The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-07-16
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFlE TS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

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A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
MILES CITY, July 8 Joe Reese,
colored. vas shot 10 the breast BY
"Buster" Jones, colored, Ia . quar-
rel over a g.ro O: 5oo:j LEX. T44o bu!.
let entered under the nipple and pos.
stbly p%unctured the liver. Joaes then
took. it ia ssid. s43 belonging to
Reese and fed. He ha. MOI been cap
tured.
BUTTE. July s.-Claiming his two
babies drank from q poisoned stream
of water near Zortmsn, Choutesu
county, and died, Matt Aho, the tsth.
er, started suit today for $50, $50
aRainst the Ruby Gulch mining COM
psny and Charles Whitcomb. The
complaint, fled in the district court,
tells . pathetic story of the baby
girls' death.
HELENA, July S.-Three members Of
the Helena fire department. we're plac.
ed under arrest yesterd ~ afternoon
on a charge Of malicious mischief.
The arrests we're made in connection
with the controversy regarding the de.
struction of the old livery barn at the
corner of Wall and Clore streets,
which wss recently condemned by
!, State Fire Marshal John F. McCor-
mick.
BUTTE, July "a range case of
aphasia has come to the notice OF local
physicians during the past week.
A man vas discovered here suffering
from a total lapse of memory, using .
, name altogether different from his
own and leading . dual existence.
He left his wife on . street q in
Portland some weeks since and start.
ed to see q friend. The next he knew
be was in Butte.
:. HELENA, July g.. The supreme
court, in q decision yesterday BY
Justice ssnner, held that a writ Of
mandate shall issue in the Fallon
county case, and directed the county
commissioners of Custer county
D to reconvene within Is days,
o annul orders In conflict with the
Q views outlined In the decision, and ia
proceed in accord ance with the courts
rulings. The action was brought or
9 the grounds that the county commits.
i sioners acted illeg ally 10 their pro.
d ceedings with reference to the forms'
ton of the new county of Fsllon.
r HELENA, July 8.-Thoueh secre
tsry of the Interior Lane does mol
n know just when he can make his pro
posed trip through Montana and
z over the various reclam alton projectl
d in the state, when he does come, h'
wishes to meet people Tin the simp
lest and most informal Manner" b
4 has written Governor Stewart. 1t i
expected he will be accompanied owe
n the projects by Governor Stewart
/ mem bers of the delegation that calle'
h upon him ia Washington aud perhsp:
p by other officials.
j.. BILLINGS, July 9.-The body o
n James F. Ellis was found in q csbil
O on his homestead near Huntley ant
from the fact that his mail had no
been collected from the rural box sine
N June 81 it is presumed that death &C
n CURED along about that time, due, /
10 believed, to %dysentery.
o.. HELENA, July 9.-Two "bootleg
70 gers' drew stiff sentences in the FEEDER
l. 81 court yesterday George Wilson
q convicted after Q trial Yesterday, va
70 sentenced to serve eight months in tn
county jail and to pay . fine Of go
and costs. Bob Gates. found guilt,
" Monday Wa sentenced to serve min
= months In the county jail and to pa.
. One Of 600 and costs.
A.. VIRGINIA CITY, July 0.-Mat Mstti
n, son, q stranger who arrived here
few days ago from Butte, killed him
self by shooting, at McKeen's saloon
70 Nothing much 10 known about til
man, except that be recently .ha'
~ trouble with bis wife. who left him
Death was instantaneous, the sho
from q pistol entering the right tempt
and coming out behind the left ear.
t.. MILES CITY, July 9.-H. r. Wells
10 who is the owner of the buffalo tha
a were used In the Miles City Roundul
and who, with Tom Jones is also tn
u owner of the ''spiuning'' horse whicl
only an Indian succeeded in riding
a intends to send both buf f alo and hore
to the Winnipeg stampede" whicl
takes place in August. WinnipeI
N offers 81, 600 for . horse that canno
be ridden, and the "spinner" will b
- entered there and the Wells boy viii
,e ride the buffalo.
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