The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-01-25
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETs.
A Budget of Readable Short Items from
Various Parts Of the State.

III VI AS os~s
MILES CITY, Jan. 20.-J. B. Poe
has shipped seventeen cars of sheep
to Chicago. These sheep were shipped
In from Washington about two months
ago, and have been fed on alfalfa for
the past two months.
Big TIMBER, Jan. 2O.-Mrs. Nep.
stead, of Melville, Mont, while remov.
ing a cork from a bottle, accidentally
injured her thumb with q fork which
she was using to extract the cork.
Blood poison set in Immediately and
in a few hours she was dead. Her
funeral took place at Melville.
BOHEMIAN, Jan. 2O.-The county
board Of health, including the county
commissioners and the county physic.
ian, have sen an order closing the
Willow Creek school unless the pupils
o bey the vaccination order at once.
The teacher telephoned the county su.
periutendent that the pupils had all
refused to be- v%accinated.
ANACONDA, Jan. 2O.-E. D. Walk.
err, the Anaconda cattle king, returned
to the city today from a trip to the
Big Hole county. He says that this
Is the most prosperous season which
feeders have experienced for many
years. He himself is feeding l,9O(
steers. while the total number of steers
in the basin which are being fed there
at present is 1900. This open seosor
has been a godsend to the feeders
having shortened the period during
which otherwise it would have beer
necessary to feed high priced hay.
BILLINGS, Jan. 2O.-Three nev
cases of smallpox were reported to
day. They were in a house alread!
under quarantine. These briug tn
total number of cases, including thos
who have died, up to Is. The mint
death, that of a. J.. Shaw, colored
occurred last night. All quarantin
regulations are being rigidly enforced
One officer guards the road east of tn
city, while another is stationed q
Laurel to prevent any one from Bill
lings taking the trains there.
HELENA, Jan. 23.-Glen Pinkermar
the youth who robbed the house of A
c. johnson on the West side Frida
evening, pleaded guilty to the charg
of burglary before Judge Smith !
the district court today and was ser
fenced to one year in the state pen
Tertiary. He will at INC be take
there.
. BUTTE, Jan. 23.-Gabricl Franz
mos saloon in Meaderville was tt
scene of q shooting affray-JoseI
Mateuci being the victim, while Al
!, gelo Perra, a fellow Austrian, is a
legged to have fired the shots whit
caused Mateuci's death within t.
minutes. The sheritf's Office was il
!, mediately notified and q force Of de
uties was soon in pursuit of Il
murderer, who, however, up to a la
hour, was still at large.
t. HELENA-Jan. 23.-From procee'
1 ings in the United States court tod,
D it is possible that the Ii. Il. Nelst
Sheep company, one Of the large
I concerns in Cascade county, will
g sold III satisfaction Of two noe
Some time ago Benjamin Graham
New York, trustee, began an actit
in the federal court against the H.
Nelson Sheep company and others II
. satisfaction of two mortgages amour
. ing to about $40 900. An exception
: the nswer of j. II. Stanford vi
= taken which was this morning wit
drawn and the decree will be entert
y in the case. The foreclosure of Il
L mortgage will mean the sale of Il
. company's plant.