The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-05-13
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS.

MONTANA news BRlEFlETS.
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
MIssoULA, May 5.-Lynde S. Cat
lin, former chief of the government
land Office here, was placed under ar.
rest last evening. The complaint
charges him with embezzling SAIL from
Receiver Winstanley, who was the
government agent.
BUTTE, May 5.-Hattie Wallace
died today from the effects of taking
$50 grains Of bichloride Of mercury, a
sufficient quantity, according to the
physicians, to have killed $50 persons,
one grain being a fatal dose and
death usually occurring in a few
hours. Despite this fact, the woman
lived FIVE days after swallowing the
quantity.
BUTTE, May 5.-District Judge Don
Ian tonight instructed the jury in the
case of Amos Doney, charged with
having solicited q bride while acting
on a juror panel, to return a verdict
of not guilty. The courts instruc.
ttons were founded upon q defective
statute which declares that q juror, to
be guilty OF soliciting a bribe, must
be q member Of the actual Jury trying
the case.
KAL1sPELL, May 4.-Dick Lemon,
q colored man, porter at the Fashion
barber shop, was drowned this after
noon while fishing off the steel bridge
over the Flathead river, three miles
east OF town. He had got outside the
railing and, in loosening his fish line,
either lost his balance or became dizzy
and fell to the water below, a distance
Of 20 feet. A man on shore who saw
him fall ran to the nearest place on
the bank to assist him If be rose, but
he did not come to the surface.
BUTTE, May 5.-The Chicago, Mil.
waukee & St. Paul Railway company
believes in Montana. 1t incorporated
its western railroad company under
the laws of this state and established
its general offices in Butte. Yesterday
it incorporated under the laws of
Montana the Continental Express
company, with a preliminary capital.
ization of $4,000 and the Continen.
tai Telegraph company, capitalized
for $500, 600. Both new companies are
of great importance, and eventually
will have headquarters in Butte.
HELENA, May en-. H. Gerry, Jr..
general manager of the Helena Power
Transmission company, who returned
from the east last night, said today
that the work of repairing the Hauser
Lake dam would be started as quickly
as arrangements could be made for
the necessary material and construc.
ton machinery. Contractors are now
in Helena. The work will be started
and finished this summer.
BILLINGS, May Erred S. Mills,
q we'll known contractor of Billings,
was the choice of the voters for alder.
nan from the Fourth ward at the city
election held here April 6, yet at last
nights meeting Of the city council he
was not permitted to take his seat be-
cause the judges in the Fourth ward,
either through ignorance or design,
failed to make any returns of the cleo.
ton.
BILLINGS, May g. According to
officials Of the local sugar factory,
several hundred workers for the beet
fields will arrive in Billings during
the next few days to begin work 10 the
fields. 1t has also been learned that
q majority of the people who will fol.
low this occupation will become per-
manent residents OF this locality, and
to that end are bringing their house.
hold goods along with them.
FORSYTH, May 6.-The body found
two weeks ago in the Mississippi river
near Minneapolis and supposed to be
that OF r. D. Mcbride, the Forsyth
rancher, who disappeared in April, is
not McBride's remains. His business
associate, Attorney Fred Collins, has
just returned from Minneapolis, where
he saw the corpse. McBride's where
abouts are still unknown. He leaves
a large sum on deposit in a Forsyth
bank.
DEER LODGE, May 6.-George Rock,
the murderer of Guard j. A. Robin.
son, the deputy warden at the state
%penitentiary here, and leader of the
desperate attack made upon the Off.
cials, including Warden Frank Con.
ley last March, today pleaded guilty
to a charge of murder in the first de-
gree and begged Judge Winston to
accept his plea and pass sentence upon
him immedi ately that he wanted to