The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-11-18
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

From Various Parts Of the State.
LEWISTOWN, Nov. 10 Elmer Hin
ton, the young slayer of Contractor
W. 81. Mahaney at Roundup a few
days ago, was arrested at Duck lake
some Is miles from Roundup, by a
rancher named Connolly. He will be
brought ia on tomorrow mornings
train and will probably have his pre-.
liminary hearing here Saturday.. 1t
is understood that he claims the kill.
ing was done in self defense. He is
charged with murder in the first de.
gree.
! BUTTE, Nov. TO- In a collision be.
tween passenger No. 6 and a freight
OF the Chicago Milwaukee & ST. Paul
this morning at Newcomb, the second
siding of the road, seven miles east of
Butte, Arthur Beers, conductor of the
freight, was hurled from a fat car
upon which he was standing and fell
under the wheels of the cars, which
crushed both his legs and an arm,
and cut him badly about the head.
He died a few hours later.
BUTTE, Nov. 1O.-A tragedy took
place in Lima, the railroad town Of
Beaverhead county, about 40 miles
south of Dillon, according to the in.
formation received at the sheriff's Of
fee. Col. w. H. Boule, constable at
Lima, shot aud instantly killed Jack
Tony, bartender in the Budness sa-
loon. Little information has been
received of the shooting, but the re-
port is that Boule vas somewhat in
toSicated at the time. 1t il said that
the two men quarreled a few days ago
and that the quarrel was renewed in
the saloon a few minutes before the
shooting.
DILLON. Nov. 1.-the 14.year.old
son of Frank Dries, a prominent cat
tleman residing near Bowen, in the
Big Hole basin, was instantly killed
at his fathers ranch this afternoon by
his horse falling on him while he was
driving cattle.
HELENA, Nov. ll.-Ding Sing, u
Chinese stockman living near the city,
has returned from Chicago, where he
disposed of three carloads of range
cattle. In Chicago he was informed
he was the first oriental who ever
shipped an animal to that market.
The Chicago newspapers wrote him
up and printed his picture.
HELENA, Nov. ll.-Will A. Camp.
bell, of the staff of the Omaha Bee,
who is looking up tonnage statistics
and data in connection with the FEAST
bility of opening up the Yellowstone
and upper Missouri as waterways for
traffic for the Missouri river naviga.
tion congress, is in Helena. Data
collected by the railroad commission
has been relied on to secure an un
derstauding of the subject in this
state.
BUTTE, Nov. ll.--Isadore Duhame
has brought suit against the Anaconda
Stand ard Publishing company, ask
ing $4,000 damages for publishing ar
alleged defamatory story regarding
Mr.. Duhame aud the milk he sold
1t is said in the complaint that The
Anaconda Standard during the month
of October published a story 10 tht
effect that forty persons had contract.
ed typhoid fever by using milk sup
piled by him. This article is alleged
by Mr.. Duhame TO have destroyed his
business, which he valued at $40, 600.
WOLF CREEK, Nov. ll.-Charles
Foreman, proprietor Of the hotel al
this place, was stabbed and probably
fatally injured by Frank Norton, with
whom he had been arguing. After
having abused the guests, Norton was
elected from the hotel. A half hour
later Mr.. Foreman left the house to
get fuel for the fire and was stabbed
from the a His groans attracted
the guests o! the hotel, who came te
his assistance n captured his assail.
ant, who was taken to Helena and
lodged in the county Jail, 1t is
thought Foreman cannot recover.
ANACONDA, Nov. IA new EN-
%ployment for the Cree Indians has
been discovered by officers of the ma,
tional forest, which has the entire
tribe in Deer Lodge and Powell coun
ties busy collecting the cones of the
lodge pole pine. The forest service
proposes extracting the seed from the
cones and it will be use in the nur.
series Of the service for growing small
pines in the reproduction of these
native forests.