The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-04-19
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.

BUTTE, April 13.-Jack Walsh, q
miner, was struck by a fist blow over
the ear by John Whalen, cousin of
Sheriff John O'Rourke, causing q
hemorrhage which resulted in death.
| Whalen was arrested and shortly at.
forwards released upon $4,000 bond.
HELENA, April 13.-Despite the fact
the federal and state courts refused to
enjoin the sale OF $500, 600 worth of
water bonds by the city, when the
time come for opening the bids for
the purchase of the issue, none was
presented. To give buyers another
week, the council postponed the date
of the opening Of the bids until April
20. City Attorney Horsky explained
that bidders had been frightened away
by the litig CATION.
M1ssouLA, April l3.-Leaving q
note in which he alleged that he had
been bounded aud blackmailed by q
woman, Il. L. Allen, formerly direc-
tor OF the Missoula bank and al UNDER
taker in the establishment of Coroner
G. M. March of this city went into. the
basement OF the place of business yes.
terday and killed himself with q shot
gun.
HELENA, April 12.-Under the coal
mining laws, as revised by the Twelfth
assembly, it is mandatory upon coal
mining operators to equip all escape
ment hats exceeding 100 feet in verti.
cal depth with q cage or cages to
hoist miners out of the mine In case
OF danger, is substance of an opin-
ion delivered to State Coal Mine In.
spector j. B. McDermott by Attorney
General Galen yesterday.
MILES CITY, April 12.-In q small
way perhaps, compared with the cattle
and sheep industries, but on a pretty
good scale for one individual In what
Is almost q new enterprise for this
state, George Burt OF this city, is dem.
onstrating the possibility of raising
hogs for market in Montana. Mr..
Burt has q ranch about twenty miles
east of this city and about two years
ago shipped u hogs from Missouri.
Today he marketed two car loads Of
hogs at Miles City that he had pro
duced on his ranch.
KAL1sPELL, April l5.-For having
slashed Robert Stokes acros the
throat with q pocket knife several
weeks ago when in q drunken brawl,
Ed Mike, q Russian, was sentenced
to one year in the p~enitentiary at Deer
Lodge by Judge Erickson of the die
trict court.
BUTTE, April 15.-Sam A. Hall, the
former bank and real estate broker
, and a we'll known man throughout
Montana who was recently found gull
ty OF grand larceny for embezzlinl
money given him to invest, was thi'
morning sentenced by Judge Donlar
( to ii years in the ~penitentiary. Thi
! is the maximum punishment.
LEWIsToWN, April ia party o
Great Northern engineers appeared OF
the Judith river yesterday and is en-
gagged in survey work On the Grea
S Falls-Lewistown extension. NothinI
8 is known here as to the significance @
Il this resumption of field work. Th
Milwaukee Is preparing to start layinj
= steel on the grades from LEWISTON
toward Kendall and Grass Range
4 Mont, next month.
s.; GREAT FALLS, April 12.-There wer
e several Easter openings made by tn
police tonight of places where allege
gambling layouts have been running
y Under Chief Pontet, officers swoope
down on Hagenson's place, which
operated IS q cigar store, and gather
ed in q bundle OF money. Olson's 9.
loon on first avenu south, too, wa
another place that vas visited, an
where, it is said, proof of gamblin
was secured also.
- BOHEMIAN. April, 15.-The flow
IN water in the streams of the state du'
TO the irrigating season should
above the normal this year, sccordir
# to reports Of the snow supply whie
le reach the agricultural college. The
has been . heavy fall of snow tn
winter In the mountain regions whit
produce the summer water, and this
scarcely touched by the spring thav
so far. Last year the conditions wei
exactly reversed, the n havir
lie melted far up into the elev atoms
er this time.
nd "
es Cowboy Greeting for Roosevelt.
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