The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-14
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, April g. The Montana
division of the Grand Army of the
Republic, which will hold its encamp-
ment at Billings on April Is, 16 and
II, is endeavoring to make arrange.
ments for an excursion during the
encampment to the battlefield at Gus.
ter, Montana, the scene OF the famous
"last stand" of General Custer
against the Sioux Indians. The trip
will be made over the Burlington road
II arrangements can be made for q
special rate.
STEvENsvILLE, April 5. - Word
was received this afternoon from Vic
tor that the seven-year-old daughter
OF Mr.. and George Fowler was burned
to death. From what can be learned
this afternoon, the child was with her
father in the field where he was burn
ing stubble. The father was attr acted
by the cries OF the child, whose dress
had caught fire from the burning stub.
BILE, but before he could do anything
for the little one, she was beyond all
hope, and died q few hours afterward.
HELENA, April 5.-A suit has been
instituted in the federal court here by
E. W. Beattie of Boston, Mass, for
the appointment of q receiver for the
Bald Butte Mining company, and the
settlement of it's financial affairs. The
complaint alleges that the defend ant
is indebted to Beattie in the sum of
go, las, the basis being two promis-
sorry notes executed by the company
In favor Of the sachusetts man.
1t is alleged in the complaint that the
mines of the company are unproduc-
tive, its mill and machinery practi.
cally worthless, and that the proper
ties cannot be operated at q profit
without further exploration and de.
velopment.
M1ssoULA, April GA grewsome
relic Of the food of last June was un-
earthed at Frenchtown yesterd ay,
when the body Of q man was found in
a slough two miles below the village.
That the man. was drowned in the
waters of the unprecedented food of
last summer was made plain by the
fact that the slough in which his body
was found had contained no water
since June of last year.
GLASGOW, April 6.-Fred Horst.
man a car repairer in the railroad
yards here, was probably fatally in.
jured yesterday through the careless.
ness OF a switching crew. Horstman
vas working under a box car on the
wrecking track and had the car on a
jack, when the rev doing the switch
ing in the yards ran a car that had
the draw bar pulled out on to the
%wrecking track to be repaired.
HELENA, April Chick Rants was
placed on trail in the federal court to.
day on the charge of robbing the
Oswego, Valley county, postofice the
night of July "a, 1908. 1t is charged
by the government that after robbing
postoffice Rants fed to the east. He
was apprehended in Springfield, Ill.,,
and was returned here for trial. 1t is
alleged that Rants secured Sl6l ia
money orders, some money from
stamps, three Great Northern checks
which were in the safe and 81 in pri-
vate cash.
HELENA, April 6.-The Montana
club commenced an action in the dis.
trict court this afternoon against the
Northern Pacific and the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railways to
recover S2,097, damage for five rugs
which the plaintiff alleged it delivered
to the Northern Pacific at Helena Nov.
6, 1906, to be transported and de-.
livered to Mitchell and Halbach at
Chicago. The plaintiff AYERS that the
rugs we're destroyed or lost in transit,
to the plaintiffs damage in the sum