The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-11-19
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days

Billings, Nov. 13.-Because they
could not agree upon the amount OF
salt which should enter into the max.
ing of a 'mulligan" stew, Fred H. Pip.
er and Alexander Marsh, both Scotch,
both sheepherders and old-time
friends fought a duel in the basement
of a saloon, with the result that Mar.
shall is in the hospital and Piper is
held in Jail pending the result of his
victims injuries.
Glasgow, Nov. ia sheepherder,
who, from a diary found in his peck.
ct, is believed to be H. I. Wilson,
shot and instantly killed himself by
placing a Al Colts revolver in his
mouth and firing it. Monday after
moo he cashed a check for $50 and
Tuesday morning reported that he
had been robbed by confidence men.
Sixty-five cents was all that was
found on the body.
Boulder, Nov. 13.-Deputy Game
Warden Andy Rossman arrested Lew
is Corners, charged with killing elk
in closed territory. He pleaded guilty
in the district court, and was fined
$500, the minimum. The elk was
killed in the Ruby Gulch territory,
north of Basin. Connors is a miner.
This is the first conviction of this
kind to c in this county.
Glasgow, Nov. 13.-Two brakemen
on the Great Northern were arrested
the first of the week, charged with
stealing apples from a refrigerator
a r They secured the apples while
the train was moving and we're ar
rested by Railroad Detective Fred
Yale, who found some of the apples
in their caboose. They are being
held by the sheriff at present, but as
soon as released will again be arrest
ed OF a federal charge.
Helena, Nov. 13.-Rates, rules and
regulations of the Montana Power
company and it's subsidiaries, serv.
ing "a Montana towns and cities with
electricity for lighting and power pur-
poses, will be inquired into at a hear
ing called by the public service COM
mission. A few days ago the COM
mission made an order wherein it
was set forth that it believed the
rates of the Montana Power company
and several subsidiary are
unreasonable and excessive, and gave
them 20 days in which to file other
schedules.
Glasgow, Nov. 13.-David E. Foss
is in the county Jail at this place
awaiting trial for selling cattle which
did not belong to him. He was &C.
companying a car of cattle belonging
to E. D. King, of Chinook, from St.
Paul in Glasgow. The cattle were
taken off to be fed, and Foss and an
accomplice named King began selling
them. -Four head of the stock, worth
about $50 each. were sold for $45 to
different parties in this vicinity. An
other is supposed to have been slaugh-
tered near the yards. When caught
at the depot, all the money they had
received had been spent, and they
were figuring on catching the fast
train west. Foss claims he told the
parties to whom he sold the cattle
that they did not belong to him.
Bozeman, Nov. 1.-THE trial Of
Dominic Romeo for murder in the first
degree, which has occupied the atten-
ton Of the district court here since
Monday morning, was brought to an
abrupt halt by the sudden death Of
Joseph B. Quantic, one of the jury
men.
Forsyth, Nov. 14.-Miss Gertrude
Haywood, a school teacher near Ash
land, died this morning Of heart trou-
BILE while going to her school. She
in Billings last week and took an &C
tive part. The remains were brought
to Forsyth for burial.
Malta. Nov. 14.-Bids were opened
yesterday for the Vandalia south ca
nal distributing system at the Malta
reclamation office. Schedule four of
structures went to Threet Bros. and
Jolley, Lowell, Wyoming, for $42,12O.
Earth work on schedule one, two and
three went to Tebbs, Taggart, Jurgen
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Billings, Nov. 14.-An effort is be-
ing made by an organization of a set
Element workers in Wisconsin and
Michigan to locate many of the 49,
900 strikers in the Calumet copper
district on Montana farms. Communi.
cations to that effect have been re-
ceived in Billings and it is stated that
a large number of Firms, who were
tillers of the soil in their native coun-
try, will migrate to Montana if suit
able locations can be found.
Hamilton. Nov. 14.-Sheriff See has
received a notice from the sheriff of
Blaine county Montana, which states
that the Empire Cattle company of
Chinook, Mont, offers 500 reward
for the arrest of William Brown, who
is wanted on a grand larceny charge.
Brown is charged with having sold a
big herd of cattle for the company