The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-07-31
MONTANA BRIEFLEIS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

~ AAOAAoo
of Gilt Edge, reports the theft of a
very unusual kind. He has a large
area of grazing land fenced, and a
few days ago the tract was visited BY
some one with a team. The party
drove around the tract, taking the
lower strand of wire of all the way
and hauling of an even mile of wire.
BILLINGS July pc. D. Helms has
been arrested by a United States mar.
shall on a charge Of cattle stealing and
brought to this city. He was working
on a ranch so miles from Miles City.
He is charged with having Gifted"
some cattle in Oklahoma, and he will
be returned to that territory.
HELENA, July 26.-J. j. Berry, q
Butte man, who sued the Northern
Pacific company for $4,000 damages,
for injuries received while t travelling on
that line between Butte and Pipestone
Springs in 1908, was awarded sls, 500
in the court here today. The defend.
ants gave notice of appeal and re.
quested q stay of execution for sixty
days, which was granted.
HELENA, July 26.-The board OF
pardons today granted a parole to
Paul Goelet, convicted in Fergus
county in April, 1902, of manslaughter
and sentenced to serve ten years in the
penitentiary. Thomas Cruise, the mil.
lionaire mining man, for whom Goelet
was working, was Instrumental in se-
curing the pardon. Every 30 days.
Goelet must report the board his
Whereabouts, what he is doing, and
other matters.
HELENA, July 29.-In the United
States court, Perry Kennerly, charged
with committing q criminal assault,
was acquitted. The woman who made
the complaint was a halfbreed, living
on the Blackfeet reservation. Ken
nerly has been in Jail six months
aw Waiting trial.
BOHEMIAN, July pa bolt of light.
ming, apparently out of a quiet sky,
killed George l.. Judd, son OF a we'll
known rancher. at Sedan, yesterday
afternoon. Young Judd's horse had
become %entangled IN his halter rope,
with which he had been tied to q post,
and Judd left his house to assist the
animal. There was a slight fash as
the storm broke and Judd dropped
dead. The horse was uninjured,
WISDOM, July ga falling der
rick pole killed William T. Parker
yesterday morning on the ranch of
Mitchell & Mussigbrod. Parker and
other men were stacking hay, when
the pole broke. Parker was a we'll
known ranchmau, his place being near
Browne. He formerly lived in Deer
Lodge valley and "a we'll known in
Anaconda. He leaves a wife and
seven children.
BUTTE, July 29.-Fired out Of his
berth in the middle of the night and
dumped of the train because of some
alleged irregularity in his ticket,
Spencer w. Smith, a we'll known
Butte man, has begun an action for
$1,000 against the Northern Pacific
Railway company and Sheriff Rey-
nolds of G allatin county, who, be al.
leges, assisted in his election from the
train.
HELENA. July 29.-Driven insane
by the poor quality Of American
booze dispensed by the establishments
of Great Falls and Glasgow, Harry
Hill, a Canadian alien, who came
down from Lethbridge, Canada, to
Great Falls with a circus las, summer,
has been ordered deported by the i'm
migration authorities at Washington.
The order Of deportation was received
by the officials here today. Hill, be-.
came insane at Glasgow. He will soon
be returned to Lethbridge.