The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
MONTANA BRiEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.

IN tDe Ldhc DdoIu COuuITs, ~
| ceived notice toda that 100 half-blood
Cotswold wethers, which he placed in
competition in the Intern ational Fat
| Stock show at Chicago, had won both
first and second prizes.
LIVINGSTON, Dec. 12.-The reform
wave has reached Livingston and at a
meeting in the auditorium attended by
over 1000 persons. q committee was
appointed to call IN Mayor Cough
nour and request him to see that all
the saloons in the city are closed at
midnight each week day and that they
are kept closed all day on Sundays.
BOHEMIAN, Dec. 12.-An engine pull
ing an extra e%astbound freigh. train
blew up at Story's siding, near here,
last evening, instantly killing John
| WEIGH, the fireman, and severely in.
Turing Head Brakeman Vernon. The
fireman was thrown a distance OF 200
feet from the engine. He was in the
act of putting coal into the drebox
when the explosion occurred.
BILLINGS, Dec. 12.-Five Austrian
laborers we're brought to Billings last
night by Deputy Sheriff Charles Da-
wilson, OF Columbus, aud were placed
in the county Jail to await trial on the
charge Of violating the state anti gam
bling law. 1t is charged that the men
were on board an east bound train
and persisted in playing the seductive
game of poker, despite the protests OF
the conductor.
HELENA, Dec. 13.-The trial of John
T. Murphy, indicted a year ago by
the grand jury on the charge OF un-
lawfully fencing approximately So
600 acres of public land in eastern
Montana. has been reset. This is the
third time the setting has been chang.
ed. If no change is made in the pres
ent setting Mr.. Murphy will be given
a trial the first Monday in April.
HELENA, Dec. 13.-At the meeting
. here of the state officers Of the Frater.
; nal Order of Eagles, the next state
convention was ordered to be called
July q, in Missoula. The Eagles OF
the state will donate $500 this year
to the St. Joseph's Orphans Home,
: Helena, and the state institutions a,
Twin Bridges, Miles City and Boulder
This money will be expended in gifts
| for the,children.
LEwIsTOwN, Dec. 13.-Fire com
pletely destroyed the Scheuber Drug
company's plant today at noon, caus
Z ing a loss of $50, 600, half of which il
I covered by insurance. The fire wa
Il started by a mar witha lifted pipe witt
u was drawing alcohol. The voluntee
fire department made a brave effort tt
> save the building. but the wind wa
high and the fire had gained to-
strong a Roadway.
MIssoULA, Dec. l3.-Laura "A
Graham has filed a suit in the distriC
- court against the Northern Pacifi
railway company, Former Superin
tendent Andrew j. Gibson and Road
master F. Hartman to recover $50,
600 damages for the death of her hus
band, James S. Graham, q locmotiv
engineer, who was killed in an acci
dent near C arrison last Jnne. It |
alleged that the accident was due t
!. poor condition of the track and roaG
bed.
n BUTTE, Dec. l3.--Five hundred me
q members of the local miners unior
today seized q miner at work no tn
new Bell Telephone building as
carpenter. and escorted him to the
hall. At one time q riot seemed In
II minent. The Bell company has bee
- b~oycotted by union labor in Montau
becacue of the strike of linemen an
=. operators, begun last March, az
=, union laboriin turn has been e~njoine
;. by United States Judge Hunt Of IL
federal court, from interfering wit
49, Bell employees. What action Jud.
" Hunt will take is not known.
a., BILLINGS, Dec. l4.-While beir
-. switched onto a siding about fol
miles west of here last night, a CT
- loaded with beef cattle bound II
:, Chicago caught fire and the ANNA
were cremated.
-, KALlSpELL, Dec. l4.-Coroner She
~ man tonight received a telegram fro
-, F%ortine, announcing that c. II. Pete
- son had accidentally killed himse
~ Peterson was - years of age, unma
ried. For several years he vas wi
the Missoula Mercantile compal
"a here, but had recently been in t
~. forest service.
-, RED LODGE, Dec. 1.-THE city aut
~. critics are waging a campaign agar
~ violators Of quarantine regulation
This week two residents of the ci
y. who violated the regulations regar
nd ing diphtheria were arrested and fine