The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-09-10
MONTANA BRIEFLETs.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days

Butte, Sept. 4.-According to an an.
nouncement by President Earring of
the Milwaukee, the road this year will
purchase 10000 freight cars at a cost
of $1,000 each; also IT'S locomotives
at $4,000 each, all to be delivered in
December. The road plans to con-
struct 400 miles of new line in Mon
tana and will electrify it's lines from
Harlowton, Mont, to Avery, Idaho.
Helena, Sept. 4.-Foreigners en-.
ployed by the Great Northern railway
company in Montana outnumber Amer
leans almost three to one, according
to statistics gathered by w. ]. Swim.
dlehurst, commissioner of the state
department of labor and industry. Ont
of a total Of $3.50 laborers employed
but 1886 are Americans.
Helena, Sept. 4.-The first car load
OF Montana grown watermelons were
shipped yesterday from Billings. &C.
cording to John Riddel, deputy state
sealer of weights and measures. who
returned from that city today. The
melons were grown on a 27-acre tract
owned by the Billings Land and Irri-
cation company. One a was shin.
ped to Lewistown and the other to
Livingston.
Helena, Sept. 4.-The state board
OF equalization, according to figures
compiled in their Office, has fixed the
total valuation of all railroads opera
ting in the state, for assessment pur-
poses at $74,675,1S1. This is an in
crease OF $6,193,SS2, Notwithstanding
the complaints Of the railroads asking
for a reduction, which after a hear
ing by the board were turned down.
Twin Bridges, Sept. 4.-Kharkov
wheat, grown from seed imported
from the steppes Of Russia, Of winter
variety and said to be well adapted
to Montana climate, will be tested in
Madison county. A field Of ten acres
has been sown on the Bonnie Doom ,
ranch here, and the result of the crop
will be watched by those interested
in dry land farming. 1t is claimed
for the wheat that it is a prolific |
yielder, and that it beats turkey red
at least twenty per cent, under the
same conditions of soil, moisture and
culture.
Miles City, Sept. 5.-Claud Harvey
a young man who resided at Elkalaka,
yesterday as the result of gun
slOt wounds sustained while he was
cleaning a 20 calibre rifle. The wea-
pom was discharged accidentally and
the intestines We're perforated in at
least six places.
Butte, Sept. 5.-In a head-on COLI
sion tonight at Janey, a small station
on the Chicago, St. Paul and Milwall-
kee railroad between two construc-
ton trains, Ed. Durham, a brakeman
and a Greek laborer were killed, and
seven other Greek laborers were in
Jured. All were brought to the hos
pital at Butte late tonight.
Red Lodge, Sept. 5.-Mige Toner, a
coal miner employed in the Washoe
mine of the Anaconda Copper Com
pany, was the victim of a CHASTITY fatal
ity yesterday. The roof was faulty
and when Toner drove his pick into
the lower part of the vein, huge par
ticles of coal came tumbling down
and hurled him to the floor of the
room. Toner was impaled on his pick
the steel entering the lower part of
abdomen.
Billings, Sept. 5.-What is believed
be a world record for wheat yield
from non-irrigated land is reported
from Hysham, where a field of %
acres produced an average of 81 BUSH
and 4 pounds to the acre, or a to.
of 1,242 pounds. A yield but little
less remarkable was harvested on the
James Tovey ranch near Heggesville,
an average of AZ bushels an acre hay
ing been harvested from 100 acres
of a 3O-acre field, the general average
OF which was 81 bushels. The total
of $50 bushels was graded No. l Tur-
key Red at the elevator.
Malta, Sept. 5.-Work on the Sec
ond unit of the Dodson North canal of
the Milk River project is to be COM
menced at nee Hauser and Sims
OF Salt Lake city have charge of this
great contract and will employ sever
hundred men near Malta. They are
here this week getting preliminaries
under way for active work and are
letting some of the work to sub-con-
There are I'VE SOC, 900
yards of earth to be eXcavated, and
many concrete structures to be built,
as %culverts, bridges and spill.
ways.
Helena, Sept. 7.-Theo. H. Klein.
schmidt, of the we'll known plo-
neers of Montana and a former mayor
of Helena, died here at on early hour
this morning, after a brief illness. Mr..
K~leinschmidt came to what is now
in the eos, first locating IN
Virginia City. He helped organize,
and was instrumental in some of the
early day business projects of the