The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-03-14
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM ALI
OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana During
the Past Few Days

FlOOO Howe, 10 the same IuStltutlOl
for eight months. the two men having
been convicted on the charge of the
theft of two horses from the Grow res
ervation.
BUTTE, Marck 8.-Eighteen counts
involving ground formerly In dispute
between the Amalgamated and the
Heinze interests we're dismissed by
Judge William H. Hunt Of the United
States court 10 Helena yesterday after.
noon. The courts action clears the
calendar Of all pending litigation be.
tween the former warning copper min.
ing corporations operating in this dis.
trict, the state cases having been dis.
missed by Judges McClernan and
Bourquin 10 the district court of Sill.
YER Bow county last week. There re.
main on the books only u few cases in
which judgments had been entered and
where all the issues were settled.
HELENA, March "a realty trans
action involving nearly $1,000, 900 has
been made in this city, the deed hav-
ing been filed with Clerk and Record.
err Percy Whitmer today. The deed
transfers all interest and title of l.. X.
MacNeill and wife in the Jay Gould
mine, in this county, to the Gould
Mines company, and the exact con.
sideration, as named in the deed, is
5000, 995.
GREAT FALLS, March 9.-Georee
w. Ricketts,, tried for the murder Of
William Hedge at Geyser, was found
guilty Of ~mauslaughter yesterday af-
ternoon, and sentence will be passed
upon him on Monday. The jury was
out an hour and twenty minutes.
Ricketts, lawyer did not have the jury
polled, and it was understood that
no appeal will be taken. The maxi
mum punishment for manslaughter is
ten years. Ricketts, admitted stab.
bing Hedge, but averred it as in self.
d ,fense.
LEw1sToWN, March 8. - p. H.
Scanlan of Butte, has been visiting
Lewistown in the capacity of q com.
mercial agent Of the Milwaukee and
is responsible for the statement that
the Milwaukee people will In all
probability take over the Montana
railroad, though he would make no
specific statement as 20 time. Mr..
Scanlan is of the opinion that Fergus
county will be a busy place this year |
and seems to he certain that q large
proportion of the people moving west
will come this way.
HELENA, March 9.-Daniel McMil.
Ian, q Butte postman, today pleaded
guilty to the charge of unlawfully sc.
GREETING and embezzling q letter in.
trusted to his care for delivery, and
to the taking therefrom of q money
order for $40. and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year BY Judge
Hunt. Preceding the imposition Of
sentence, Judge Hunt said that he was
led to believe from the number of
cases Of this kind coming before him, |
that the practice OF employing boys
for this branch Of the government ser.
vice was q dangerous one
RED LODGE, March 8. - Carbon
county will vote on the direct pri.
mary law Saturday, April IL. The
county commissioners today granted
the petition Of 1893 qualified signers,
the exac number required being 2S9.
Only Is names were thrown out. H.
dications are that this election will be
holly contested. Former Senator
Meyer has started the Carbon County
Republican, which will make its APP
pearance tomorrow, and is opposing
the primary law, while the Picket,
the old republican newspaper, is in
favor of it.
BILLINGS, March lO.-The board of
county commissioners granted q petit.
ton today asking for the calling of a
special election to vote on the PROPOSE.
ton Of adopting the primary election
law passed by the last Legislature as q
local option measure. The date Of
the election will be May 10. The petit
ton had been circulated about a
month and contained $3.50 names.
BUTTE, March lO.-George Lavas-
seur, the song and dance man, who
shot and killed his wife, Kitty Squiers,
some months ago and was convicted
of murder in the second degree, was
sentenced to 80 years in the peniten.
tiary by Judge DonIan in the district
court. The formal sentence by the
court was followed by ar arrangement
of the defendant that made him vince.
BUTTE, March lO.-Two men held
up the Doctor saloon, at Broadway
and Montana street, at / O'Clock this
morning, got away with 1925 from the
cash register and relieved two men in