The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-04-28
MONTANA BR|EFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
Montana News Brieflets.

Montana News Brieflets.
DEER LODGE April 22.-The trusty al
the state prison who escaped from the
guards kitchen yesterday was named
G. M. johnson and was sent here
from Valley county for stealing q
team of horses. He received a sen.
tence OF one year and had four months
to serve. So far no trace has been
found of him.
BOHEMIAN, April 2l.- With briel
but impressive ceremonies the frs,
furrow was broken this afternoon for
the bed Of the interurban electric line
which will be built this year from
Bozeman to Three Forks. Miss Vera
Anderson, daughter of Charles B.
Anderson, secretary of the railway
company. broke the bottle of cham.
pagne over the beam of the plow
by which the furrow was plowed.
BUTTE, April 22.-within a few
weeks, when the ballasting of the
track shall have been completed, the
Chicago, Milwaukee g. Puget Sound
will inaugurate a train service be.
tween Butte and Missoula, and this is
expected to rapidly resolve itself into
through service from Chicago to the
Puget Sound country. The date for
the through service is placed at about
July l. Monday freight service be.
tween North Fork, Idaho, and the
coast will be inaugurated, and follow
ing that will come the running OF
trains west FROM this city.
GREAT FALLS April 2l.-After hav-
ing been held in the county Jail for
four months with a charge of murder
In The first degree hanging over him,
Thomas Carr was today released from
custody, after partial trial in the
district court. Carr was arrested
near ST. Peter, Dec. p charged with
the murder OF Sam Leland, an old
sheepherder, whose incinerated re-
mains We're found the morning of tn at
day in the smoldering ruins of an
abandoned farmhouse near Sun River
into which he and Carr, a stranger in
these parts, had gone to spend the
night.
HELENA, April 23.--Ch aries B. J ac-
quemin engaged in the jewelry business
here oince 1854, snce mayor of Council
Bluffs. and a resident of various
western cities at different times, died
yesterday at the home of his nephew
in Council Bluffs, according to word
received bere.
HELENA, April 23.-In the suit of
the Utah Construction company
against the Montana railroad, judg-
ment in favor of the plaintiff for $780,.
0O4 was handed down today by Judge
Hunt in the federal court. The action
was brought several years ago, being
to collect a balance alleged to de due
on construction account.
DILLON, April 23.-- Sam Boyd,
brakeman on the Oregon Short Line
railroad between Lima and Butte,
was compelled to leave his train at
Dillon yesterday afternoon to receive
medic al attention as a result of in.
juries received in fight with
tramps at Armstead. Conductor
Smith was also badly beaten, but was
able to proceed with his train. The
tramps attacked the trainmen because
they had "ditched" them the day
previous.
HELENA, April Ex-Governor Nor.
ris, Secretary of State Yoder and
Attorney General Galen, accompanied
by two members of the advisory build
ing committee, A. P. Curtin and E. G.
Day, have returned from an inspection
of state capitol buildings at Frank.
fort, KY, St. Paul, Madison. Wis.,,
Pierre, S. d. and indianapolis, Ind.
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