The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-12-23
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

UuA JIG G0SS "" 00Y9s
RED LODGE, Dec. 17.-Mrs. Sidney
Fox, wife Of Judge Fox of this dis.
trict, died here today Of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Fox was stricken with the dis
ease while her husband was in Port.
land with the body Of his father who
died in Colorado. The elder Fox was
we'll known throughout the state aud
was one of the commissioners from
this state to the worlds fair in St.
Louis.
BILLINGS, Dec. l7.-Mrs. Melinda
Hudson, the mother Of Lorne Stewart,
q 19-year.old boy who was killed in
the Youngs Point wreck, September
Is, has brought suit against the Nor
thern Pacific Railway company and
the engineers of the colliding trains
for s35 900, of which sum 100000 is
asked as compensatory damages and
S15, 600 as penal damages. Stewart
was manager Of his mothers business
interests and her main standby. Mrs.
Hudson lives in Columbus, where the
boy was inferred. This is the fourth
suit growing out Of the wreck, the
amount now being sued for aggregat-
::ng $780, 0o.
RED LODGE, Dec. 1S.-One of the
biggest coal deals in the history of
Carbon county was consummated to.
day when Thomas Ryan, representing
q number of Nebraska capitalists,
purchased 480 acres of land located in
the Bear Creek distsict, some three
miles south of the present coal pro.
perties. The consideration has not
been made public, but it has been in
timated from outside sources that the
purchase price was $75 al acre.
HELENA, Dec. 1s.-The date Of the
competitive examination of applicants
for admission to West Point and
Annapolis has been changed from
December % to 20 % December 80 to
81. The youths making the highest
rating in each of the two examin atoms
will be appointed by Senator Carter
as the candid ates for West Point and
Annapolis, and there will be three
alternates for each school.
GREAT FALLS, Dec 10. - After q
shutdown of six months, the only
distillery in Montana, located at
Manchester, near this city, started
yesterday for an all winter u after
having been inspected by r. N. Mich.
olson, deputy collector of internal
revenue of Helena. The distillery has
. on hand sufficient rye and other grain
to run it for several months.
. HELENA, Dec. 20.-Thos. O'Connor,
t 60 years old, one of the early pioneers
of the state, died at his home in this
city today. He was q member of Com
t pany d, First Wisconsin cavalry, but
u received an honorable discharge ow'
:, ing to i'll health, after serving a short
. time. He soon afterward came to
Montana, where he has held q number
of offices.
20 GREAT FALLS, Dec. 19.-Leslie NJ
o Thayer, who was once committed te
+ the reform school at Miles City, ant
as served peniten
tiary, pleaded guilty in Justice Stat
ford's court yesterday to a charge o
burglary, in connection with a theft o
$500 pounds of oats from the granar,
of James Johnson of Upper SAM
Coulee, and was turned over to tn
district court.
HELENA, Dec. l9.-The hearing i
one of the most important suits eve
brought in Montana by the govern
ment was set today by Judge Hunt fC
January II at Helena, being the su;
against the Northern Pacific Railwa
company, the Northwestern Improve
ment company and the Rocky For
b Coal company, to quiet title to ca
bon county coal lands claimed to |
. worth more than 800, 900. Title
oo these lands, it is alleged, was obtaine
ss through fraud.
70 BUTTE, Dec. Civ. T. Clark, Il
Of aged prospector. who was found des
Of across the threshold of his cabin {
Fish creek, Is miles south of her
yesterday, vas probably murder'
for his money. He was known
~. Nv keep between 81, 900 and g., 1000 in go
NJ in his shack. There is no clew to t
r, murderer.
es- BILLINGS, Dec. 2l.-Iu the ARE
ler and conviction of John Bare, t
..o police have put q stop to the hume
GUS recent thefts Of suit cases, gri
O., and overcoats on the Northern Paci
trai MS in this section. Bare was sc
In up for three months for stealing
the overcoat belonging to a passenger
led route to South Dakota.
as MIssoULA, Dec. 2l.-The body