The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-15
MONTANA NEWS BRIEfLETS.
A buoget OF Readable Short Items from
various Parts Of the state.

Vas CAY nas OrOuE0t SUN against the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
way company 10 this county, in which
ne asks for $1,000 damages and also
that the company be restrained from
building channels across lands owned
by him for the purpose OF divertipg
the waters Of the Musselshell river.
HELENA, August Troy Spencer,
alias Roy Williamson, formerly a
hotel clerk a, Calgary, has been ar.
rested at Shelby and brought to this
city on charges OF robbery committed
81 Calgary. He is accused Of robbing
guests Of the hotel where he was N
ployed. According 10 the complain,
agains. him he stole from the person
OF Evan Phillips the sum Of $3.50 in
American money aud committed other
thefts 10 the hotel. He was nigh: clerk
a. the hotel. and is charged with rob.
biug Phillips when ,he later vas
asleep.
HELENA. Aag. THE state board
OF pardons yesterday approved the
action Of Governor Toole in extend.
ing clemency to Dan Nichols. con.
victed Of burglary il B~eaverhead
county ard sentenced 20 the peniteu-
tiary for ten years. "Aich would not
expire until 1911. The petition was
granted because Of the precarious
condition Of Nichols health, he lot
being expected to live any grea. length
of time.
DILLON. Aug. Owen Lynch was
probably fatally injured yesterday in
a fight with Freeman Castle a. the
Morse ranch north of Dillon. The
two men became involved in a dispute
over halt a pint Of whisky and came
to blows. Castle struck Lynch over
the head with a bottle Of beer, badly
fracturing his skull. He then made
MS escape before the sheriff arrived
At the ranch with Dr.. Walker and has
MOI yet been seen since. Both were
hay hands. Lynck's home was in
Butte, where he followed mining be.
fore taking a JOB Is a ''hsy digger"
HELENA, Aug. 6.-A verdict for g..
e4l.94 was returned in the federal
court against the Hennessy Mercantile
company this afternoon. The defend.
ant had been sued for ST., 600, the
value Of timber alleged o have been
illegally u and taken from govern
ment land in M;ssoula county. Dur.
ing the taking OF testimony the defend.
ant company admitted the wrongful!
taking of g, 24l "a worth of lumber.
BUTTE, Aug. S.-Two linemen cleo.
trocuted within q few blocks Of each
other was the record for such casual.
ties in Butte within the last twenty.
four hours. Joseph Bush was killed
by a live wire near the Montana Re.
duction Works At 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, and T. D. Chunn died this
afternoon from a shock received at the
center OF Broadway snd Arizona
street this morning.
BILLINGS, Aug. Sc. A. David.
SOD, q clerk in Donovan & McCor.
mlck's store here. was arrested yester.
day morning on the charge of jumping
a heavy bail bond At Forsythe, Mo-.
some time ago. Davidson shot ~ the
town there some time ago and LEI, sew.
eral OF the prominent business men 10
the lurch. He will not return without
x tradition papers, and Sheriff Reese
OF that city il 0 in Helena for these.
HELENA, Aug. s.-What i. perhaps
one Of the largest fees ever paid ir,o
the treasury Cor filing a certified copy
OF articles OF incorporation was de.
posted here yesterday by Judge j. j.
McHatton OF Butte, who paid in IS, 100
Oh behalf Of the Pitts burg and Mon.
tsna company. a mining company To-
Gated at Butte. While the cornDacy
has been in business for some years
the c~ertitication Of The incorporation
articles was no, fled until yesterday
BILLINGS, Aug. S.-W arrants have
been issued for the arrest O. George
Carlow, Charles Aoe, Andrew E.ea.
seau, Thomas Carlow. d. Mcintosh
and Alfred Er.cks from the Justice
coart OF Judge Mann for The violation
OF the e!ght-houc Jaw. c.. NJ. Camp.
bell. business agen, o! the Billings
Trades and Labor council, swore 70
al OF the complaints and i, is alleged
that all OF the men named worked nine
hours per DAY on ,he new public |
schoo! building now being erected in
the Foster addition L Billings. All
o! the parties named we're released on
bonds Of 600 each. The trial was &c.
for the last of TIE week.
Pursued BY An Assassin.
HELENA, Aug. s.-Another attempt