The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-10-14
MONTANA %BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ina the Past Few Days

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Bozeman, Oct. SIN the past 80
days $4,000 bushels of Montana barley
left the Gallatin valley routed to Nor
way and to Brazil. The difficulty in
obtaining the German malt, which had
an almost exclusive market, especial.
ly in the South American republics,
has given an immense impetus to the
business for the American malt man
ufacturers, and as a result there is a
wonderful demand for barley and
prices have gone towering upwards,
especially so with the Montana barley,
which is regarded as the very finest
in the land.
Glasgow, Oct. S.-Advices received
here are to the effect that the author
tiles of Sheridan county held six 1.
w. WIS. for trial On charges of killing
three men at Chelsea last Sunday.
When the county attorneys eXamina-
ton concluded at Popular the other
members of the band of one hundred
west-bound tourists, who had been
captured and guarded during the past
two days by the Indian police, were
released from custody with a warning
from their former guardsmen to pro-
coed toward the setting sun with
alacrity.
Billings, Oct. S.-A. D. Schwab,
Mrs. Schwab and their five-year-old
o were instantly killed at $50
O'Clock tonight by the %overturning of
an automobile, which went off a
small cliff near Waco, forty miles east
of here. Schwab, who a one of the
most prominent merchants in Rose
bud county had sold his business at
Bighorn and was on the way to Wi
bauX, Mont, where he had purchased
a mercantile establishment. The
bodies were brought to Billings to-
night.
Great Falls, Oct. S.-With the view
to making a radical change in the
methods in vogue in the common
schools of the city, the school board
of Great Falls now has under consid-
Grafton a suggestion from S%uperinten-
dent S. D. Largent that the schools
be kept continuously in session for
IS weeks of the year, instead of Sc
weeks, as as present. The change
has been recommended by the super
intendent in his annual report and the
board expects to obtain the general
opinion of the parents of the school
children before coming to any de-
cision.
Miles City, Oct. S.-Capt Della
Strange, a French agent and a veter-
marian are in the city today, in COM
pany with William Post, a New York
hcrseman. and a heavy buyer of horses
IN the Miles City market. 1t is said
Nat the latter has a contract with the
French agents amounting to 5000
head, $500 of which are now ready
for shipment from the st. Louis mar
kct. Horses are being bought here
at the rate of several hundred per
day and branded for the foreign SER
vice. The contract calls for not only
horses for the cavalry but for the
artillery and transportation service.
Helena, Oct. 9.-The First battalion
of the Fourteenth infantry, which vas
brought to Fort Harrison from Fort
Wright, Spokane, to await develop
ments in the Butte situation, will be
transferred to Fort Missoula and prob
ably be retained there permanently.
An order to that effect was received
today by Major Learned from the war
department at Washington.
Butte, Oct. 9.-ScOres of pedestrians
on Butte's busiest corner saw r. Pap
pa, a we'll known Greek of this city,
jump from a window in the fifth floor
OF he State Savings bank at 2:30
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. He was
taken to the Emergency hospital,
where he died an hour later. A hur-
ried examination showed that the skull
was badly crushed.
Billings. Oct. 9.-President Wilson's
proclamation opening the remaining
lands of the Crow Indian reservation
coded strip has been received at the
Billings land office. From October
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800 acres acquired under the provis-
sion of the homestead laws may apply
to purchase and any settler who has
a valid homestead entry for less than
32O acres may make application to
enter as a special additional home
stead lands contiguous to his original
homestead. The date for the general
opening to homestead is Octber 26.
Helena, Oct. 9.-Attorney General
Kelly, in answer to a request from
opinion referred to him by the state
railroad commission. has issued an
opinion to the effect that the commits
sion is powerless to force a railroad to
operate at a loss. The question arose
in connection with the Yellowstone
Park railroad, owned by the Northern
Pacific road. which ceased to operate
it in 1913. The opinion says that while
a road is operating at a profit the