The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-11-15
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

From Various Parts of the State.
LIVINGSTON, Nov. Figures just
compiled by the government show that
q total of %. 1854 persons visited Yell
low-tone National park during the
season Of 1911, which opened June 10
and closed Septemoe Is. Last year
l $1,000 persons toured Wonderland.
HELENA, Nov. 7.-Charles W. Fair
banks, former vice-president OF the
United States, will arrive in Helena
next Tuesday to start the campaign
for a "Greater Montana Wesley an
University" The following evening
Mr.. Fairbanks will deliver an address
on education at the auditorium, the
meeting being the first step in the rails.
ing of u fund of $780, 600 which is
necessary for the building in the fret
unit OF what will eventually be q $500,
600 plant.
BROWNING, Nov. THE Sherman
ranch on Cut Bank creek about eight
miles from Browning was the scene OF
a shooting ARRAY Sunday afternoon,
as q result of which Chas. Nequette
lies fatally wounded and Alex Sher-
man is in jail. Some bad feeling had
previously existed between the two
men, and Sunday afternoon Nequette,
who it lie alleged had been drinking,
drove out to the Sherman ranch. Ar
irving there a quarrel followed, in
which he announced his intention o!
cleaning up the outfit.
HELENA, Nov. IA Wholesale Jail
delivery at the county Jail was foiied
last night through the vigilance OF
Sheriff Martin Higgins force. The
solitary confinement, and their tools
and appliances, a key and a saw, are
in the possession of the sheriff. The
plans for the attempted delivery were
carefully laid by the men, George
Smith, serving a term for petty larceny,
and David Clark, q federal prisoner
from Malta who is serving a term for
stealing a set of harness from the re-
clamation service.
BUTTE, Nov. S.-Dan Shovlin, q
saloon man, died very suddenly at St.
J James, hospital of acute heart dis
ease. The investig ated the
case and decided that an inquest was
not necessary. Shovlin was found on
a chair in a semi.cOnsciOus condition
earlier ia the day.
KALIsPELL, Nov. 7.-Without food
and shelter since Saturday James
Daniels, q Greek, wandered in the
woods near Trego until this morning
when he was rescued, almost famished,
by searchers who have sought him
for two days. Daniels is - years old
and unfamiliar with the forest and
became lost while hunting.
HELENA, Nov. Mgr. Victor Day
of the Helena dioscese, left tod ay for
his old home in Belgium, expecting to
be absent several months. While in
the old country he will endeavcr to
get together a colony to settle in Mon
tana. A farewell reception was given
Father Day last night, at which he
was given a handsome purse and a
round.trip ticket from Helena to his
old home.
M1ssOULA, Nov. 8.-The dead body
of M. D. Minnick, the north side
%drayman, wss discovered on a steel
cot in the county jail yesterday
Minnick had committed suicide, using
q razor with which he had severed the
jugular vein and slashing his throat
almost to the vertebrate. The razor
was found on the floor at the foot OF
the cot. Not one of the inmates of the
place knew when the tragedy was en-.
acted, and there is no one who can
say how Minnick obtained the wea.
pom.
KAL1sPELL, Nov. 7.-Judgment for
the defends ant was rendered by Judge
Erickson in the district court today In
o"o OCSuu JOoAo oSO Oy
William Lang and w. Hugh Sawyer,
representing heavy property owners
along the abandoned Jennings line of
the Great Northern railroad, to com.
pei the railway company to relay and
operate it's line between this city and
jennings, which was abandoned in
1904. The suits we're in the nature of
a test.
HELENA, Nov. 7.-Between twenty
and thirty members of the convention
that framed Montana's constitution in
1889 are in attendance at the reunion
here. The affair is purely informal,
A reception to the trainers will be ten.
dered them at the Montana from two
to six this afternoon, and tonight a,
the club a banquet will be given by
the Helena Commercial club, but nc