Show I NEWS FROM I NEARBY TOWNS i A Story Concerning the Source of the riissouri i I F t JS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE i I HIGH COUNCIL REPORT STIRS UP PKOVOS PEOPLE t i TJ Proceedings Were the One Theme on Sunday and Monday May Term of the United States Court at Cheyenne An Important Railway Case Two Hundred Defendants De-fendants The Mas Case ST PAUL Minn May 11 Colonel J V Brower Minnesota state geographer has made the sensational discovery that the source of the Missouri river Is not Red Rock lake Minnesota a has r been stated Colonel Brower has explored ex-plored the whole region of the upper Missouri and today made public the I result of his discoveries He says the longest upper branch of the Missouri I does not flow through the lower Red Rock lake in Montana but comes from a hole in the mountains volcanic in its I character at the summit of the Rocky mountains west of Hererys lake Idaho I Ida-ho and at a point bordering the boundary bound-ary between that state and Montana The miniature river at its commencement commence-ment striving to secure existence from the Inner walls of the surrounding volcanic vol-canic vents near perpetual snow banks has by its eroding capacity cut its way 1 cut from that rugged and precipitous 1 mountain uplift of an enormous size II until an enormous mountain of rock has been cut in twain a canyon formed I and assuming the proportions of a river I I from the flowage of innumerable creeks coming in at the side reached the valleys I val-leys below flowing into upper Red Rock lake twenty m le from its source in the mountains thence westwardly northerly and northeasterly past Red Butte and Beaver Head Rock to Three Fork thence to the Mississippi and thence t the gulf of Mexico through 1 and past thirteen states a distance of 4221 miles I |