The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-16
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS|
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.


creek ranch, owned ny Ringing Bros.
OF circus fame, and located IA miles
North OF White Sulphur Springs, has
been stocked by q shipm ent of 400
blooded horses and mares, 1.2OO
fancy cattle AID 1900 sheep. The
RtnRltnRs also own the old Catlin
ranch, which lies between Ringling
and the springs. The total acreage of
the ranches aggregates more than 49,.
600.
M1ssOULA, Oct. 8-Oa account OF
the threatened Turko. 3 ak an war, the
Greek residents of Missoula are plan.
ming upon being ready to answer the
call to return to their native land aud
join the soldiers of King George.
Orders that the king would expect
his subjects in America to answer
this call II II Is made were received
by local Greeks today, aud as near
as could be learned there are
about thirty here ready to leave on
short notice.
BUTTE, Oct. 8.-The federal grand
jury went into session in the chambers
on the fourth floor of the federal
building yesterday morning at 10
o'clock and It Is thought that the ses.
sion will last for at least two weeks
II not longer. Between Is and 80 cases
will be investig ated aud, according to
District Attorney James W. Freeman
of Great Falls. the jury has plenty of
work ahead that will probably keep
1t busy for nearly three weeks.
BUTTE, Oct. 8.-B. II. Wallace,
engineer in charge of the power plant
of the Montana Reservoir and Irrigs.
ton company at the Hebgen dam on
the upper Madison near the Yellow.
stone Park, was caught in the gears
of q large concrete mixer and sustain
ed injuries which may prove fatal.
He was walking past the concrete
mixer during q snowstorm. and his
overcoat was blown into the cogs
which pulled Mr.. Wallace into the
gears crushing him frightfully and the
machinery was only stopped when so
much of his body vas caught by the
gears, that the belt from the motor
flew of.
BELT, Oct. 8.-Charles M. Martin,
said by the police to be a gambler
and generally a bad character, was
shot and instantly killed tonight by
Geo. Mace, a lodging house keeper,
who later gave himself up. Accord
ing to Mace the shooting was a result
OF a disturbance started by Martin.
There was nc eye witness to the shoot
ing.
CASCADE, Oct. 9.-At 9 o'clock this
morning the body of Richard Stark,
the son of W. r. Stark, q rancher
living IL miles southwest Of Cascade
was found in the hills about Is miles
( from here, and near the Chestnut val.
ley. Stark died OF exposure. Mesger
information IL to the effect that young
Stark and his father left the ranch on
Sunday morning for a hunting trip,
and that the younger man became
separated from his parent while fol-
lowing the trail.
WHITEFIsH, O.t. 8.-Lsscelle II
Phair, aged 26, telephone operator at
Highgat station, fell underline wheels
of a freight train at Lubec last even
ing and had a leg cut off, besides u
tanning other injuries. He was pick.
ed up by the train crew and was being
!. brought to the hospital in this city or
the Oriental Limited, but died when
the train reached Essex.
n HELENA, Oct. 8.-Acting under
} orders from Chicago. Theodore B.
. Mercer, who arrived in Conrad from
: Chicago a week ago, has been arrest
r ed here. He is charged with using the
D mails to defraud. 1t ia charged thai
t Mercer has been engaged In selling
/ worthless stocks. He was arraigneG
before q United States commissioner
here and his bonds fixed at 81, 900
Being unable to furnish them he was
D sent to Jail and his preliminary hear
g ing set for October Is.
JUDITH GAP, Oct. 8.-Morris E
Mckee. % years old, accidentally sho'
himself while deer hunting in the Lit
u tie Belt mountains yesterd ay. 81,
~ stopped to fill his pipe and in stick
q Ing the butt Of 30 30 rife in the snov
accidentally discharged the gun, tn
y bullet piercing his heart, killing hin
u instantly. His father L. E. Mckee, fol
many years q resident of the Gallstil
y valley. ia one OF the homesteaders,
e and his son wa living with him.
q Walked Across Continent.