The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-11
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

er G.. M. Houtz has requested county
clerks to furnish him with a list of
all recorded mortgages and loan bonds.
It is his belief that the majority of
such instruments are held by non-res-
idents, taxation thereby being es-
capped.
Butte, March 3.-The county pool
fund is exhausted and in order to
meet the expenses of last month, the
county commissioners had to pass an
order borrowing 81, 900 from the gen.
eral fund. Last month the expenses
for the maintenance Of the poor
amounted to $9,S36.44. ,
Havre, March 3.-Lerno Wakita, a
Japanese, while working on the trans
fer table at the Great Northern shops
fell underneath the table and was
ground to death in the gearing. The
remains were gathered up and taken
to Hollands undertaking rooms. Moth.
ing but the head was left intact. !
Billings, March 3.-The first of what
is expected to become a fleet Of pas
senger boats between Billings and
Miles City has been ordered and will
reach Huntley about April /, in time
to make a trip as soon as the ice Is
out of the Yellowstone river. J. w.
Mendenhall of Huntley, an old-timer
resident of the state, is promoting the
enterprise. The boat will be 20 feet
long and will be driven by a six-horse
power engine. No effort will be made.
to carry freight for the present, but
passenger traffic will be maintained
regularly between Billings and Hunt
ley.
Miles City, March 3.-The twenty
ninth annual meeting of the Montana
| S~tockgrower's association will be held
as usual, in this city, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, April 81 and %, and as
the association has grown consider
ably since the last meeting, it is con-
fidently expected that there will be a
large attendance. So far from even
thinking of %disbanding, this associa-
ton is engaged in charging its scope
of usefulness to all engaged in the
cattle and horse raising business, and
it is bound to be a greater factor in
the industry than rel before.
Helena, March ga five weeks
course in military training conducted
by regular army officers and with reg
ular troops in attendance, will Likely
be open to students of Montana co.,
leges or those in the graduating class
es of high and preparatory schools.
Providing enough applications are re-
ceived the army proposes to establish
a camp to give such a course at Spo-
kane this summer. Information can
be obtained from and application
made to Lieutenant A. A. Hoffman,, U.
S. army, capitol building, Helena, who
is stationed here as instructOr-lnspect-
or of the National Guard OF Montana.
Lewistown, March At is claimed
that Fergus has the largest number
of school districts of any county in tn
state. Following several hearings,
County Superintendent Alice O'Hara
has created seven new districts, max
ing a total of 125 districts.
Dillon, March 5.-The first beef
steers to be sold in the Big Hole ba-
sin this year were started on the drive
to Anaconda Tuesday. The bunch
was made up of a part of the stock
of Carl Huntley and the Spokane Cat
tie company, which were recently
contracted for to the Stanton Pack
ing company of Spokane at IN cents
per pound, delivered at the railroad.
Anaconda, March 4.-Twenty-eight
carloads of wood were distributed free
to people who needed it at the foun-
dry wood yard during the month of
February or on an average of a car
load a day. The services of hauling
the wood were contributed by various
companies having teams. Many peo-
pie came with small hand wagons to
haul the wood away, there being as
many as 200 in the yard at one time
on several occasions.
Great Falls, March AT Stockett
yesterday morning the body of Cas-
per Hedum, one of the Oldest coal
miners in this section, was found
partly submerged in water at the foot
of a railroad embankment. The man
had apparently fallen from the top of
the embankment, probably while in
~toxicated, and had died from expos
ure. Hedum was 81 years of age and
had been employed about Sand Coul-
ee and Stockett for the past 20 or rs
years as a t%racklayer in the mines.
Helena, March Authorization was
received here yesterday from Dillon,
that one big ~woolgrower had contract
ed to sell his 1914 clip to Chicago buy
ers for 10 cents, and that another
grower had decided to contract for
the sale of his 1914 clip at the same
price. Buyers have been in the vi
cinity of Dillon for a week. Tele-
graphic advices received here today
are to the effect that the offerings at
the London auction wool sales brought
from 10 to is per cent higher prices
than were paid last year, which would
mean an advance of from one to one
and a half cents.