The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-07-26
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.


win, aged 81, q Elmer Sleemau,
aged %, we'll known young men Of
Stevensville, we're drowned yesterday
In the Bitter Root river about three
miles north of town. The boys we're
caught in the rapid current while trout
fishing.
BUTTE, July 17.-Because Mike
Menski, crippled with rheumatism,
today refused to eat q meal which his
wife had prepared for him with more
than ordinary care. declaring that he
had no appetite, the woman repaired
to another room in a huff, and drank
carbolic acid, dying tonight.
HELENA, July 17.-Guilty Of murder
In the second degree wss the verdict
returned by the jury in the case against
Walter Whitworth, foreman of the
Gillette & Leeder ranch in the northern
part OF this county for the killing of
Adolph Eevin, May l. The trouble
which precipitated the shooting started
over the tresspasing in the Gillette &
Reeder pastures OF Levin's horses.
DILLON, July 17.-During an cleo.
trio storm yesterday afternoon John
E. Durham, who was in the employ Of
Schiller & Bishop, on the Schiller
ranch about nine miles north of this
place, was struck by lightning and
killed. At the time he was running a
mower and was the only one of the
haying crew who refused to seek shell
ter at a hay stack near by and he was
killed before the eyes of the other
hayers, a flash of light e%nveloping
him. He was found dead on the now
err. Dunham's team was knocked down
and stunned. Dunham's death oc-
Cured but q brief interval after he
had refused the invitation Of the 9th.
ers to join them at the hay stack.
GREAT FALLS, July IT, Five
traction blowing outfits at work in one
field was the scene to which Photo
grapher Seavolt OF the "See America
Fret" car devoted his time today in
reproducing it on films, which will be
shown throughout the East next winter.
The five outfits, part of them steam
and part gasoline power, were at work
upon the virgin sod on the land of the
Boyle Land company in Boxelder
creek, about Ii miles south of Great
Falls. The immense tract to be broken
will be sown in winter wheat this yea
HELENA, July l8.-Perry Kennerly,
charged with introducing liquor on
the Blackfeet reservation, was &C.
quilted by a jury In the federal court
today. Sam Middlecalf, charged
with the same o%ffense, changed his
plea of not guilty to guilty and pass
ing OF sentence was suspended until
August 81 in order to give him the
opportunity to cut his hay.
M1ssoULA, July 19.-Robert D. Hip.
sher shot and instantly killed his wife
this noon and then shot himself in the
head fatally. Jealousy vas the cause.
Mrs. Hipsher had left her husband,
alleging cruelty aud drunkenness.
Ripsher had told friends that his home
had been ruined and his money wasted
and that be vas desperate. He recent.
ly failed in the cigar business.
HELENA, July 19.-Onicial an
nouncement has been made in St.
Paul of the resign alton of Sherman j.
ellison as generel passenger agent of
| Tho Gpoot Markham ~oi1uuor ,rA -
leaves the railway company with
which he has been associated for 10
years to become general manager of
| agencies and colonization for the Luse
Land & Development company of St.
Paul. It is expected that Mr.. Ellison
will sever his connection with the
railroad company about August l.
BILLINGS, July 19.-Evidence of foul
murder were brought to light here in
the discovery about four blocks from
the business district of the body of a
man with his skull crushed and a
bloody iron bar lying beside it. The
body was living in a refuse heap and
scantily covered with straw. 1t is be-
lieved by the authorities that the man
was murdered for money he either
possessed or was believed to have had.
Some bloody clothing, evidently that
OF the person or persons who COM
mittea the crime, was found lying near
the body. The dead man was seen
about the city several days ago, but
no one can be found who knew his
name.
For summer diarrhoea in children
always give Cham berlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and
castor oil and a speedy cure is Ger.