The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-07-15
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

Butte, June 9.-Only twelve more
miles of track to be laid before Butte
and Chicago are connected by the St.
Paul road. Seven of those twelve miles
will be laid this week. The remaining
five, located between the summit of the
range and the Eighteen Mile house,
could be laid in a few days and the
road in operation If it were not for
the two steel trestles which have to be
completed before the section is fin
ished. AS it is the Chicago, Milwau.
kee and St. Paul will be in Butte
sometime during the latter part of this
month.
M1ssoULA, July 9.-This morning
Sheriff q. B. Campbell and q large
force Of deputies, heavily armed with
repeating rifles, left for Taft to take
up anew the trail of the Montenegrins
who last Saturday. murdered Holmes
Hayes, of Preston, Mo-, at the west
end of the St. Paul railroad tunnel.
One of the five men who committed the
crime at Taft has been arrested and
has been brought to the county jail in
Missoula to prevent q lynching by the
infuriated Americana of the big rail-
road camp.
DILLON, July 1.-THE board OF di.
rectors of the sugar beet association
have decided to dispense with the SER
vices Of Expert George Austin OF Utah
owing to the fact that they are ex-
perienefng some trouble in raising the
necessary money to pay his salary
and other expenses. The sugar beets
are all looking fine and the growers
expect to raise q great crop.
M1ssOULA, July 1.-Two large for.
est fires are raging west of Saltese,
Mont. Fifty men have been fighting
the flames for two days. Large tracts
Of timber are in the path of the fire
and 1t is feared the loss will be very
heavy. The largest and most destruc-
tive fire is just across the Idaho line
from Taft. Word tonight from the
forest rangers says that a large area
has been burned over, and that the
fire is extensive and serious.
LIVINGSTON, July 11.-During q
quarrel between ranch hands employed
on the Briggs g. Ellis ranch near Hun.
ter's Hot Springs, H. Butler stabbed
Charles Carter to death. The killing
is the result OF a quarrel that occurred
q day or two ago, while the men were
engaged in hauling hay. 1t appears
that Butler, who vas acting as fore.
man of the haying, criticized the work
Of Carter, who resented the inter
ference on the part of the foreman.
HELENA, July 1l.-Anton Fleury
who leaves a wife and nine children
in Grass Range, Fergus county, fel
from the rear platform of a Pullman
at the Union depot this afternoon
and was instantly killed by a freigh
car which vas being switched onto
side track. He was here as a witness
before the federal grand jury, and wa
at the depot waiting for the train whe,
the accident occurred.
WHITEFIsH, July flowing to fam
lily differences q triple tragedy oc
Cured here, as q result of which Ar
thur Livingstone is dead, his mother
in.law 10 dying and his wife Is serious
ly injured. A short time ago tn
Livingstones separated and the hus
band had gone to his mother-in-law'
house to talk things ver Shortl,
after neighbors saw the two wome
fleeing from the house with Liv
ingstone after them, shooting as b
ran. After shooting both, Living
stone went to a bridge nearby, leanin
I over, shot himself in the ear, his bod
!. falling into the river.