those attending.
Miles City, Jan. 6.-Martin Fell Sr
a h~omesteader of the Timber Greek
country, brought in word yesterday
. that Harry K. Morrison had died OF
asphyxiation in a we'll which a be
, ing bored on Timber creek and that
a force of men is now engaged in dig
ding down a depth of IS feet to re
, cover the body. Morrison went down
into a hole that was being bored tC
remove a rock, being lowered with g
rope. The supposition is that he was
overcome by gas and died and that
his body crumpled up and fell past
the rock and it was impossible tC
!. draw it out, so that it has been found
: necessary to enlarge the hole, which
, a force of men are doing.
. Miles City, Jan. loving to two
or three cases of smallpox having
made their appearance in this city
the superintendent of public schools
has issued a bulletin requesting that
all parents have their children who are
attending the schools, vaccinated al
once.
Helena, Jan. 7.-Charging that q
i cars left Great Falls October last, ovel
i the Great Northern with defective
coupling pins and appliances, District
Attorney B. K. Wheeler, has begun
t suit in the federal court against the
Great Northern for % violations Of
the safety appliance act. Judgment
o in the sum of 500 for each violation
or $4,000 in all, is demanded.
Butte, Jan. Oscar Rohn, whose
excellent work on the roads Of Silver
Bow county during the past year has
;, received general commentator from
all who have had occasion to use
them, will tomorrow be paid for his
S work, receiving warrants a%ggregatine
$29, $685. 40, covering his contracts with
Y the county. The largest warrant is
for $4,000, and the smallest $34.94
there being eleven in all drawn in fav
or of Mr.. Rohn.
Helena, Jan. z. - Believing tina
. nurses following their profession il
, Montana have had sufficient time b,
now to comply with the requirement.