The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-08-21
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

BUTTE, August l5.-Former Justice
of the Peace Phil j. Harrington took
his life in the city Jail early this
morning, by cutting his throat from
ear to ear with a razor. Harrington
had been in poor health for some time
and was about the city hall nearly all
day yesterday. Last night he asked
Jailer r. Reniger to give him a place
to sleep for the night, and Reniger
placed him in a cell usually kept for
the women prisoners.
GREAT FALLS, August 15.-Claim.
ing that he was bruised, kicked and
injured and lost $50 lawful United
States currency in q game of ''bIack
jack" James Kapariva yesterday
started two suits against Peter West.
For his injuries he demands judgment
for Sl,025 and for losing his money he
asks that the money be returned to
him and that in addition the court
assess West $500 exemplary damages.
HELENA, August Is. = Bozeman,
Missoula, Helena, and several other
places rendered sites for the Odd Eel.
lows home at the meeting OF the board
Of directors here this afternoon. A
subcommittee was appointed to look
over the different sites and report as
soon as possible, when the matter will
be decided and plans prepared for
buildings. The Odd Fellows now have
q fund of $4,000 available for pur.
chasing a site and erecting q home.
BUTTE, August ia daring and
cold.blooded attempt to take the life
Of q boy about IL years old was made
last night by some person or persons
at the present time unknown. The Fad
was bound hands and feet to the street
car track at a point near the junction
Of the Englewood and race roads
about dark, and he owes his life to
Mrs. Joseph j. McDermott, who lives
on Grand avenue, q short distance
from where the boy was bound to the
rails.
HELENA, August 15.-An express
package containing 3 $1,000 in currency
shipped by the Union Bank & Trust
company, of Helena, to j. a. Tullock,
the postmaster at Lombard, has been
stolen and the detectives of the North.
ern Pacific Express company and the
authorities OF Jefferson county are
searching for both thief and plumber.
Il. l.. Schlintz, the day telegraph
operator at Lombard, is now under
arrest at Townsend and though he
denies all guilt, the police believe that
he took the money. When the pack
age disappeared suspicion immediate.
lty fell upon Schlintz. His room was
searched and stuffed into his pillows
a number of stolen express packages
were found.
BUTTE, August Low. H. kemerer
came all the way to Butte from Kan.
sas City to marry Mrs. Ethel Helmick,
but the day he landed in town, Mrs.
Helmick became Mrs. Ethel St. Clair,
and o Kemerer, in a novel suit,
asks a justice court to compel the
woman to pay him $500, partly to heal
his injured feelings, but mainly to
pay his expenses and railroad fare
back to his home in Missouri.
HELENA. August l6.-John Brass
commenced an action in the district
court this morning against George
Farnam for damages in the sum OF
S5,O25. Farnam is a policeman, and
last May arrested Brass on the al
legged charge of disturbing the peace
in what is known as the Grand Cen.
trail saloon. Damages are asked for
on the ground Of unnecessary punish
ment the policeman is alleged to have
inflicted on the plaintiff when making
the arrest.
BUTTE, August l6.-The plumbers
have o their strike. a meeting wa:
held last night between the disagree
ing employees and employers at the re
quest OF the master plumbers. Al
agreement was quickly reached ant
the result is that work will be resumed
at once in every shop in the city anl
will continue on all the unfinished
buildings in the city, on which worl
has been hung up for nearly a montl
past. The wages will Is q day. tn
wage they demanded when they walke'
out and which has been paid for som
weeks by the Flaherty shops.
LEwIsTOwN, August l6.-The graf
elev ator to be built at once in thi
city by local business men will prov
q great convenience to the farmers, q
it will be finished in time to handl
this seasons grain. 1t is estimate
that something like $1,000 acres ar
under GUILTY. alton this year, the ave,
age estimated weld being close I