The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-25
MONTANA NEWS BR|EFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

KALIsPELL, Aug. 16.-The Great
Northern will not construct its south
ern extension along the shores of Flat.
head lake and across the reservation
unless the property holders come
down materially in the prices being
asked for right Of way along the route.
This is the information which has
come from headquarters in St. Faul,
owing to the failure of o. G. Clay,
the right of-wsy agent, to get reason
able terms from land owners along
the lake shore.
DILLON, Aug. 16.-Norman Holden,
the big dry land farmer of the Beaver
head valley, states that his oats on
the bench will go not less than IS
bushels to the acre. He had about
given up hope of raising much Of q
crop Of grain up to five weeks ago,
when the rains began to ONE His
potatoee, Of which there are Is acree,
will produce at least 5000 sacks, 80
Mr.. Holden Gays.
HELENA, Aug. 16. - News was
brought to this city to night Of
the drowning at Radersburg yester-
day afternoon of the little daughter,
aged two and q half years, Of Viii.
liam Haldaway. The child fell into q
water tank in the kitchen of the Ra-
dersburg hotel, of which Mr.. Halda.
way Is proprietor. 1t is not known
how long she was in the tank, but
when found she was almost dead. The
child's parents we're unable to revive
her, and there was no physician in
the neighborhood.
BUTTE, Aug. 16.-Byron K. Whit.
ney, one of the Oldest and best known
builders and contr actors in the city,
was found dead in the bath tub of his
apartments on the third floor of the
Phoenix block, this afternoon, by the
~janitor of the building. DR.. J. B..
Freude, who made the examination,
stated that i'm was q plain case Of cleo.
%trocution. That Whitney's hand was
probably wet when be turned on the
key, and holding the bulb Immediately
next to his heart. the shock had been
complete and death instantaneous.
GREAT FALLS, Aug. 16.-A special
to the Tribune from Judith Gap,
Mont, says that this afternoon the
section foreman reported a dead man
on the track four miles east of there.
The deputy sheriff on arrival found
the man buried, with one foot sticking
out. He had been stabbed in the back
of the neck and his head had been
crushed with q rock. Two knives
were found q few feet away and there
was evidence of a desperate struggle.
Papers found in the dead mans pock-
cts identify him as John MARTHA,
aged 81, and also natur alization pa.
rers issued in Carrolton county, MINI.
There was also an envelope addressed
to Mrs. MARTHA, Moose Lake, Mann.
The motive of the crime is supposed to
have been robbery.
HELENA, Aug. 17.-Suit to cancel
patent to a tract of 320 acres near
Wolf creek, taken up under the desert
land act by Ida Conner, was instituted
in the federal court today by District
Attorney Freeman on behalf of the
government. 1t is alleged that the
testimony offered vas false and fraud
ulent and that the requirements of the
desert land act were not complied
with.
M1ssoULA, Aug. 17.-George Van
Etten. a halfbreed, was arrested this
morning on q charge of supplying
Indians with intoxicating liquor. The
arrest was made just outside the city
limits. Van Etten being caught in
the act of selling beer to q small band
of redskins who are camped near the
bank of the Missoula river. The
prisoner is held to await action by
the United States authorities.
BILLINGS, Aug. 17.-Work on the
elevators of the RUSSELL Miller Mining
company is being rushed to full ca.
pacity. The entire series of ten is
being carried up as q unit. 1t is the
intention of the bidders to have these
elevators finished early in September
in ample time to care for this seasons
grain crop. The entire group consists
of ten separate concrete cylinders
having an interior diameter of fifteen
feet, the height being IS feet.
HELENA, Aug. l7.-Moses Smith, an
educated Chippewa Indian, met a sud.
den and tragic death some time be-
tween midnight last night and five
o'clock this morning. His body was
found lying beside the tracks of the
Northern Pacific about three miles
west of this city. The dead man was
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