The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-25
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.

MONTANA BRIEFLETS. |
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.
HELENA, May 19.-On Jnne the
Office of the Montana Coal Oper ators'
association will be removed from Hell.
ena to Billings. The change was de.
cided upon because Billings has been
made the headquarters OF . new die.
trict consisting of Montan alone, re.
Gently created by the United Mine
Workers. The joint wage scale con.
ference will be held at Billiogs in
August instead of at Helena az In the
past.
HELENA, May 19.-Cleve Murphy, .
linemsn, has started suit in the dis.
trict court of this county against the
Great Falls w ster Power and Town.
site company for s20, 900 as damages
for injuries he received January 13
last, near the Nelson postoffice, while
working on one OF the steel towers of
the high power line the company 10
building from Great Falls to East
Helena.
MILES CITY, May l9.-For the
fourth time the right leg of G. E. Lem.
mon, one of the old time csttlemen of
Montana and Souh Dakota, and after
whom the town of Lennon, S. D. is
named, has been broken. The last &C.
cideut happened while he was return.
ing from Sulphur creek, where he had
taken his wife for a visit, leaving her
there. Two miles from Meadow, Mr..
Lemmon's automobile turned turtle,
making double somersaul and pin
ming him beneath. The leg was brok.
en- just below the thigh.
HINsDALE, May l9.-Frank Thomp.
son, a railroad laborer, fell from the
W water tank here and was instantly kill
ed. He leaves q mother and two bro.
theirs in Missoula. Another brothe
resides in Hiusdale, and the latter &C.
companied the body east for burial.
LEwIsTowN, May 20.-The body OF
Thomas Wilson, who disappeared from
Stanford on the night of July 10 last,
was found this week in secluded spot
near Stanford, where he had commits
ted suicide by shooting in the belief
tn at be might be accused of the death
of Thomas Geer.
HELENA, May 20.-Believing that
the toes of no mans feet are worth
S25 900, the Butte Electric Railwa y
company has appealed from judg.
ment rendered in the district court of
Silver Bow county by which Frank
Knuckey was awarded that amount for
the injuries mentioned and perhaps
other damage. The case on appeal
was argued and submitted in supreme
court this morning.
GREAT FALLS, May 19.-Patrich
Martin, an inmate of the poor farm
dropped dead today after eating 6
hearty dinner. He was Is years ole
and had been on the county for the
past five years. During the time tha
General Grant was president, Martin
who was more than six feet tall, acte(
az bodyguard for him while on Ions
trips. He was we'll known in Grea
Falls. but had no relatives here.
HELENA, May l9.-Victor Fey, aget
18, living in the Dearborn valley, is il
a Helena hospital in q critical condi
tiou. the result of having been impale
on q crowbar. The boy was in q wag
on, driving q team, and was sittin
} astride the crowbar; the bar fell tt
the ground, hitting on one end and th
other end ran through the boys groin
He stopped the team, pulled the ba
out of his body and then drove to hi
home, being later brought to Helena.
HELENA, May 20.-Broke and ou
of employment, man whose name
unknown, but whose appearance 10
dicates he is . lsborer, perhaps see
ton hand. brought his life to tragi
close in the yards OF the Norther
Pacific company this morning shortl!
, before 10 o'clock, by placing his hea
:. upon the rails in front OF three freigt
cars which we're moving rapidly In hi
. direction. The wheels Of the cars pass
ed over the mans neck, the aange {
the wheels cutting the aesh and sever
ing the head % clean 90 though 1t ha
been placed in Q guillotine.
, KALIsPELL, May 2l.-The fourt
q sswmill accident within the week /
!, this same vicinity today ended fatal!