The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-04
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.
LIVINGSTON, July PIT. A. Scott,
colored, porter on the Park train. was
arrested late last night, charged with
stealing 800 from the conductor and
$50 from a passenger enroute to the
park. He will be given q hearing to.
morrow.
HELENA, July 27.-Thous ands of
dollars in axes will be lost to Mon.
tana counties hereafter if the courts
sustain q protest against the collec.
ton Of taxes on Improvements on nom
producing mines, which was filed with
the county equalization board by the
Bald Butte company.
BILLINGS, July 27.--While sleeping
in the Toulouse of the Billings foun.
dry, David Gesry OF Illinois was shot
by an unknown party early this orn
ing and probably fatally injured. 1t
Is believed the deed vas done by two
masked highwaymen who had just
succeeded in holding up and robbing
eight other persons of small amounts
of money in the railroad yards.
BUTTE, July 27.-Two masked men
entered John Swallows saloon at Daily
and Third streets, VAUDEVILLE. early
YESTERDAY morning, lined up 20 or 30
patrons against the bar and, keeping
the patrons and Sivalon we'll covered,
one of the trio went behind the bar,
extracted S48 from the cash register,
and the three backed out of the saloon,
firing three shots at Sivalon when be
attempted to follow.
HELENA, July 27.-The state fur.
nishing board has awarded contracts
for coal exclusively for heating pur.
poses. Approximately 10000 tons of
mine run and washed nut must be de.
livered and the aggregate cost is
around Gao, 600, making this contract
the biggest which will be let in the
state for coal for heating purposes.
HELENA, July 27.-State Examiner
Pigott has prepared q table showing
the condition of the 81 state banks
and trust companies under the super.
vision of his department, which is the
best showing in the history of the
commonwealth. The institutions have
total of than s26, 000,.
600 and the report indicates q gain Of
more than 8 $4,000, 900 in deposits as
compared with the April call.
BUTTE. July 2s.-Bricklayers Of
Butte, who struck for q raise from s6 to
81 q day, beginning May l, 1909, have
won their strike, and every bricklayer
in the city is working at the increased
scale. This was admitted today by
the contractors, both Independents
and the members Of the builders ex-
change.
MILES CITY, July 27.-George Golf,
a herder for Lloyd Selway, a sheep
owner Of Mizpah, was arraigned today
before Juscice Glib on a charge of
DESERVING a herd of twenty.six hundred
sheep without giving Eve days. notice.
This is the first case in this county
under the new law. Golf pleaded not
guilty.
HELENA, July 27.-For half an
hour last evening hailstones an inch
and a half in diameter fell at Wickes,
according to word received here to-
day. Chickens and pigeons were
killed outright by the frozen pellets
and many roofs we're punctured by
the icy missiles. Because of the great
rush of water, it vas necessary to
shut down the Bertha mine.
HELENA, July 27.-That the Hauser
lake and Wolf creek power plants Il
the United Missouri River Power
company are to be completed with all
possible dispatch ia indicated by the
celebrity with which the contractors,
the Stone Webster Engineering corpo.
ration. Is getting its material and
equipment assembled, preparatory to
beginning work, and within six weeks
there will be more than q thousand
men engaged at the power sites in har.
Messing the waters of the Missouri.
HAMILTON, July 27.-Booked as
John Doe. a person we'll known to the
police is in the county Jail awaiting
trial for highway robbery. He, with
others, is charged with sandbagging
Jess Printz as he was returning from
town to the sheep department of Bitter
Root stock farm Saturday night and
relieved him of S115. He was arrested
Sunday and the money found on his
person.