The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-09
were former members Of the twenty
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we're former members of the twenty.
fourth infantry.
SIMMS, Oct. Sc. j. Nichols, q
we'll known citizen of this vicinity,
dropped dead here Thursday while
threshing on the b. D. Miller place.
He had just shoveled q load of grain
into the granary and was driving
back to the machine when he fell down
In his wagon and was dead when men,
bers of the crew reached him.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. ~4.-Burglsrs
looted the jewelry store Of Charles E.
Steller, on Fourth Street North. early
this morning, carried away unset cut
stones valued at more than d, 200, to.
gether with several watches, chains,
sun burst brooches and other classes
of jewelry, and did the work 60 ex.
pertly that they left not one single
clew.
LEw1sTowN, Oct. 5.-Mrs. Celia
Briggs was arrested at Grass Range
yesterday, charged with incendiarism.
Henry Wise, q rancher near that place,
charges that Mrs. Briggs m%aliciously
set fire to q number of his grain stacks,
destroying Q large quantity OF wheat.
Her action, according to Wise, was
inspired by malice.
GREAT FALLS, Oct. SIN q fire
which destroyed his house in the
western part of the city at an early
hour tonight, Fred Schweigel, an old
German, lost his life. His body was
recovered from the building, but it
was badly burned. Death probably
was due to suffocation. The cause OF
the fire has not been determined.
DILLON, Oct. 5.-One of the worst
storms that ever was experienced at
this season OF the year has been in
progress in this section since early
yesterday morning, with q high wind
from the northwest, accompanied by
q heavy wet snow. When the storm
began, most of the late grain was no,
cut has been lodged, and the alfalfa
hay OF the second cutting which IL
still In the field will be badly dam.
aged.
BILLINGS, Oct. 4.-With his throat
cut from ear to ear and with blood
gushing from the wound and flowing
over his clothing, James Kitchen, EN-
ployed by w. A. Allison or his farm
six miles west of here, staggered fron
the barn to the farmhouse last nigh
and begged for a six.shooter, with
which to blow off his head. He wat
brought to the city for medical At
tention, but died this morning. It il
said he had been drinking, and 1t II
believed that his mind was temporari
ly unbalanced.
LEwIsTowN, Oct. 7.-News wal re
ceived here this morning Of q TRACED!
enacted near Grass Range, about A
miles from this city, when James W
Briggs shot and killed his wife Cell,
Briggs. The details Of the aft air hav'
not yet been obtained, but officers ar
on the ground and Briggs is under ar
rest. A telephone message from Gras
Range states that the killing was /,
self defense.
BUTTE, Oct. 7.-Work was resume,
today In the coal mines of Montau
. and northeastern Wyoming, close
down last week pending q referendum
by the miners on the proposed ne,
scale. Word wss received here toda
I that the new scale had been sdopte
by a majority of more than $50 votes
The total vote in the district vas no
: heavy, the miners, In at least sewers
camps, appearing to have taken it TO
granted that toe scale would be &C
, cepted.
HELENA, Oct. "A petition fled b
t creditors of c. L. Folkstad that he b
q djudged q bankrupt was dismissed i
, the federal court by Judge Bour
Quin. Folkstad was engaged In til