The river press., 1904-10-26
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.
Budget of Readable Short Items from
Various parts of the State.

| Various parts VI tHS
! HELENA, Oct. Estate Land Agent
John P. Schmit yesterday turned
over to State Treasurer Barret the
sum of $40 374.70, representing his col
lcctions for the first half Of the pre-.
sent month. This brings the total
receipts of the state land Office up to
S3O9. ATS. 81 for the present year. The
collections for the first half OF Octo-
ber were not quite up to the average.
HELENA, Oct. l5.-Secretary of
State George NJ. Hays has certified
the nomin ations on the electoral and
state tickets. The tickets have been
sent to the clerks in the various
counties today. There are seven tick
cts on the sheet, five of which are com
plete. These are the democratic, re-
publican, labor, populist and social
ist The prohibition and socialist
labor tickets have only the names of
candid ates for electors.
HELENA, Oct. 1S.-The state board
of pardons yesterday approved the
action of Governor Toole in pardo on
ing Charles Verona. who was sent to
the penitentiary from Butte in 1901
for 10 years for uanslaughter. Vero-
ma gave an Indian some wood alcohol
for the purpose of removing the hair
from hide, and the redslxin made the
mistake of drinking some Of the liquid.
BUTTE, Oct. 1S.-W. H. Dawson, as
he registered at the Butte hotel and as
his name is given by Paul Peterson,
one Of the proprietors Of the Helena
hotel, was arrested tonight by Officer
Peterson, and will be held until the
arrival of papers from Helena in
which he will be charged with obtain.
ing money under false pretenses to
the extent Of over 5000 from the Helena
hotel management.
HELENA, Oct. 18.-At yesterd ay's
ers the bills of contractors for the
care of the insane and convicts were
audited, the bill of Mitchell & Mussig-
brod for the maintenance of the asy-
lum for the month being $40, 1926, %.
AT the close of the month there were
566 ir mates of the asylum, the largest
number on any one day in the month
having been 57l. The bill of Conley
& McTague for the care of the pris-
oners in the penitentiary was S., 493. Is,
there having been at the END Of the
month 442 prisoners on the rolls.
BUTTE, Oct. 19.-Frank Wise is
charged with having struck John Sio.
vich a blow with his fist which result
ed in his death. The blow landed on
the point of the jaw and Siovich
dropped to the floor and died within
an hour without regaining conscious.
ness. Wise made his escape immedi.
ately after attacking Siovich, and has
not been apprehended.
M1ssoULA, Oct. 19.--Informa alton
reached the officials of the United
States land Office here from the CON-
missioner of the general land Office at
Washington today to the effect tn at
Is, 700 acres of land in the Bitter Root
valley is to be thrown open to settle
menq. This land was Withdrawn from
entry in 1902 to form part of the
Lake Como forest reserve. It is one
of the richest tracts of land in the
entire valley. The land lies about 40
miles northwest of Hamilton.
BUTTE, Oct. l9.-The annual meet
ing OF the grand lodge Of Odd Fellows
of Montana today elected officers as
follows: Grand master, r. w. Kemp
of Missoula; deputy grand master,
Aaron Conner of Ravalli county:
grand warden, Dean w. Selfridge OF
Butte: grand secretary, A. J. White
of Butte: grand treasurer, j. Loeb o:
Helena; grand representative, Mas
sena Bullard of Helena: grand mem
Der of the orphans home committee,
John F. Davis of Butte.
| MIssoULA, Oct. 19.-A daring rob
berry took place in Missoula last night
when the store of Hath ava ay-B -Buford
Co. was entered and the safe blown
up. Several thousands of dollars in
cash, notes, checks and warrants.
were secured by the robbers. The safe
door was blown off with nitro -glycer'
ine and much of the furniture and sur
roundings was destroyed by the explo
sion. No one was awakened, and the
robbers seem to lave taken theil
, leisure after getting the safe open
. One OF the daring things about the af
/ fair was that evidence proves the mer
} to have taken the papers found in tht
safe to nearby electric light ant
! there carefully examined them. Thos'
! of no value were left to tell the tale.