The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-08-26
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

INR the 0dS F0W Laws,
BOHEMIAN, Aug. 20.-The coroner's
jury, which has been trying to ascer.
tain the causes leading to the explo-
sion of a sawmill boiler in Bear can
yon Monday, resulting in the death Of
the engineer, W. Thompson, brought
10 a verdict blaming Roberts, the
owner of the sawmill for moi having
the boiler tested recently. The jury
also blames a prior owner for the
same neglect.
HELENA, Aug. 2l.-With the an
nouncement that it will pay cash for
grain and will erect elev ators wher.
ever the acreage justi6es it, the Nc.
Caull. Webster Elevator company Of
Minneapolis has opened an office here,
which will be headquarters for the
Northwest. The management states
elev ators are now being constructed
at Townsend and Red Lodge and
more will be built in the Judith and
along the Great Northern,
DEER LODGE, Aug. 21.-Louis Cole
man, postmaster of Deer Lodge, who
was one of the pioneers of this region
and alsoa politician of considerable
local repute, passed away at his
home here yesterday after an illness
of about a week. MIR. Coleman came
west in 1860 and located in this dis.
trict in 1869. From the year of 1878
to 1892 he attended five republican
conventions, and he served as county
treasurer and sheriff and city treas
urer on different occasions.
BOHEMIAN, Aug. 21.-E. O'Leary and
j. De Wall we're arrested this morn.
ing for running engines without an
engineers license. They we're fined
$40 each. The officers are going to
examine every engineer in the county
and ascertain whether each has a
legal licence to run an engine, and
also to find out whether each engine
boiler has been tested recently. AS
there are about seventy five threshing
machines in the valley alone, the
officers have quite a task ahead Of
them.
HELENA, Aug, 2l.-Lewis Penwell
has received word from Secretary
Walker of the National Woolgrowers'
association that roads in the middle
east have reduced grazing charges on
sheep in transit and that the Chicago
Great Western has made q rate Of l
cent per head per day. If a cores
%ponding reduction is made by other
roads it will result in a saving of
thousands of dollars annually
Montana tlockmasters, it is said.
KALIsPELL, Aug. 22.-Fred White
side in last evenings issue of the Bee,
announced himfelf as q candidate for
congress on the Democratic ticket.
Believing that the office should seek
the man, he declares he will not make
an active or extended IVA
Thomas d. Long Of this city is also a
candidate for this Office.
LEwISTOWN, Aug. 22.-The cor
oner's inquest into the death of Mrs.
l. w. Harper, a years old, has de.
veloped that the woman was suffering
from q varicose vein and undertook
to operate on herself by making an
iucision in the leg at the seat of pain
and bled to death. Mrs. Harper was
found dead In bed at her home on
Beaver Creek. She had evidently
sought to staunch the flow OF blood
but in vain.
HELENA, Aug. 23.--Harry Hepburn,
aged % years, a railroad engineer OF
the Chicago. Milwaukee 4 St. Paul
railroad, was struck by one Of the
company's trains this evening while
walking across q bridge at Lombard.
He was hurled 10 feet and received
five fractures in his left ARM, his lef,
leg was broken at the hip and he also
received internal injuries. He was
brought here this morning and the
doctors report that he may live.