Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-09-19
MONTANA BRIEFS

ouLI6 y luluSS hIC pIOQuClu6 A1Olc
heavily than for long time past.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has set hearing for several
cases beginning September "a.
The best of the wheat returns in the
valley are coming from the dry land
wheat ranches north of Belgrade.
William H. Franklin died recently at
Anaconda after short illness. Mr..
Franklin was born in Helena SO years
ago.
Mistaken for a deer by his own
brother, Rollo Peck Of Warland was
shot while hunting on Sunday morning
and instantly killed.
Andrew j. Davis was Saturday, at
Butte, declared to be entitled to the
100000 estate left him by Mrs. Rachel
Williams in her will.
A third batch of charges Of incom-
potency against Chief Peter Sanger of
the Butte fire department were filed
Saturday with Mayor Lewis ]. Duncan.
Fred Dunn, Is years old, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Dunn, ranchers of Red
Lodge creek, was accidentally shot and
killed recently at the Dunn home by
the 12-year-old son of William Hardy,
a neighboring rancher.
Albert Malmquist committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head
with a revolver at Paradise Sunday.
Malmquist was about 35 years old,
single, and had been employed at the
plant at Division point.
Investigation has developed beyond
a doubt, say the police, that Special
Policeman Lee G. Vaughan was shot
and killed when he rushed to the aid
of girl in the brush in a lonely spot
Just outside the fence of the Columbia
gardens, an amusement park Of Butte.
The encroachments of cry-land farm
ers in eastern Montana have driven
cattlemen to the alternative of pur-
chasing range or quitting the business.
As a result the N. P. sold $1,000 acres
of railroad land to stOckmen during a
trip to the eastern part of the state,
from which he has just returned.
At mass meeting Sunday at Butte
of union men of the city resolutions
denouncing the Michigan mine opera
tors, pledging further aid to the strik-
ing copper miners and calling upon
congress for an investigation of in
dustrial conditions in the Calumet cop
per country were adopted. A number
Of orators were heard.
William Killorn, in the Shields river
valley, thrashed 1880 bushels of oats
from 40 acres, or an average of about
lis bushels per acre. On the J. F.
O'Connor ranch 129 acres thrashed an
average Of 100 1-6 bushels, weighing A
pounds to the bushel. Figuring 81
pounds to the bushel, there would have
been 165 bushels to the acre.
]. M. Kennedy, commissioner of ag
riculture and publicity for Montana, on
his return from a trip through the
Deer Lodge valley, says that the crops
in that section of the state are better
than he has ever seen them in the "a
years he has been familiar with condi
lions in that region. The hay crop In
the Deer Lodge valley is simply stu
pendous.
An irrigation project, including %.
900 acres in the Musselshell valley
has Just been created by the district
court at Roundup and work on the
construction of the system will begir
within few days. The undertaking il
unique in that it will be the first ex
tensive effort to utilize the storage o.
waste water to be undertaken in thu
northwest.
The prevalence of horse stealing II
Carbon county has inspired a deter
mined campaign on the part OF thu
county authorities, aided by the stat
stock inspector and his deputies, t.
run down the thieves. A recent vic
tim of the dragnet is Henry Fort, wit
is now In the county Jail at Red Lodgt
accused of the theft Of II horses be
longing to James Ingram.
Mildred Kelly, who was acquitted a
Livingston Of the charge Of murderinl
Edward Pratt this spring, has com
menced suit against Al Volberding. ad
ministrator of the Edward Pratt es
tate, for $1,972, the grounds given TO
the claim being that this amount wa
loaned to Pratt by her. while the,
were living together as man and wife
The Kelly girl Is now living with he
father in Missouri.
Three state land sales held durin
last week brought the state an aggre
gate of $4,000. The highest averag
price was received from the sales q