The river press., 1910-03-30
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few DAYS.

What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
GREAT FALLS, March 23.-Edwapd.
Tibbetts. q mining engineer. was bound
over to await the action of the districa
court today with bonds in the sum Of
$500 for the alleged forging OF two
checks on the Great Falls National
bank. each for 90, which he had
csshed In the restricted district.
LEwIsTowN. March 23.-The local
land Office is swsmped with business
this week. On one day the entries
numbered 76, almost twice a. many ss
were ever fled before on . single day,
and the cash receipts for that one day
exceeded $1,000. Two public Gales re-.
suited In $3.50 per acre being realized,
which is the highest price ever paid
for public land at such sale.
DILLON, March 2a.-John s. Dun.
kin. aged SIS and q resident Of Beaver.
head county since 1884, sent a bulle&
crashing through his brain in South
Montana street lodging house yester.
day and the dead body was found
some hours later. The testimony at
the inquest showed he had been drink
ing heavily and there was, some evi.
dece to lead to the belief that Dunkin
was despondent over Q love affair.
ANACONDA, March 23.-The merger
of the Butte properties in the Anacon-
da company, as proposed at today's
meeting of that company, includes
practically all the producing proper.
ties of Butte, except the North Butte
company, the properties owned by W.
A. Clark, the East Butte and few
minor properties. The total annual
output of the compaeies included in
the merger is about 275, ,0OO. 900 pounds
of copper, $4,000, 900 ounces of silver
and 81, 200, 900 in gold. --..
MILES CITY, M arch 23.-The ther.
mometer at the government weather
station registered 50 degrees yester-
day. Monday the warmest was 70
and Sunda ay it was 81. The weather
bureau records at the station which
include all of the old Fort Custer
records and extend clear back into
the hazy 80, fail to show single
day in March in former years in
which the temperature rose as high
as 81 degrees, let alone 80, and there
Is likewise no March month recorded
that will ever bear comparison with
the present month.
LEw1sTowN, March 24-Several Ju-
dith basin farmers are preparing to
use oxen in breaking ground this
spring. Horses are very scarce and
high, and until traction engines are
more numerous, it ia likely that oxen
will be utilized quite extensively in
furnishing motive power for plowing.
HELENA. March 24.-The largest
fling fee ever received by the secre.
tary OF state of Montana was taken in
today by Secretary Yoder when the
Anaconda Copper Mining company
paid s12, 500 for thing the certificate of
the increase of capital stock to $780,
600, 900, of from l25, 900 shares at s25
each to 5000, 900 shares.
HELENA, March 24.-Word of the
drowning at Hauser lake late yester.
day afternoon of an Austrian laborer
was received here today. The man,
whose name is not known, was fishing
above the temporary dam. His boat
approached too close to the mouth of
the dume-the largest in the world
was sucked in and spewed out a third
of mile down stream. where the boat
overturned. The body was hurled in.
to the water and disappeared. 1t has
not been found.
LEwIsTOwN, March 25.-The local
woolgrowers are once more being in
terviewed by outside sheep buyers,