The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-12-09
MONTANA BRIEFlETS,
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

ing the Past Few Days.
HELENA, Dec. 3.-Suit was begun
In the federal court today by District
Attorney Freeman against the Great
Northern Railway company for viola.
ton Of the 2S-hour law. 1t is charged
a shipment of hogs from Cando,
N. D., to K~alispell, November l, 1907,
was kept on the road for Al hours.
Judgment is demanded in the sum of
$500.
BUTTE, December 3.-Alexander
Macauley, a prominent business man
of Butte, was killed Monday by fall.
ing over a precipice while in quest
of big game near Midvale, Teton
county, in the northern portion of the
state. Two years ago Mr.. Macauley
represented this county in the legisla.
ture. He was engaged in the tent and
awning business.
MILES CITY, Dec 3.-Roscoe Nye,
his father, and q nan named Baxter
have been arrested and taken to Glen.
dive, charged with robbing sheep
camps in Dawson county. They kept
the town herd in Miles City during the
summer and many robberies of saddles
etc, from barns in the city is also laid
to them, and proof is being searched
for. An officer from Canada was here
yesterday and identified Roscoe Nye
as the man who had stolen horses in
Canada, and he is wanted there also.
BUTTE, Dec. 3.-The trial of Harry
4. Smith, q white boy Of q, for a
murderous assault on John A. Tay-
Tor, q Pullman porter, same to an end
today when the jury announced a dis.
agreement and vas discharged. Smith
tried to hold up q Pullman car in the
yards here October I and when Taylor
resisted him, inaicting a serious
wound. After dismissal a juryman
stated publicly that they had stood II
to l for conviction, but that the man
who had held out did so on the ground
that a white man should never be i'm.
prisOned for shooting a negro.
ANACONDA, Dec. flames Geary
of Anaconda and Deer Lodge, 8
wealthy pioneer merchant, mt of the
most prominent men in Powell county
and we'll known throughout the state
killed himself today in his home a
Helmville. Dependency is believed
to have been the cause.
BUTTE, Dec. 4.-Nick Matson i.
under arrest and will likely have te
face a charge of holding up his owr
saloon. Matson was arrested las
night on a charge of carrying a re
voiver. and it developed that the gur
was the one stolen from the Littl
Queen saloon on Saturday mornin!
last during q holdnp, when $50 wa
secured. Matson vas a partner in tn
saloon business.
MISsOULA, Dec. An the distric
court this afternoon Mrs. Valentino
and Monsoon each filed suits agains
the Northern Pacific Railway compan.
for 81, 900 damages as the result Of tn
death of their husbands. Engineer
Valentine and Monson we're killed il
a freight wreck near Parma, Septem
Der 5. The Northern Pacific tried t,
settle the case out of court, but di'
not offer enough money.
KALIsPELL, Dec. flames Ratfer
ty, q saloon keeper of this city, wa
shot and killed here last evening b,
Ed. Finley, a lumberman. AL Benert
a butcher who was q spectator Of tn
row, received n bullet in the thig!
and n in the calf Of the leg. Finle.
used q 25-caliber rifle, and after shoot
ing Rafferty,, escaped. The sheriff
posse ia on his trail. Finley is wei
supplied with ammunition and NOR
shooting is expected before he i
taken.
LEWISTOWN, Dec. 5.-The cash re
ceipts of the land Office for Novembe
footed up within a few dollars of $40,
900, which is a record. During tn
month there we're "A homestead entire
and q desert entries, showing that tn
cold weather has had no appreciabl
effect on the rush OF land seekers t
the Judith basin.
HELENA, Dec. 5. Information wa
received in Helena today to the eifet
that the thousands of tons of Stag o
the dump of the Parrot smeltcr, on tn
Ruby valley branch of the Norther
Pacific, is to be shipped to Gre;
Falls for treatment. 1t is said tn
values yet remaining the in Stag wi
pay handsomely.
GREAT FALLS, Dec. 5.-Fran
Lawrence vas held up as he passe
along the street near the Bijou theatc
last nipht al $40 O'clOck and aftf