The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-11-06
MONTANA BR|EFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

ing the Past Few Days.
BUTTE, Oct. 31.-Michael DAILY,
charged with the murder of Charles
Kern in a deliberate and cold. FLOODED
fashion, will not be hanged. That
has already been settled by a ruling
of the court, which enables men
opposed to the death penalty to sit on
murder case %juries. One such man.
Nj. Meyer, is on Days jury. The
arrangement of Daily this morning by
Prosecutor Frank, when the latter
made his opening statement to the
jury. selected last evening, was OF q
severe character.
HELENA, Oct. 3l.-Acting in CO.
operation with the interstate com.
MERGE commission, the state board of
railroads commissioners Is taking a
step that will mean many dollars to
shippers of livestock from this state,
in bringing about q refund Of over.
charges made at Chicago terminals.
It has been learned that an over.
charge of 81 a car has been made
for a number of years, and with a
view of securing a refund, the state
board took the matter up with the in.
terstate commerce commission,
HELENA, Oct. 31.-Mrs. r. j.
Condor, who is a member Of the com.
mission appointed by Governor Toole
to devise means for the preservation
of the old Fort Benton, has returned
from a visit to the site of what is one
of the historic spots of Montana.
Congressman Pray has become inter.
ested in the work of the state commits
sion and he has promised to endeavor
to get from the national government
such aid as may be necessary in re-
storing the old fort to the condition
it was in its palmy days.
LEwIsTowN, Oct. 3l.-One might
think that a reservation was being
opened, judging from the number of
homestead entries that have been filed
at the local land Office during the past
few days. 1t is all due 10 the order
issued by the department of the inter.
ior recently, under which all entrymen
after November l will be required, if
they desire to make communication
proof, to spend the whole period of IA
months on the land. This residence
is not to be constructive, as in the past,
and it will prevent entrymen from
taking employment during a part of
the time they are engaged in proving
up. The new rule is certain to be so
irksome that all who could possibly
do so have made their filings during
the few days that were left them after
the notice of the order became public.
HELENA, Nov. 1.-Game Warden F.
E. Hirsch. who returned from Harlow
ton today, reported hat three men
pleaded guilty to illegally killing nine
antelope and were each fined 800 and
costs. The game was confiscated and
sold. The antelope were cached in a
livery, but we're discovered by the Of
fcers and the men arrested later.
LEwIsTowN, Nov. mo. l hard
winter wheat has dropped locally in
sympathy with the eastern market,
and 80 cents is now being paid for i,
at the elevator. Lack of direct trans.
%portation facilities, however, operate
somewhat against better prices in this
section, but afterthis year obstacle
will be removed and Lewistown vii
have two lines running through.
K%AL1sPELL, Nov. l.-Judgment 70,
SIC, 900 damages vas given by the
district court to Mrs. Emma l.. Car
penter and children against the Grea
Northern railroad company in theil
suit for $40, 600 for the death of Franz
Carpenter, husband and father, who
who was killed on the road. Tit
railroad company did not deny re
sponsibility for the death Of Carpent
err, but commended that Mrs. Carpenter
had no right to sue because she and
Carpenter were never formally marri
ed. The court found that Carpente
and his wife had agreed to live to
gether as man and wife, and that the
had two children and held that
sufficient marriage.
HELENA, Nov. An. L. knowles
state veterinarian, who returned toda
from the upper Madison valley, wher
he went to investigate q disease pre-
\ valent among the horses in that SEE
ton, said that it is what was know
in the east as swamp fever. Tn
disease is confined in Madison t
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