The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-10-22
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the state.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the state.
Helena, Oct. 14.-Secretary Breiten. !
stien CT the state fair has mailed
checks to premium winners at the
fair this year aggregating $4,000.
This is $1,000 more than was awarded
In cash last year. County regular
and special premium winners at the
state fair this year will receive $20,. ,
900.
Helena. Oct. 14.-D. A. G. Floweree
the pioneer cattleman who died sew.
eral months ago, left an estate valued
at $4S6, 1862, according to the report
Of the appraisers filed in the district
court. Stock in the Floweree Land
& Cattle company is the chief asset,
with other personal and real proper.
ty in Montana. The value of the
Florida property was not included in
the appraisement.
Great Falls, Oct.14.-O. ]. Hamil
and F. N. Goodrich were arrested at
Simms on a complaint charging them
with violating the liqnor law of the
state. The men were brought to
Great Falls by Deputy Donoher, but
bail was provided and both were al
lowed to return home. Hamil's bail
was $1,000 and that of Goodrich $500.
The men r alleged to have sold H.
quor in retail quantities at Simms,
| which is known as a "dry town."
Helena, Oct. 1.-Two hunters, Civ.
ing the names Pat Scallon of West
Great Falls and Charles Biggs of Hell
ena, are in trouble with the game war
den at Choteau. They are charged
| with killing a eve mountain sheep
and lamb in the Sun river country
and are now detained at Choteau,
where their trial will be held. The
minimum penalty for killing a female
mountain sheep is 500. Information
of the arrests reached Game Warden
]. L. DeHart last evening.
Billings, Oct. 14.-Entering an
outbuilding at his farm near Column
bus, after spending the day with a
neighbor, c. w. Baxter was confront
| ed by a black bear. Not daunted by
the odds such an encounter invited,
Baxter pulled a heavy clasp knife
from his pocket and dealt the bear a
heavy blow with the big blade. He
drew back for a second thrust when,
to his surprise, the bear rolled
over dead. The blade had penetrat-
ed the animals eye and entered the
brain.
Butte, Oct. 14.-Not dead and the
huskiest looking man whose name
ever appeared on a tombstone, James
1vanhoff, a young Bulgarian, appeared
at police quarters last night to per-
sonally deny the story that he was
beaten to death at Woodville recent
ly. He was not near W%oodville; in
fact, he was several hundred miles
away at the time the Woodville ira
gedy is supposed to have occurred,
and he fastened back to Butte to as
sure his friends of the fact that he
was alive.
the legal battle over the taxation of
the mineral rights reserved by the
Northern Pacific when it sells it's
holdings in Montna was won by the
state. Attorney General Kelly today
was advised that Judge Stack at Liv-
ingston had sustained the demurrer
of the state to the complaint of the
Northern Pacific, instituted to re-
strain the Park county assessor from
assessing these mineral reservations.
Dillon, Oct. 15.-Guy Pierson, a
ranch hand at the Henry Thompson
ranch near Kidd, placed the muzzle
of a rifle in his mouth and asked Cal |
Walgomott to pull the trigger of the
gun. Pierson had reloaded the gun
after Walgomott had taken the car.
tridges out Of the magazine, and
thinking, of course, that the gun was
empty, the latter pulled the trigger. |
A second later Pierson fell dead at |
his feet.
Helena, Oct. Impartial returns
received by Commissioner J. M. Ken.
nedy of the department of agriculture
and publicity, indicate that despite
the fact that farmers were unusually
busy all over the country during the
past three months, the number of
public land entries made in Montana
during the quarter ending September
80, almost reached the big total set
by the first quarter of the present
year, when ove $500 new claims
were located in this state.
Bozeman, Oct. 15.-With his prize
herds of Guernsey and Brown Swiss
cattle and his Hampshire and Ches-
ter White hogs, w. o. Bohart, a Boze.
man pure-bred livestock grower, ad.
vertised the state in livestock in
North Dakota, Washington and Ore.
gon, and captured a total of $$3,5OO
in prizes. The showing season for
Mr.. Bohart closed at Salem, Oregon,
and North Yakima, WASH. last week,
and the stock is now IN Bohemian,
LeWiStOwn. Oct Eir.