The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-15
MONTANA NEWS BRlEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the state.

a Budget Of Readable Short Items !
From Various Parts Of the state.
Libby, Oct. Awhile hunting noun
tain goat IN the vicinity Of the Snow.
shoe mine, ]. ]. Dullen fell from q
400-foot cliff and was killed. Almost
every bone in his body was broken.
Morris Brooks, who was also in the ,
same party, shot a goat and thinking
it dead took hold of the body. The
animal sprang to its feet, charging
Brooks and ramming one of its horns
through his right hand.
Helena, Oct. 7.-Postofice inspect
ors were in Helena last week working
on the robbery of a registered mail
pouch at Great Falls when 1000 was
taken. This money had been con-
signed by a Helena bank to a bank
in northern Montana. There are no
clews to the thieves, so far as is now
known.
Helena, Oct. 7.-Kansas is looking
to Montana for her winters supply Of
potatoes, her own being entirely ex-
hausted because Of the drouth there
this past season. The Copes Sales
Company Of Topeka, has written to
Commissioner J.. M. Kennedy of the
bureau of agriculture and publicity,
for the names and addresses Of pota-
to shippers. Such men can write d.
rectly to the Topeka firm IL they wish.
Helena, Oct. Tt developed at q
hearing held today before the public
service commission on the reason.
ableness of the Forsyth telephone
rates, that the Mountain States Tele-
phone & Telegraph company filed
with the commission last spring a
new schedule of rates covering all
Montana that increases the present
rates. The schedule has not been put
in effect because the commission has
not approved it.
Dillon, Oct. THE Beaverhead
county fair, which was set for the
eighth and ninth Of this month, has
been cancelled on account of the Sc
we're weather conditions. One of the
heaviest SHOWS in the history Of the
country fell on Saturday and Sunday,
making it impossible to arrange the
booths and display the stuff in the
exhibit hall and grounds. It was de-
cided by the directors that II the fair
were postponed for a week it would
be too late for good entries.
Billings, Oct. 7.-According to a
special to the Gazette from Forsyth,
Arthur F. Hughes, the Forsyth ranch.
man wanted for conspiracy to rob an
insurance company, will fight extradi.
ton to Montana. It has also devel-
oped that Hughes while a resident of
Forsyth had a jail record, serving at
different times in the county jail there
for various crimes. Mrs. Hughes-El-
lott still claims to know nothing of
the action of her husband in robbing
a grave and then burning the corpse
at their ranch home. Letters written
to the woman by Hughes yer sent
to the Billings postoffice, and it was
from these that the officers secured
information al to his whereabouts.
Helena, Oct. SIN the supreme
court the Great Northern Won out
against the Chicago & Milwaukee in
lt0 SulL OVC1 a 0C1IQ VI 6lOuI1u w lCCC
wide in Choteau, Teton county, that
both roads wanted for right of way
and terminal purposes. The Mil
waukee was first on the ground, but
merely staked out a center line for
a right of way down the center of
Grove street in Choteau. The Great
Northern arrived a month later and
ctortod condoronotiCu rroooodinuc
against it's rival.
Billings, Oct. 8.-As the result of
attempting to start a fire with kero.
sene in her home, seven miles west
of Billings, Mrs. Shot, wife Of a beet
worker, was so severely burned that
she died. Mrs. Scott was IN her night
clothes when she started to pour
the oil into the stove from a five gal
Ion "a An explosion occurred almost
instantly and her screams awoke her
husband, who was severely burned
in getting her from the room. The
house and its contents were destroy
ed.
G%lendive, Oct. 8.-That corr can
not only be raised in this part of Mon
tana, but that 1t is considered M
Of the really important crops, is in.
dicated by the fact that a "corn rally"
is scheduled to be held next Saturday
at Circle, and farmers from all over
the territory tributary to that town
have been invited to bring in SAM
pies and enter them for prizes which
have been hung up. It is reported
that some fields of corn In that Sec
ton produced from rs to 40 bushels
per acre and that the product is of
fine quality.
Great Falls, Oct. S.-Ralph Shu-
bert, boss powderman at the dam con-
struction at Big Falls, of the best
known powder men of the country,
was instantly killed when he was
crushed beneath a heavy rock. Al
ter the other men had quit for the
afternoon Shubert and his assistant