The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-10-28
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur,
ing the Past Few Days.

;. HELENA, Oct. Y. State Examiner
Ray yesterday issued a report show
ing that the fifty state banks in Mon.
tana had on September q deposits
amounting to slS, 0688, 273, an increase
Of more than half q million in lest
than three months. The total resurces
were e24,507, AIS, an increase since
July % of three quarters of q million.
HELENA, Oct. 22.-Attorney General
A. J. Galen has addressed com.
m%unication to Sheriff James Shoe
maker Of Lewis and Clark county,
calling the attention Of that official to
the fact that open and notorious
gambling has been going on in this
city and that gambling places and
games were being operated during the
state fair. The attorney general in.
dulges in some severe criticism of the
officials responsible for the enforce.
Of the gambling laws.
BUTTE, Oct. 22.-Sherif Henderson,
assisted by his deputy sheriffs. made
two gambling raids late Saturday
and early Sunday morning, which re-.
suited in the arrest of 20 men, all of
whom will be charged with violating
the anti.gambling statute. The cards,
chips and money found in both places
were taken by the sheriff and will be
used as evidence against the men
charged with gambling.
LEWIsTOWN, Oct. 22.-The storm
which began Monday evening and
lasted throughout Fergus county I'm.
til last night tied up the Montana
railroad near this city and has de.
moralized wagon travel. The weather
has not been cold but the snow which
has fallen has been piled by a strong
wind into tremendous drifts. Yester.
day it was necessary to, send out
wagons to get the mail and passengers
from the incoming passenger train
which was stalled in the snow near
town. The ranchmen say that the
snow fall at this time is just the thing
needed.
BILLINGS, Oct. 23.-Convi cted by a
jury on the charge of assault in the
second degree on George Bossler, a
bartender in a local saloon, Guy 7.
Gerard was sentenced by Judge Fox
to pay a fine Of $1,000 and costs of the
prosecution. The assault occurred
July 3, when Gerard struck Bossler
on the head with a hammer.
MILES CITY. Oct. 23.-M. W. Mann,
the care taker at Fort Keogh, who was
appointed when the post was turned
over to the interior department by the
war department, has received orders
to restore the supervision to Lieuten.
ant Cook, in command of the small
garrison there as the interior depart
ment has been instructed to give over
the fairs of the post to the war de-.
partment again. A troop of cavalry
will be sent to the post in the neal fu-
ture.
BUTTE, Oct. 23.-When Dan Kowske
Of Butte, accompanied by his wife and
family, pulled into Ogden, Utah, one
day las) week, they concluded a 1000
mile trip by wagon which took them
just three months. The Kowskes left
Butte in July for q camping trip
of indefinite length. Before it was
finished they had wandered through
the m%ountains Of two states, and in
Idaho killed two mountain sheep
which in itself Is proof that they visit.
ed sections remote.
BOHEMIAN, Oct. 23.-The officers OF
the Montana Farmers institute meet.
ings are now at work preparing the
program for the meetings this fall. It
is planned to have q larger number
of instructors to hold more meetings
and make them of more instructive
value to the farmers than aver before.
Meetings will be held in practically
every farming section of the state.
Professor F. B. Linfield, director of
the experiment station and secretary
of the institutes, is now at work on
the program.
Zortman Miner: The old Indians
Of this vicinity are out with the pre-.
diction that we are to have two months
OF summer weather, followed by a
short and mild winter. Thus it ia
that the Lord tempereth the wind to
the shorn and defeated candidate,
provided, of course the Indian has
the correct dope.
Chester Signal: An important real
estate deal has been closed between
Alex Keith and the Laird Brothers,
whereby Mr.. Keith sells land and i'm.
~provements at Alma for about 81, 900.
MIR. Keith will remain on the place
until spring, when he will move to the
big fat north OF Chester and engage