The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-24
MONTANA NEWS BR|EFLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

From Various Parts OF the State.
MILES CITY, July l6.-Chief Of Po-
lice Jackson of this place killed a
tramp here on Saturday night. The
dead mans name is unknown. Tramps
caused a disturbance at the horse cor.
rails at the railroad track, and while
Jackson was searching four Of them
for weapons one fred a pistol at him,
the bullet grazing his chest and per.
forating his necktie. Jackson re.
turned the fire, shooting the man
through the heart.
LEwIsTOwN, July ia message
just received from Bercsil nnounces
that that locality has been the scene
of another cloudburst, which resulted
in the death Of about 900 sheep belong.
ing to Frank Cameron. The animals
we're in the shearing sheds at the time,
and the water rose 70 three feet there.
MIR. Cameron is the only one who sus-
tanned any serious loss, so far as re.
ported.
BUTTE, July l6.-A new clew TO the
perpetrators of the attempted robbery
of the North Coast Limited train at
Walsh's spur abou. two months ago,
in which the bandits shot and killed
Engineer Glow, possibly has been
found at Dillon by Chief Of Police
Stone Of that city. Stone has arrest.
ed q man, inside whose hat is the name
Of. H. Glow" and the man has re.
fused to give any account of himself
to the Dillon authorities.
HELENA, July 16. Fred Ruble
pleaded guilty yesterday to the charge
of stealing a team of horses at East
Helena and will he sentenced this
morning. The team consisted of two
bay mares valued at $500. They were
the property of j. d. Kane. a livery.
man at East Helena. Ruble came to
East Helena Saturday morning and
hired the horses and a rig to go to
U%niOnville. At that place he traded
them to another man for a similar
outfit and S25.
BUTTE. July l6.-Nicholas j.. Kent,
who succeeded John E. Stephenson as
assistant postmaster ia the Butte Of.
fee and who disappeared mysteriously
after holding that Office for a few
weeks, is now being sought by the
United States officials, as his accounts
are short about $40, 600. Ken. il
bonded by a surety company for
ST, 600, which will be recovered by the
government, but the balance will be a
loss unless be is captured before he
spends all the money he is supposed
to have taken with him.
BUTTE, July l7.-Secretary James
Wilson of the department Of agricul-
ture, and a party of federal officials
a the shelters of the Washoe com
pany in Anaconda today. They will
visit forest reserves and irrigation
projects in Montana.
HELENA, July 1.-The state fur
nishing board has let the contract for
the printing of 1000 sets of the Mon.
tana codes and statutes to a local
house for $1,000, the bid being the low.
est. f. c. Day is now c%oditying the
laws, and they will be annotated by
Judge Henry N. Blake. The copy il
to be ready for the printer by Nov. l.
and the codes are to be ready for de-
livery April l next.
GARRISON, July II. Enginee,
James Graham OF Butte was killed
and the ~westbound North Coast Lin
tied train was ditched three miles be
low here at 4 o'clock this morning
The body of the dead engineer wal
found In the overturned cab OF the en-
CINE with o hand on the throttle
and the other on the valve to thu
~sandpipe. Two baggage cars tn,
smoker and the day coach are Oft IN.
the track. which is torn up for fft,
yards. The train wae hauled back x
Garrison and Missoula headquarter.
notified.
GREAT FALLS, July l7.-Mrs. Brod
erick, wife of a painter at Harlowton
was burned to death at the place
named yesterday while cleaning pain,
brushes for her husband. Mrs. Brod'
erick, who had been az invalid fol
years, was left alone in the house BY
her husband when he went to work
and she cleaned the brushes with
t%urpentine. Apparently she went tc
the kitchen stove, which contained ;
fire, and the oil on her clothes an(
person became ignited. The woman
ran out of the house screaming, en-
veloped in flames, which we're extin
guished by neighbors, but she died o
her injuries before a doctor could b.
brought from Twodot. Besides he
husband she leaves other rel atives a
HarlowtOn.