The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04

| fire department went into the deten'
ton hospital to finish putting out a
blaze. The building was occupied by
several smallpox, scarlet fever, and
measles patients, and the chief was
| advised by the attendants not to en-
; ter, as the fire was not serious. The
inmates of the pest house represent
the last in a small epidemic now un'
der control.
Billings, Jan. 30.-That the major.
ity of cases of typhoid fever in this
section are caused by the drinking of
water from irrigation bitches was de-
clared by DR.. w. S. Cogswell, state
health officer, at the first annual con-
vention at the Health Officers associa-
Cases in Great Falls and vicinity he
asserted, emanate from the construc-
ton camps, where the conditions are
~unsanitary and employees taken i'll are
discharged. He advocated an educa-
tional campaign and legislation to cor
rect the evil.
Bozeman, Jan. 30.-Hog cholera last
year cost the farmers of the United
States between seventy and eighty
million dollars, according to a state
ment by D. E. Salmon, formerly chief
of the bureau of animal industry at
Washington. This amount has been
increasing for a number of years.
Cholera was first Investigated about
thirty years ago. Only one method
of treatment has been discovered that
will hold it inacheck and that is the
method of vaccination with the chol-
era serum.
Bozeman, Jan. 3O.-Marked by an
increase Of sixty per cent in registra-
ton ove last years total and with
much more than double the average
daily attendance, the Farmers week
at the Montana state college closed
at noon, the good attendance continu-
ing to the very end. The registration
this year was 275, including none of
the regular students or faculty of the
college. While there were a number
of women taking the lectures for
homemakers, the men were in the vast
majority.
Helena, Jan. 30.-Instead of spend
ing the remainder of his life in the
penitentiary, Walter Whitworth, who
shot and killed Adolph Levin, will
spend but 10 years. He has served
two years of his life sentence. Whit
worth shot and killed Levin May l.,
1911, in the country during an alter
cation yer stray stock. On his first
trial he was found guilty and given
a life sentence. He appealed to the
trial. This has been in progress
week, and today the jury brought
in a verdict of manslaughter. Judge
Clements this afternoon gave him
the limit, 10 years. The time he has
served on his first sentence will not
count on his second one.
Anaconda, Jan. 31.-Hog cholera is
believed to be the cause of the death
of 80 fine hogs that were ready for the
at the A. M. Day ranch west
of the city. It has not made it's ap-
pearance elsewhere in the vicinity,
but the ranchers are on their guard
against it.
Butte, Jan. 31.-The bakers of Butte
are on a strike, their demand for an
increase of wages not having been
granted by the employers. The last
batch of bread was delivered today.
1t may be that the price of bread will
go up at the five small Independent
bakeries that agreed to pay the union
scale. Ten cents a loaf is expected
for a start. The boss bakers say that
the five small bakeries hardly sup
ply a 1.-THE of Butte's bread demands,
Helena, Jan. 31.-There were nearly
twice as many births as deaths in
Montana in December, the state board
of health reports. The births number
ed 766 and the deaths 400. There
were 249 boys and 1872 girls. The
larger number of deaths vas due tc
pneumonia. that disease claiming "a
Forty-five deaths were due to violence
20 to tuberculosis, % to nephritis, q
to malignant tumors, IL to alcoholism
II to typhoid fever and 8 to suicide.
Billings, Jan. 31.-Attention of the
sheriff's Office has been called to the
trapping of beaver along the Yellow
stone river, a form of law violation
which is said to be yielding 'severa
men handsome profits. Old residents
of this section say there are more
beaver along the Yellowstone thar
for many years, due, it is believed t.
the fact that there is no open seasol
for their killing. The state law fixe'
the punishment at Imprisonment il
the penitentiary for not mor thai
two years or less than six months IL
the county Jail, OF a fine of not les
than 500 nor more than $1,000 O
both such fine and Imprisonment.
Helena, Jan. 31.-The Great North
ern and Milwaukee railroads have a
nounced a voluntary reduction Il
Montana distributing rates which viii
put them OF a parity with those i
Washington distributing points. TIL
railroads originally offered last o.