The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-10-11
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.

BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM AL
OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Duriul
the Past Few Days.
BUTTE, Oct. 5.-Mrs. LOrne Will,
Wslbridge Melville.N orthey, the ~
year old Great Falls woman who /.
held in the Silver Bow county Jail OF
q charge OF bigamy, this morning at
tempted suicide by the bue.poisor
route, but was headed of by Dr.. Tur'
ner and a stomach pump. At the
present time she lies in a very critical
condition.
BOHEMIAN, Oct. 5.-County Attorney
Walrath landed on the gambling fra.
ternity of this place quite heavily. and
with little or no warning to the gener.
al public or to the gamblers when he
asked and received permissiono Of Judge
Stewart Ia the district court to file In.
formation direct accusing eleven sa-
loon keepers OF Bozeman of violating
the anti.gambling law Of the state in
running or allowing to be run in their
places of business games not permitted
under the statute,
LEw1sTOwN, Oct. 5.-The ex amina.
ton made by Professor Il. J. Powers
of Chicago and some visiting capital.
lists of the tract of land near Gilt
Edge recently secured by A. S..
Wright of Chicago and his local as
sociates. has proved SO satisfactory
that it is announced operations will
be commenced there shortly to develop
the property. The examination was
made in the interests of eastern CAPT.
talists and several thousand dollars
will be spent in exploring the ground.
BUTTE, Oct. 80 save her boy
from IN awful death Mrs. Mary Jane
Price gave up her life last evening,
and her end was 50 swift and so sud.
den that she never realized what had
caused it. A live wire, which had
been hooked across the wires OF the
electric company in the rear of her
residence was the instrument of death
and several other lives came near be-
ing sacrificed in the work of rescuing
the body of the woman and the un-
conscious form of her little boy from
their contact with the death.dealing
duid.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. 5.-This city
had a narrow escape from a sweeping
fire about II o'clock today, that might
have wrought untold damage and
rivalled Butte's recent conf agration.
Splendid work on the part of the fire
department assisted by the volunteers
and the Boston Il Montana fire de-.
partment extinguished the fire after
scenes of no little excitement had been
acted among property owner In the
vicinity who were aroused to the i'm
pending danger. The fire caught in
G. w. Ryan's warehouse in the freight
yards and burned with f~erceness. The
regular and the volunteer departments
were oon on hand and put the fire
out after it had Quilted the building,
entailing a loss OF about $4,000.
BUTTE, Oct. 6.-Through q prema.
ture blast in the Rarus mine this
mornlng two miners, Frank Alliston
and Oscar Matti, were instantly killed.
The accident occurred at the 400 foot
level while the men were tamping some
dynamite charges, usiugl an iron rod
instead of q tamping rod.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. 6.--Right on
top Of the award to Cascade county Of
first prize for the largest vartetyof
products Of any county In the state at
the state fair, comes the news Of the
awarding of q diploma to Albert Gun.
ningham of Monarch, by the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, for the best oats
raised in the United States in 1904.
1u winning first prize at the great
worlds fair at St. Louis, Mr.. Gun.
ningham scored a great victory for
himself aud for Cascade county. His
oats were placed in competition last
year with the products of the soils Of
nearly every other state in the union.
BUTTE. Oct. 6.-Pat Groves posi-
tive Identification of himself has been
verified, aud the notorious kidnaper
will leave Butte tomorrow for Omaha
where he will be prosecuted on at least
one charge. Chief Detective Harry
Dunn Of Omaha, who arrived last
and Chief of Police Mulhollaud
left this morning for Helena, where
this afternoon they secured a warrant
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