The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-12-27
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.

ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.
BUTTE, Dec. 2l.-Wm. Samson, a
Scotchman, about AZ years of age,
was found dead in bed yesterday in
the Norwood block. An empty glass
and an empty two.ounce bottle labeled
car oolic acid, were found on the chair
close beside the bed. No reason for
the act is given, but that he planned
it carefully Is shown by the fact that he
disrobed, got into bed aud drank the
poison.
BILLINGS, Dec. 20.-A number of
officials of the Great Western Sugar
company arrived in the city last night
for the purpose of making thorough
investigation of the factory, with the
purpose, 1t is said, of making recon-
mend ations rs to enlarging its capsc.
ity. 1t was impossible this season to
handle all of the acreage that was
offered the local company and 1t is
expected that before the end of next
summer the big mill will be greatly
enlarged.
BUTTE, Dec. 2l.-Mayor Duncan,
in special message to the council
last night, proposed the establishment
of municipal coal and wood yard to
furnish residents of the city with coal
and wood at cost. The mayors plan
contempla.es the Investment of S12, 900
to equip the business and get it start.
ed. He proposes investing $4,000 of
the general fund and $1,000 of the
sprinkling fund in this venture and
declares that the city will be able to
furnish consumers coal for 81 per ton
less than they are now paying aud at
the same time insure their getting full
weight.
HELENA, Dec. 2l.-Suit has been
entered in the district court by W. M.
Bradford against the Great Northern
railroad, the plaintiff asking for sl5,-
600 for the death OF his son, L. G.
Bradford. Young Bradford was a
brakeman aud was caught between
cars at the station at Bortu and &C
badly injured that he died.
MILES CITY, Dec. 22.-Patrick Boyle
was killed yesterday at Sutherland
while raising logs in the building of a
log cabin for Miss Margaret Mccoy,
young lady homesteader of lat sec.
ton. The logs froze together in the
foggy weather, and In jerking them
loose Boyle fell, and the log dropped
on his chest. He had consented to
erect the cabin for Miss Mccoy more
in spirit of gallantry than for any
other reason.
BOHEMIAN, Dec. 22.-B altering q
hole through two stone walls, smash.
ing locks, and making their way into
the vaults of the county trcasurer's y
Office, six prisoners, none of whom was
regarded as . desperate character
escaped from the new county Jail
sometime during the night. They had
not been recaptured at three O'Clock
this afternoon. Deputy Sheriff Horace
Bull was sleeping in the Jail, but the
escape of the men was not discovered
until 8 o'clock this morning.
HELENA, Dec. 22.-His sympathies
aroused by the plight of the sixty odd
federal prisoners confined in the coun.
ty Jail here, some of them for many
months, one of the first things Judge
Hunt did when he opened the circuit
court was to order grand jury drawn
to repnrt January 2. Inasmuch as
Judge Hunt will leave Montana in
time to be back in Washington Janu.
ary 13, 1t is believed that only the
cases of the men who have already
been arrested will be presented at this
session Of the grand jury.
MILES CITY, Dec. ~. - Coroner
Lsnphesr has returned from holding
an inquest over the body of Dudley
Mays, q ranch hand, % years of age,
who was found to have committed
suicide by drowning himself in Locate
creek. Dudley was employed on the
Brsndshsw ranch. About 5 q. m. be
left his room, got an axe with which
he had been grubbing sage brush,
chopped hole in the ice and plunged
in, the place being pool made by q
beaver dam. The body was recovered
by using garden rake for graphing.
BILLINGS, Dec. PA lone bandit
entered the Wsuamaker store during
the supper hour last evening, only
the two proprietors we're present, and
covering them with revolver, de.
manded the cash of the establishment.
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