The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-10-21
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

BUTTE, Oct. l3.-The!terrible explo.
sion at the Cora mine May II, 1905,
which cost the lives of seven men, is
recalled by a damage suit started in
Judge Bourquin's department this
morning. Attorney John l.. Temple.
man, for the plaintiff. made the state
ment, in his opening address to the
jury, that the awful explosion was
caused by the criminal negligence of
F. Aug. Heinze and his niue superin.
tendent, who permitted the conclusion
caps to be stored at the same place
with the dynamite.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. l3.-While at
work in one of the rooms of the Ger
Der coal mine at Sand Couiee this
forenoon John Portin, a pick miner,
was caught beneath a fall of coal
and was instantly killed. Portin had
been cleaning out a room following a
blast while his partner was at wor in
an adjoining room. T,emarking that
he was going to get down some coal
which had been loosened by the blast
but had not fallen Portin went in and
was acught beneath several tons of
coal which descended upon him.
HELENA, Oct. 13.-Leaving a note
to his mother in which he stated that
he had been O burden % her for many
years and thanking her for the tender
care she had given him aud the kind
ness she had shown him from his in.
fancy, Raymond Rodgers, a young
man "A years of age. shortly after
noon today swallowed an ounce bottle
of carbolic acid and an hour or so
later was found lying 10 his room
dead. The boy and his mother came
to Helena several days ago from
Great Falls. The young man was in
poor health and mad been from in.
fancy.
BILLINGS, Oct. 13.-The first of what
is expected to be a series Of damage
suits against the Northern Pacific, as
the result of the recent wreck at
Youngs siding, in which 2l persons
were killed and nearly a score in
iured, was filed here today by Mrs.
Matte Anderson, and her daughter
Mabel, who ask S5O,375 for the death Of
Robert Anderson, hus band and father
respectively, of the plaintiffs. In the
aggregate the damage suits which will
be begun against the railroad com.
pany will exceed 81, DOC, O0e. The cor.
oner's jury held the crew Of the freight
train into which the passenger crashed
responsible for the accident.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. I4.-Oscar j..
Johnson, who was last seen in com.
pany of Hans Peterson, the man who
Wa. found near Helena October , With
a bullet hole through his head and Z
large sun of money and valuable pa.
pers missing, was arrested near this
city last night by Deputy Sheriff k:r-
schwing. He is being held here for
the officers who will arrive from Eel
eDa.
HELENA, Oct. l4.--Geor.e b. Fpote,
q pioneer of Helena aud said to be a
pioneer of Chicago was found dead
in bed this morning. In 1853 he was
a member of The Chicago fire depart
ment, coming to Montana IL years
later. In early days he practicea law
and did surveying. He vas born at
Canton, N. Y, July s, 1888.
BILLINGS, Oct. II. "A jury las,
night found Florence Riordan guilty
of m~anslaughter in connection with
the death Of her husband, Timothy
Riordan, and fixed her punishment a,
one year in the ~penitentiary. Mrs,
Riordan, on the witness stand, de.
clared that she shot and killed her
husband with his own gun, watch she
wrested from his hand after he had
struck her ane threatened her with
death.
HALIsPELL, Oct. II "A big deal
was consummated here when it was
arranged that the State Lumber com
pany's holdings are to be turned over
to an eastern company represented by
d. B. Barber, who for some time has
been one of the principal operators in
the Northwestern Lumber company OF
this city. Mr.. Barber has been re-
Gently looking after the eastern end
of the sales of the Northwestern Lum-
Der company, and had only been back
in Kalispell for a few days VIXEN the
deal "a made.
BUTTE, Oct. 1t.-Stevan 30. anich
was killed through the explosion of a
stick OF dynamite in his trousers
pocket while sitting near a stove.
Such is the explanation given this
afternoon by some Montenegrins
through an interpreter at Richards
undertaking rooms. The men posi-.
lively deny that a shot gun vas used