The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-10-23
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

CTT Oct. L ne eStlm ated pro-
duction of the Butte mines in Septem.
Der was 1899, 500 pounds of copper.
This compares with an estimated pro.
duction of 23,227,240 pounds in Au.
gust and 27,157,395 pounds in July.
The decrease from the August produc.
ton is IL, 799, 440 pounds, or 81 per
cent.
HELENA, Oct. ia ten thousand
dollar potato crop from a compare.
lively small ranch is what was raised
this year by Rogan Brothers, who live
down in the valley a short distance.
Rogans raised 10, 1000 sacks of potatoes
and are receiving q dollar per sack.
Maurice Weiss has purchased 1000
pounds which are now being delivered.
BUTTE, Oct. III. B. Sullivan and
Pat Kelleher, two Butte miners, while
exploring the old workings of the old
Moulton mine north of Walkerville
yesterday were %astounded to discover
a store of Is old Springfield rifles,
hidden away behind an old bulkhead.
The rifles are of the pattern used by
the army years ago and were stacked
in an old stope, which had been sealed
up by the bulkhead.
LEwIsTOWN, Oct. 1.-THE beuuest
of $4,000 made to the public library
by the late Oscar Stephens has just
been paid into the city treasury by
Frank Stephens, the administrator, and
this led to the passage of an ordinance
by which the policy of the city with
regard to such requests is fixed. Only
the interest of the Stephens gift is to be
used, and it is to be applied exclusive.
ly to the purchase OF books, to be
known as the Stephens collection.
LEWIsTowN, Oct. 1s.-William
Beacon, known in many parts of
Montana as "Sure Shot Bill" and
for years one of the most noted sport.
ing men on the coast, vas found dead
in the cabin on his ranch near Gilt
Edge. Beason made and lost for
tunes at the gambling table, but gave
mp that life a few years ago.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. 1S.-The direc-
tors of the Northern Montana Fair
association today announced that the
association lost SS52.57 on the recent
fair held in this city, the deficit being
due to bad weather the last two days,
whereby the attend ance on each day
was considerably curtailed. The loss
will be made up by the sale of stock
of the association.
HELENA, Oct. 1S.-A flag staff fifty
feet in height is being erected on the
capitol grounds in accordance with
the bill passed by the last legislature,
which provided funds for the placing
of the flag pole on the grounds and
also for the purchase of a silk flag
which will fly from the pole. Men are
at work digging holes for the pole and
for the supports to which guy wires
will be attached. The staff will be in
place and ready for the stars and
stripes within a week, and when the
flag is raised it will be visible from
all parts of the city.
DEER LODGE, Oct. Isl. l.. Kelley,
who was sent to the penitentiary from
Missoula, made a most sensational
escape last night, from a train, while
in charge of an officer, and to the
present he has not been apprehended.
He was h%andcutfed and after the train
passed G arrison he opened a window
and jumped out while the train was
making 35 miles an hour. The train
stopped, but no trace of Kelley could
be found. Bloodhounds from the
penitentiary are to be put on his trail
LEWISTOWN, Oct. l9.-P. Q. Dram, 3
laborer on the Billings X Northern
railway construction near Stanford
was found murdered near that place
early this morning, he having beer
slain in a most cold blooded manner
by two men, whose motive for thu
crime was the desire to secure a it'll,
money in the victims possession
The murdedrers have M been appre
heuded.
BUTTE, Oct. l9.-Charles O. Cara
convicted Of manslaughter for shoot
ing and killing James Noonan in thi
city a year ago was sentenced to min
years in the penitentiary this mornin,
in the criminal department of distric
court. The court told him that tn
killing Of Noonan was q Coward
murder" that he ''shot Noonan fror
behind like an Indian" and that tn
court would give him ''credit' for tn
year he has served in the county Jail
HELENA, Oct. l9.-Governor S. I
Hauser, who has just returned frol
the east, that the project
build a third dam on the Nilsson,
river for the reclamation of land i
the prickly Pear valley will he carrie