The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-10-30
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

MIssOULA, Oct. 22.-Pat Ryan, sent
to the p%enitentiary for 20 years for
holding up two saloons, may be
brought back to Missoula for trial on
a charge of murder, owing to the
death of Joe Meyers, q of the men
he shot during the robberies. Meyers
died Of his wounds after lingering a
month.
BUTTE, Oct. 22.-Pete Callan, who
went into the mountains on a hunting
trip with Captain D'Gay Stivers sew.
eral weeks ago and who "a recently
reported as lost in the mountains, 10
safe and is now at Drummond recup.
Grating from his rough experience of
seven days in the hills without food
or shelter. This information was
brought to the city by Captain Stivers
and his party, who arrived home this
morning.
BUTTE, Oct. 22.-The state railroad
commission will hold sessions in Butte
on Friday and Saturday Of this week
in the city council chamber. The
meeting on Saturday is for the pur-
pose of ~investig ating the cause Of the
delay in coal shipments. 1t is espe-
cially claimed that the Northern Pa.
cific railway has coal along its lines
aud is not bringing it to its destina-
ton. The commission has issued an
invitation to all persons, firms and
corporations to attend the sessions.
HELENA, Oct. 22.--W. r. Sheldon,
travelling passenger and freight agent
of the Wisconsin Central, with head
quarters in this city, has returned
from the Bitter Root valley, where he
secured a number of carloads of
apples for his road. Mr.. Sheldon
says that in all sixty carloads Of
Bitter Root apples were shieppd this
year to Chicago. Most of the ship.
ments brought the growers $3.50 a
box and the remainder S1.25 a box.
This is the first time in history of the
valley that apples in any large quan.
titles have been shipped to the east.
HELENA, Oct. 22.-At the regular
meeting of the city council last even.
ing an ordinance was introduced by
Alderman Longnaid, which if passed
will regulate the opening and closing
of the saloons in Helena. The ordi-
nance provides that saloons shall be
closed at II O'Clock midnight. and
shall remain closed until 5 O'Clock a.
m. and that during these hours only
IN employe or the owner OF the place
shall be allowed to remain therein,
and that the window shades and blinds
shall be raised Or removed, SO as to
afford an unobstructed view of the in
terror. Violation of the ordinance is
punishable by a fine of not less than
$40 nor more than $50, or 50 days i'm
prisonment in the county Jail, or
both.
BUTTE. Oct. 23.-The highway rob-
berry business in this city is receiving
some decided jolts in the criminal
division of district court since that
tribunal began TO try criminal cases.
Two confessed robbers, who were not
averse to using deadly weapons in
their nefarious trade, and whose
names are Ed. Murphy and George
Howard. were retired for seven years
in Deer Lodge prison this morning.
HELENA, Oct. 23.-At a meeting of
the local telegraphers' union in this
city last night, the strike was formally
declared off, and ten men have asked
Manager Taylor of the Western
Union for their old positions. Forty
men walked out in this city when
the strike was first inaugurated, and
the first break in the ranks came
several days ago when one of the
strikers asked for reinstatement, and