The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-22
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.

KALIsPELL, July 16.-Major Geo.
E. Doll, member of the governors
staff and member of the state fish
commission, was arrested here yes.
terday by Deputy Game Warden l..
J. Lounds, charged with having shot
a pheasant near Libby several weeks
ago upon the occasion OF the visit of
the fish commission. to that place in
the selection of q site for the state fish
hatchery, which was later awarded to
Anaconda. Major Doll was taken to
Libby for arraignment before Justice
of the Peace Hoffman. 1t is alleged
that Doll shot the pheasant and had
1t cooked at the Hotel Williams, where
1t was served to him at dinner.
DILLON, July 16.-A big ranch deal
was made yesterday, in which James
Paxton, one of the pioneer ~sheepmen
of this valley, disposed of his ranch
of 1900 acres, q few miles northeast
Of Dillon to A. D. LaDue, q Mime.
sofa banker, for a sum reported to be
in the neighborhood of s35, 600. The
ranch will be cut up into tracts from
40 to 100 acres in size and disposed Of.
The entire ranch Is under irrig alton,
with plenty of water for every acre of
ground. IT the sugar beet experiment
proves q success here this year and
the factory is built later all this land
will probably be put into sugar beets.
BOHEMIAN, July 16.-A. j. Walrath,
one Of Bozeman's we'll known and
successful attorneys, is in addition a
successful farmer. This year he will
harvest $500 acres of wheat, oats,
barley and in addition is putting up
several hundred tons of hay. Mr..
W alrath will use two traction engines
in cutting his crop. He will operate
two large combination harvesting and
threshing machines and expects to
start in work on his winter wheat
crop of 1900 acres in about two weeks
time. AS wheat is about 81 and
Mr.. Walrath's crop very promising
in the way of a yield, he is very like.
ly to clean up quite a fortune this
fall.
HELENA, July 17.-John P. Schmit,
register of the state land Office, yes.
terday deposited with Treasurer Rice
ST. ,O45 .56, as the proceeds of the bust
ness of his department for the first
half July. This was distributed among
the various funds, the school fund re-
ceiving the larger part.
BILLINGS, July 17.-Arrangements
have been virtually completed by W.
j. Book of Lincoln, Neb., for locating
a colony of $50 German.R Russian fam
lilies on lands in the Lake Basin coun.
try, and in q few weeks another colony
of about 200 families will be brought
here and will settle on irrigated lands
in the Yellowstone valley.
BOHEMIAN, July 1.-THE unidenti-
fed body of a man was found by sec
ton men this morning close to Story's
siding, west of Bozeman. One leg
and one arm were severed. 1t is pre-
sumed he was stealing q ride. The
man had brown hair, was about five
feet seven in height, and stocky
build.
HELENA, July 17.-Attorney Gen
eral Galen today filed with the SUI
preme court q petition for the disbar'
ment of Jens. Rivenes of Glendive,
the charges being deceit, malpractice
and forgery. He states that not al
features of the complaint have beer
t verified, but enough has been proved
to warrant Rivenes' dis barment. The
petition 10 the outcome of q suit in {
justice court for the collection of {
> promissory note.
I BOHEMIAN, July III. Nj. Flint o.
o the Flint.Lynn Lumber company, has
- just returned from the east and while
there placed an order for a lO0-hors'
u power traction engine. This engin,
is to be used for hauling lumber iron
the mills to Bozeman and it is antici
pated that 1t will haul more lumber il
one day than half q dozen teams AM
!. do it more easily and quickly. Trac
tion engines for farm work are al
) ready being used extensively in thi
valley, but this will be the first en-
CINE purchased for hauling purpose
only.
.o MILES CITY, June lS.-1t looks a
Is though the top for wool may not ye
le have been reached, with prices show
ing q steady advance. The class 9
wool offered may have something t
:. do with it, but the average of bid
today at the Northern Pacific ware
house was considered ahead Of any
thing yet.
kALIsPELL, July Is. - Frank L
4, Beau, the confessed murderer OF tn
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