The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
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.
BUTTE, Aug. 2.-The city employ
ment agency today recruited 100 men
and forwarded them to western Mon
tans, where the forest guard, which is
unable to handle the flames with the
regular force, 10 paying $3.50 per day.
Three hundred men we're asked here.
HELENA, Aug. 1.-F. H. Ray, state
land register, today submitted bis
monthly report to the governor, chow.
ing q deposit Of s75. 900 for the July
business and swelling the total for the
first eight months of the present fiscal
year to 1862, 1856.
HELENA, Aug. 1.-Word Was re.
ceived here today of the death by
drowning near Portland yesterday OF
Sam Davidson, aged q, . o Of T. ].
Davidson, former sherif OF Lewis and
Clark county. and brother Of the late
A. j. Davidson. Details Of the ac.
cident we're not given.
M1ssouLA, Aug. l.-While driving
from the car barn to where q party Of
friends was waiting for him to take
them out ausomobiling yesterday even.
ing the steam car owned by Rudolph
Kersten blew up and was completely
destroyed, the owner escaping with
his life only by . margin Of q few sec'
onds.
HELENA, Aug. John Cobell,
charged with stealing 81 horses in one
bunch off the Blackfeet Indian reser-
walton, running them across the line
and selling them, is on trial in the fed.
eral court. 1t is alleged he stole the
horses last J January. The horses were
later recovered by the Indian police.
HELENA, Aug. 1.-Two residences
were destroyed and four other houses
partially burned as q result of q fire
which started in the barn OF DR.. M.
E. Knowles last evening, and it is
said to have been caused by . lighted
cigarette of some boys or from hot
ashes. A strong wind blew at the
time. The Knowles house caught fire
rapidly and immediately the flames
we're communicated to the residence oil
John l.. Bunnel, the ehoe merchant.
BUTTE. Aug. Sin a fit of despon.
dency last night, shortly before mid
night, Thomas Kilgallon, Jr., ended
his career at the home OF his parents
by taking carbolic acid. He had beer
in very poor health for several days
past and more than q week ago gave
up his job at the Stewart mine, in
tending to leave Butte. His poor
health and condition preyed upon his
mind until he became mentally IN.
balanced, it is believed.
BILLINGS, Aug. 2.-Somewhat dra
matte was the method adopted by
Samuel Ross in shutting off this
l mortal coil. which he accomplished
' this afternoon by the suicide route il
) a saloon at Harding by sending &
! bullet through his heart while five
! men were in the place, but not close
enough to prevent him, and merely
looked On. Coroner Smith left at onc'
l for the place to investigate ani
brought the body to Billings.
!. BUTTE, August, 3.-Two suits TO,
!, , damages, 800, 600 being dem anded Ii
each case, have been instituted il
Boulder by Albert Taylor and VIM
= Robinson against the Graves Mercan
, tile company, L. Graves, A. N. Hol
ter and N. B. Hotter. The plaintiff
. demand $780, 600 each as damages OF
account of the injuries they sustained
and $4,000 a exemplary damage
because the dynamite was stored i,
the town of Boulder contrary to tn
law of the state, which makes sucl
storage q felony on the part of tn
" offenders.
HELENA, Aug. 2.-The jury befor
, which John Cobell has been on tria
, in the federal court on q charge O
o horse stealing OF the Blackteet reser
. walton brought in a verdict of guilt,
o today on six counts. The jury foun'
. the horses, 81 head, we're ali stolen a
, one time and it also found the Grim
was committed after January l of thi
!, year. This brings the offense under
> the new federal law, which makes tn
!, maximum penalty that can be imposed
!, ten years in the ~penitentiary, while
under the old law the maximum was
> year in prison. Cobell has been be.
i, fore the federal court twice, once OF
, the charge oil numbering his brother
and another time on the charge O
taking liquor on the Blackfee, reser
) walton.
Charged With Murder of Huse.