The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-03-11
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.

HELENA, March 5.-The supreme
court today affirmed the decision of
the Yellowstone county district court
IN awarding heavy damages to E. C.
Russell, as against the Chicago, Bur.
lington & Quincy railway for loss sus.
tanned by reason Of delay in forward.
ing a livestock shipment to Chicago
last fall.
THOMPSON, March 5.-W. d. Nc.
L aren, county clerk and recorder of
Sanders county, is dead here from a
bullet wound under his heart, which
he declared to members OF bis family
was the result of q revolver which he
was examining and which he did not
know was loaded.
KAL1sPELL, March 5.-W. r..
Bailey, who achieved much notoriety
here by making q mysterious disap.
pearance last spring and leaving a
note intimating that he had drowned
himself in the Flathead, but was later
apprehended in Seattle and brought
back to K%alispell on a charge of grand
larceny by the Singer Sewing Ma
chine company, for which company he
was agent for several months, pleaded
guilty in the district court yesterday
morning and was sentenced to one
year in the pe%nitentiary.
HELENA, March 5.-The Montana
national guardsmen are to be armed
with the new Springfield rifles aud
equipped with service uniform, which
is of an olive drab color. This has
been the uniform of the standing army
for the past three years. Many will
be loathe to part with the old blue and
khaki uniform, which looked so we'll
on dress parade. The Montana con-
tingent consists of two battalions,
divided into sever companies, which
will mobilize in the principal centers
of the state.
HELENA, March BY following a
coyote whose actions were peculiar,
Miss Cora Ensmire Of Waco, Mont,
has discovered the body of a man on
the prairie. 1t is supposed that the
man was drowned in the Yellowstone
river and the body was washed as
hore during high water. The
will investigate.
HELENA, March 9.-The Toston
branch of the American Society OF
Equity has adopted resolutions, which
have been forwarded to Governor
Norris, on the prices of coal oil. The
resolutions state that the price to con-.
sumer is 80 and 40 cents a gallon,
while the railroads are only charged
from 8 to 9 cents a gallon. An in.
quiry is desired. Governor Norris
turned the matter over to Commits.
sioner Ferguson with the request that
he investigate the matter.
HELENA, March 9.-Mrs. susan
Allen, the oldest resident of Montana,
is dead at Laurin, where she had gone
to visit her daughter. She was the
widow OF the late Colonel Henry Allen
of Helena. and SO years old. The
couple were married in Philadelphia
in 1885 and came to Montana in 1867.
Both had occupied positions of stand
ing in pioneer, Grand Army, Masonic
and Episcopal church circles.
BUTTE, March 9.-The free soup
kitchens of the Butte district are still
in operation, despite the resumption
of work in the mines. The kitchen of
the Salvation army continues to feed
about 200 men a day. New faces APP
pear IN the kitchen as the old disap.
pear, and, according to Adjutant
Kuhn, the new Corners are men who
landed here on their ''uprers,' and
who must be fed until they can get
wnrl.