The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-09-09
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.
Plentywood, Sept. 1.-On Saturday
evening Chas. Johnson murdered his
s1ster-in-law near Redstone. When
found the body was badly mutilated,
twelve knife wounds being counted.
A posse Immediately started after
Johnson and in the effort to capture
him he was shot in the hip. 1t is be-
lieved that he will die from the
wound.
Helena, Sept. 1.-Glacier park be-
came a federal preserve yesterday
afternoon when Governor S. v. Stew
art was formally notified by Secretary
of h Interior Lane that the federal
government accepted jurisdiction.
The Montana law deciding the tract
to the government provided the ces-
sion would be ratified whenever con-
gress passed a law, and the state was
notified. The bill was signed August
%, and a certified copy sent to the
governor.
Great Falls, Sept. ii. Lampson,
"a years old, vas arrested tonight fol-
lowing his alleged passing of fourteen
checks written on blanks purporting
to be of Frary & ~Burlingame, a local
insurance firm, each for $40. He had
Sass. on him when arrested. The
checks are on blue paper, while the
firm always uses white check. The
firm declared the checks all to be for
geries.
Great Falls, Sept. Under a load
OF coal and the debris of a broken
farm wagon the dead body of Walter
Leland. a Belt rancher, was found at
+ O'Clock this morning by George
Hughes, on the side of the road at the
apex OF the Belt grade of the Great
Fal1s,Belt county highway, about
~three-quarters of a mile west of Belt.
Death had apparently occurred some
hours before the discovery. The
team, still attached by tangled har-
ness to the overturned and broken
wagon, stood at the roadside, quietly
munching the heritage within reach.
Mr.. Hughes conveyed the news of his
find to Belt authorities. and the body
was removed to Cooks undertaking
establishment.
Lewistown. Sept. Henry Chees-
manager Of the l;anl; ranch has
received returns on a car of hogs
shipped by him to a Helena con2crn.
There were Il hogs in this lot.
w%e,s;aing 14,7G) po MS, and sold for
.':.- cents a pound, live weight. Zone
Of the rorker> were eight months aid
some were only six. Mr.. ChessMan
who has remarkable success With
hogs, will make several more ship
ments before the end of the year.
Twin Bridges, Sept. 2.-Madison
county last year produced the best
seed oats sold at the Minneapolis
Board of Trade. This information has
been furnished by the Minneapolis
commission firm handling the grain.
The oats were of the Scottish chief
variety and were grown ear Twin
Bridges. They weighed out at a tribe
better than 46 pounds to the bushel
and averaged 80 bushels to the acre.
Miles City, Sept. IN. l.. Wilson,
the agricultural expert assigned this
district, returned last night from
Wibaux. He says that through a Sc
vere frost in the vicinity of Wibaux
late corn was frozen. but that early
corn, which had been planted under
his direction, was matured and safe.
The corn that was saved was out of
236 varieties of northwestern corn
that Mr.. Wilson had selected, and the
best was from a species, the seed Of
which came from North Dakota.
Gardiner, Sept. .. Government
Scout Mcbride today brought into
Fort Yellowstone a man named Dart
eneach, whom he captured in Idaho.
He is being held in the g%uardhouse
as a suspect in the holdup which
took place in Yellowstone park last
month. 1t is said Darteneach was
caught while skining a deer, and de-
clared Immediately that he was no
the man wanted for the holdup. Driv-
ers who were in the holdup are being
summoned to Fort Yellowstone to
identify the man. Pictures taken of
the man while he vas doing the work
will be used to assist in Identification.