The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-27
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS|
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

- OS~oSs SO
From Various Parts Of the State.
HELENA, July 19.-Although tests
by the state bacteriologist showed the
existence OF CHAMBERS in q horse, the
state veterin arian has been eujoined
by the district court at Miles City from
slaughtering horses belonging to j. B.
Poe. Further tests are TO be made
prior to destroying them.
HELENA, July 18.-At a meeting of
the city council here tonight Alderman
Fisk presented q motion that it be the
sense of the city of Helena that no
convict labor be employed within the
confines Of the city. Action or the
natter was deferred, however, until
after a meeting of the lsboring men Of
the city, for the purpose of discussing
the convict labor question with the
stste ofacials.
LIVINGSTON, July 10. Thomas Pra.
ther, Big Timber banker and one of
the prominent and wealthy residents
of Sweet Grass county, died at his
home, nine miles from Big Timber
last night from wounds received yes.
terday afternoon In the explosion of .
gasoline tank. Mr.. Prather held .
lantern I'VE the tank and it exploded.
He leaves q wife and three children
the youngest of which is but three
months old.
MILES CITY, July 19.-Mrs. Helen
Philbrick, author of several books,
one 1.-THE Idiot and the Insane" un.
der the pen name of the mad Woman
Of the Rockies" and we'll known in
Boston and California, committed
suicide Sunday at the ranch of her
brother, M. F. Howard, on Rosebud
creek, by taking cyanide of potassium,
after having murdered her 11.year-old
daughter, Faith, by chloroforming her.
HELENA, July 19.-Wnl Saunders,
locally known as Major Saunders, q
colored man who has been in Helena
for several years. has been arrested
and is held awaiting the arrival of an
officer from Texas. Saunders is al.
legged to have killed a white man in
Texas eeven years ago. He says he
knows nothing about the crime, and
has applied for a writ OF habeas cor.
pus. 1t is said Saunders wrote q let
ter to a preacher in Tyler county,
Texas, inquiring as to the Whereabouts
OF his family, and the preacher turned
the letter over to the Texas officers.
GREAT FALLS, July 19.-James T.
Stanford, vice president and manager
Of the Conrad banking company of
this city, received today the appoint
ment of inspector general of the Mon
tana national guard, with rank of COL
onel, from Gov. Edwin L. Norris.
The inspector general of the state
militia has charge of all the property
of the guard.
HELENA, July 20.-Acting under in.
structions of the state board of prison
commissioners about forty convicts
from Deer Lodge were brought over
today on a special car attached to
number four and taken to the fair
grounds. Warden Frank Conley &C.
companied the prisoners, whom the
state board desires to have put to work
on q boulevard to be constructed from
the city to the fair grounds.
M1ssoULA, July 20.-Austin Epher-
son, aged II, was drowned last even.
ing, being seized with cramps while
bathing In a small lake near Roman.
Epherson was working in the recla.
nation service on the reserv alton.
He was q resident of Missoula and q
nephew OF Sam Waters and also q
relative of Thomas Greenough. The
body was taken to M~issoula this morn.
ing.
BILLINGS, July 20.-Something like
$780, 900 pounds of wool stored in the
wool house at Columbus and in cars
on the sidings in that city, has been
sold at public auction at prices rang.
ing from l8 to l94 cents. The bulk of
the commodity was purchased by
Hecht. Lehman & Co., aud Halo.
we'll, Jones & Donald of Boston, and
the greater portion of it came from
the Saltwater country, where some OF
the finest wool In Montana is grown.
HELENA, July 20.-Twelve parties
OF surveyors, containing six men each,
will be put to work within the next two
weeks surveying public lands in Mon.
tana. G. l.. Du Bots, in charge of the
survey work of the general land Office,
and Frank M. Johnson, one of the
two supervisors recently appointed to
take charge of all public land surveys,
have arrived here, and are now en-