The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-15
MONTANA NEWS BRlEFlETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts of the State.

From Various Parts Of the State.
BozEMAN, Feb. THE jury ia the
case of Ross Maxwell, charged with
criminal assault, returned q verd let OF
guilty and fixed the punishment ut two
years 10 the peniten'iary. The delib'
e%rations extended over a period OF
about eight hours and the decision
was rendered much earlier than bad
been anticipated.
HELENA, Feb. 7.-Word was receiv.
| ed by United State District Attorney
J. w. Freeman this morning that Mel.
vine Peterson, one Of. Eve brothers re-
Gently indicted for horse stealing by
the grand jury in this city, had been
placed under arrest at Salt Lake City.
The other brothers were arrested sew.
eral weeks ago. 1t Is alleged the Pet.
ersons stole q bunch of cattle from
residents of the Blackfeet Indian res
ervation.
HELENA, Feb. - Four year old
Lud wig Regler and come small com.
panions found some unexploded cart
ridges at East Helena yesterday. Lud.
wig is now lying 10 q cot at ST. Johns
hospital with his left hand blown of
at the wrist. The tots knew that the
cartridges would explode SO they be.
gan showing them into q stove to hear
the report. Ludwig failed to drop one
quick enough and it vent off in his
hand. The child will recover unless
blood poisoning sets In.
HELENA, Feb. 8.-After eluding the
United States officers for more than
two months, Melville Peterson, one of
the family Of five Petersons indicted
by the last grand jury for wholesale
cattle rustllng on the Blsckfeet Indian
reserv alton, has been spprehended at
Salt Lake City, according to informa.
ton received by District Attorney
James W. Freeman. Peterson will be
brought to Helena aud held in the
county Jail here pending his trial.
LIBBY, Feb. 7.-Al McGouin, the
suspected slayer of q woodchopper
near Troy about three weeks ago, was
arrested Sunday by Sheriff Frank
Bauey aud is now in the county jail
at Libby. The man was located in a
cabin about 10 miles from Leonia,
near the Id aho- Montana line, where
he had been hiding since the killing.
McGouin admitted to Sheriff Baney
that be killed the woodchopper, whose
name, he says, be does not know and
which has not yet been ascertained.
He claims, however, that the killing
was in self.defense, and tells quite a
straight story concerning the affair.
BOHEMIAN, Feb. S.-If the reports
which emanate from the West Gallatin
, basin are to be credited, the thousands
OF elk and other big game In that vi.
/ entity are in danger of starving to
death. According to statements this
!, week from woodsmen and others, the
snow is so deep that the animals can
scarcely move from place to place, to
say nothing of getting at feed Up
till two weeks ago the conditions are
said to have been excellent, but since
> that time q heavy aud unprecedented
, rain fell being followed Immediately
3 by a lower temperature, which froze
the slush into an ~impenetrable mass,
GREAT FALLS, Feb. 8. - George
, Barley, arrested last Friday OF
charge of passing q forged check on
the Great Falls National bank, made
! pay able to George Harmon and Sign
ed by G. E. Roeg & Co., appeared be-
fore Judge M. H. Ewing and pleaded
, guilty. He was sentenced to 10 months
? in the p~eni,entiary.