The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-07-14
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

From Various Parts OF the State.
DILLON, July 6~.-Judge Everton J.
Conger, one of the best known men OF
this part Of the state and famous as
the man who led the bunch of soldiers
during the Civil war who captured J.
Wilkes Booth after the assassin alton
OF Abraham Lincoln, was probably
fatally injured at the fair grounds
here by being run over by an auto.
mobile driven by Sheriff Gasman.
HELENA, July 5.-Three Of the four
horses attached to a bus full of PEG.
pie were killed by lightning tonight
just as the party of picnickers reached
the Northern Pacific yards here. The
party was composed of Is people who
had spent the day celebrating at Can.
yon Ferry. When nearing the city q
sudden thunderstorm arose. The bolt
which killed the horses did no injury
to any of the occupants of the carry all.
VIRGINIA CITY, July 5.-One of the
fercest hailstorms ever seen in South.
ern Montana passed owe the lower
Ruby valley this afternoon, doing I'm.
told damage to growing crops, beat
ing the alfalfa, which is about ready
to be harvested, down to the ground
and Aattening all the grain fields.
The track of the storm was about two
miles wide, traversiug the thickest
settled portion of the valley. After
the storm had passed some OF the hail
stones were measured, the largest be-
ing one and a half inches in diameter.
Stones of this size fell throughout
the entire area of the storm.
BUTTE, July 6.-That q foul murder
was committed in Butte within the
past 4S hours, the evidence of the
crime being hidden, was brought to
light by boys at play yesterday morn.
ing. In chasing their baseball, which
had fallen through q crack in the
covering of the long unworked Mary
Louise mining shaft, in the alley be.
tween Arizona and Wyoming streets,
they stumbled upon the dead body Of
q man on q bulkhead IL feet below the
surface. The hands and feet we're
bound With cord aud the mouth was
gagged. Blood blotched the envelop.
ing sheet where it was tied about the
face. An old bed quilt was wrapped
about the body and over all was
spread a mattress.
BUTTE. July 6.-Railroad men ex.
pect that between 10000 and $4,000
people from the east and southeast
will pas through Montana within the
next 30 days to register for the open.
ing OF the Flathead, Occur d'Alene
and Spokane reservations.
HELENA, July 6.-Wm. McClammy
was given 60 days in Jail and fined
500 by Judge Hunt today for intro.
ducing liquor on the Fort Peck reser-
walton. Tillie, a Chinese cook, plead.
ed not guilty, to committing the same
offense on the Flathead reserv alton
and was released on bail furnished by
Two prominent bankers.
KAL1sPELL. July 6.-Considerable
damage, which is not yet estim ated,
was caused early this morning by
lightning which demolished the cupola
of the Missoula Mercantile elevator
and set fire to some grain bins. The
night watch succeeded in controlling
the flames until the fire department ar.
rived. The thunder crash which fol.
lowed the stroke awoke the entire city !
HELENA, July 6.-Attorney.G eneral
Albert j.. Galen today replied to a
query by County Attorney W. II.
Trippett of Deer Lodge county as to
whether county commissioners a be
compelled to pay far the care of chill.
dren sent by the district court of the
county to non-state institutions for
the care of dependent children. In
his opinion the attorney-general de-
clares that counties sending such
children are obliged to defray the ex.
of caring for them, as required
by the state law.
BUTTE, July g.. Seven ''dopen
fends, poor unfortunate of the low
est character, were arrested today for
the murder of James Jones, alias John
Redmund, alias Jack O'Brien, q
young mechanic whose body was found
In az abandoned mine shaft yester.
day. Jones had been be eaten to death.
apparently, with the bare fist. The
police think the "dope colony" killed
for the few cents he had in order
TO buy cocaine. Jones had been out
Of work and hanging around a
dive in the red.light a few nights ago.
BUTTE, July Thomas Mulhol.
and, aged ID, a newsboy, died today
Of tetanus, following an injury due to
he prem ature explosion of a TOW pis.