The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-27
MONTANA NEWS BRIErLETS.
A Budget of Readable Short Items from
Various Parts Of the state.

DuO6SA " c0O0C SOOUt 1tSuuS
Various Parts Of the state.
PONY, Sept. 1S.-W. S. Crews, an
Old and prominent resident Of this
place shot and killed his wife then
turning the gun on himself, put q bull.
let Into his own head and died an
hour afterwards. The tragedy oc
Cured early last evening at the Crews
home. The Crews we're married about
three years. On their marriage Crews
made over TO his wife all of his prop.
erty and the management Of his pos.
sessions has been one cause of their
difficulties.
kAL1SPELL. Sept. 1S.-Last Satur.
day a young fellow presented Ave
checks at different stores in Kalispell,
each for sll 80, made payable to Geo.
Weimgham. and signed by A. w.
Merrifeld, of Pleasant Valley, one Of
the las; republican presidential elect.
ors. This afternoon each deposition
went TO the Conrad bank as usual and
Assistant Cashier Tobie pronounced
them all forgeries. So much time has
elapsed that probably the man has
escaped, as Chief of Police Johnson
a find no trace of the Individual.
BILLINGS, Sept. 10. - John and
James Carson. who say they live in
Helena, We're arrested today for at.
tempting to rob a camp cook of SO.
The men attempted the holdup at mid.
day in the Montana saloon. The cook
vas drunk and displayed a roll Of
bills. There are many ''sure-thing''
men and grafters of all descriptions
in the city for fair week, and the police
force has been doubled.
HELENA. Sept ia special from
Lewistown says the Fergus Cold Min.
ing company, in which John \. Drake,
a Chicago millionaire, is a heavy
stakeholder, today made the first pay
ment to the heirs of the late James
Fergus on a mining deal involving
about $1,000, 900 for a tract of unde.
veloped cyanide property near the
mining camp of Kendall. Drake has
had some prospecting done on the
property and has discovered a blanket
of rich cyanide ore resembling the
Rand district of South Africa.
HELENA, Sept. l9.-Montana's
team at the tournament of the
National Rifle association. held
at Seagirt. N. j., from August % 20
Sept. |, stood 9th ia a list of 81, &C.
cording to a bulletin received by Ad.
jutant General A. Nj. Anderson from
A. p. Burlington, captain of the First
United States Infantry, who was sta
tistical officer for the tournament.
New York was first, with a standing
of 4,52S, while Montana's figures were
3,36S. Tennessee was last, with 2,2l6.
General Anderson said he was salts.
fed with the showing made, this hav.
ing been Montana's first participation
10 a national tournament.
LEWISTOWN, Sept. 19.-Tubb Bros,
the Lewistown contractors, have been
awarded the contract for constructing
the Carnegie library, and ground will
be broken tomorrow. Their bid was
1880, and was the only M of the three
tenders submitted that came inside of
the $4,000 limit. The library trustees
have a fund on hand thut will be SUI
icent to furnish the building. so that
it is possible to put the entire amount
OF Mr.. Carcegie's GIFT, $40, 1000, into
the building, which will be erected op.
posite the courthouse, upon a site do
mated by property owners.
BUTTE, Sept. 1.-two weeks ago
the 2O.year.old wife of George Mel.
vile, a miner, told her husband she
was going out to attend the wedding
of a friend. Yesterday it was discov.
cred that she was the bride and had
married Harry Northey, a young man
living less than half a mile from her
home. Mrs. Melville had told NOrthey
that Melville was her uncle and that
she did not want him to know Of her
marriage for a while, as she feared he
would cable the news to her mother,
who, she said. Is an invalid 10 Lon
don. So she went back and lived with
Melville for a week, then returned to
her younger husband and remained
with him until yesterday when Mel.
Vile succeeded in finding her.
HAMILTON, Sept. pa $3.50, 600
beet sugar factory will be built here
in the coming year provided the re-
CURED acreage of beets a be secured.
The factory will be a 800 or 7OO.tou
plant and it will take about !, 1000 acres
of beets to produce this mount of raw
materia al. The Bitter Root stock farm
promises q l.OOO-acre crop, and the
enterprise, says Superintendent Shan.
non, will have ample capital to back