The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-12-18
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

DILLON. Dec. 10.-Thomas Flynn
was killed yesterday in a runaway
accident lear here. Flynn's team be.
came frightened and he attempted to
jump. His foot caught in a wheel and
he was repe atedly whirled about, his
head striking q frozen bank and his
brains dashed out.
HELENA, Dec. 10.-City Clerk Mar
tin Doty, who has just returned from
Garrison, says that village is terroriz.
ed by outlaws. Sixteen holdups took
place Friday and Saturday Of last
week. Mr.. Doty says 500 men are EN-.
pl Dyed on the railroad work near
Garrison and it is the belief of the
citizens there that the tough element
has turned upon itself and that the
members are robbing one another.
BUTTE, Dec. 10.-Henry NJ. Smith
was killed by a passenger train near
Rocker, q short distance east of this
city in a manner that strongly inclined
toward suicide. According to the
story OF Engineer Peter Layton, Smith
apparently deliberately walked from
one track on to the track in front of
the approaching train. Smith was
formerly q railroad conductor.
BUTTE, Dec. 1O.--Ja ck Mcmillan, a
we'll known miner of Butte, was shot
and fatally wounded in either q saloon
brawl or during an attempted holdup
of the resort just west of Taft. Mont,
according 20 word received from Mis-
soula tonight. Officers have left for
the scene of the murder. Mcmillan
was conducting the saloon.
BUTTE, Dec. 1O.-Former Governor
Robert B. Smith is a patient at St.
James hospital suffering from kidney
trouble and his condition is considered
serious. Mr.. Smith was taken i'll on
Sunday night and under advice of his
attending physician he was removed
TO the hospital. A report given out
this afternoon is t o the effect that he
is resting easily and there is hope
that he may o His family in
Flathend county has been notified of
his condition. A few years ago MIR.
Smith was operated on in New York
and the operation was successful in
that it afforded relief until a short
time ago, when the old complaint re.
turned.
HELENA. Dec. 1.-THE order of
October 10 by the American Smelling
& Refining company, refusing to treat
ore from any but contract ship
pers at the east Helena smelters, has
been revoked. This will mean the
immediate resumption of work in many
small properties in the state.
HELENA, Dec. Ill ames Minar,
colored, was acquitted of the Oh arge
of murder by a jury in the district
court this afternoon. The jury was
out a little over two hours. Minar
shot and killed Henry Wade, color.
ed, whom he found in a bed room with
his wife late one evening last spring.
He pleaded the "unwritten" law.
HELENA, Dec. lit is probable
that a church fight in the public
schools between Jews and Protestauts
may develop here, which will wind up
in the courts. Monday night, at the
meeting of the school board, Rabbi
Israel Klein, of the Congregation
Emmanuel, declared that the Christ.
mas exercises in the schools were
radically s~ectarian and he asked the
board to take some action to abol-
ish them.
BUTTE, Dec. ll.-John E. McNear,
better kown as "Red" McNear, who
was convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to five years in the penit.
entary by the jury, appeared before
Judge Bourquin this morning for sen.
tence. The court stated that he had
found McNear an educated man and
held that the morphine had not been
injected into Snyder's arm with the
intent to kill and that in view of ex-
tenuating Giro ~umstances, he had de-
cided to reduce the sentence to Two
years, as he thought that would be
sufficient under the conditions.
BUTTE, Dec. ll.-Because Nicholas
j. Kent, former financial clerk in the
postoffice, absconded with IS,
552 of United States currency entrust.
ed to his care as financial clerk in the
Postmaster Malcolm ellis
has been notified by the treasury de.
prlment at Washington that he must
pay the sum of S2,552 to make good
the deficit. The National Surety com
pany of New York was on the bond of
the absconding clerk TO the amount of
Sc 900, which has been forfeited, and
the balance must be met by the Butte
postmaster, whom the Washington de-
partment holds responsible for the