The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-05-04
MONTANA. BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
LEw1sTowN, April 2s.-The public
sale OF state lands in this county was
resumed this morning with Jos. Oker
40 auctioneer. The court room was
again packed with land buyers and
the prices paid were uniformly high,
come tracts bringing close to ESQ 40
acre. The sale of the $1,000 acres Of.
fered may be concluded BY tomorrow
night, but it Is oubsful.
BILLINGS, April 27.-As the result
OF stepping into small pool Of water
which had become charged with elec.
tricity from an underground conduit q
horse belonging to one of the local
livery stables was killed here tod ay.
The man who was riding the horse
dismounted, dropped the reins to the
ground and walked away and the an.
imal stepped into the water in the
gutter and as it reached out to rub
its nose against an electric light pole
1t pitched forward on the sidewalk and
died without struggle.
BUTTE, April 2s.-Bills amounting
to $3.50 were presented to the Butte
city council last night at i.s meeting
by the l3 discharged policemen whom
Judge McClernan recently decided
must he put back on the force. The
bills were accompanied by a long
statement OF facts regarding the whole
case. The statement and the bills
were not read, but the whole matter
was referred. as Mayor Nevin put it,
'to the mileage committee" which
does not exist.
GREAT FALLS, April 27.-Charles
L'uefield, al expert traction engin-
eer, was brought to the Deaconess
hospital here this afternoon from
G,yser with his throat slashed from
ear TO ear and both wrists badly cut
as the result Of an attempted suicide.
The fact hat The razor which Little.
field used vas very dull Is the only
reason ascrib,d by the attending ply
sician for his failure to accomplish
his purpose. Ii 'efield had been in
Great Falls up to few days ago,
when he went TO Geyser to run a plow
engine. Before he started TO work,
however. he start' d 10 hitting booze,
and q several days drunk caused de-
spondency, which resulted in the at
tempted suicide.
LEwIsToWN, April 20. - II there
we're any doubts that the Milw aukee
proposed to build from Musselshell to
Great Falls, distance of more than
200 miles, they were dispelled tod ay
when the first agreements for right of
way went on record. The agreements
are between Samuel Smith and John
Kyle, laod owners near Weede.
HELENA, April 29.-John Hollen-
back, 3llyears old, was electrocuted at
aauser lake this morning, where be
was employed as a stationary arema an.
How the accident occurred is not
known. Hollenback was on the works
and suddenly came in contact with q
live wire. He was hurled in the water
and when removed a moment later life
was extinct.
HELENA, April 29.-Bertha Guerre,
eeven years old, was struck and al.
most instantly killed this morning by
the engine pulling Northern Pacific
passenger train No. 3. She was lott.
ering in the yards watching switch
engine when No. pulled in. The
engineer apparently did not see the
girl. the pilot striking her In the head
and hurling her 10 one side. She died
few minutes later.
HELENA, April 30.-Work of re-.
building the Hauser lake dam was
temporarily suspended last evening
by the Stone & Webster Engineering
corporation company and will not be
resumed until after the sesson of high
water has passed In July. Work has
progressed 70 such an extent that the
water will do no damage 70 the per-
manent structure.
GLASGOW, April 30.-James Hicks,
well-to.do farmer living three miles
northeast of town, started for home
about 8 o'clock tonight with q load Of
fence posts and when crossing the
tracks near the coal chutes, the team
took fright and ran away. Hicks had
psrtaken freely OF liquor while In
town and when the team started he fell
of the load and the fence posts and
wagon box we're dumped over on him
as the team broke away. His head
was badly crushed and he was killed
instantly.