The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-22
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days

Helena, July 1s.-Accordins to $
letter addressed to the creamery pa
irons of Montana by 4. G. Schoiss.
state dairy commissioner. MANY Mo-..
tana merchants are deliberately -e
duciLg the buying capacity Of their
patrons by handling imported butter
in preference to the local product.
Montana creameries have been forced
to ship their butter to Chicago and
the net returns to them have been
from = to : cents a pound less than :.
the butter we're handled by tie local
merchants. In consequence they were
forced to reduce the price they were
paying for butter fat.
Butte, July 16.-Shot by a posse
that was chasing him to cover as &
horse thief, William Beading. alias
Bell, who came here a week ago and
went to st. James hospital for treat
ment of his wounds. is today under
arrest, and a guard has been placed
in his room by sheriff's officers. Bead
Ing was shot a week ago last SUNDAY.
but in company with his brother. 4.
NJ. Pleading, who also gave the am
of Bell, eluded the Idaho posse and
made a trip of $50 miles. arriving in
Butte seven days after the battle. The
fight with the posse occurred near
Challis, Idaho, and Beading and his
brother made a terrific ride on horse
back to get away.
Helena, July ia conference was
held here today of inspectors with
John p. Riddell, deputy sealer Of
weights and measures, the meeting
being for the purpose OF agreeing
upon a policy for the enforcement Of
the weight and measures law. There
has been doubt by some of the in
spectors as to just how far their au-
tiIcrity went and what their duties
are. AS a result of the conference,
the inspectors were instructed to en-
force the law. and especially the net
containcr provision, literally. Pack
age goods that do not comply with
the net container provision will be
condemned and those handling them
criminally proceeded against.
Billings, July ia commission
composed of representatives of Bill
ings, Hardin and Hysham has re-
turned from an inspection of the ced-
ed strip of the Crow reservation made
fol the purpose of gathering data to
present to Cato Sells, Indian commits
sioner, who will visit Montana this
month. AS a result of the inspection
it is declared that the land is broken
and rugged: that during the two days
not more than 80 tracts were seen
which contained as much as 100 acres
of nlowable land; that countless ra-
vines and deep gulleys, and that it's
opening under the homestead law is
not likely to be successful.
Butte, July 1.-THE executive com
mittee of the Montana Panama-Pacific
exposition commission voted to set
aside $4,000 to be used in the con-
struction of d Montana building al
the San Francisco fair next year. The
building will be used as general head
quarters for Montana people who Wis
it the fair, and for the showing Of
motion pictures of the industries and
resources of this state, and further
more as a place for a general eXhlb-
it OF the products, mineral. agricul-
tural and industrial to supplement
the motion pictures.
Deer Lodge, July 1.-THE funeral
OF Paul Greron. who died sunday at
his home in Fort Benton. was held
Yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Grenon
was so years old at the time of his
death, and died while at work in his
garden. He is remembered by a few
of the older residents of this section
as having come to Deer Lodge from
St. Louis in 1855, and as having been
at one time IN partnership with Peter
Walton, moving from here to Fort
Benton.
Lewistown. July IA lot of realty
operators and of farm lands
are wondering what has become OF
a man who represented himself as
W.. w. Irwin. one Of the Irwin broth
ers. multi-millionaires of Swift Cur
rent. Saskatchewan, who has disap-
peared after spending several days
here. The supposed millionaire ar
ranged to buy a vast acreage OF
choice land in the Judith basin and
enjoyed a lot of auto riding. but when
it came to closing up. insisted on con
tracts extending over a couple OF
weeks with no initial payments.
Helena, July 17.-Reports to the
Great Northern Offices in this city
show that that road has brought into
Montana this year the same number
of carloads of immigrant moveables
it did in the first six months of last
year, when the Great Northern broke
all previous records. The reports
show that more settlers have beer
brought into Montana this year b,
the Great Northern than the same
road has taken into all of the Other
northwestern states. British COlum
bia, Alberta and Saskatchewan com
bined.
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