The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-10-16
MONTANA BRlEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

BILLINGS, Oct. 1O.-In the distric
court Frederick Tilt, who was charged
with having stolen two pay check:
from the firm Of Guthrie & Co., rail.
road contractors at Lavina. entered
a plea of guilty to grand larceny, an6
was sentenced to the p%enitentiary TO,
one year. The checks had been draw
by " other workmen and endorsed
Tilt stole and cashed them in this city
BUTTE, Oct. 10.-The trial O,
Charles O'Gara, who killed Jane:
Noonan with a shotgun q year ago,
on a charge of murder, was begun il
the criminal part Of the district court
this morning. BY noon twelve men
had been passed q jurymen for
cause, and at that hour the case
was continued until tomorrow morn.
ing on account Of the absence OF
Attorney f. s. Booth. chief counsel
for the prisoner.
LEWISTOWN, Oct. 10.-A million
pounds of Judith basin oats will
shortly be shipped to Chicago to be
made into food, an order for this
amount having been received from the
largest manufacturer of cereal foods
in the world. 1t is to be followed by
other orders from the same establish
ment, the selection having been made
only after an examin alton of the oats
grown in different sections of the
country had been concluded.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. 1O.-John
Svenich, an Austrian laborer, was
instantly killed on the Billings &
Northen line near Spionkop Tuesday
evening by being struck by a train.
Svenich was picking up coal along the
line, having just come off shift, when
a gravel train, pushing a boxcar and
caboos ahead of the engine, struck
him, knocking him down and running
over a portion of bis body. 1t is
stated that there was no light on the
train, but it was not very dark when
the accident occurred.
HELENA, Oct. 1O.--Nellie Egan, a
resident of Missouri, brought suit in
the federal court today against Will.
lam Weinstein of Helena, to compel
him to live up to an agreement. 1t is
alleged that he agreed to exchange
the Cosmopolitan hotel in this city for
the knoxal farm in Missouri, and
that, when everything was ready, he
swooped down upon the farm and sold
5000 bushels of apples, pocketed the
proceeds and then refused to carry
out the agreement.
LEWISTOwN, October Ex-senator
Henry NJ. Rae today completed the
organization of a new 81, 900, 600 mining
company, and filed articles of incor-
poration. The property consists of a
promising group of claims in the Cone
Butte district, on which considerable
development work has been done. The
company taking them over is the Ford
Creek Gold Mining company, the
claims being situated on Ford creek.
HELENA, Oct. 1l.-Attorney General
Galen, in response to a query from
State Examiner Collins, today gave
him an opinion on the subject Of liquor
dealers licenses. Mr.. Galen holds
that section 4,O63 of the political code
was not repealed by the amendments
to that section, and that wholesale
dealers in malt liquors exclusively,
where sold in quantities of more than
four gallons, must pay a license of
S15 a year.
HELENA, Oct. ll.-Alphonse Mou.
geot, aged A., and his lO~.year-old son,
Alfred, we're found dead this morning
in the engine house in the Northern
Pacific yards Sutfocation was the
cause. Mougeot was employed to op.
crate the gasoline engine used to drive
the hosting buckets to the coal docks.
He was last seen in the building abou,
II o'clock last night. 1t is believed
that he and his boy dropped off to
sleep, not expecting to remain
through the night, when they were
overcome by gas and smoke.
HELENA, October ll.-According tc
railroad men working for the North
ern Pacific, the strike of the boile,
makers several weeks ago has resulted
in the severe crippling of the road
They declare that, at nearly every
roundhouse and shop, there are from
one to a dozen engines which have
been put out of commission from ont
cause or another and which i, is i'm
possible to use until they are repaired
These men say that at every siding
there are great trains of loaded
freights tied up through lack OF motiv.
power.
BUTTE, Oct. flowing to a fight be
tween two slaughter houses is Butte
the price on meats has been cut abou,
so per cent and the people of Butte