The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-21
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts O the State.

ANACONDA, August 13. - Henry
Freburg died last night from the ef-
feet Of q kick by a horse received last
Friday at the barns Of the Montgom.
cry Meat company on Mill creek. The
injury was not considered dangerous
at the time and the injured man was
able to walk to the house and was
later taken to st. AIMS hospital.
LEwIsTOwN, August 13.-Through
a moral wave that has struck the
town OF Stanford within the past
couple OF weeks, the county has been
enriched to the extent of $3.50, this be-
ing the amount of fines imposed on
offenders against the good order of
the community who were tried 10 the
justice court there yesterday.
BILLINGS, August l3.-H. c. Mad.
son Of Pendleton, Ore, was caught
between the couplers OF two freight
cars last night at Huntley, and crushed
to death. Madison apparently was
stealing q ride. The corpse was
found sticking fast between the tiers
on the bumpers by the brakemen when
it became light enough to see.
LEw1sTowN, Angus, l3. - Peter
Murphy, n of the bet known miners
in Kendall. was instantly killed today
by q fall while 1t work in the Kendall
mine. Murphy was engaged in his
usual underground work, and while
walking across a stope, the timbers
gave way and he fell 90 feet to the level
below. His neck was broken, and
when picked up ne was dead.
HELENA, August l3.-Charles w.
Cooper, stenographer in department
No. 2 of the district court, returned
this morning from Mid Canyon and
reports that P. w. Huffman, a we'll
known ranchman in the vicinity of
Mid Canyon, was the unfortunate man
drowned in the river last week while
swimming it on his horse. Huffman
was about fifty years OF age and had
lived near Mic Canyon for q number
Of years. Prior TO his death he had
under lease a small piece of land,
which he was working. He is also
said to have had a small herd of cat.
tie.
BUTTE, August l3.-Billy NOLAN,
who stole $50 from Jack Gallagher,
the miner who has cabin in Mahoney
alley, pleaded guilty to vagrancy this
morning before Judge MCGOWAN, and
was given IS days in the county Jail.
He confessed that he had taken the
money from Gallagher, saying that
they were both drunk at the time, and
that Gallagher had the money on his
person. and it had dropped into the
bed while they we're sleeping. He
awakened first, and taking the money
began blowing it at the keystone sa.
loon.
GREAT FALLS, August l4.-Leon
Neveux, proprietor of the All Nations
saloon, n OF the most notorious re-
sorts of the redlight district, was shot
dead in his " place of business this
afternoon, by Louis Serre, proprietor
of a steam dye works at POI First
avenue south. The tragedy is one of
the worst that has occurred in Great
Falls in years. The killing was the
result of a row in which Neveux and
Serre had become engaged not more
than Is minutes previous.
GLEND1vE, Aug. A.-Word reached
the city that q serious shooting ARRAY
with attendant circumstances amount
ing to a riot, occurred at Freeman
camp. on the big ditch, about 20 miles
below Glendive. According to the
best information obtainable two Aus.
trians engaged in a pistol fight, where.
upon Willard Freeman interviewed and
one of the fellows turned the gun upon
him. Freeman fired first and fatally
wounded the foreigner.
BUTTE, August l4.-Another foul
murder, shrouded in mystery, is that
OF an unknown mar found under q
table in a wine room of the Blue Rib
bon saloon, last night. The mans
neck was broken so that a bone pro-
truded and a cash on the head speaks
palmer than words that the unfortun.
ate man, who was evidently a laborer
from the grade work on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul road, met
with foul play. There seems to be no
doubt that a gang OF thugs are prey
ing upon the laborers at the railroad
camp, and after each payday many of
the men are either robbed after they
are made drunk or they are slugged
by strong arm men and their pockets
rif1ed.
HELENA, August l4.-Twenty.fve
applicants appeared at the land Office
here today to file on timber land, with.
drawn from the Lewis and Clark re.