The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-18
MONTANA BRlEFlETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days

What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days
Helena, March ia query as to
the right of the state board of health
to forbid the sale of top wool mat.
resses, made of refuse and unsanitarv
rags that are imported into Montana
Attorney General Kelly today said:
ut is not within the power of YOUR
board to destroy or order DESTROYED
property which is not infected. or
which is not known to be unsanitary
or infected with the germs of disease;
nor is it within the power of your
board to prohibit the sale of such ar
ticles. This limitation upon your DOW
er, however, does not go to the ex-
tent of preventing you from requiring
a reasonable inspection and disinfec-
ton of such goods when their origin
these large parcels were consigned to
course, that such regulations are rea-
sonable, impartial and fair"
Butte, March ia quarrel this af-
ternoon may result fatally for Quinn
Dannehy. There were a half q dozen
in the fight, which a carried on
with sticks and clubs. Paddy Casey
is in the Emergency hospital and Mike
Mccarthy is in jail. Other arrests
may be made oon
Miles City, March 13.-The four.
year-old son of Ed. Casey came to
death in a somewhat peculiar manner
late yesterday afternoon. When the
father came home he missed his child,
and, after a search, found him hang
ing by a sleeve from a nail in the real
of the chicken house. The opinion of
the doctor was that the child died of
heart failure, superinduced by freight.
Billings, March 13.-Allotments of
grazing land in the Beartooth national
forest will be made at a meeting here
next week of forest rangers from the
various districts within the reserve.
Application for permits already ex
coed the capacity of the forest, total
ing 74,375 for sheep and $500 for cat
tie, while no more than 54,650 of the
former and 1926 of the latter can be
accommodated.
Bozeman, March 13.-Henry J.
Lowe, a young attorney on trial here,
in the district court, was found guilty
and given two years in the state pen
itentiary, in the verdict of the jury
returned yesterday. The case will
possibly be appealed according to ad-
vices. Lowe is the stepson of Edwin
Mansfield, a prominent county official
of Mansfield, Ohio.
Dillon, March 13.-Shearing has
been started in Beaverhead county.
This is the earliest that work has ever
started in this section. John Lowell
yesterday afternoon began the shear
ing of 800 head of sheep, which he will
ship to the Pacific coast market in a
few days. The sheep shear at eight
pounds of wool per head.
Billings, March 13.-Clarence, the
2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. S. G.
Cole, this morning fell out of a third
story window of a local hotel, where
they live, and after turning several
so~mersaults, landed in a sitting posi-
ton on a cement sidewalk. Physi-
clans could find nc injuries whatever,
but had to attend the mother, who
tainted when she heard Of the baby's
fall.
Helena, March 14.-Roy S. Wood
obtained from the supreme court to-
day an alternative writ of mandate, di.
rected to the board of county commits.
sioners of Teton, and giving them the
option of either reconvenlng and
granting a withdrawal petition for tue
exclusion of certain territory from
he boundaries of the proposed county
of Toole, or staying all proceedings
until the supreme court has passed
upon them. The hearing has been sci
| for March ~.
Helena, March 1.-THE finishing
touches are being put or the plant
here of the Northwestern Metals com
pany which, if as successful as its
builders hope, will revolutionize min
ing throughout the world, and make
possible the treatment of extremely
low grade zinc ores which cannot be
worked economically by any of the
present smelling processes. The pro
cess is an electrolytic chlorine ga:
one. The plant costs about a thirt
of a million dollars, and has been ii
course Of erection for the last foul
years. The late j. Pierpont Morgan
subscribed 100000, and his estate re
tains the securities. The electric
plant is one of the finest in the west
and will take from 1900 to 1000 hors'
power. Operations will be startet
next week and a force of SIS men viii
be employed.
Deer Lodge, March 16.-Mrs. Gee
McDaniels, a we'll known matron O
the city, fired a bullet into her brail
during a delerium this morning. Sh
had suffered from erysipeals. He
husband had left her bedside but 70
q moment. when the shot was fired