The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-09-16
MONTANA BRIEFlETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days
Butte, Sept. 11.-Judge B~ouruuin in
the United State court brought to a
close the habeas corpus proceedings
in behalf of the men confined in the
county jail by the military authori.
ties in dismissing the application for
the writs, the court stated that there
is no cause for interference in the
local situation by the federal courts.
Applications for a writ have already
been filed in the state courts and the
matter it is expected will quickly
reach the state supreme court.
Lewistown, Sept. 1.-The Farmers
Elevator company has brought suit
against Theodore Lindsey to recover
$500, alleged that it entered into a
contract with the defendant under
which he was to deliver 5000 bushels
of No. 1 Turkey red wheat at Chris
tina; that Lindsey failed and refused
to carry out his contract and as on
September 5 such wheat, at the point
designated, was worth IS cents a
bushel, the plaintiff a damaged to
the amount of Z cents a bushel.
Billings, Sept. 11.-A quilt made on
looms in the industrial department of
the Huntley schools from cotton
grown on the project this year by A.
T. Thompson will be exhibited at the
Panama-Pacific exposition. Thomp-
son is a Texas negro who settled on a
project unit a few years ago and who
this year experimental with a small
| plot of cotton. From the few stocks
he picked enough cotton of fair quail
ity to make a quilt and the looms are
now being prepared for its manufac-
ture.
Billings, Sept. Unemployment of
a state chemist to protect the inter-
ests of beet growers at the factory
was decided upon at a meeting of the
executive committee of the Beet
Growers association held in this city
and an assessment of 5 cents per acre
on all beet land in Montana and nor
thern Wyoming has been referred to
members of the various locals for
vote. The fight of the growers for
restoration of last years prices for
their beets has been taken up by the
business men of Billings, and scores
of letters have been sent the Great
| Western Sugar company at Denver,
owners of the Billings plant.
Great Falls, Sept. 11.-Eight years
vas the penalty imposed by Judge H.
H. Ewing in the district court upon
| John Anderson, who recently engaged
in the passing of forged checks upon
a wholesale scale. On Aug. 81 Ar.
derson was arrested in this city after
having passed Is forged checks, each
for the sum of $40, while upon his
person were found nine other checks
of the same denomination. The
checks purported to be issued by
Frary & ~Burlingame, a real estate
firm of this city, Anderson possessing
a full book Of these checks, which he
claimed to have had printed in Seat
tie before going to Missoula, where
he cashed a couple of forged checks
before coming to this place.
Helena. Sept. 12.-The Great Falls
Western Railway company filed in the
Helena land Office today maps show
ing the located line of the road pro-
jected from Great Falls to Missoula
via the Dearborn river, and thence
by a tunnel under the main range
into the Big Blackfoot valley. There
we're five maps in all for that part
of the road in the Helena land dis
trict.
Belgrade, Sept. 12.-Buyers have
paid as high as $1.O6 a bushel for
choice Scotch fife wheat in the West
Gallatin neighborhood, 1000 bushels
of the E. c. Gordan wheat crop bring
ing that price from G. r. Powers. The
same buyer paid 81 .005-S a bushel for
6,4O0 bushel of Turkey red wheat to
Mr.. Gordon. S. j. Mcclure has sold
his crop of $500 bushels of wheat,
which averaged 80 bushels to the
acre, some Scotch fife rising to As
bushels an acre.
Dillon, Sept. 12.-The heaviest fall
of moisture in four months visited
this section today, and while it will
come as a great relief to many PEG.
pie. and will be of material benefit to
the dry land farmers, a number of
ranchmen, who have not as yet cut
their grain, will suffer considerable.
Snow began falling last night and
continued to fall until this afternoon,
1t is estimated that at least eight
inches of now fell outside of town
while close to that amount fell in
Dillon.
Helena, Sept. I'm. l.. Hickman
secretary of the state bureau of child
and animal protection, issued a cal