The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-07-19
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

p 6uoget OF Readable snort items
From Various Parts Of the State.
LEwIsTowN, July 11.-Dick Noble.
seventeen years old and q member OF
q we'll known family, vas found on the
Norman ranch near Kendall yesterday
with the top OF his head blown of. II
is uncertain whether II wss . case OF
accident or suicide.
M1ssoULA, July 1l.-John NJ. Evans
was elected the first mayor OF this city
aud the state under the commission
form OF government. With him were
chosen T. A. Price and Cutbert Peat
% councilmen and commissioners.
HELENA, July 11.-Montsns chip
pers will save thousands Of dollars.
it is said. on the reduced express rate
c assi6cstions which will go into effect
August l. The reductions were voluu.
tarily made by the express companies
after the Interstate Commerce COM
mission ordered an investig alton of
the express business Of the country.
RED LODGE, July 11.-Because he
persisted in fishing In q stream cross.
ing the ranch of Mrs. L. E. Duell, On
Red Lodge creek, Vincent Flaherty,
q youth OF 20 wss shot by the woman
and seriously wounded. Mrs. Duell
ordered the boy of the ranch and
| when she found that he had not gone
| she blazed away at him with Q rife.
| She was arrested.
HELENA, July 11.-Notice Of the ap-
preparation of 1900 cubic feet Of
water per second for the Sun River
reel am alton project was filed with the
county clerk and recorder by the
reclamation service. OF the total
amount, 1000 cubic feet are from Sun
river, $500 cubic feet from Willow
creek aud 500 cubic feet from the north
fork of Sun river.
MILES CITY, July 1l.-Deputy
Sheriff Mari OF Dawson county, ar
rived In Miles City last night from
Jord an bringing in Arthur Heisil and
Geo. Brouton, who were Immediately
taken to Glendive. The men are want
ed in connection with the alleged
stealing of six hundred sheep belong.
ing to the Smoky Butte Sheep com.
pany, on which charge George Van
was also arrested several days ago at
his ranch and taken to Dawson coun-
ty for hearing.
MILES CITY, July 1l.-Arrivals from
the Jordan country report q terrific
hailstorm in that vicinity. Accord
ing to these reports thirteen head OF
the ''79" horses were driven into wire
fences and killed, the roof was blown
off the w. G. HendersOn's barn,
Charles Kramer's house "a unroOfed
Joe Mcdonald lost q number OF sheep
being killed by hail, windows were
broken generally in Jordan buildings,
and over a strip Of country four miles
wide, practically every. growing thing
was ruined.
BUTTE, July 12.-John E. Hill was
directly charged with the murder of
Earl G. Swift by q coroner's jury,
which came to the conclusion that the
knife wound alleged to have been In.
6icted by Hill in the Budweiser sa-
loon early on the morning of July 5,
was the cause OF Swift's death.
BOHEMIAN, July 12.-Oae of the fret
pioneers of G allatin county and who
helped to found Old Gallatin City, the
first county seat of Gsllatin county,
met death yesterda y afternoon when
John ~Stouvenor, aged 81, fell from
his buggy while riding nea Three
Forks, and died almost instantly.
M1ssoULA. July ll.-Martin Erick.
con of Bonner today filed suit against
the Clark Power company for damages
in the sun of $1,000. He alleges that
the dam built by the company at Bon
ner has caused water to flow ove his
land and thereby damaged 1t to that
amount.
HELENA, July l1.-Five prisoners
from the Deer Lodge penitenti airy who
have been working or the roads, were
paroled today by the state board of
parole commissioners. The paroled
men are John Harrington Of Butte,
convicted OF robbery; G. l.. Working,
convicted in Dawson county of rape;
and w. A. Malone, D. A. Robinson
aud Sam Gibbs, all sent up from Park
county for grand larceny.
ANACONDA, July ll.-Thos. Carlin
was burned to death in q cabin on
Moolight lake, near Mill Creek, at an
early hour this morning under cir.
cumstances which leave absolutely
no clew as to the cause of the fatal
connagration. Coroner Lawler found
tho oh arrad remains Of the dead mar