The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-06
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
BUTTE, Feb. 29.-Calusa Hall sa.
loon, conducted by Barrett & Nichols
in Meaderville, was held up aud 5000
secured by two masked men. After
securing 500 from the cash register
Barrett, who was on duty At the time,
was compelled to open the safe from
which was taken 500. There were Is
persons in the saloon at the time but
they were not molested.
KAL1spELL, Feb. 29.-W. A. Powers,
a local contractor, has begun suit
against the city of Kalispell, naming
Mayor Whips, City Clerk McAllister
and Treasurer Rogulien defendants,
seeking q writ of mand ate to compel
the issuance to him of IS, 900 in special
Improvement district bonds In pay
ment of labor under a contract.
VIRGINIA CITY, Feb. 29.-Within a
stones throw of his home and family |
at Summit, eight miles from here, the
frozen body of John Peterson, q miner,
was found there yes.erda y, buried in
Two feet of snow, where it had been
lain for one week, by q searching
| party. Evidence of a desperate strug-
gle to reach his wife and month-old
child were found in the tracks leading
to the cabin. In his w%anderings be
had fallen every ten yards. Finally,
exhausted and numb, he laid down and
died from exposure. After the body
had laid there for one week, Peterson's
young wife sought assistance. The
body was found twenty-four hours
after the rescue party was formed.
BOHEMIAN. March 1.-Telling her
children that would be the last supper
che should prepare for them, Mrs.
William O'Connell, q farmers wife
living near Bozeman, last evening
took a heavy dose of strychnine and
was dead 10 less than an hour.
HELENA, March 1.-The supreme
court yesterday held that the five toes
on q mans foot were worth not to ex-
coed $1,000. Accordingly, Frank
Kuuckley, who had his foot run ove
by q Butte trolley car, lost all the
toes on one foot, and secured judg-
ment against the Butte Electric Rail-:
way company for $40, 600 must elect to
accept either $4,000 in lieu of the
larger Judgment or submit to q re-
trial of the case. The courts opinion
was by Associate Justice Smith and
~concurred in by the other two mem
bers.
GLASGOW, Feb. 29.-John Lang
worthy, who was wounded while resist
ing arrest upon q charge of plumber
ing Great Northern box cars, is dead.
Bartle bayfield,, his companion, who
was shot In the.leg, has &C far re.
covered that he has besn removed
, from the hospital to the jail. John
Hay field, father of Bsrtle Hayield,
also is in Jail in connection with the
box car thefts. Sheriff Stephenson is
said to have great quantities of al
] legged loot at the home of the HayAelds
. at Glasgow and at their ranch neal
r here. Further arrests are expected
J. The piltering Of box cars has extend
! ed over q considerable period.
HELENA, March An q m~ajorit!
opinion the supreme court toda!
e affirmed the judgment OF the Silve
Bow court, which awarded Jenni
1t Kelly q Judgment for q, 500 agains
the Independent Publishing compan'
'e of this city for libel. In 1907 the In
|, dependent published a story frou
Butte rejecting on Mrs. Kelly.
" GLASGOW, March 2.-The thermom
eter has ranged from 10 to 30 belo'
zero here for the past W OF thre
days and today q driving snowstor'
s. is raging out on the bench land
Sc Owing to the hard crust on the sno
" the stock have been growing thi
~ from lack Of feed. Stockmen say th
stock ia in very poor condition
SO stand any hard weather now.
M1ssoULA, March 2.-Gus Nor
z quinst, claiming Minneapolis as h
home, fell from Northern Pacific pa
A senger train No. 2, on which he W
a stealing q ride, at the Woody sire
"a crossing here today and had n TO-
a 80 badly crushed that a%mputation vi
a necessary. Although stealing q rid
the injured man had $40 In money
his person and several checks on
Spokane bank.
II HELENA, March 2.-Following
ports from the state veterinarian q
the state board of sheep commissions