The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-10-12
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

aged 26, until four weeks ago q
Lewietown bank clerk, committed eui.
eide this morning in a local lodging
house. He had lost his position 10
Lewistown and came here looking for
work. HE mother, who resides there,
has been notified.
HELENA, Oct. 4.-The police board
OF this city has suspended Police Cap.
tain Bailey from duty, following the
filing of charges against him by May.
or Edwards. No date has been set
for the hearing. Bailey was discharg.
ed from the force when Mayor Ed.
wards took Office, but after . long
hight Ia the courts, the supreme court
compelled his restor alton to duty.
ANACONDA, Oct. 4.-Joseph McIn.
tyre. seriously Injured, lies in q hos
pital. the victim of q most remarkab IDLE
accident. Mcintyre, who Is q pros.
pector, was sitting in his cabin yester-
day afternoon pumping the cartridges
out OF his rifle, when he accidentally
touched the trigger which fred the
last shell. The bullet went through
the open door and into q box of blast
Ing powder on the hillside close by,
exploding 1t and wrecking McIutyre's
cabin.
HELENA, Oct. "A goodly share
OF the exhibits at the state fair have
been secured by the Milwaukee, the
Great Northern and the Northern Pa
cific railways to be placed in exhibit
cars, which will make tours OF the
Middle West and East the coming win.
ter. Representatives OF all of the
roads were in Helena during the fair
and made their " selections. The
exhibits will be used to advertise the
agricultural opportunities Of Montana.
GREAT FALLS, OFT. 4.-Lured by
promises of marriage and declarations
of everlasting affection, May Britt,
OF Council Bluffs, Iowa, q divorced
woman with three children. came to
Great Falls with Robert Bozarth and
gave him 500 to purchase q home.
stead REIMBURSEMENT and to improve
1t for a home. Then Bozarth disap.
peared with the money, leaving the
woman and her three children without
q cent OF money in q strange country.
The Britt women will be sent home
with her children, the county furnish.
log the money for her transportation.
HELENA, Oct. 4.-When Coroner
Flaherty returned to Helena last night
it was learned that Theodore Olson
was the unfortuna ate man who met
death yesterday morning at Hauser.
AXE dam. Olson had been employs ed
in q cassion, an air tight tubing,
which was used to sink to bedrock be.
meath the Missouri river. He had been
in the tubing four houre, when he
and his fellow workmen assembled to
go to breakfast. Olson bad hardly
set foot on the ground when he was
seized with a fatal illness and expired
within the space of q moment or two.
1t is said the rapid change from the
compressed air to the lighter atmos.
phere was too much for Olson, whose
system was not accustomed to the at.
mospheric changes.
BOHEMIAN, Oct. 4.-Judge Stewart
yesterday sentenced Thos. Douglas, a
stranger, to one year 10 the state pen.
itentiary for forgery. Douglas tried
at several places to pass a forged
check bearing the signature OF w L.
Faulkner. Deputy Bull got on his
trail and picked him up. Douglas
tried to create q diversion BY eating
the check.
LEWIsTOwN, Oct. 5.-Mrs. Lillian
Basch Backstein, the Roundup nurse
who suddenly came into the limelight
q few weeks ago when she was arrested
in Butte on q charge of bigamy, yes.
terday afternoon changed her plea of
not guilty to guilty the charge against
her having been bigamy. Judge Chea.
die announced that he would sentence
the woman on October 10.
HELENA, Oct. 5.-The semi.annual
examination of applicants who desire
to practice in Montana has begun
here before the state board of medical
examiners. A class of % appeared to
a the examin alton. The examining
board consists of Drs. J. B. Beeson
Of Livingston, F. j. Adams of Great
DR.. Reinick of Butte, and w.
Ryddell and S. A. Cooney of Hell
HELENA, Oct. 1.-The nominating
OF Judge j. H. Clements, who
Q a candidate for the position of chief
Justice of the supreme court, has been
lied with Secretary Of State Yoder.
Che petition bears the signatures of
!, ia persons. The petition of .Jndoe