The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-03-04
MONTANA DRIEFLETs.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days


Helena, Feb. 26.-Monsignor victol
Day of the diocese of Helena informed
the commercial club last night tina,
the two colonies brought out by him
from Belgium and placed on the Val
Ter irrigation project have been sc
we'll pleased with their new homes
that two large colonies will arrive this
year, one early in the spring and the
second later in the summer.
Lewistown, Feb. 26.-Apparently the
order of the state board of health re.
quiring all pupils of the public schools
to be v~accinated by March 2 will be
carried out without being referred to
the courts, as was at first threatened
by some parents who oppose vaccina.
ton. Superintendent Frankie issued
a bulletin to the principals and teach
ers instructing them to call for certi.
ficates of vaccination on the morning
of March 2 and to send to him all who
did not possess them.
Helena, Feb. 26.-Feeling that Hell
ena will have enough to do to handle
the state fair crowd the way it should
be handled without the additional bur.
den that would be entitled by a cele-
bration here of Montana's fiftieth an
niversary of its creation as a territory
and its tw%enty-ffth as a state, the Hell
ena Commercial club at a meeting
here today withdrew from the field
and decided to support Great Falls, if
it aspires to have the state celebra-
ton in connection with its railroad
celebration in August.
Kalispell, Feb. 26-R. C. Rasmus-
sen, representing Cutbank and Brown.
ing, is in Kalispell soliciting support
for the proposed division of the Black
feet Indian reservation into eastern
agricultural and western grazing
lands, the line to be drawn at Black
foot. The plan was evolved at a coun-
Gil of the Blackfeet Indians and the ar
rangement is Endorsed by the Indians
and by the people across the range.
It is an amendment to the first plan
for opening the entire reservation to
settlement.
Helena, Feb. 26.-Requested by Sec
rotary of the Treasury McAdoo for
an Interpretation of the Montana laws
relating to banking Attorney General
Kelly gave an opinion to the effect
that certain Montana banks are bar.
red from entering the new federal re-
serve system. The attorney general,
in his opinion, held that state banks
of deposit and discount cannot buy
stock and become members Of the
federal reserve system because of the
provision of the statutes, which pro-.
hibits them from buying or owning
stock in any other corporation.
Butte, Feb. 26.-The merchants de-
partment of the Butte Chamber of
Commerce today sent to Governor
Stewart and the state board of par.
dons an emphatic protest against a
pardon or concession for Paddy Rog-
ers or James Barrett. the two men
who are serving terms in Deer Lodge
penitentiary for the burglary at the
Louis Dreibleblis Drug Store. The
merchants claim that freedom to
Rogers or Barrett would mean a SER
ious to the life of Mr.. Drei-
bleblis. For this reason they are
making an emphatic protest against
any mitigation of the sentence.
Helena, Feb. 27.-Sid j. Coffee of
Missoula will be the executive head
of the Montana state fair this year,
having been elected by the board of
directors as president of the board to
succeed Lewis Penwell. With the sec.
rotary, A. J.. Br~eitenstein, Mr.. Coffee
will be in active charge of the fair.
The other officer elected was Pat Car
new of Waterloo who was selected as
vice president.
Helena, Feb. 27.-During the year
from November 1, 1912, to November
/, 1913, there were 33,946 predatory
animals slaughtered in Montana, &C.
cording to figures compiled by R. N.
Hawkins, clerk of the state board of
examiners. These included 22,919 coy
otes, 9,440 coyote pups, 1913 wolves,
GAL wolf pups and 4S mountain lions.
The board authorized the payment of
about 5000 claims aggregating $112,-
99S.
Dillon. Feb. 27.-Wool buying in
Be%averhead county is already active
and this is the earliest contracting
done in years. j. r. Edgehill was in
the city the past few days and con-
tracted the clips of the Selway Sheep
company, George Edinger, J. H. Gil
bert, all of Dillon, and Austin Under,
G. d. Selway and w. H. Jones of Mad
ison county in the vicinity of Twin
Bridges. His contracts take in AGO.
900 pounds, for which he paid from
Is to 16h cents a pound.
Great Falls, Feb. Eff Mayor N.
T. Lease prove successful in the pro-
gram he has just launched the saloons
Of Great Falls will soon, for the first
time in the history of the city, be
made subject to an early closing or
dinance. The mayor has just draft
ed a very stringent ordinance which
would require all saloons to close at