The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-09
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.
LIVINGSTON, Jan. 31.-John Nc
Laughlin, for more than 26 years q
we'll known resident OF Livingston,
died this morning as he wss taking
q train for Portland, Ore, whittier he
was bound for the benefit of his
health. Shortly after boarding the
train he was stricken with heart fail.
ure. and died before medical aid
could be summoned. Mr.. McLaugh-
lin vas 10 years of age.
HELENA, Jan. 3l.-Bishop Carroll
made announcement today that work
will be resumed on the new cathedral
March l and that it will be under roof
BY Dec. l. The stone, which will
come from the Bedford, Ind, quar-.
ries, is now ready to be shipped. 1t
IL being cut in Indiana and the only
work in Helena will be that Of putting
it in place. All the work preliminary
to laying the stone vas completed
last year.
BUTTE, Beb. Mrs. Ora Lewis
was arrested yesterday afternoon in
one Of the local stores charged with
shoplifting. She was caught in the
act and had on her person q large
variety of articles che had stolen and
was planning to take away with her.
The woman had secured one of the
large paper bags used for putting up
hats and into this had slipped the ar.
ticles che had stolen.
HELENA, Jan. 31.-The state land
board sent to the interior department
q written proposition in connection
with the Carey land act project on the
Dearborn today. The state, under
the agreement, s%urrenders 1900 acres
originally included in the project and
the government is to give the state two
years more in which to reclaim and
settle the remainder of the land. II
the land is not reclaimed in that time,
then the state is to deed it to the gov.
erhment.
BUTTE, Feb. John Gillie, SUPER
intendent of the mines of the Anal.
gamated Copper company, called up.
on the board of the county commits.
sioners yesterday to ask that the
quarantine against smallpox be en-
forced more vigorously. MIR. Gillie
thought the county authorisies should
get together and devise some means
of trying to prevent the farther spread
of the disease, which threatens to be.
come epidemic. There has been COM
plant that men suffering from the
disease have been allowed to walk on
the streets, work In the mines and go
to the public places, exposing untold
numbers to the disease. .-.-
GREAT FALLS, Feb. 1.-Frank H.
Stiff, the crazed ranch hand, who
committed the murderous assault upon
L. M. Lowry in the Cascade hotel last
Saturday morning, a committed to
the insane asylum this afternoon, fol-
lowing a hearing before Judge Leslie
in the district court.
BOHEMIAN, Feb. 2.-James Gille-
land, a wealthy bachelor of Logan,
who recently sold his ranch for $780,
600 and came to this city, died last
night at the public hospital as a re-
suit, primarily of dissipation. Mr..
Gilleland was 60 years of age, a ma.
tive of Belfast, Ireland, and had been
a resident of Montana for thirty years.
During that time he had acquired a
considerable amount of property.
KAL1sPELL, Feb. "A new one
hundred and fifty barrel -four mill has
begun operations in Kalispell, the
only competing mill that has operat.
ed here for eight years, when the Kali
ispell Industrial company, a corpor-
atoms, formed principally among the
farmer. went to the wall by the pur.
chase Of it's stock by the Pills bury in-
terests of Minneapolis. The plant il
built from the machinery which has
stood for eight years in the disused
Industrial mill, to which has beenad.
ded a large equipment.