The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-28
CITY AND STATE.
From SATURDAYS Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Advices from Aberdeen, S. OAK,
report the death OF Emil G. lick, for.
merly a we'll known passenger con.
ductor on the Montana Central.
Dan Lane, the boy who was com.
mitted to the reform school for steal.
ing a horse near Harlem, was taken
to Miles City today by John Haigler.
John Richards, a sheepherder EN-.
ployed by L. NJ. Powell, of Saco, was
killed by lightning Sunday afternoon,
at a point about four miles north of
Saco.
News. with the exception Of two days
II has rained every day in Butte for
the past month. Yesterday there was
six inches Of snow.
The sheritf's Office received word
late last night that c.. E Wiley,
wanted at Havre on a charge Of grand
larceny. had been arrested in Great
Falls. He will be taken to Ravre for
a preilmlna airy hearing.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state for the
Glasgow Loan aud Investment com.
pany, by j. NJ. Lewis, r. NJ. Lewis
and II. NJ. Young. The concern in.
tends to engage in "a general real es-
state and loan business a, Glasgow.
M, onr;to1 .<~,1r :, tsn 900
Word was received here today from
G.. Il. Norris, of Judith, t O the effect
that the steamboat belonging to A. II.
Rogers, which left here on the 10th
inst, passed that point on the l4sh,
with the engine damaged beyond re.
pair. and the boat was proceeding on
its way down the river by the use of
sails and oars.
kid" Royals, a we'll known char
acter of Valley county, escaped from
Sheriff Griffith yesterday morning
while on the way to Glasgow from
Deer Lodge, the prisoner jumping
from the moving train near Silver
station. Royals has just completed a
term in the %penitentiary for horse
stealing, and had been placed under
arrest ID a charge of breaking Jail at
Glasgow.
Jas. S. Keerl, who shot and killed
Thomas Crystal, a bartender in Hell.
ena, abou three years ago., was found
guilty of manslaughter yesterday in
the district court of Cascade county,
TO which the case had been removed
for trial. This was his third trial for
the crime. AT the first trial in Helena
he was convicted Of murder in the
second degree and sentenced TO life
imprisonment, aud was granted a new
trial by the supreme court: and at the
second trial in Helena the jury dis.
agreed.
The Barbwire Roundup outfit, which
concluded to use Beaumont oil for its
cattle dipping operations and will not
require SO much as a tank car of 5000
gallons, received word today as to the
cost OF oil in barrels. The Gulf Re.
ining company quotes a price Of 1925
per barrel of II gallons, the wooden
barrel costing about three times as
much as the oil it contains. The oil
company says the freight from Port
Arthur to Fort Benton on a carload
lot of sixty barrels will be about s.. 10
per barrel, making the oil cost about
II cents per gallon delivered here.
The Business Mems Association Of
Havre have received u proposition
from the Bell Telephone company to
build a line from Fort Benton to
Havre, provided the people of the lat.
ter city will take &c., 900 Of the stock
Of the new line. Members of the asso.
citation believe it would be better for
local capital to baild an independent
line to Fort Benton, and also ron.
Meeting with the lines on Box Elder,
Clear Creek anu Chinook. \ com
mi,tee consisting Of Z. {. Carru.h, j.
G. Pancoast and II. 4. +. Smith, cash
i-rs Of the two banks. wa> appointed
for the purpose Of ascertaining the
sos: of such lines, and report: at ,te
nexc meeting of the association.
T.on. Mondays Daily.
\ po.tOtfice bulletin the
appointment of John G.. Elder a, post.
master at DodsOn, ia eastern Chou.
teau county.
Miss Bertha Fuller lief, this morning
for Helena and Missoula. after a vi.i,
Of several days In thi, city, the guest
Of Miss Chestnut.
II i reported from Havre that John
Ryan. a we'll known rancher of the
Bear Paw country, was arrested Sat,
urday by Constable George Francis