The river press., 1911-12-20
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.


by horse. His body was shipped to
Cam bridge, MINI. he was working
the John Gulbert farm.
BUTTE, Dec. ll.-Attorneys Axel
Mackton and William Myer today
brought suit az ainst the Great North
ern Railway company to recover a..
600, the amount the attorneys claim
they should have received under an
agreement with Tim Grace II he had
not, without the consent of the attor-
neys, settled q damage suit for injur-
les for 5000.
GLENDlvE. Dec. 1l.-Ten elev ators
will be built at as many towns tribu-
tary to this city during the coming
winter and spring to handle next
years crop. according to inform alton
given out today. They will be owned
and operated by farmers on co op.
erative basis and each will be capi.
talized at $4,000.
HELENA, Dec. IL "A. j. Beckman,
serving term of 80 years in The Deer
Lodge penitentiary for the murder OF
his sweetheart, and who, since his
confinement. has don ated all his earn.
ings to charity, has sent to the Asso.
cash and hair bride. He requests
tn at the bride be sold and the money
derived be used in the work of the or
ganiz alton.
| CASCADE, Dec. 12.-Deputy County
Attorney Cowley in the justice court
of Justice of the Peace George M.
Woods succeeded in convicting three
saloon men on q charge of selling
liquor to q minor in three cases pre-
sented. The complaining witness was
the l4.year-old son of John Coulson,
one of the we'll known ranchers of the
Chestnut valley, who, while intoxi.
Gated last Wednesday, allowed team
Of his fathers horses to run away.
The complaints we're filed by the
father OF the boy.
| HELENA, December 1l.-Theodore
Roosevelt ia still stockmau, so far
as his Montana brand is concerned.
Finding that it would probably soon
be open for re.recording, Frank B.
Linderman of this city, last week re.
recorded the elk horn that goes on the
left ribs and the triangle on the right
ribs with which Roosevelt's herds on
the Little Missouri we're branded.
Taking calf hide Mr.. Linderman
slapped the brands on the fur side,
inscribed the skin eide with some
original verses on Teddy, and for.
warded it to the former president.
BUTTE, Dec. 13.-Another excep-
tionally bold and daring robbery was
committed when two masked men held
up and robbed Mrs. May Farrar in
her home, securing $3.50, which repre-
sented much hard work and toll on
the part of the poor woman who con-
ducts boarding house for miners.
| GLENDIvE, Dec. l3.-One of the
most tragic events of recent Dawson
county history was that which oc.
CURED not far from Terry last Sun
day evening, when Andrew Mcmillan,
a we'll known resident of eastern Daw-
son county, was accidentally shot and
killed by his son, who has been al
most insane since over the terrible
occurrence.
RED LODGE. Dec. l3.-After a trial
lasting two days, Mrs. T. E. Denei,
wife of pioneer of Carbon county,
rancher, was acquitted in the district
court of any degree of crime in shoot.
ing Vincent Flaherty, q Red Lodge
lad, while he was fishing on the ranch
last July after being warned by her
not to trespass on the place. The boy
was shot in the knee and rendered q
cripple for life. Mrs. Denei admitted
trailing the boy with a rife and
pointing at him to frighten him away,
but claimed that the weapon was &C.
cidentally discharged.
HELENA, Dec. i3.-The hearing be.
fore the state board of medical exam.
liners of DR.. Guy L. Stone of Glas-
gov, on the order to show cause why
his license to practice medicine in
Montana should not be revoked on
the grounds of dishonest, immoral
and unprofessional conduct in con.
nection with his alleged attempt to
bribe D. p. 81. Mccarthy of Butte, q
member of the state board, was ab-
ruptly ended when Attorney General
Galen informed the board that be
considered the evidence insufficient to
warrant further proceedings. There
upon the board dismissed the case.
BILLINGS, Dec. 13.-Farmers of the
Pryor creek country are complaining
that their supply of hay is being de-
voured by the bands of cattle which