The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-10-13
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, Oct. 4.-Coroner F laherty
was notified today that the 18.months.
| old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Perry
Strom, living on Canyon creek, about
20 miles from Helena, was drowned in
the creek yesterday. The baby slipped
away from the house and fell in the
water.
BUTTE, Oct. 4~.-Breathing his for.
gi eness for his cousin, Tom Shields,
who shot him by accident this morn
ing while hunting ducks on the fat,
| Mike Friel, former deputy sheriff and
a we'll known citizen of Butte, lies on
his death bed in the St. James hos
pital, with not more than three or four
hours of life left him. Friel stepped
before Shields just as the latter fred
at some birds.
LEw1sTowN, Oct. 4.-Fergus county
will be represented at Aberdeen, South
Dakota, during the drawing for Indian
lands which is to be held shortly, by q
fine and varied display of agricultural
products. The commercial club is
getting the exhibit together and be.
lieves that it will attract q good deal
of attention, especially from those
who are unsuccessful in the drawing,
and they will constitute the immense
majority.
BILLINGS, Oct. 4.-The gruesome
discovery of the body of an unknown
man, buried in a shallow grave, was
made this morning by q man who a
walking along the Burlington rail-
road tracks, in the vicinity of Peritsa,
about SO miles from here. The loose
earth attr acted his attention, and as
the result of al investigation by Dep
uty Bateman of Hardin, to whom the
discovery was reported, the body of q
man was found at the depth of about
IL inches. No coffin or box of any
description enclosed the remains,
which had, to all appearance, been
hastily inferred, and it Is believed thu
stranger may have been murdered.
HELENA, Oct. Ex-Governor Norris,
Secretary Yoder and State Engineer
Wade left today for Waller, where
10, 600 acres of Teton county land will
be thrown open to settlement, it hav-
ing been reclaimed under the provi.
sions of the Carey land act. 1t is to
be irrigated from Birch creek.
HELENA, Oct. 5.-Montana is to
have a new railroad, articles of in.
corporation of the Montana, Wyom.
ing & Southern company Of New Jer.
sey, having been filed with the secre-
tary of state by F. S. Cannon and
others of New York. The company
has an authorized capital stock of
SIS, 500, 900 and is authorized to con-
struct a railroad of standard guage
from Belfry to Bear Creek, Carbon
county, a distance of 80 miles.
ANACONDA, Oct. 8.-Dan Kenna, a
carpenter in the employ of the Butte,
Anaconda & Pacific railroad, was
| killed this afternoon by the fall of a
| brick chimney on the scale house in
the East Anaconda yards. The small
building was to be removed to an.
other site which had been made ready
for it, and Kenna with the crew that
was engaged in the work had q lever
under the building to pry it up prep.
aratory to placing blocks under it.
BILLINGS, Oct. 5.-Jas. P. Snidow,
one of the leading sheepmen of Vel.
lowstone county, has just closed a
deal for $500 lambs which he secured
from James Bishop & Sons of the
Shields river country. The lambs
will be shipped to Mr.. Snidow's ranch
In the vicinity of Park City and will
be fed through the winter on the
alfalfa harvested a few weeks ago from
the Snidow farm.
BILLINGS, Oct. 6.-The sugar fac.
tory began it's work for the season of
l9O9-l0 early yesterday morning and
this morning the first sack of sugar
from the 1909 crop of beets will be de-
livered from the plant. The first "a
hours of the run has passed without
any mishaps and all the machinery
has been found to be in perfect work.
ing order. Unless unforeseen delays
arise the machinery will not stop rom
this time until the crop is all turned
into sugar, which will not be before the
last of January or the first Of Febru.
airy. The factory is this season en-
pl0ying about 32O men.
Shorthorn Cattle For Sale.