The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-21
MONTANA NEWS BRlEFLETS|
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts of the State.

~ oOOSSs " uSaodOIe SnoTI uteWU
From Various Parts Of the State.
Great Falls, Jan. 13.-George Kelly,
the p-i3efghter who was last Satur-
day found guilty Of white slavery, !
vas taken before Judge Ewing for
sentence. The judge sentenced Kelly
to serve five years in the state peni-
Tertiary. Kelly accepted sentence
without emotion and had no comment
to make concerning the findings of
the jury or the length Of his term.
Helena, Jan. ia saloonkeeper is
liable. criminaily, under section IL of
chapter SO of the laws of 1913, of he
sells beer OF other liquor in bottles
that are supposed to contain a quart
which really are about four-1fths of
a quart. This is what Attorney Gen.
eral Kelly advises County Attorney
D. W. Doyle of Teton county. Brew
cries and saloons handling bottled
goods are affected.
Hamilton, Jan. 13.-George Orr,
aged "a, surviving member of the IA
nous F~airweather party of argonauts,
that discovered the Alder gulch gold
diggings in 1858, the richest the world
has known, died suddenly at the home
of a friend here. The late Marcus
DAILY was a close friend of Orr's and
they were mining partners in western
Montana and Utah.
Bozeman, Jan. 13.-That the farm
ers of the Gallatin valley will consent
to cultivate peas provided the on
tractors maintain the prices of the
favored varieties at $3.50 per hundred
weight and permit the farmer to re-
tain the culls, is the report Of the COM
mittee that reported to the meeting of
pea growers in Bozeman. Ninety men
who have cultivated peas in the Gal
latin attended the meeting.
Helena, Jan. 13.-Twenty-nine below
zero at Bowen, Beaverhead county,
was the lowest and sixty-three above
at Denton, Fergus county and Busby,
Big Horn county, was the highest tenn
perature recorded in Montana last
month, according to the monthly re-
port of the weather bureau. Zortman,
Blaine county, had the honor of en-
joying the highest mean temperature
last month of 1858 degrees with Great
Falls and Browning.
Butte, Jan. 13.-Declaring horse
racing and its accomplishments of
pool selling and bookmaking a menace
to Butte and an unmixed evil, the
Butte chamber of commerce today
stands on record as opposed to the
thirty day race meeting in this city.
The chamber seeks to have the length
of the annual meeting cut to fifteen
days and to secure the appointment
of a state commission to regulate the
game in all its details, eliminating
pool selling and bookmaking.
Billings, Jan. 13.-With the close of
operations at the Billings sugar fac
tory Tuesday afternoon the annual ov-
erhauling began in preparation for
next seasons campaign, after the
most successful year in the history of
the factory. The total tonnage sliced
was 24O, 900 tons for which growers
received $1,36O, 600, including a pay
ment of $4,000 which will be made
today for beets delivered the latter
part of December. This is an increase
of 100000 tons over the 1912 output
and an increase of 100000 in the
amount paid out to farmers. The
number of growers also increased
from 900 to 1850 and the acreage
from 10000 acres to $4,000.
Butte, Jan. 14.-With 5 cents left
out of SIP which he embezzled from
the Northern Express company, Hen
ry Clauson, aged 20 an express driver,
was arrested last night by Detective
Ambrose on a grand larceny charge
upon the company's complaint. Clau.
son admitted to the detective that he
took the money, but declared that af-
ter he had spent it in a trip to Salt
Lake he was anxious to return to
Butte hoping to get work and make
good the amount.
Helena, Jan. 1.-THE board of
county commissioners are now max
ing complete arrangements to work
all county prisoners on the roads dur
ing the coming spring and summer.
1t is proposed that the work shall
commence by the first of March, and
If the weather permits it may start
at an earlier date. If present plans
materialize the county will probably
have two convict camps at work; one
engaged in the actual building of
roads and the other at work on a rock
pile in the southeastern part of the
county.
Butte, Jan. 14.-Chief of Police
Murphy today received notice from
the federal officers at Spokane, that
James P. O'Byrne, alias James Byrne
representing himself as a capitalist
and promoter of London, had been de-
ported from the United States as an
undesirable. O'Byrne was held at
Portland on a charge of using the
mails to defraud. He spent several
months in Butte a year ago attempt
ing to swing two large ranch deals
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