The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-06-22
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS


A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
BUTTE, June 13.-Maurice Thomp.
son, lightweight champion of Mon.
taua. and Pete Sullivan of Fall River,
Macs, tonight fought Is rounds of
fast, hard Rrueling to q draw, 10 the
Broadway ,heater, before 1900 per.
sons. The lid on boxing contests is
apparently of in Butte, as Sheriff
O'Rourke and Chief OF Police Jack
Quinn, and other officers were riugside
spectators.
BILLINGS, June ia man whose
name. according to his notebook, Is
Mike Donovan, was found dead beside
the tracks Of the Northern Pacific here
today. His skull was fractured where
It struck sgainet the end of q rail ~.
Ing beside the track. The stranger
was dressed in workingman's clothes,
and had quantity Of phoney iewelry
In bis pockets. 1t 10 believed be was
killed In trying to get of Q westbound
train.
MILES CITY, June lathe jury in
the case of Ray Tarbeli, charged with
numbering George E. Mitchell at Sci.
way, Sept. 8, 1909, returned q verdict
of acquittal and the defendant wal
discharged. The jury took but q few
hours to reach the verdict. In the fret
trial the Jury disagreed, but at no
time was there any ballot for q strong.
er verdict than manslaughter.
HELENA, June 14.-As a result of
the railroad commission meeting Satur.
day with representatives of the express
companies an order has been made re-
opening the express rate Ease. The re.
hearing will be held June 80 at which
time the express companies expect to
adduce additional evidence showing
the general merchandise rates the CON-
mission ordered put into effect are
unreasonable.
TOWNSEND. June 13.-W. B. Penny,
an old timer Of Diamond City. but for
the last two years q resident of Town
send, shot and killed himself yester.
day. He fred three bullets from q
thirty.two caliber revolver into bis
head. Mr.. Penny had been in poor
health for sometime and was suffering
with pneumonia at the time of bis sui.
eide. He came to Diamond City in the
early sixties and accumulated q COM
Portable fortune in placer mining. He
was eighty years OF age.
M1ssOULA, June l3.-The transcon.
tinental trip of DR.. o. M. Lee and wife
OF Toledo, Ohio, came to a sudden stop
near Missoula today, when a Northern
Pacific passenger train completely de-
molished their automobile. The party
sought to avoid a stretch Of bad road
by using the railroad track. Hearing
a train approaching around a curve,
Dr.. Lee sent his chauffeur back to
flag it, while he attempted to get the
automobile from the track, which sur.
mounted an embankment. The chauf-
feur took the right Of way of the Pu-
get Sound by mistake and the train
hit the machine at a high rate of
speed. demolishing it completely.
HELENA, June 14.--A 50, 1000 blaze
occurred at the East Helena smelter
this afternoon. Dust in the bottom of
the bag houses was set aire, but in
some way the blaze spread to the bags
themselves and later to the wooden
stacks which convey the fumes to the
open air. The bags we're burned, but
only the tops of the stacks we're iniur.
ed.
MILES CITY, June l5.-George w.
Burt, who is engaged in raising hogs
on IN extensive scale at his ranch
near Kinsie, has just had three flowing
wells sunk and obtained a good flow
Of "a gallons q minute was struck at q
depth of 1876 feet. he is having q
fourth we'll drilled.
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