Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-29

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Dawson county's. three days fair
closed last Friday and was a success
in every particular. The exhibits
were good and the sports and games
interesting and entertaining.
President George Maxwell, of the
National Irrigation Association, of
Chicago, will deliver lecture at Mis-
soula, October 4, on irrigation. 1t is
fully believed that the thousands of
acres of arid lands in Montana can be
made highly productive at no great
outlay of money.
A heavy rainfall in Western Mon
tana last week subdued, to large de-
gree, the forest fires that have been
raging in that section and saved from
destruction thousands of dollars worth
of timber, the demolishing of which
would have worked sad havoc with the
water supply of that part of the state.
Eleven prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Billings Friday night
and several posses are securing the
country in pursuit of them. The men
escaped by using broom stick covered
with fat piece of iron, with which
they pushed the bolts back; the safety
locks, it is thought, were not properly
fastened.
Governor Joseph X. Toole was
Thursday formally notified of his NOM
ination for governor on the populist
ticket by the convention in Helena
Wednesday, The official notification
came in letter from j. H. Calder
head, secretary Of the state central
committee elected by the convention at
the close of it's work on the day men
toned.
"A large body of ore has been located
by means of the diamond drill on the
property of the North Moccasin Min
ing compony, which lies just across
the gulch from the Kendall mine. at
Kendall, Fergus county. The ore
body is reported to be IS feet in depth,
but as no assays have as yet been
made it is impossible to tell lust what
the value will.be.
Owing to the enforced confession of
Cristie, a fellow convict and former
>o1 If
robber, who is also alleged to have kill
ed Engineer O'Neal in the first Bear
mouth robbery, number of diamonds
and money to the amount of $40, 900 has
been discovered by Northern Pacific
Detective McFettridge and his corps of
assistants. 1t is reported that the
Northern Pacific people expect to re-
cover more money and diamonds within
the next few days.
DR.. Reid, widely known educator
in Montana, has recently resigned his
position as president of the Montana
College of Agriculture, at Bozemen,
and will be succeeded by Prof. ]. NJ. |
Hamilton, a former member of the |
faculty of the State University at
Missoula. Both of these gentlemen are
among Montana's best educators, and, |
however much Bozeman may lose in
DR.. Reid, they will gain in Prof. |
Hamilton a man of sterling worth and
sapability.
John Christie, who was arrested at
Hope, N. d., and who confessed that, |
with John Hammond, he held up the
North Coast Limited passenger train
on the Northern Pacific at Bearmouth |
last June, Wednesday pleaded guilty |
TO the charge of grand larceny and |
was Immediately sentenced to seven
years at hard labor in the state prison. |
Christie heard with indifference the
pronouncement of his sentence. His
trial took place at Phillipsburg and
was brief of duration, the train robber
withdrawing his former plea of not
guilty and waving the statutory time
Tor the passage of sentence.