The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-05-27

ORD was received Oy Tue county
authorities today stating that Albert
Kicker, of Coburg, committed suicide
Tuesday. and q coroner's inquest was
held yesterday. No inform alton as
to the method of suicide or its cause
was given. The deceased formerly
lived in Oregon, and is supposed to
have been in fairly good financial
circumstances. as papers found on
his person showed he was the owner Of
deposits in banks and q promissory
note of a considerable amount.
From Fridays Daily
L. Minugh. deputy sheriff, arrived
today from Harlem with Robert
Hurley, who will serve sixty daye in
Jail for vagrancy. The prisoner was
sentenced by Justice Geo. W. Venuum,
at Harlem.
James Townsend and family return
ed today from southern California,
where they have been visiting during
the past winter. 1t is reported that
Mr. Townsend has made q land invest
ment in the Imperial valley and may
decide to locate there.
Further particulars regarding the
suicide of Albert Kicker at Dodsou
state that the unfortunate shot him.
self through the head with q shot gun.
The deceased is said to have been in
the employ of Jos. F. Sipple as a
ranch hand, and was Of q Respondent
disposition
The May blizzard reported from
Glendive appears to have extended
to other parts of the Yellowstone
country. According to the Miles City
Journal, there was a snowfall Of thir-
teen inches in that locality, and a
heavy loss among the lamb crop Is
expected.
A meeting of the democratic central
committee of Chouteau county has
been called, to meet in this city Satur.
day, May 30, to arrange for the selec-
ton of fourteen delegates to the dem.
ocratic state convention. The latter
will be held June 10, at Bozeman.
John Churchill, who has returned
from a visit in Teton county, states
that parties from Iowa and Wiscon-
sin have been inspecting the property
of the Conrad Investment company ir
that section, with q view to its pur'
chase. 1t is current rumor at Con
rad that q deal will probably be made,
One of the largest land deals ever
made in Montana has been completed
by fling papers in the Custer county
clerks Office. The transaction com
prises nbout 100, 600 acres in the Pow
der river country, which have beer
bought by G. B. Towers and G. w
Burt, Of Miles City, the purchase price
being about $500, 900.
1t is announced that the following
/ were successful applicants at the re
, cent teachers examination: FRS
. grade--Corona Bessette, Selma Bon
derson. First grade markings-Nor;
Healy. Second grade-Irene German
. Mary German, Ethel Rhoades. Thirt
~grade-Jessie Montgomery, Anna Mel
: son, Virginia Cowan.
Advices from Great Falls announce
: the death Of Francis Convenant, o
Big Sandy, who had been under treat
ment at Columbus hospital in tina
city for the past three months. Th
deceased, who was generally know
as "Doc' Covenant, was an old-tim
r resident of Big Sandy, and was vel
known throughout the Bear Paw coun
try. He was nearly eighty years O
age, and al one of the early day Sc,
tiers of the northwest.
A dispatch from Deer Lodge state
that William Hays, a Chouteau coun
ty convict, is on trial in the distric
court on the charge of participating
, in the murder of John Robinson,
deputy warden at the state peniten
tiary, in an attempt to escape fror
that institution. The accused had
t bad reputation in Valley county, an
: about three years ago was convicte
4 of burglarizing the Wildwood saloo
at Zortman and given a sentence g
ten years in the state prison.
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