The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-07
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETSI
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
MILES CITY, July 20. A relief
agent, named Carr, temporarily in
charge OF the Milwaukee ticket office
at Gainesville, is reported to have
eloped Friday, taking with him about
1900 Of railroad and express company
funds. Carr was 10 charge during the
vacation OF Agent Lewis and during
bis iucumbeucy there vas q railroad
payday and q number OF express
money orders were sold.
KoDNDUP. July 29.-Boza Davisha
killed George Kinyek with an axe yes
terd ay afternoon while attending Q
picnic at Klein. Both parties are
Austrians and have worked IN the
coal mines here for some time. 1t is
said that the killing resulted from al
quarrel which had its origin in Q dis
pute about some mine work. The
murderer walked coolly to his board
ing house q short distance away and
put on his coat and took to the neigh
boring Undiscovered hills.
HELENA, July 29.-W. E. Fisher,
who was assaulted by two tramps q
week ago Sunday morning, near his
ranch al Winston, died this morning
in THE city. The assault was entirely
unprovoked. The tramps, it is ssid,
met Mr.. Fisher near his home, and
asked him for some money. He de-
clined to give them any and they be-
came abusive and one picked up q
stone. Mr.. Fisher likewise stopped to
pick up a stone, and as he did so the
tramp hurled q rock at his head and
knocked him %senseless. Later, the
two assailants we're taken to Town.
send and placed in the county jail.
LEwIsToWN, July 30.-Samuel An.
derson, widely.known pioneer and
Fergus county's vice president in the
society of Montana Pioneers, died
suddenly early this morning from
heart failure. Mr.. Anderson was at
Alder eulch, in the palmy days and
later at Diamond City. He removed
to White Sulphur Springs and then
came to Lewistown, where he had re-
sided many years.
BUTTE, July 3O.-Fire early this
forenoon Quilted the O'Rourke build
ing, occupied by the Broadway Shoe
company, and other enterprises, and
damaged near by blocks to the extent
of e68, 900. The insurance was in the
neighborhood of % 900. The blaze
originated in grease in q restaurant.
GREAT FALLS, July 30.-With his
wife and her three little children pre-.
sent in court, they having arrived in
this city from Helena for the trial. F.
F. Hanson was today found guilty
to the assault upon l5-year-old Retta
Homer. Hanson will be sentenced
Friday. Mrs. Hanson is penniless,
having arrived here with but As cents
in her possession, and is being cared
for by sympathizing friends.
LIVINGSTON, July 30.-The trial Of
the damage suit of Elenor Ryan
against the Northern Pacific was COM
meuced here today before Judge
J. Miller Smith of Helena. The plain
tiff demands $50, 900 for the death of
her husband who was killed in July
1910, in the local railroad yards.
T. j. Walch of Helena and b. J. Mil
Ter of this city represent the plaintiff,
and Carl Rasch Of Helena and A. p.
Stark of this city are appearing for
the railroad.
BOHEMIAN, July 30.-Dsniel Elliott
Rouse, one OF the first men to build
on the cite of the city of Bozeman,
was found dead at his brothers. ranch
q few miles east Of Bozemsn
this afternoon. Corone Brewer and
Undertaken Safely were summoned,
but no coroner's jury were impaneled.
1t was apparent that the old man had
fallen trying to open q headgate in an
irrigation ditch. MI. Rouse came to
Montana in 1862 by way of Denver and
had been a farmer and q painter in
the Gallatin valley since 1864.