The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-03
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS or NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.

HELENA, June 27.-Associate JUS
tice Smith today affirmed the judg-
ment of the district court of Cascade
county in the suit of Bart Armstrong
against J. B. Poe, ia which cas- judg-
ment was entered for the defendan
The case involved the sale of 1924
head Of sheep for sl2,550 by the plain.
tiff to the defendant.
HELENA, June 27.-Earl Cunning
ham, convicted in Park county OF
grand larceny for the theft Of q horse,
is granted y new trial and the ''es-
tray" law declared unconstitutional
in q supreme court opinion today.
Judge Smith, who wrote it, declares
that the law was passed in violation
of the constitutional provision pro.
viding that no bill, except an enum.
Grated law. shall be passed containing
more than one subject, which shall be
clearly expressed in its title.
LEWIsTOWN, June 27.-The funeral
of the late Robert Sullenger took
place today at the Methodist church
and was very largely attended. Mr..
Sullenger was q pioneer of Montana
and his was the first family of whites
to settler in what is now Fergus wi
ty. One of his children, Mrs. Minnie
Hall, of Billings, vas the first white
child born in the Judith basin. Mr..
%Sullenger was long engaged in the
stock raising business and was widely
known.
LEWISTOWN, June 27.-It ia learned
that, in q cloudburst near the conhu.
ence of Careless creek and Swimming
Woman Sunday or Monday, George
Pirrie, the we'll known Rothemay
wool grower, lost between 5000 and
1000 sheep. The same flood caught
two graders at q Billings & Northern
camp and they were drowned. 1t is
reported here, but not fully confirmed,
that Mrs. Waddell, who formerly
lived at Cottonwood, near Lswistown,
and a child were also drowned in that
vicinity.
BILLINGS, June 27.-Flood water.
in the Yellowstone river which for
a short time tire atened the wagon
bridges in the vicinity OF Billings
with destruction, are subsiding.
The high water was the result of
a cloudburst in the Saltwater VAL
ley south of the town of Columbus.
Latest reports from the initial flood
district estimate the loss to crops and
river bridges In the Stillw ater country
at about 1925 900. Five of the road
bridges along the Saltwater river are
entirely destroyed and crops along the
valley are pelted to the earth with
hail in rome places, while in others
they are washed out Of the ground by
flood OF waters.
BUTTE, June 23.-Wm. Carmichael,
a well known old timer Of the city,
sprang from the. fourth story OF the
county hospital this morning, appar-
emily with suicidal intent or else in q
delirium, sustaining injuries wich will
prove fatal. Carmichael is - years
of age. The old mans legs we're so
badly smashed it was necessary to
amputate them this evening. Contin-
ued sickness is thought to have
prompted his act.
BUTTE, June 2S.-Because the Butte
Evening News raised the price Of its
papers TO the n%ewsboys, reducing the
number from three to two for 5 cents,
all the newsies, to the number Of abou,
100, went on a strike this evening, re.
fusing to accept the papers and bonn
harding the newspaper Office with yells
and epithets. Boys who had bought
papers had them TORI into bits by the
d%iminutive strikers, and policemen
were necessary to rout the crowd.
BUTTE, June 2S.-Lumber prices
now higher than ever before in Butte,
are about to be raised. Notice ha.
been received in this city from thu
Northern Pacific Railway compan,
that tariffs on lumber from point,
within the state will be increased ma
terially on June 80. Under the new
schedule, the freight rates will be in
creased from 20 to 40 per cent. TIL
increase will add at least 81 per LOO
to the cost of mining timber, and viii
also increase the cost OF dry lumber
used in ordinary contract work. TIL,
people will pay the increased price
as the dealers with the added cost
imposed by the railroad company will
merely tax the consumer enough NOR
to make up the difference.
BILLINGS, June 28.-All of the da
following the drawing for the Huntle
lands, q big crowd was gathere
about the bulletin boards on whic'
were nOsted the names Of tho winners