The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-10-18
MONTANA NEWS BR1ErLETs.
A Budget of Readable Short Items from
Various Parts Of the State.

HELENA, Oct. 1O.-The city council
has allowed the bill Of Louis johnson,
the Main street paving contractor, In
full. The total cost of the new brick
pavement was S43. 500. 81 for that part
for which the city pays. The paving
OF the part paid for by the street car
company will cost about Sl5, 1000. The
contractor was a month late In finish.
Ing the job, but no penalty a exact
ed. the delays being considered I'M.
avoidable.
HELENA, Oct. 1O-The exact number
OF paid admissions to the state fair
this year 24,0ll. E. w. Prosser, who
had charge of that part of the fair
business, completed his calculations
this evening and the above is the re.
suit. 1t is estimated the total number
Of admissions was 10000, this includ-
ing employees and passes. The Mon
tana Central carried 1900 passengers
during the week without q mishap or
accident of any kind.
LIVINGSTON, Oct. 10.-Otficials of
the Livingston w later Power company,
owned by j. A. Murray, the Butte
capitalist, have filed on fifty thousand
inches of the waters of the Yellowstone
river for power purposes. They say
1t is the intention to secure electric
power for the operation of the pumps
at the city water plant aud that $50, 600
will be expended for that purpose.
They will furnish power for private
consumers.
LEWIsTOwN, Oct. l0.-Joseph L.
Asbridge, aged II years, was killed
Sunday by the accidental discharge of
a shotgun. AS the boy and his young.
err brother were going through the
kitchen of his fathers house at High
field, a shotgun lying On a box near
the door went off and the boy received
the whole charge in his head. It is
thought the younger boy must have
struck the tirearm as he passed and
thus discharged it. The deceased
child was a o of Joseph Asbridge,
a stockgrower of Highfeld.
HELENA, Oct. 1O.-1he officers are
getting trace of the Frenchman who is
thought to be the murderer of WATSON
Oliver, the man whose body was found
near Wolf creek last week. Ed War
, rem and Burt Travis told Sheriff
S~charenbroich that on September %
they saw the Frenchman on the road
! from Silver Station to the old town Of
Silver. They described the outfit. in.
GLIDING the two shepherd dogs and
the hound. The man was driving a
spring wagon, which was followed by
three horses. 1t was also learned
yesterday that a man with a similar
, outfit was camped neal the ice house
at the Helena fair about Sep.
TENDER q.
BUTTE, Oct. l1.-Guilty OF murder
In the second degree and ten years in
the states prison was the verdict OF
the jury In the case of James Murray,
who has been on trial for several days
for the shooting of William Kiley, on
t June last. Murray al boiling with
rage over the verdict, and when court
adjourned he denounced several OF
. states witnesses, and charged them
. with "swearing his life away"
KALIsPELL, Oct. IL. - The fores,
fires which have been raging for more
than q month past in the neighbor.
, hood of the Flathead reserv alton, and
: which seriously alarmed the settlers
here, have been extinguished by the
e heavy rains Of the past week. Millions
of feet of valuable lumber we're de
stroyed by the flames.
HELENA, Oct. ll.-Helena is to have
5-cent street car fares, beginning Sun
day next. This announcement has been
Il made by Howard S. Reynolds, mana.
3 ger of the Helena Light & Traction
. company recently taken over by j. &
d White & Co. OF New York. Helena
: was virtually the only city in thu
country charging lO.cent street cal
= fares.
KALIsPELL, Oct. 11.-Edmund Hack
. EFT, q pioneer, was found dead on tn,
county road 30 miles west of here. H,
:, is supposed to have been returning
from his claim on Fisher river. HI
was once a government contractor
and was the first mayor of Bismarck
, in 1873. AT one time he was wealthy
but lost his fortune. He came % Kal
ispell in 1893 and had been here eve
since. He was about 20 years of age
and had one daughter, living ia Wash
= ington.
d Better Insurance Laws Needed.