The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-10-25
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM ALI
OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Durin,
h Past Few Days.
MILES CITY, Oct. l9.-Geo. Myer'
has disposed of his wool clip for tn.
next season to jeremiah Williams s
Co., at % cents and $1,000 advanced
There r very few in this locality
who can be persuaded to part with
their respective clips at any such fig.
ures as the majority are expecting to
receive at least % cents next year..
ANACONDA. Oct. ia result OF
the unexpected cold snap is that
more than one.third of the potato
crop of the Deer Lodge valley may be
a total loss. The vines were still
green up to the time of the freeze.up,
and never before In the memory of the
ranchers had winter come upon them
80 early in the year, so that but few
had taken the crop from the ground.
Some Of the farmers say that their
tubers had not ceased growing and
they were wholly unprepared for the
sudden change In the weather.
MILES CITY, Oct. 19.-George Case,
who Is mixed up in the Valley county
rustling matter, is we'll known in Miles
City. His brother, Joseph, is foreman
of the turkey track outfit and
another brother, w. E. Case, was a
we'll known cattleman In this vicinity,
but is now living in Nebraska. The
Day Il Creswsll outfit, to which the
arrested man belongs, was formerly
located in South Dakota, but about
four years ago crossed the Yellow
stone near this place, trailing into
northern Montana and Canada.
MILES CITY, Oct. 2O.-Ouo Cheno.
worth, a noted horse rustler known in
Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas.
has been arrested by Sheriff Webb at
Casper, Wyo. Chenoworth was ar.
rested in 1901 for stealing a bunch of
horses belonging to the Little Mis-
souri, Horse company, and two from
the Hash Knife outfit on Box Elder.
He broke Jail at Medora at that time.
BUTTE, Oct. 2O.-James Murray,
of second degree murder for
killing of VIM. Kiley, was today
sentenced to thirty years in the Deer
Lodge p%enitentiary at hard labor.
is twenty-four years of age.
he shot Kiley to death in the latter's
'wn home after being invited into the
house by the Kileys to drink with
hem. The trouble originated over
he stabbiug Of Murray's young
brother by Kiley the forenoon of the
murder.
BILLINGS, Oct. 2O.-It has been es.
that within the last ten days
$4,000 head of sheep have been uu.
oaded in the Yellowstone valley to
be fed here during the winter. Thirty
thousand head have come from the
vicinity Of Chinook. Many more
bands Of sheep IT yet to arrive.
all the cattle and sheep
are fed here during the winter
come from the north and west, few
being brought from the eastern end OF
TO state.
MIssoULA, Oct. 2O.-Residents of
the Orchard Homes addition state that
the damage done by the blizzard OF
Tuesday to the apple crop In that sec.
ton WINS great, and nearly the entire
apple crop is destroyed. The storm
came up 90 suddenly that no one was
prepared, and consequently those who
were waiting for the apples to gain in
color lost them. Never in the history
Of western Montana did such cold
weather occur so early in the season
as the storm Tuesday and Wednesday.
BOHEMIAN, Oct. 2O.-Many of the
ranchers In this valley r in danger
of suffering heavy losses from the re.
cent snowstorms and cold weather.
Their grain has not been threshed yet
and stands in the fields in shocks.
Some OF it has been wet once or twice
by storms already, and there are sew
eral inches of snow on the ground now.
1t may be impossible to thresh this
grain, in which case the ranchers will
lose considerable. The ranchers in
the southern part of the valley stand
to lose the most. Six years ago a
large quantity OF grain lay in the
fields under the snow all winter.
COLUMBIA FALLS, Oct. 2O.-The
large new sawmill of Olsen & Peterson
just adjoining the town, on the banks
Of the Flathead river, was destroyed
by fire last night. Loss, 81, 900: no
insurance. The mill was one of the