The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-11-06
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS

MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
LEw1sTowN. Oct. 25.-The fret day
OF the state land sale, conducted here
by Joseph Oker, was an immense sue.
cess Thousands Of acres were sold,
the top price being s65 an acre for q
tract just north of Moore, while many
racts sold for $50, $45 and $40.
CHoTEAU, Oct. 29.-The Milwaukee
railway company began yesterday
moving dirt for tie new branch from
Great Falls to Chotesa and beyond.
The actual construction work vas be-
gun about . mile north of Chotesu on
the Truchot property, by VIM. Hodg-
kiss, who put several teams TO work.
| Contr acts for the construction OF the
entire branch will be let shortly.
HELENA, Oct. 29.-Approximately
2,000, 600 acres OF public land have been
surveyed In Montana this season, ac.
cording to an estimate made by j.
Scott Harrison, assistant supervisor
Of surveys under whose direction the
work has been carried IN. Last year
the total was 2, loo, 900 acres. but the
appropriation for the work was larger
and besides, the season was much
more favorable for field work.
ANACONDA, Oct. 29.-Ralph Stan
ton, an employe on the hill, is at ST.
AIMS hospital and is not expected to
live as a result of having his leg torn
of in q machine he was tending in
the mill. 10 some way he came too
near the cog wheels of the machine
and his overall was caught. He was
dragged into the machine and one of
his legs vas wrneched of at the knee.
BUTTE, Oct. 29.-Alleging that he
found Fred Spearman, colored, .
waiter, kissing his wife, . buxom
colored woman, o. D. Anderson, also
colored, . dining car cook, yesterday
noon invited Spesrman to his home,
PIG south Idaho street, and shot him
twice after Spesrmao tried to get out
of range. Three other bullets whizz-
ed by Spearmsn's head a. he lay on
the ground. Anderson reloaded his
revolver, but Spesrman escaped.
Spearman lies painfully wounded At
the emergency hospital.
CHoTEAU, Oct. 29.-David Living
ston, 9 sheepherder employed at the
Cross sen ranch a few miles from Cho-
teau, had his arm amputsted as the re-
suit Of a shooting which occurred at
the ranch IN Saturday evening. Liv-
ingston and another herder named
Anthony Minister, quarreled, accord
to the stories told, Livingston being
the aggressor. He had a club and
Minister had a rifle. Livingston fret
threatened the other man with a club
and then said he would go to the
wagon and get his gun. To deter
him from this, so it is said, Minister
raised the rifle, without any idea OF
shooting, and it went off accidentally,
the ball entering Livingston's arm.
DILLON, Oct. 29.-Struck by two
runaway coal laden battleship cars
thai came down the grade at speed of
more than 80 miles an hour, passen-
ger train No. 4 on the Oregon Shor,
Line was wrecked at Kidd this morn.
ing. William Purdy, engineer, and
his fireman, Eugene Baird, both OF
Butte, were killed.
BUTTE, Oct. 29.-When trains ag rain
run through Great Northern tunnel
No. 7, which was the scene Of a wreck
a month g and three men were kill.
ed, it will mark the completion of
a difficult engineering task. Officials
: OF the road said yesterday that the
shoohy now in operation to carry
trains around the mountain near Boul.
der probably will be used until after
snow flies. 1t will be two months
q before the engineers will pronounce
= the work complete.
q LIVINGSTON, Oct. 30.-Peter Klehr
# a pioneer resident of Park county
+ was accidentally killed yesterday wher
8 returning from q hunting trip. A CUR
which vas resting in the front of 6
wagon in which Klehr was riding be.
8 came dislodged and fell to the ground
The impact discharged the weapon
the bullet striking Klehr in the CHR
n and coursing upward through the
brain. Klehr had been a resident o.
this county for Is years.
DEER LODGE, Oct. 29.-The remains
k of Joshua Lincoln, an aged minel
e living at C~arpenter's Bar. near ole