The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-10-13
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

Stone-Webster Engineering corpora.
tion.
BUTTE, Oct. 1.-Two men were killed
In the mines of Butte at an early hou,
this morning. Meta Gallo, an Italian
living at A Main street, Meaderville
was instantly killed by falling q dis
tance of 200 feet down chute on The
1600-foot level of the Diamond, and
Fred Evanson, aged As years. wal
killed in fall Of ground on the sixth
floor of the 1600.level of the Parrot.
BILLINGS, Oct. cit was announcei
today by Attorney Reynolds, repre-
senting the Billings shippers, that ,
satisfactory agreement had been se
cured from the various railroads con
corning the complaint of alleged dis
Grimm alton. following the decision O
the interstate commerce commission
In the Salt Lake and Spokane rat.
cases. The scheduled hearing of thu
cases by the interstate commerce com
mission at Billings has therefore beer
Cancelled.
HELENA, Oct. 6.-News was received
in Helena yesterday of the pleading
guilty in the federal court of W. B.
Green, until recently immigrant in.
spector at Ell Paso, Tex, to a charge
of Chinese smuggling. He was SEN
fenced to serve one year in the peni.
tentiary. Mr.. Green was we'll known
in Helena, having resided here for q
number of wears in the early '9Os.
While here Mr.. Green was employed
as q passenger conductor on the Great
Northern railway.
MILES CITY, Oct. 7.--P. W. Dodge
was accidentally killed at Ekalaka by
being thrown out Of a wagon and under
the horses and dragged to death. The
body will be shipped to Menominee,
Wis. He was about % years old and
member of Modern Woodmen of
America.
HELENA, Oct. IT. M. Parker and
Patrick Kirley of Anaconda, who were
indicted by the last federal grand jury
on the charge of not canceling internal
revenue stamps on packages of liquor,
were arraigned in the federal court
today and pleaded not guilty. Judge
Bean fixed their bail at $1,000, which
was furnished. Their trial has not
been set.
BILLINGS, Oct. 7.-Driven from their
native land by oppressive conditions
under the government of imperial
monarchies, 5000 Polish families are
coming TO Montana, to acquire homes
mad independence. The greater por.
tion of them will establish a colony in
the vicinity of Glendive, in the yell
lowstone valley, although some may
take lands In the Judith Basin dis.
trict.
LEwIsTOWN, Oct. 7.-Several train.
loads of beef have gone out from
Moore and vicinity this week for
Chicago, and the shipments have
about cleaned up the surplus. Some
deals in sheep and lambs have been
made, one involving $4,000. This is
the purchase by Charles Peck of ewes
and lambs from George Wright of
Flat Willow. J. D. Waite has sold
a band of $500 yearling wethers at
1915.
MIssOULA, Oct. 9.-An at early
hour this morning large section of
The mountain near Adair, q small
station just west of the St. Paul pass
1nnel on the Chicago. Milwaukee &
Puget Sound railroad, slipped, bury.
ing the tracks of the new road for q |
distance of about 200 feet with ten feet
If rocks, gravel and earth and effect.
tally blocking traffic all day long.
BUTTE, Oct. 9.-Mrs. Laura John.
ION, u domestic, aged A, was struck
oy an automobile tonight while she
vas racing for car, and almost in.
'SOoVy n4A4OAs AuO COR " 90 OWuOO Uy |
=. p. Sanders, q prominent attorney
# this city, who was in the machine
It the time. Sanders and his chaffeur
we're placed under arrest, but later
eleased upon their own recognizance.
BILLINGS, Oct. 1.-TWO men killed
outright and third injured 60 badly
hat he died after being brought to the
ospital in this city, was the result of
freight wreck on the Red Lodge
ranch of the Northern Pacific last
light at Silesia. Fireman Martin and
be head brakeman, E. F. Keffrev, met
Instant death and Engineer Teeters
ustained fatal injuries about the
cad and had both legs broken.
HELENA, Oct. 9.-Au accident which