The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-10-30
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

of Butte have decided that it will be
useless to prolong the struggle and
have called off the strike. Two of the
old Western Union operators asked
for their places this morning and we're
put to work at once by Manager Wild.
No application has been made to the
Postal company and none Of the for.
mer strikers is working there.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. 24.-That the
murderers of her husband killed him
for the purpose of securing $500 in
currency that he had in his possession
and that they were successful in their
object, 10 the belief Of Mrs. T. O..
Dram, whose husbands dead body
was found last Friday morning on the
prairie between the town of Stanford
and the Billings & Northern grading
camp, where Dram had been employed.
HELENA, Oct. 23.-Joseph Toney
today pleaded guilty to horse steal
ing and was sentenced to Is months in
the pe%nitentiary by Judge Clements.
Toney is colored, and when he was
asked by the court what he had to
say why sentence should not be
pronounced, he said he went after one
horse and by mistake took the wrong
one. Toney was recently released
from the %penitentiary, after serving
five years for a similar crime.
LEwIsTowN, Oct. 24.-More than
one rancher has made the price of his
land this season in the Judith basin.
The latest instance is that of Floyd
Bacon of Moore, who last fall pnt in
a crop of winter wheat on a 16O.acre
tract of Stone & Long. Mr.. Bacon
was to have the entire crop for the
guilty alton of the land, and it amount
ed to ove 5000 bushels of No. l
winter wheat, from the proceeds of
which he bought the land outright
this week, paying s $4,000 for it.
HELENA, Oct. 24.-For at least
thirty days the American Smelling
and Refining company will refuse to
receive ore shipments from all ship.
pers who do not have contracts. This
is because the company is already
overstocked with ore from its contract
shippers and has 10 place to store
any additional rock. 1t is understood
that another reason for this order is
because of the unsettled condition of
the metal market and the huctuating
prices. The company already has
thousands of dollars tied up in ore it
now has on hand and if it should
make heavy purcwases at the present
time and the price of the metal should
drop, it wonld mean a heavy loss.
HELENA, Oct. 25.-On suspicion Of
stealing $500 from Richard Barr, a
j ackson street tailor, the police last
night arrested Steve Canonica, until
recently a cook at the Hotel Broad
water. The evidence is not particu-
larly strong against Canonica. but as
he was about to leave for Seattle, he
was arrested pending a further inves.
tigation.
LEwIsToWN, Oct. 25.-W alter Cot.
rell, not quite eighteen years of age,
who drifted in from the east a short
time ago, was yesterday sent to the
reform school by Judge Cheadle. The
youth took a friends horse and rid
ing to Grass Range, sold the animal
and was going on east. His only ex.
cuse is that he was overcome by home
sickness and was so anxious to get
back to his parents that he committed
the theft.
kALlsPELL, Oct. 25.-The lumber
men of Flathead will join the coast
and other lumber associ atoms to fight
the increased rates on lumber. The
new tariff raises the rate from kalis.
pell and other Flathead stations to
North Dakota points from five to
seven cents a hundred, and this means
either an adv ance price to the con-
sumner, or a big loss to the shippers.
No increase has been made in the rate
to Montana points. The lumber bust.
ness has suffered this year on &C.
count of the partial failure of crops
in North Dakota, which is the chief
IL arket for Flathead lumber. If the
advanced rate holds, the business will
receive another severe check.
BILLINGS, Oct. 25.-Farmers who
have recently threshed their wheat,
oats, and other grains which were
raised on dry lands, have been agree.
ably surprised with the results. One
Of them, j. j. Walk of Billings, is
displaying samples OF hard wheat
which weighs IS pounds to the bushel.
The display Of dry land products,
which is in the possession Of the Bill.
lings chamber Of commerce, is an eye
opener and compares quite favorably
with the crops raised on the irrig ated
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