The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-20
MONTANA NEWS BR1EfLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items from
Various Parts of the state.

NoTlO0S Parts OF the STATE.
BUTTE, Sept, 12.-Articles OF in
corporation of the National Home
Seekers association have been filed
with the clerk and recorder. The OBJ.
ject OF the association is to encourage
agriculture and horticulture in all
states and territories west of the Mis-.
sissippi river by selling, buying,
mortgaging and leasing real and per.
sonal property. The life of the asso.
citation shall be twenty years.
DILLON, Sept. 12.-Coroner Walker
returned yesterday from holding an
inquest over the body of Byron Davis,
near Divide. The verdict was suicide.
The body of Davis was found last
Saturday by Max Hebgen, engineer at
the power plant with the head nearly
blown from the body. A 30 30 Savage
rifle lay close by. Davis had been a
resident Of Beaverhead county for sew.
eral years and formerly owned a good
ranch in the Big Hole basin.
BROWNING, Sept. IA serious
wreck occurred on the Great Northern
this morning at Midvale. An east.
bound freight was on the siding with
orders to meet w sections of a west.
bound freight. After the first section
had passed the switch was opened,
and the second section, coming along
at a high rate of speed, crashed head.
locomotives were badly damaged and
severalcars of merchandise and lumber
were wrecked. The engine crews saved
themselves by jumping. Responsible
ty for the misplaced switch has not
yet been placed.
HELENA, Sept. l2.-The state fair
leges of the coming fair, taking action
on all but one, the privilege to sell
confectionery. The Club saloon gets
the bar privilege, paying $3.50 for it.
The restaurant privilege goes to Nick
Pescoll of Marysville, whose offer was
the best. Two lunch stand privileges
go to Chris. Allen of Helena and
Louis Bossler of Helena gets the cigar
stand. There was lively competition
for the programme privilege and it
went to +. A. D~utriuelle of Belt, he
paying 5000 for it.
KALIspELL, Sept. 1.-THE Great
Northern railway has filed the plat of
the definite location OF a railroad
from Somers to the north line of the
reservation in the United States land
Office. The right of way is from Som
ers to Holt, crossing the Flathead
river at the best bridge point. thence
along The east side Of the lake to Bear
Dance and to the north line of the
~reserv alton. This will connect with
the route known as the Jocko cutoff,
connecting the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern at Kalispell.
HELENA, Sept. 13.--Lambert Nae
gel, for twelve years editor of the
Montana State Zeitung, published
here, founder of The Minneapolis
Fret Press, veteran of the civil war,
survivor of the New Ulm, Minn.,
Sioux Indian massacre, is dead in
Seattle, aged 3. He is the father OF
l3 children. all of whom are living in
Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles
and Seattle.
DILLON, Sept. ia report reached
here yesterday afternoon tina: a rich
strike had been made at the New De.
), lon. The strike was made after much
, development work, and is said to rur
!. 200 ounces silver to the ton. The Op'
!, orators of the mine have the property
under bond and lease, and are much
J gratitied with the strike, although it II
| not yet known how large the lead is.
BUTTE, Sept. l3.-Robert Cochraue,
formerly a newspaper man of Sal
Lake City, was arrested here las
5 night, charged with passing spuriou.
2 checks a, a we'll known resort in tn,
red light district. Cochrane said hi,
name was COwan when taken to tn,
station but af,erward admitted hi.
identity and confessed that a warran
had recently been issued for his arres
. at Salt Lake City on a charge of forg
. cry. He arrived here several day
e ago and applied at several newspa pc
< offices for employment.
BUTTE. Sept. l3.-The coroner
jury in the case of Mrs. William Frost
e who shot and killed her husband a
their home, SOB West Porphyry street
Monday morning, after IA three hours
session last evening completely exon
Grated Mrs. Frost and declared tn
shooting justitiable homicide. Their
S were quite a number Of spectator
present when the verdict was read, an
G they all ininad in aDDlaudinp the var