The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-09-06
MONTANA
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana During
the Past Few Days.

What Has Happened in Montana Durin,
the Past Few Days.
LEWISTOWN, August SIC. w
Baird has sold his ranch of 825 acre:
to r. F.. Shaw and r. L. Ferguson for
$4,000, this being the largest single
ranch land deal made in Fereu:
county in some time.
MILES CITY, Aug. 31.-A big prai.
RE fire which has been burning for
two days was reported on Beaver
creek last night. 1t was put out by
SO men this morning. Three hundred
tons of hay were burned and immense
pastures destroyed. Frank Cannons,
AL Davies and Frank Smith, all
r%anchers, are heavy losers. A big
prairie fire was reported on Mond ay
near Little Sheep mountain.
HELENA, Aug. 31.-A contract has
been closed by the executive commit.
tee of the Wilbur F. Sanders Me.
mortal association with the Greuger
Lithographing company of Milwaukee
for 1900 membership certificates, and
it is expected that these will be COM
pleted within the next month. These
certitic ates, which will contain q like
ness Of Colonel Sanders, will be
placed at different portions of the
state SO that all may have an oppor.
tunity OF becoming members of the
association, (which has for its purpose
the rearing Of some suitable memorial
to Colonel Sanders.
BILLINGS, Aug. 3l.-Prof. Il. A..
Cooley, Of the agricultural college at
Bozeman, known throughout the state
as the ''bug man. has been in Bill.
ings several days examining into the
grasshopper pest and also the bugs
that destroy the sugar beets. With
the completion of the beet sugar fac.
tory, a large number of beets will be
raised. and with the idea of prevent
ing the pests getting %intrenched in the
beet sugar fields, Prof. Cooley will
try and find some remedy that can be
applied. He will also attempt to de-
stroy the grasshopper sccurge.
BOULDER. Sept. 1.-Messrs. Hale
and EckIey who have been prospecting
in GOlconda gulch four miles east of
Jefferson, are working a mine which
gives every indication of becoming a
producer, there being forty-five
feet of gold ore in the face of the tun.
mel which assays SIC to $50 a ton, and
there is quite a stir in that vicinity,
there being about 100 men, principally
from Butte. prospecting in the vi.
HELENA. Sept. l.-B. II. Tatem,
a-sayer in charge of the United States
assay Office in this city, has issued a
monthly statement showing the re-
ceipts OF gold in his Office for the
month of August. Fergus county is
the largest shipper of gold, with Lew.
Is and Clark second. The receipts 10y
counties is as follows: Fergus, s1l,-
1929: Lewis and Clark, S21. 745.97
Chouteau, $ll ,6S2.23: Missoula. Sl3,.
039.64.
GREAT FALLS, Sept. 1.-The first
day of the open hunting season in this
part Of the state "a signaliZed by its
frnrnlv Enor1y Iosr;,n, ,,, ,,,; ! ..,
ally shot while hunting alone, and
was found dead by some other hunters
Il short time after he had breathcd his
last. Gosnier is the lS.year-old o
of Casper Gosnier, an old time mer.
chant of Monarch. Early this morn.
ing, taking his gun, he started out
alone to hunt in Belt park. The
weapon was a double.barreled shot
gun, with a very sensitive trigger. 1t
Is supposed that in climbing through
the brush the weapon was in some way
discharged.
LEWISTOWN. Sept. 1.-Two cowboys
who shot up the town at Gilt Edge,
were subjected to unusually heavy
fines, one being assessed $3.50 and the
other 800. The money was paid,
and these cowboys will probably keep
away from the mining camps when
they want excitement hereafter.
BUTTE. Sept. 4.-As a result of a
shooting scrape over a trivial argu.
ment, Patrick Hanley, a we'll known
and popular miner is dead, and jas.
+. Barnes, who came to Butte recent.
ly from Chico, Cal, aud an eN-con.
vice, is in Jail facing a charge of
murder. Shortly after midnight, Il
crowd Of 500 men gathered and
marched to the Jail on West Granite
street. Meanwhile Sheriff Quinn had
armed deputies with winchesters and
these were reinforced by police.
Sheriff Quinn told the crowd plainly