The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-11-28
MONTANA BRIEFLETS
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana During
the Past Few Days

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the Pas Few Days
ELLISTON, Nov. 22.-Ed Dougherty
q we'll known general merchandise
dealer of this city, has committed sui
eide by shooting. No cause can be
assis ned for the deed, he being IL
good circumstances and apparently in
the best of health. Dougherty rested
his head on a bale of hay and dis
charged a 36.caliber revolver above
the right ear. He was about 40 years
of age and we'll known throughout the
central portion of the state.
BILLINGS, Nov. 22.-Attorney Fred
H. Hathorn has returned to Billings
from Forsyth, where he went to repre-.
sent the interests of Charles NJ. Bair
in the case against Frank Lathrop,
who was charged with poisoning sew.
eral head of horses belonging to MIR.
Bair, by mixing strychnine in the ami
mails oats. Lathrop was found guilty
Of the charge and sentenced to the
p~enitentiary for three years. 1t is
said that an alleged grudge which
Lathrop bore MIR. Blair, led him to
commit the act of wreaking vengeance
on the dumb animals.
BUTTE, Nov. 22.-William p. Far.
rell, formerly chief deputy in the Office
of the clerk of the district court, was
this afternoon found guilty Of forgery
by the jury in Judge DOMAINS court,
the Jurors returning an unanimous
verdict after having been out three
and one-quarter hours, and left the
punishment to be fixed by the court.
The charge upon which Farrell was
tried was that Of forging the name Of
James Martini to a jurors certificate
calling for compensation for twenty.
three days. Judge DOnlan fixed Sat.
urday, December l, as the time for
passing of sentence and counsel for
Farrell stated that they would prepare
a motion in arrest of judgment with.
out delay.
HELENA, Nov. 23.-The jury in the
a 8 of w. F. X. Beeskove, known as
"Coyote BILL charged with the MUIR
der OF William Burrig in Missoula |
county, last June, brought in a ver-
dict of manslaughter late this after.
noon, and was discharged by Judge
The penalty for manslaughter
is from one to ter years in the peni.
tertiary. Judge Smith will impose
sentence November %.
DILLON, Nov. 23.-Ranchers from
Horse Prairie attending district court
in Dillon, report that more than one
hundred carloads Of beef cattle are
being held and fed on the prairie
awaiting cars in which to ship them
to market. The delay Is said to be
costing the cattle buyers thousands of
dollars. Much loss is also reported
in this valley by sheep buyers, who
have had to hold sheep that had been
delivered to them because no cars a
be secured in which to ship.
DILLON, Nov. 23.-Lee Sims, who
was captured in the Snake river coun-
try in Idaho and returned to Dillon
charged with horse stealing, pleaded
guilty to the charge in the district
court yesterday afternoon, and Judge
Galloway sentenced him to seven years
in the penitentiary. Sims and John
Hclming stole one of the county 5
horses and two of Jack Early's last
October and took them to Idaho, where
both men we're captured with the
horses in their possession. Helming
escaped from the jail in %Shoshone,
Id aho, and has been recaptured.
BUTTE, Nov. 23.-Depositors OF the
defunct Aetna Banking & Trust com.
pany will receive not more than 10 or
IL per cent. dividends, although 1t was
announced in Washington Saturday
by the comptroller Of the currency
that the prospective dividends had
been estim ated 1t b per cent. The cor.
clusion Of the comptroller was a re.
suit of a clerical error made by the
receiver of the Butte bank In trans.
cribing his report to the comptroller,
the estimated losses on doubtful assets
being given instead OF the estimated
value as required in the report.
LEwIsTowN, Nov. 49, Arrange.
ments are being made to have the mat
ter Of the withdrawal Of public lands
from entry in this county brought to
the attention Of Pres ident Roosevelt
with a view of having II revoked 81
far as it applies to those township
where there are no coal lands. l
this should be done it would release
large proportion OF the lands nov
tied up and still fully protect all thos'
sections that are valuable for coal
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