The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-16
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

from various VdVtS u tUS StdtSs
MISSOCLA, Sept. S.-State Senator
Ed Donlan. of Missoula county, has
announced that be will allow his name
to go before the state republican cor
vention for nomination of governor.
There has been talk along this line
for several weeks, but Mr.. Donlan
would not make a statement until this
morning.
HELENA, Sept. s.-Secretary John
w. Pace of the Montana State Fair
association has received word that
John w. Kern, democratic candidate
for vice president, aud Senator
Beveridge will speak in Helena dur.
ing state fair week. The dates have
not yet been announced, but it is ex.
pected the men will speak here on
succeeding days. Both speeches will
be made in the morning.
BUTTE, Sept. S.-Gabriel Murier, a
girl of the under world, was found
murdered on the floor of her place,
with a ribbon knotted tightly about
her throat, today. The money which
she was known to have had in her
stocking was gone when the body was
found. The room showed no signs Of
a struggle and the woman lay sprawl.
ed beneath some of the furniture, as If
she had fallen from the bed.
BUTTE, Sept. s.-Back on the as
sessment rolls of Silver Bow county
will go w. A. Clark's 81, 4O4, 26O of
United Verde stock his $1,000, 600 of
San Pedro, and F. A. Heinze's Sl10-,
600 or so of United Copper stock if
County Attorney Murray's suit
against the county clerk and recorder
is successful. Mr.. Murray, as county
attorney of Silver Bow county, this
morning filed a petition for q writ Of
mand ate to compel Mr.. Scott as coun-
ty clerk and recorder 20 place back
on the tax rolls the stocks above
named and to consider them as part
Of the taxable property of Silver Bow
county.
M1SSOULA, Sept. g.. - An official
bulletin issued here today by the local
of the lumbermen's union calls off the
strike that has been in existence since
June. The order affects the lumber
workers in four counties, Granite,
Ravalli, Sanders and Missoula. The
resembling Of the strike order was the
result of the action taken by the Min.
ers union.
LIVINGSTON, Sept. 9.-Advices from
the Yellowstone park are to the effect
that the authorities there have in the
guard house a prisoner named VIM.
Ferguson, who Is suspected of having
had IA hand in the holdup of the stage
coaches a couple of weeks ago. Fer
guson declares his innocence, but says
that Earl Swauie and VIM. Short, two
men arrested at Gardiner for disturb.
ance of the peace and sentenced to
terms in the Park county Jail, were
Implicated in the robbery.
MISSOULA, Sept. ga man whose
name is supposed to be Johnson com
mitted suicide in the alley ia the rear
of the Missoula Mercantile company's
Office, yesterday by cutting his throat.
The nan had been about the city for
several days and had stated that he
was in the employ of McDougall
Bros, contractors. He walked into
the alley, covered his head with his
coat and hacked at his neck with a
dull knife. He severed the jugular
vein and was dead when found.
LEw1sTowN, Sept. "a ranch deal
involving Sl4O, 600 has just been closed
up here, the Cook.Reynolds company
Of Lewiston, purchasing from the En-.
terprise company in which j.. Quincy
Adams is the leading spirit, a tract
adjoining Hobson, near the Judith
river, some Is miles from this city,
containing 5000 acres of choice land,
much of it under cultiv alton, while
every foot of it can be farmed. The
Cook.Eseynolds company will sub-di-
vide the tract into farms OF 100 acres
and upwards.