The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-02
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS

JWuOIV SNVIV IV1vvO Ottu1S 6euO
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, Jan. 25.-Sixty days 10
Jail, and q fine Of 800 was the SEN
teuce imposed by Judge Hunt upon
Sam Hall Of Culbertsou, who pleaded
guilty to selling liquor to Turtle
Mountain Indians.
KAL1sPELL, Jan. 24.-All records
for snowslides were broken last night
when q mass Of snow, rocks, trees
and earth 600 feet long swept down
upon the Great Northen railway track
at High Gate, IS mics east of here,
and put the traffic out of business.
Men are being gathered from both
sides and it is hoped that trains will
be put through tomorrow, but none
have come from the east today. Wire
connections still remain intact. Rail.
road men say this is the worse slide
the Great Northern has Y expert
enced. 1t is the last Of q list of sew.
eral which have occurred within the
last two days.
HELENA, Jan. 25.-Jack Whitaker,
q Cutbank saloon keeper, today
pleaded guilty to the charge of selling
whisky to an Indian, and after q plea
for clemency by his counsel, aud an
explanation of the case by Assistant
District Attorney Ford, to the effect
that the amount disposed of was q
single glass, Judge Hunt imposed q
jail sentence of a hundred days and
q fine of $3.50. Judge Hunt reitera ted
his we'll known views on the subject of
selling whisky to Indians, and de-
clared that saloonkeepers we're NOR.
ally If not legally responsible for the
major portion of the crimes commit
teed by the red man.
BOHEMIAN, Jan. "a. - The largest
single deal in the grain business in
Montana has just been completed by
q local grain company when it fin
ished loading for the ~insular govern.
ment several million pounds Of Gal
latin county oats to 20 to the Philip
pines. This shipment to the Philip
pines has practically absorbed the
surplus of oats from the large crop OF
1909 up until last Saturday, when the
last q was shipped.
BILLINGS, Jan. 25.-Sam Russell, a
barber of Helena, was arrested las,
evening. in his room in the Northern
hotel, and is being held on q charge
of assaulting an officer at Logan.
Russell claimed. on his arrival in
this city yesterday, that he was a
deputy United States marshal In
charge of two Japanese whom he was
taking to Leavenworth, and said be
had been shot in the leg by an officer
at Logan, who, he alleged, was jeal'
} ons of some attention which had beer
paid to a waitress in q Logan eating
house.
LAUREL, Jan. 25.-Earl Il. McTn.
tire, who has been employed on F. B
Jackson's ranch for almost a year,
was intantly killed by being kicked
by q horse. He was watering the
horses at the time and was alone ir
the barn.
HELENA. Jan. 25.-Because he is
ch arged with uttering q circular So
Letting business and otherwise con
travening the rules of the State Ba,
association, A. W. Johnson, q Great
Falls lawyer, a today cited by
Judge Hunt in the federal court tc
show cause why his permission tt
practice should not be rescinded,
The charge was preferred by the vice
president Of the Bar association.
KAL1sPELL, Jan. 25.-The THIRD
victim in the unprecedented Glide
which has beset tt Great Northern
and held Kalispell snowbound TO,
two days occurred yesterday, when 9
workman, whose name is not We,
known here, was killed. Large crews
have been busy night and day clear
ing the snow uear He'll Gate. which
blocked all traffic Saturda az morning,
LEwIsTOwN, Jar. 26.-The bigge-,
judgment ever entered in this par
of the state went on record today In
the case of the bank of Fergus county
which merely represents the bondhold'
ers, against the North Moccasin Colo
Mining company, controlled by Johr
A. Drake, the New York millionaire.
1t Is for 1920, sos SIS on a bond issue Of
$lO0, 600, secured by a blanket mort.
gage, with interest and attorneys
fees.