The river press., 1904-06-29
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana During
the Past Few Days.

| What Has Happened IN montana During
the Past Few Days.
HELENA, June 23.--At the Fort Har-
rison rifle range today marksmen
from Fort Missoula and Fort ASSN
niboine went down to defeat before the
superior prowess of the local ri6emen.
The occasion was the annual rifle
competition of the Twenty fourth in
tantry, and the local post took first
honors easily, while Missoula won
second place by a narrow margin Of
one point.
| BUTTE, June 23.--Judge E. w. Har-
ney handed down his decision this
morning in the challenge to the grand
jury, in the case of the state of Mon.
tana against w. D. Clark. The effect
of the decision is that the present
grand jury is all right and was prop
erly drawn, and that the jury list for
the year 1908, as prepared and sworn
to by the jury commission was sufi.
cient for the purposes intended.
HELENA, June 23.-Another letter
has been received from Gov. William
H. Hunt of Porto Rico by George w.
Sproule, clerk of the United States
district court of Montana. Governor
Hunt who has been appointed United
States district Judge for this district,
states in his letter that it will be i'm.
possible for him to leave the island
before the middle of July, and may be
not before Aug. |.
BILLINGS, June pa good many
residents Of this city were thrown into
a frenzy late yesterday afternoon by
the appearance on the street of man,
either drunk or demented, brandish.
ing heavy six'shooter and shooting
at everything and every rybody he en-
countered. The mans name is Will.
lian H. Birknell and he is said to be
a sheep herder. A bullet from the
gun of an officer, which entered his
shoulder, felled him, and he was taken
to the hospital. 1t is believed the
wound he received will not prove
fatal. 1t is considered forum ate tha
no one was injured by the man.
KALIsPELL, June pa new town
will soon be started upon the new line
of the Great Northern in the Tobacco
plains country which, from all indica.
tions has a very bright future. The
town will be on Fortine river, large
stream which empties into Tobacco
river and will be about fifteen miles
south and east of Rexford, the juno
tion town on the Jennings branch.
Surrounding this new town have been
found large beds Of shell mari from
which Portland cement will be manu-.
factured. Two experts who recently
visited that section have been con.
vinced Of the Importance of the dis
covery and are arranging with eastern
capitalists to put in a large factory.
HELENA, June 24.-William Shear
er, who was released from the city Jail
yesterday morning, after serving a
term for vagrancy, was shot and fatal
ly wounded by City Marshal w. H.
McC Cann, who was endeavoring to re.
arrest him in the afternoon. Shearer
died several hours later at the county
hospital, without regaining conscious
ness.
! BUTTE, June 24'-With bullet in
his left lung, a bad wound in the head
and another in the left hand, Richard
j. Finnegan lies on cot at the St
J ames hospital gasping as though
each breath would be his last. Fin
negan refuses to say who shot him
but it is known there was a woman i1
the case and the police and count.
officers are looking for Mrs. Lizzie
Morrison, who was seen with thu
wounded man last night.
HELENA, June 24,-State Superin
tendent Welsh today received a lette
from Maynard Merrill Co. of New
York, the parties furnishing the gram
mars and some other books to tn
state, to the effect that they were fur
nishing the same books to Georgi
for a less sum than charged Montana
and that if the authorities here though
they should make any restitution the
} would freely do so.
BUTTE, June 24.-The Dakota sa
loon at the corner of Dakota an
West Galeua streets, was held up a
an early hour this morning by thre
, masked men, and the till was relieve
of $3.50 and SIS was taken from tw
men who were in the place. J. Il
DAILY was in the vicinity at the tim
the men were entering the saloon wit
their masks on. and Immediately mott
fled the police. Sergeant Kane re
spouded as quickly as possible, bu
| the robbers had got in their work an