The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-01-05
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, Dec, 27.-Three paroles
were granted today by the state boat
as follows: George Gulfoyle, forg-ry
in Meagher county: Martin Bower,
criminal assault in Flathead: j. j.
Bessley, grand larceny in Cascade
county.
HELENA, Dec. PA patent from
the government to the Northern Pa
ciic Railroad company for Ito, 1853. l6
acres in the Great Falls, Bozeman,
K%alispell, Missoula and Helena dis.
tricts, was filed with the clerk and
recorder here today, being one of the
biggest land deeds filed in recent
years.
LIVINGSTON, Dec. 27.-Andrew L.
Stillwager, q stationary engine fire.
man Of this city, began suit in the
district court today against Charles
r. Brown of Cascade county. seek.
ing to recover $4,000. It 10 al
legged by Stillwager that Brown has
alienated the affections of his wife and
she now refuses to live with him.
GREAT FALLS, Dec. %. - Four
months Imprisonment in the county
jail was the sentence imposed upon
Fred G. Egged for non.support of
family. Egged al arrested in Great
Falls several days ago at the instance
of the county authorities upon bis re.
turn from Alaska after q years alb.
sence, during which time he had failed
to contribute anything to the support
of his family. He was tried before
Justice Stafford at noon today and
found guilty, the court sentencing him
to four months imprisonment.
HELENA, Dec. 28.-At q special
meeting of Helena Typographical
union No. IS, resolutions were adopt
ed requesting Governor Norris to
send a special message to the legis-
lature recommending the passage OF
an amendment to the state printing
law requiring that all binding and
blank book manufacturing be done in
Montana. The amendment urged ia
the incorporation of q penalty in the
present law. The resolutions recite
that such an amendment would tend to
build up q great home industry. They
were presented to the governor today.
GLENDIvE, Dec. 28.-William E.
Young, the Burns creek, sheepman,
is dead as the result of freezing. Sew
eral days before he was brought to
the city he was found 10 the barn q,
his place in an unconscious condition,
having evidently fallen asleep and
been overcome with the cold.
GREAT FALLS, Dec. 28.-Coroner
Vidal of this city has been advised Of
the accidental death on the Grea,
Northern track about one mile east Of
Geyser, in the eastern part of the
county, of William Warfield, a sheep
herder 40 years old, who has been
employed for several months on the
Chamberlain ranch belonging to j.. B,
Long & Co. of this city.
HELENA, Dec. 29.-News has been
received here of the death at San
Francisco OF Jacob Loeb, a Montana
pioneer, who removed to California
two years ago. Mr.. Loeb served two
terms as city treasurer of Helena, and
he vas for many years keeper of rec.
ords and seals of the grand lodge OF
the Pythians of Montana. He was
also y Mason and an Odd Fellow.
BUTTE, Dec. 29-Mike Lyons, work.
ing his first shift at the St. Lawrence
mine last night, fell $50 feet to his
death down q chute in that mine. Ly.
ons is supposed to have come to his
death through being overcome by gas
after a blast on the 800 foot level.
Deputy Mine Insp ctor William Orem
tried to enter the raise two hours after
Lyons was found dead. and had to
turn back on account of the gas.
BOULDER, Dec. 29.-Lloyd, the H.
year old son Cornelius Smith of the
Boulder valley, accidentally shot and
killed himself Sunday afternoon while
out hunting for rabbits with a %
caliber rifle. Lloyd Smith was walk.
ing along when he almost ran into q
muskrat, and Instead of shooting the
animal he proceeded to belabor it with
the breech of his rifle, which he broke
off at the stock and it was discharged,
the bullet entering the abdomen.
GREAT FALLS, Dec. 28.-The first
arrest to be made in Great Fall for a
number OF years under the wineroom
law has just been made by the police
in a case against j. A. McClary, pro.