The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-07-03
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

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gang was xii ed by the west bound
fas. mai! Sunday night, about two
miles west Of Nashua. The man left
Glasgow .n a speeder for Nashua,
where the crew il now working. He
was about half drunk when he left
here, and be was seen by the engineer
OF the fast mail just before he was
struck, but it was impossible to stop
the train before hitting him.
MILES CITY, June 25.-Rollo P.
Heren has returned from Mexico where
be went to chip cattle in conjunction
with }. NJ. Holt. l. vas desired to
chip 5000 head but owing to troubles
in the southern country 1t was impos-
sible to secure more than 1000 head
as the rebels stole the saddle horses
OF the cattle owners.
ANACONDA, June 24.-Even q con.
stable is not safe ut times, and Con-
stable Ed Henroid Of this city was
given a good demonstration OF this
last evening when q typewriter, a
graph aphone and 200 records we're
taken from bis Office. No clew has
been found as TO the theft. Mr..
| Henroid thought the robbery at first
was q joke. but he feels otherwise now
and is very warm, much warmer In
fact than ever the warm weather war;
rants
HELENA, June 25.-The Gold block,
the annex OF the Power block at the
corner of Sixth aud Main, was dam
aged by fire yesterday. The loss is
estimated at IS, 900 to &c. covered
by insurance. The fire is thought to
have been started by q cigarette or
match thrown in a waste basket.
Judge Joseph Davis was asleep on the
third floor of the building when the
fire started. His escape was cut of
by smoke and flames, but he was fin al
ly rescued by a ladder.
GREAT FALLS, June 25.-James
W adenshihl, age p, q ranchman liv-
ing in the Sun river valley about two
miles from here, drowned while trying
to swim the river this afternoon about
4 O'Clock. The body has not been re-
covered, but the sherif's force Is
searching for 1t.
LEwIsTOwN, June $3.50 far as
known, the high price paid this season
for Fergus wool vas received by B.
F. Moulton, of Grass Range, who was
paid twenty two cents for his clip of
about 80, 900 pounds, the same being
made at Miles City.
TRULY, June 25.-Thomas Clarke, q
~well-known and prosperous young
rancher, blew out his brains in the
living room Of his home this afternoon
while his wife was away at her fathers,
Thomas Travis, one of the pioneers
of Cascade county. Brooding over
fear HE crops we're to fail because of
dry weather is said by his friends to
have been the cause of his action.
LEwIsTowN, June 26.-Thomas
Graves, the man arrested here last
week on an ms sanity charge does not
appear to be insane, but he is suffer-
ing from q total loss of memory. He
has not the least idea as to where he
came from, how he got here or why he
came. 1t 10 even doubtful If his name
is really what he gives it, although he
appears to be quite are of that.
KAL1sPELL, June 25.-His lower
limbs almost charred and his entire
body scorched and blistered, G.. A.
Holt, manager of the q. S. Milbank
poultry farm on Tenth street. sue
cumbed to his terrible injuries at the
Sisters hospital early this morning.
The explosion OF an incubator ignited
five Others and Holt was showered with
flaming oil. Another man hearing the
report rushed to the rescue and the in.
jured man vas dragged from the build.
ing.
GREAT FALLS, June 25.-Holly Rob-
erts, in jail on charge of forgery, and
James Murray, held for the crime of
burglary, are fugitives from justice,
having broken from the county Jail
here late yesterday afternoon, the
news being temporarily suppressed.
They pried the bars loose, escaping
from q CRATE in the top Of the Jail cor
ridors and then went out to the roof
through a skylight. They had been
gone less than half an hour when the
break was discovered.
HELENA, June 26.-Earl II. Blanch-
ard who was employed at the Northern
Pacific roundhouse as q machinist's
helper, met with an accident shortly
after he had gone to work this morn
Jog, which resulted in his death. Mr..
Blanchard, with several fellow en-
ployes, was engaged in removing q
tire from one of the engines. Blanch-
ard uas at w0rk in tho nit and uhon