The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-06-27
MONTANA NEWS BRIEfLETS.
4 Budget Of Readable Short Items from
Various Parts Of the State.

uuS <1CGlu& NOVOA wv
Norris today honored the requisition
OF the governor of Wisconsin for the
return to that state of Fred c. Price.
who Is wanted on a charge of EN-.
bezzlement ia Columbia county. Price
is under arrest at Bozeman, having
been captured at Belgrade.
HELENA, June 19.-Governor Toole
has granted unconditional pardous to
Virgil Stuart, convicted. in Missoula
county, on a charge of burglary and
sentenced to INT year in the peniten.
tiary, and to A. 0. Jones, who was
given Il fire.years' sentence in G allatin
county, upon conviction under q
charge Of criminal assault.
LEW1STOWN, June l9.-The trial of
Jos. S%purlock. Chas. Nave and Carl
Hagensen. on a charge of gambling,
took place this afternoon in Judge
Netherlands court. All three pleaded
guilty. Spurlock was fined 500:
Nave, 1925, and Hagensen, $3.50.
Spurlock vas also the chief witness in
the case against Paul Hall. who was
tried for stealing a saddle a: Flat
willow and held t the district court.
BUTTE, June 19.-Tha jury 10 the
damage suit of Mrs. Q sen against the
Montana Ore Purchasing company
and Thomas Knight mas returned q
verdict awarding the plaintiff damages
in the amount of S25, Olsen, the
husband of the plaintiff, was killed
during an explosion in the Pennsyl-
vania mine while the Butte copper
litigation was at its height, and the
complaint alleged that it was at the
hands of employees of the defend ant
company, and that it was done
maliciously.
MILES CITY, June pa telegram
was received today from Chicago,
stating hat 1000 homeseekers had
left that place this morning for Miles
City TO register for the opening of the
Grow reservation. To date, there
have been but 46 entries at this place.
BUTTE, June 20.-It was learned to.
day that the statue Of the late Marcus
Daily designed by Augustus St. eau
dens and cast in bronze is in a local
freight depot awaiting the action of
the committee that is to prepare a
pedestal and mount it. The city coun.
Gil tonight will invite bids for grading
the site on Main between Copper and
WoOlman. 1t is expected the statue
will be unveiled some time in August.
BUTTE, June 2O.-Dennis Harring.
ton had his life crushed out in a fall
of ground in the Mountain Con mine
this afternoon and NJ. j. Mem ahon
vas seriously injured. McMahon's
escape from death is perhaps one OF
the most novel in the history Of the
Butte camp. Harrington's body acted
as a cushion for McMahon, protecting
him from further falls of ground and
saving his life. Mcmahon says he
was conscious throughout and was
aware when Harrington died, as the
latter's hands clutched him couvul.
sively until the end.
LEWIsTOWN, June 2O.-Oscar Steph.
ems, who died Monday morning, leaves
an estate estimated at from $500
to II, 200, 600. He was one of the best
known stuckmen ia Montana and was
wholly a self.made man. He came &C
this section OF the state IN 1850 auG
was successful from the.start. Lately
he engaged in mining, and his Cum
oerland property at Maiden is already
producing. He was q native of Penn,
%sylvania. a bachelor. and leaves five
brothers and two sisters, who, it il
expected will receive the bulk of the
estate.
BILLINGS, June 20. Last night
Sheriff Adams and his Deputies gave
notice TO fifteen confidence men, at.
tracted to this city by the Crow reser'
va.ion opening, that their room here
is more desirable than their company,
and they were ordered to select othe,
fields for their pernicious operations.
The sheriff gave the gang to under
stand that if anyone Of them is founc
here today he will be arrested and
lodged in Jail. A majority of the
characters mentioned took the officers
al their word and lost no time IL
shaking the real estate OF Billings
from their shoes. Every person o,
this sort is spotted by the officials a
soon as he touches the station plat
form.
Montana Irrigation PROJECTS.