The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-08-05
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.


MILES CITY, July 29.-Conductot
L. L. Lancer and Brakeman Ricketts,
of the St. Paul road, were arrested
here last night upon the arrival o
their train, on a charge of stealing
merchandise out of the company
freight cars. They were taken tc
Roundup this morning to be given 9
hearing.
PLAINS, July 3O.-W. n. CULVER,
whose dead body was found in the
mountains near Olive station in this
county last week, dragged himself
through the wilderness for Is days
without food, and suffering from q
broken leg. The pitiful tale as told
in a memorandum book which Coroner
Victor Seward found upon the mans
body is one of terrible torture and
agony.
MILES CITY, July 30.-Regular ship.
ments from the stockya ards at Saugus,
the point for shipments on the north
side OF the Yellowstone made by the
St. Pau roadl, have commenced.
Conrad Kohrs, who is here from Hell
ena, shipped a train. Gilmore &
Stacy ship tomorrow and q train Fri.
day. About $500 head of cattle,
valued at s1OO, 900, were congreg ated
yesterday around the reservoir at the
head of Custer creek.
MILES CITY, July 30.-In Justice
Gibbs court today Aziras Vincellette
was discharged from custody after a
hearing on the charge of putting poi
sonous substances on the range. Vim
cellette put out salt and saltpeter on
his range on Cabin creek and posted
signs with poison warning and skull
and cross bones. The prosecution did
not produce any testimony to show
that these substances are poisonous
and the rangemen differ in opinion on
the question.
HELENA, July 3O.-Division Engin.
eer Green, in charge of the St. Paul
road between Lombard and Forsyth,
says that 5000 men will be employed
on that division until cold weather
repairing the line where it was dam.
aged by floods, relaying the Montana
railroad with S. pound steel rails and
ballasting the roadbed. The first 80
miles of the Montana railroad east
from Lombard has been entirely re.
built. Next spring it is expected that
the grade between Minden and Crave
land will be reduced.
MIssOULA, July Ex-senator j. NJ.
Dixon has returned from a trip to the
Flathead reservation, where he spent
some time investig ating the work be-
ing done on the preliminary surveys
OF the three irrig alton projects which
the government has decided to CON-.
plete with as much haste as possible.
Through Senator Dixon's efforts a
change has been made ia the law
which will allow the secretary of the
interior to apply the money received
from the sales OF timber lands on the
reserve to the irrigation projects.
DILLON, July 30.-Chas. E. Woods,
whose home is said to be in Living
ston was arrested at Lima and
brought to Dillon yesterday, charged
with robbing the mails at Livingston,
while he was carrying them from the
postofice to the depot. 1t seems that
Woods was trying to get out of the
country, and at Butte met another
young fellow, who gave his name as
George Geer. While on the train be.
tween Butte and Lima, it is said,
Woods became confidential and told
Geer of robbing the mails. Geer in
formed a railroad detective who was
on the train.
MIssoULA, July 3%l.-John Murphy
and j. N. Mcneil were Instantly killed
this afternoon al Nimrod station, on
the Northern Pacific railroad, and
Gus WATSON was seriously injured.
The men were riding the pilot of q
work train engine when the front
trucks climbed the rail. WATSON will
probably die.
BUTTE. July 3l.-The city today
experienced the hottest weather in Is
years, the thermometer touching So in
the shade and probably for the first
time in Butte's history . death from
heat pr%ostration is recorded. George
NJ atthews, q former policeman,
dropped dead from sunstroke. Bart
Monahan, . broker, was %ated.
HELENA, July 3l.-At q meeting
today Of the state board of land com.
missioners resolutions were passed
providing for more rigid rules to
govern the Office hereafter. Land will
not be selected without a thorough