The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-22
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.

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ing the Past Few Days.
HELENA, Dec. 15.-An actien was
instituted in the district dourt THE
against the Stone. w ebster
corporation and John
Brown for damages in the sum Of
s25, 900 by Patrick ]. Stewart. The
plaintiff seeks damages for personal
injuries, which he alleges he sustained
] an. %, 1909, while employed by the
defendant company as laborer At the
Rauser lake dam.
HELENA, Dec. 15-The Great North.
ern has placed an order with j. H.
Hall, secretary of the state bureau OF
labor, agriculture and industry, for
10000 copies Of the speech delivered
here at the state fair by ames ]. Hill,
and for 1000 copies of the book "Mon-
tana," recently issued by the depart.
ment. This literature will be distrib.
uted througout the far east.
GREAT FALLS, Dec 16.-With the
resumption of work in the Great
Northern yards At Butte, and In the
mines where oper ations had been at q
tandstill for some days, developments
of ore to the Great Falls smelter we're
resumed over the Great Northern to.
day. Two trains of ore were sent out
from Butte for this place and with the
ore already on hand it Is expected
that the Little Chicago yards will be
filled to their capacity tomorrow.
This is taken as an indicatio that
the resumption of work at the Boston
g. Montana smelter will only be q
matter of few days time. The Great
Northern officials are getting every.
thing in readiness so that the smelter
can start up at moments notice.
BUTTE, Dec. III ames P. Cassidy,
known to every mining man in the
west as "Fighting" Cassidy, died yes.
terday of pneumonia. He was born
In Ireland 81 years ago, and lived in
Montana 30 years, coming here from
Utah.
MILES CITY, Dec. l6.-The jury In
the Tarbell murder case reported
again this afternoon that 1t was i'm
possible for them to agree aud the
court reluctantly discharged them.
The case, uudou btedly, will be tried
again. 1t is understood the jury stood
two for acquittal and ten for con-
viction.
HELENA, Dec. 16.-in reply to an
inquiry from the county attorney of
Powell county, Attorney General Ga.
len holds that q sheriff when taking
children to the orphans home under
an order of court is entitled to receive
10 cents a mile additional, in. full for
the transportation and dieting of the
child during transportation.
HELENA, Dec. III ames Jones, an
aged section hand, who was run over
by freight train at Toston late yes.
terday afternoon, died on the train
somewhere between Townsend and
Helena last night, and the remains are
now at Flaherty's undertaking par.
lors. The Broadwater county coro.
ner will be notified to day and an in
quest will probably be held. Jones,
who is almost 60 years of age, was
engaged in sweeping the snow from
switches at Toston and did not notice
the approach of the freight train.
MILES CITY, Dec. 16.-Ry the ex.
plosion of the boiler of engine No.
476 on the Milwaukee at 1870 p. m. to-
day at Vanads station, about go miles
west of Miles City, Engineer James
M. Marker and Brakeman James E.
Bowman were 80 badly injured thai
they were reported dead shortly after
the accident, but they may recover,
while Fireman Frank II. Walters was
badly scalded and Conductor Kelly
was thrown through the cupola win
dow of the caboose. The train was q
freight and IA cars were sent into the
ditch.
LEw1sTowN, Dec. lS.-Judge Chea'
die today imposed the minimum fine
Of 800 eachlon!fve residents oflRound'
up for violating the King anti'bettiuR
law by betting on horse race. The
minimum fine was imposed because
these are the first cases to arise IL
this judicial district under the new
law. The court stated that the same
leniency might not be expected in the
future.
M1ssoULA, Dec. 17.-W. L. Chester
an employe of the Harper. Baird mill,
who suffered an injury by falling or
the sidewalk last night, which was
thought at the time to be only trivial
died today from the effects. The man