The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-08
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.
BUTTE, Feb. 2.-Fire last night
practically destroyed St. Joseph
church and school in M%eaderville. en-.
failing a loss Of nearly $4,000, on
which there was 1900 insurance.
The blaze is believed to have oripina.
ted in the boiler room of the church.
in which fire was kept all night for
the purpose of keeping the school
warm.
BUTTE, Feb. l. - Seven hundred
pounds of trout contained in four
trunks were seized today by Deputy
State Game Warden j. E Clifford.
The fish we're caught at Monida and
brought to this city Sunday night by
P. Croft Of Silver Lake and Ivan
Winslow, who ia q barber at Lake.
view. They are in jail on charge of
violating game laws in attempting to
sell fish.
LEWIsTOWN, Feb. 1.-Sheriff Will.
liam Woods is today investig ating an
alleged murder mystery At Grass
Range. A year ago the death OF q
half breed named Wells was reported
to the coroner, the information being
to the effect that he had been frozen
to death. Some trouble among the
breeds has brought out a statement
that Wells was murdered by another
halt breed aud that the breeds d
ally united in al effort to keep the
real facts from the authorities.
GLEND1vE, Feb. 1.-Stock Inspector
Twible and an assistant have effected
the arrest of William Briggs and two
half breeds who are charged with
wholesale cattle robberies. The cal.
casses of q number of animals were
found at the Briggs ranch and other
evidence relating to disposition of a
number Of animals has been secured.
The authorities charge that Briggs is
at the head of one of the most notori-
Gus gangs that ever existed in east
ern Montana.
CASCADE, Feb. 3.-An empty box
car 10 nov doing service as q depot in
Cascade, fire at an early hour this
morning having completely destroyed
the Great Northern station house at |
this point. Much apprehension was
felt for a time lest two large ware.
houses near the depot would be de.
stroyed, but the high wind seemed to
be a help in the situ ation rather than
q menace, as it carried the burning
cinders over the roofs of the thre eaten.
ed buildings.
KAL1sPELL, Feb. 3.-Trouble beset
the Great Northern again yesterday
and since last night no trains have
arrived in Kalispell. Some are held
at White6sh and three are stuck in
drifts just east of the range, where q
strong wind is blowing 20 inches of
freshly fallen snow. After "a hours
of battling when the road was cleared,
q rotary jumped the track and again
blocked the way. No mails arrived
and passengers who went out on local
twice to meet expected trains returned
to put up in Kalispell for the night.
DILLON, Feb. 3.-Assessor Norma an
E. Holden, q pioneer dry land farmer,
Gays that a lot Of fax is going to be
grown by the dry land farmers on the
bench east of Dillon this year. Last
spring there were more than 1900
acres of virgin soil broken by steam
and gasoline pillow outfits, guilty ated
during the summer for the conserva-
ton of moisture and most of this land
will this spring be sown in fax.
WHITEFIsH, Feb. 6.-The first VIC
tim of snow blockades this winter was
S. W. Vessel, who met his death, it
is supposed, by being run into with a
rotary snow pillow at Browning late
Friday evening. 1t is thought that he
was walking on the track, and, on &C.
count Of the storm, did not see q
rotary snow pillow that was clearing
out the track. He was literary hacked
to pieces with the revolving knives.
HELENA, Feb. 6.-Twelve years for
Mike Wrote and five years for Toots
Brown in the federal prison at Lsaven.
worth, Kas., were the penalties i'm
posed by Judge Rasch this morning
on the two Carbon county ranchmen
who were recently found guilty Of kill.
ing two Indians on the Crow reser.
walton last November. A motion was
made for an arrest Of judgment, but
this the court overruled.
TOWNSEND. Feb. 6.-There is being
loaded at the stocky ards In this city
today for shipment to the St. Louis
market by AL Wright and his asso.
~ciates, the largest shipment OF live.
stock ever made at q time from This