The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-06-09
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.
HELENA, May 3l.-State Treasurer
Esselstyn today submitted hts report
for May to Governor Norris, which
shows that the commonwealth finances
are in excellent condition. The cash
balance is S455 ,651, and bond invest
ments ~, 773, 931, making its resources
we'll above the three million mark.
MILES CITY, May 3l-Northern Pa.
ciic train No. 4 was wrecked six miles
east OF Miles City at 6 O'Clock this
morning, but though the engine, bag.
gage car and smoker we're ditched, no
one vas killed, and the only one in
jured was Gus Anderson, q dining car
cook. he was struck in the abdomen
by q broken rail, which came through
the bottom Of the car.
ANACONDA, May 3l.-After attempt-
Ing to hold up Mrs. Joseph J Jacobson
at Jacobson's ranch near Warm
Springs, . man named G.. F. Shaw
was captured, following . two.mile
chase, by MIR. jacobson Saturda y
night, and is now in jail here. The
man came to the ranch and attempted
to hold up Mrs. Jacobson. A daugh.
ter saw him with q gun, notified her
father and brother, and they took the
trail which the man had made imme.
diately after he noted that J Jacobson
and his son were after him. The two
pursuers fred several shots and sprin-
killed. Shaw's back with buckshot, but
finally had to overpower him.
HELENA, June Judge W. Y.
Pemberton, who was elected q month
ago librarian of the historical library,
took possession today of the Office,
succeeding w. S. Bell.
HELENA, June 1.-The Montana
railroad commission has received
word that Sunday morning Great
Northern passenger train No. AZ was
derailed at Lupfer, west Of Columbia
Falls, and 10 persons were injured;
none seriously, however. The turn.
ing of q rail under the engine tank
caused the accident. The entire train
left the tracks.
HELENA, June 1.-Patrick Rogers,
better known in Butte as "Paddy,"
has seemingly exhausted all legal
means by which he might escape from
serving that IA year sentence imposed
upon him in Butte, Judge Brantly,
denying his application for a certif-
cate of probable cause. So far as the
supreme court is concerned, Paddy
must remain in Deer Lodge.
BUTTE, June 1.-Unable to awaken
her husband as he slept on his birth
day, the wife of John Bean, the we'll
known court stenographer and attor-
ney, found him dead in bed. DR..
Monahan was called and pronounced
the man dead from heart trouble. So
sudden was his death, and without ap-
parent cause, that Dr.. Monahan quick.
ly summoned Coroner Davenport, who
made an examina alton and could find
no marks of violence. He pronounced
1t as natural death.
MIssOULA, June 1.-The body of
Harold Holland, a lumberjack, who
was employed in one of the Big Black.
foot camps in the Clearwater country,
about Is miles north of here, was
brought to Missoula yesterda y to be
cared for until relatives can be heard
Holland was drowned while
logs in the Blackfoot river last
Saturday afternoon, losing his foot.
ing on a log and being caught under
q jam. He Is q member OF the Odd
Fellows lodge at Depuyster, N. Y,
1t is believed he has relatives.
The Depuyster lodge has been notified
of his death.