The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-06-14
MONTANA NEWS BRIEfLErs.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items from
Various Parts OF the State.

supreme court mas DeeG taken 10 tn
case of the state of Montana agains
Harry Koch. who vas convicted @
] secOnd.degree murder in Fergus coun
. ty and sentenced TO the pe~nitentiar
l for 10 years. The crime for which
Koch was convicted was the killing O.
> Joseph D. Wander ON Febru ary Il.
1904. The appeal is taken from the
!, judgment, and also from the order Of
Judge Cheadle denying the motion
for a new trial.
CLEND1vE, June 6.-Farmers and
stockmen are highly elated over sew.
eral fine rains which have fallen in
this section Of the country during the
past ten days. Vegetation of all kinds
has received much benefit thereby and
a good hay crop as we'll as crops of
other kinds is nov practically as.
sured. a heavy electrical storm
passed over this place during Sunday
morning demoli=hing chimneys. ETC.,
and killing a few head of horses cor.
rallied here.
HAMILTON. June 6.-Arrests con.
tinue to indicate the extreme activity
of the local option people. Several
saloon keepers have been arrested
and there will be a full docket for
Judge Webster when he convenes the
district court for the next term. Near
~ all the cases 90 to S%tevensville for
preliminary hearings, but all of them
are appealed where the defendant are
held. IL is rumored thai a petition
will be circulated next fall to call a
special election for the of
having high licensed saloons.
PHILIPsBURG, June 6-Clarence 8.
Young. the Northern Pacific train
robber, was arraigned before Justice
j. S. Axtell yesterday. While on his
way to the justice court the prisoner
asked how %juries we're drawn and if
they were appointed by the court. He
said that it was possible he might call
for a jury trial. After hearing the
reading of the information Young
said he would waive the preliminary
hearing and enter a plea of not guilty.
Asked il he wanted bail fixed he ex-
planned that he did not.
BIG TIMBER, June ga fatal acct.
dent occurred today to Miss Edna
Wadsworth. the ~l4-year-old daughter
OF G. A. Wadsworth, Of this city.
Miss Wadsworth and her little. brother
were riding or a horse. A freight
train was standing near the crossing
and as the little girl and her brother
were passing the engine blew off
steam, which frightened the horse,
causing it to jump suddenly and dis.
lodging the little girl. She fell heav.
lily to the ground and her head
struck on a sharp stone which crushed
her skull.
LEW1sT0WN, June 7.-Enoch Lake,
aged about IS years, unmarried, m
ployed at the ranch of Wilson Hatch,
Is miles south Of Lewistown, commit
ted suicide today, shooting himself
with a Winchester rifle. He left a note,
In which he said he was tired Of living.
No reason for his dependency is
known.
HELENA, June TN the suit OF the
United States against William A.
Clark and Robert NJ. Cobban, better
known as the western Montana timber
fraud cases, in which the defendants
were recently given twenty days in
which to plead, the defendants have
filed in the Office of Clerk George w.
Sproul notice of a motion for leave
to file a plea of bona fide purchase for
value, the motion to be formally pre-.
sented to the court next Monday.
RED LODGE, June 7.-Reports from
every part of the country are to the
effect that the hailstorm of a day or
two ago did considerable damage. In
places hail is said to have fallen sew
eral inches deep and to have destroyed
much early garden truck. On Five
Mile q cloudburst that did some dam.
age to bitches is reported, and the
conductor on a local freight says the
Billings Sheep company lost LOCO
head of sheep In the storm.
STOCKETT, June Paul Pistores.
an employee of the Cottonwood Coal
company. q instantly killed this
morning in mine No. ) while loading
a mine there. Pistores was picking
some coal from the bottom of the face
in u room at the time the accident
happened. A piece of coal weighing
about seventy.tive pounds fell from
the upper part OF the face, perhaps ten
feet, and, striking Pistores on the
head, crushed it to pulp. Death was
instantaneous.
BILLINGS, June &c. f. Thomas,
a prominent stOckman If the Lake