The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-05-13
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
TWIN BRIDGES, May 7.-Jeferson
and Beaverhead valley r~auchmen
planted many apple and other
fruit trees this spring. It is estimated
that fully 5000 apple trees alone we're
planted during the past two weeks in
the two valleys, including the Water
loo section, or more than have been
set out during any three previous
seasons.
LEwIsTowN. May THE old Chris
King ranch OF 1000 acres, located on
Spring and Little Rock creeks has
just been purchased by the Hilger
Loan & Realty company, the price, it
is said, being in the neighborhood of
$4,000. The Hilger company plans
to cut this immense tract up into small
farms, and bring in colonists who will
cultivate them In an up to date fash.
ion.
BUTTE, May lit is safe to say
that never before in the history of the
county Of Silver Bow or the state of
Montana have two men charged with
crime been given so severe q roast
from a Judge as was dealt to W. H.
Decker and Darrell Menhennett in
Judge DOMAINS court yesterday. Two
cases against the two men were dis.
missed on account of the absence from
the state of material witnesses for the
prosecution, but Judge Dolan declared
emphatically that there was no pos
sible doubt Of the guilt of the two de-
fend ants. They were warned to leave
the state Immediately, and the officers
of the law who we're present in court
were called upon to keep q special
lookout for the two defendants in flu.
ture, it being promised that they
would each be given 20 years If they
were ever convicted on a highway rob.
berry charge in that court.
HELENA, May SWIM. Holland.
the colored man who was found guilty
Wedneday evening of unlawfully wear.
ing ar Elk pin, was sentenced this
morning by Judge Langhorne to pay
a fine of 800 OR serve so days in the
county Jail. Holland was sent to Jail
this morning, before sentence was
passed, for contempt Of court in re-
fusing to turn the pin over to the
county attorney.
GREAT FALLS, May s.--A horrible
death overlook Peter Conrad, a young
stableman employed in the Boston \
Montana concentrator, this morning,
when he vas caught in a rapidly NOV
ing belt and whirled about overhead
shafting. Both arm and legs were
torn off and every bone in his body
was broken. He has been employed
at the smelter but a few days. He was
% years old and the son OF a German
farmer residing south of the city.
BUTTE, May S.-Timothy Harring-
ton Is suing the Oregon Short Line
Railroad company and several of its
train employees for S19, $50 damages.
In the complaint, which was filed in
the district court yesterday, Harring-
ton said that he left Butte Jan. q,
1907, to go to Goldfeld, where he had
some sort of contract that would have
netted him $40 q day for a year. He
had q ticket on the Short Line to Salt
Lake, and complains that when the
train reached some small station neal
Pocatello he was forcibly and with
great violence elected from the train.
HELENA, May 9.-All the contracts
for surveys in Montana for the fiscal
year ending July l have been let. 1t
is said that the work will cost $50, 900.
The greater portion of it is in isolated
tracts of land which are surrounded
by unsurveyed lands. Up to the pres.
ent only about one-half OF the state
has been surveyed, so that there will
be work in surveying for several years
to come.
HELENA, May Sit is Governor
Miles now, the senator from Park
county becoming the actual head O,
the state when Gov. Norris crossed
the Montana line into North Dakota
Among the early visitors at the ex
~ecutive Office were President Elliott O
the Northern Pacific and several othel
visiting railroad men. Not since J
E. Richards stepped out Of office IL
1897 has q republican occupied evel
temporarily the position OF governor
Of Montana, and the fact vas no
overlooked by many OF the callers OF
Governor Miles.