The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM ALI
OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana During
h Past Few Days.
BOHEMIAN, Oct. 27.-Frank Purcell,
alias Dick Frame, was sentenced to the
state pe~nitentiary today for the RESI-
of his natural life by Judge Stewart,
The jury found him guilty of murder
In the second degree and left the sen.
tence to be fixed by the Judge. Purcell
was convicted this week of killing
Jack Kinnan with a pocket knife in
Manhattan, on September IL.
BUTTE, Oct. 27.-Mrs. A. v. Gibson,
wife of Sheriff Gibson Of Jefferson
county, has accomplished something
which no other woman In Montana
has ever accomplished, but she is not
saying anything about it. She es.
corted . prisoner from Boulder to the
p%eniteutiary at Deer Lodge without
the aid Of an officer, an Oregon boot
or handouts, and It is quite likely she
did not ever have q revolver. The
prisoner was Mrs. Lena La Muth,
who was sentenced in Boulder by
Judge Lew Galloway to four months
In the penitentiary for the theft of a
collection Of wearing material.
BUTTE, Oct. 27.-The preliminary
skirmish in the big legal battle which
will be fought in the million and a
half dollar smoke suits brought by
Deer Lodge ranchers against the Ana.
conda Copper company, was on today
before Judge Hunt in the federal court.
In the case of F. j. Bliss against the
Anaconda Copper COMPANY. wherein
Bliss claimed his ranch had already
been seriously damaged, and is being
ruined by the fumes emitted from the
big stack at the Washoe smelter, the
attorneys for the plaintiff filed ex-
captions to the defendants answer.
MILES CITY, Oct. 27.-In the district
court Samuel G. Hooper pleaded gull.
ty to five counts of the inform alton
comprising horse stealing and burg.
larry and was sentenced to ten years In
the penitentiary. This is the longest
term given anyone in Custer county
for a like crime and was given or &C.
| count of the numerous offenses com.
mitted. Hooper stole saddle horses, a
team of driving horses, a buggy, rifle,
revolvers and camp supplies from
Rem Bros. and Rife Bros, woolgrow.
ers Of Cabin creek. He took the lay.
out to Williston, N. D., where he was
captured by Sheriff Savage.
BROWNING, Oct. %. - Jerry Big
Plume, an Indian living on the res
ervation e here, vas run over on
the bridge spanning Cut Bank creek
this morning by q train, presumably
by the passenger train, and was in.
stantly killed. His body was horribly
mangled. He is supposed to have been
Intoxicated, and to have lain down on
the bridge and fallen asleep.
BOHEMIAN, October 2S.-Yesterday
Thomas Roy, a young man p years
old, was q free man, tomorrow he will
be taken to Deer Lodge to serve his
sentence in the penitentiary. Yester.
day he stole $40 from William Sloan,
who was asleep in q saloon in Logan,
and was arrested last night and
brought to Bozeman. He pleaded
guilty this afternoon before Judge
Stewart In the district court and was
sentenced to one year at hard labor.
BILLINGS, October 2S.-The United
States through H. N. Savage, has
filed a notice In County Clerk Fish's
Office Of the appropriation Of $50 cubic
feet per second Of the waters of the
Yellowstone river, for irrigation and
other purposes. The appropriation
notice states the water is to be useG
for irrigating $1,000 acres of lane
situated on the right bank OF the Vel
lowstone river below Huntley: fol
domestic use and for the developing
Of power for pumping and other pur
poses.
MILES CITY, Oct. 2S.-Sheriff Saw
age has received word that Otto Chen
oworth, wanted for horse stealing
when arrested at Casper had % hea(
OF horses in his possession which were
stolen from William Leitner, OF Moor
head, Custer county. While the sher
i'll was securing requisition papers tn
county attorney and stock inspector
at Casper sent word to Billings coun
ty, North Dakota, where Chenewortl
Is also wanted. They notified Sheriff
Savage that the Dakota officers hat
. come after C~heneworth. The prisone
will go to North Dakota for trial.
RuJJNCS. Oct. 0S-J. n. Lem astar