The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-10-05
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, Sept. 27.-General Charles
D. Curtis, who for forty-six years has
been q prominent citizen Of Montana,
died at St. Johns hospital tod lay after
IN illness extending over q period of
nearly . year, the most of which time
he has been confined in the hospital.
In his death the city of Helena loses
one who had been identified with its
aft airs for many years.
HELENA, Sept. 27.-L. H. Graves
must serve twenty.four hours In the
Montana state prison at Deer Lodge,
while the Graves Mercantile company
of Boulder, of which he 10 manager,
has been fined $1,000 because of the
explosion of dynamite in the Jefferson
county capital early in July, which
cost the lives of four persons and re.
suited in the injury of others. This 10
the outcome of the prosecution insti.
tuted by the state through the attorney
general at Boulder, and which termi-
mated yesterday in the district court.
LAUREL, Mont, Sept. 26.-Two EN-.
ployes we're killed in the Northern Pa.
cifc terminal yards today. A Swede
by the name of Nelson, who was en-.
ployed as q blacksmith, lost his bal.
ance and fell from the top of the coal
docks this morning, landing on his
head, breaking his neck. A young
man employed as a switchman, by the
name of Albert Gordon Clifford. was
run over by q switch engine and had
his body severed in halves this after.
noon. Mr.. Clifford leaves y young
wife, having been but recently mar
| ried.
BUTTE, Sept. 28.-The big ore bin
Of the ST. Lawrence mine collapsed
yesterday, causing q loss between
s15, 900 and go, 1t will take from
forty TO sixty days to complete the new
structure and during that time no ore
will be hoisted ont of the St. Lawrence
shaft.
HELENA, Sept. 27.-The remains Of
Tom Eddingield, q we'll known travel.
ing salesman, were found in his room
tonight by friends, who had become
alarmed at the absence of the man,
who had not been seer for a week.
Eddingfeld had apparently cut his
throat with q safety azo q week ago.
The body was in q bad state of decom.
position.
GREAT FALLS, Sept. 27.-Word was
received in Great Falls this evening
that Frank Terrio, q well.known
ranchman who resided in the vicinity
OF Craig for q number Of years, had
been thrown from q vicious horse that
he was trying to break and that his
neck had been broken by the fall.
Death was instantaneous. When
found the body was cold. No one
witnessed the accident. The dead man
was II years of age.
LEW1sTOWN, Sept. 26.-While the
net returns from the harvest fields are
as yet far from complete, Harry Yae.
ger, government statistician, estim ates
that the total wheat yield of Fergus
county this season will be $500, 900
bushels. The average yield of winter
wheat within the Judith basin is esti-
mated by thos, who have been secur.
ing returns at about 30 bushels.
HELENA, September 28.-Theodore
Brantly, chief justice of the supreme
court, today filed q supplemental pc.
tition to the original requesting that
his name be placed on the ticket as a
candidate for chief justice Of the su.
preme court at the approaching fall
election. Including the names of the
former petition and those of today,
the total number now exceeds 5000,
and it is understood that more are to
come. As in the case of the original
petition, the signers are residents Of
practically every section of the state.