The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-01-17
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
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MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.
LEw1sTowN. Jan. 11.-Mayor J. S.
Marshal has referred to q special com.
mittee OF the city council recommends
tions. that all pool halls be required
to close at l o'clock q. NJ; that the
saloon license be increased from e75 q
quarter to such figure as may seem
proper and that the sale of liquor in
the restricted district be absolutely
prohibited.
HELENA, Jan. 1O.-The climax of an
investigation that has been carried on
for three months into the management
of the aff airs of the state fish hatchery
at Anaconda under Charles F. Healea,
superintendent, will come in q day or
two, and q decision reached as to
whether Mr.. Healea shall be Grimm.
ally prosecuted on q charge of max.
ing fraudulent vouchers and present.
ing them to the state for payment.
The aggregate of the false vouchers.
extending back over q period of
eighteen months, is between o., 1000 and
%, 900, it is said.
BUTTE, Jan. 10.-After listening to
q pitiful tale by Chris Ely, who alleges
that he was sent to Mobridge, s. D.,
in search OF work and not finding any
was forced to sell his clothes to get
back to Butte. the police judge this
morning fined Nick Spatter. proprie'
tor OF the Foreigners Employment
Office, 5000. Notice of appeal was
given and the bonds were set at $500
Ely stated that about December 30, he
paid Spatters about s5 for a job on
the Milwaukee road at Mobridge and
shipped out that night with other
men.
BOHEMIAN, jan. lO.-Sherif Allan
n. Sales and Charles Fransham ar
rived on belated No. Al this afternoon
from Grand Island, Neb., bringing
with them Frank Furlong, Leo B
McCarrick and Ed Sayers, who es'
capped from the Gallatin county jail
December IL. The men were taken q
once to Jail and locked in the same
cell from which they escaped. Sayer'
ia q desperate man and was kept hand
q cuffed to Deputy Fransham. Th'
:, other two prisoners slept in an uppe
q and the sheriff in q lower berth, beinl
r connected with his prisoners by
chain.
HELENA, Jan. l2.-Albion Melon
aid, proprietor OF q saloon al VOL
Greek, charged with assault in tn
first degree, for shooting Tos
Takuechi, q Japanese, in his saloo
October 4 last, was acquitted. Nc
donald pleaded self defense. Th
Testimony was to the effect that th
Jap came into the saloon, obsaine
some drinks, and then, when McDor
aid refused to give him more becaus
he had moi paid for those alread
drunk, became abusive.
GLEND1vE, Ian. l2.-Another nov
ment for the division OF Dawson ooul
ty, and the consequent formation I
"Gate county," has been inaugural
BY the Commercial club OF Sidne.
This campaign 10 the natural %
logical result of the agitation d.
veloped In Valley county, with !
condicting phases which seems to ha,
resolved itself into q fight for count
seat distinction between the towns
Culbertson and Medicine Lake.
HELENA, Jan. 12.-Pursued by 1
dams on the Fort Belknap India
~reserv alton until they caught up vii
n. him and took q bottle Of whiskey fro
al his pocket, was the story John M
be Clelland told Judge Hunt in the fe
eral court this morning when call
upon to answer to an indictme
charging him with Introducing liQu
er on the Belknap reserv alton August
l" last. Then the defendau plead
q. guilty and was given 60 days in j
and was fined 600.
Ill, BOHEMIAN, Jan. I'm. L. Wilsc
IN. one of the farmers institute worker
II" has been preparing q bulletin concel
-, ing the growing Of fax in Monta
m and has gone to Chicago, where
will meet the American Association