The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-28

and in crossing q field it can cut a
strip ls$ feet wide. Mr.. Pense has the
contract for blowing 1000 acres of
land belonging to the Billings Land
and irrigation company and as 500
as frost IS OUT OF the ground he will
begin to job. 1t is thought that the
pillow a urn over about 80 acres of
ground a day.
BILLINGS, March 24.-Bourke K
Hy,ham, the latter a we'll known cattle.
man Of Omaha, have b.ea awarded a
contract for grading 81 miles OF road.
bed for the Milwaukee. Their contract
begins in the Yellowstone valley op.
posite Hathaway station on the North.
ern Pacific and extends some distance
west OF Forsyth. The latter place will
be only about a mile from the new
line. Contractors who we're here to-.
day state that this is the first grading
contract the company has awarded Cor
work in Montana. They expect to be.
gin n a few weeks. They express the
opinion that the road will leave the
Yellowstone valley a short distance
west of Forsyth and strike toward the
Musselshell country.
HELENA, March 24.-Nora Mentzel,
who for the past six days has been on
trial 10 the district court on the charge
of having murdered Corporal William
F. Cyrus, of the Twety.fourth United
States infantry, was today found no,
guilty by the jury and discharged.
The jury was cut q little more than
three hours, one hour OF which was
spent at luncheon. The defense was
that Of fear of great bodily harm. On
the stand, the defendant, who is only
y years old, swore that Cyrus entered
her home, and upon her refusal to
marry him, he had securely grasp her
with n hand and was extracting
from q pocket q bottle of carbolit
acid, with the threat that he would
disfigure her SO that no one else would
want her for a wife.
, RED LODGE, March 26.-No losse.
of cattle or sheep have been reported
on account OF the recent tive.day storm
and blizzard. Weather Observer l. A
Draper reports that the total fall O
snow up to March II, when the storm
subsidized vas 1913 inches and containe.
, LII inches of water. The lowest TEN
perature was - degrees below zero OF
' March Is.
BUTTE, March 26.-Fire in the OF
son block tonight resulted in approx
imately 500, 600 damage to the whole
r, sale stock of the Passmore Paper com
pany through the warehouse beinI
flooded with water. The Olson Harm
= ess company sustained a loss of abou
: . 5000, while the damage to the build
ing was in the ueighborhood OF $40,
: 900. The fire originated, it is be
. lieved, from the ignition of a numbe
Of celluloid articles placed too clos
= to the radiator.
;, HELENA, March 26.-The freedom G
Nora Men:Zel was short-lived, sh
again being an occupant of the Levi
. and Clark county Jail. Acquitte
Saturday afternoon Of the charge {
q murder for the killing Of Corpora
William +. Cyrus, she was arreste
today on an information chargin
her with perjury while testifying as
witness in her own behalf. j. +
Tucker was also arrested on a simila
charge.
HELENA, March 26.-Charles Da,
lin was brought in yesterday by Del
uty Marshal Henry Guthrie, frol
, Browning, on a charge of KILN
James Rutherford during the progress
of a dance at Browning some tin
last week. The dance was given ,
;. the home of Rancher Hall, and it
alleged that Davlip drew a revolve
and commenced shooting up. Ruthe'
ford, who had been asleep in anothe
room, came in and it is alleged thu
Davlin struck him on the head wit
: the butt Of the revolver, crushing it i,
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