The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1907-07-26
MONTANA ITEMS

Five prominent men, including
Creighton Largely, the millionaire,
were fined $40 apiece in police court
in Butte for exceeding the speed linn
it in automobiles. They pleaded gull
ty. The cases are the first of a cam
paign instituted by the chief of police
to stop automobile speeding.
The will of Peter Larson, multi-mll-
lionaire railroad contractor, mining
magnate, lumberman and FIGURING mill
owner, has been filed in the district
court. While the bulk of the estate is
left to his wife and daughter, pro-
vision is made for practically every
| church, hospital and charitable insti-
tuition in the city of Helena, as well as
his brothers. The will contains a
| clause that if any legatee shall file a
contest, he or she shall be disinherit-
ed. The estate is valued roughly at
SIS, OOO, 900.
A wreck occurred on the Northern
Pacific between Garrison and Elliston
so miles west of Butte. Little damage
was done.
larry D6lduGy VI ANCW AOAh "O
shot and instantly killed recently II
a brawl in a house in --e restricted
district of Whitefish. The shooting
was done by a woman named Ma
thews, who was drunk at the time o
her arrest and will give no state
ment.
C. NJ. Stubs, a well-known residen
OF Stanford, recently kidnapped his z
year-old child from its mother in tn
main business street of Great Falls |
broad daylight and at a time whe
that thoroughfare was crowded. Tn
greatest excitement resulted. Stubb
tore the child from its screamin
mother an drapidly bore it away, pu
sued by a wrathy crowd bent on sun
, marily furnishing the kidnaper. Stubt
was arrested.
. While engaged in working on a
! electric light pole at n of the bi
!. transformers in the ear of the eli
FIRE station at Billings, Mont, Lew
: C. Johnson, a line man employed
: the Billings Water Power compan
!. was e~lectrocuted recently.
The geological survey estimates Il
copper output of Montana In 1906
l2S2,485,517 pounds, which is great
than the output of any other stat
Arizona is second, with 262, 1861
pounds. Michigan is third, with %
1851 pounds.
The body of Roscoe Denbley, w
r was drowned in the Clark's Fork
Gently, has not yet been recovered.
oil Two heavy storms coming from
At posite directions met each other ne
h Cascade Saturday afternoon, RESULT
in a terrific wind and hail storm, d.
ing which hailstones fell measure
l. as much as one and a half inches
D. diameter. Crops were ruined in t
Is storm zone. During the storm Zig
% ming killed a ranch hand, name
III known, several miles from Cascau
he was struck while driving a ba
at Of sheed to shelter.
Mt After representing Madison cour
i'd In the legislature two years a
IN Frank p. Linderman was appoint
ct assistant secretary of state. He serV
m until Saturday. when he resigned
engage in business In Helena. Sec
tary Yoder appointed David Pizer
m Helena his successor.
n James r. Davis, aged %, an &C
70 In he Grand opera house stock CT
Ie- pany, while speaking his lines dur
an sundays matinee at Butte was S
k denly seized by what physicians I
nouneed heart failure, and toppled
he the stage a corpse. The audie,
ed was at onee dismissed. Davis ca
to Butte from Chicago about tn
To- months ago. He leaves a widow
lot a 3 year old child