The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-11-12
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened In Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days

What Has Happened In Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days
Anaconda, Nov. 5.-An ATTEMPT was
made last night to hold up and rob
Justice of the Peace Thomas Boland.
Although the holdup man struck the
justice twice I've the head with a
! piece of loaded hose, Mr.. Boland was
not knocked unconscious, and called
Justify for help. Mrs. Cosgrove. land.
lady of the block, rushed to his assist
ance and the intruder fed, dropping
his lantern.
Butte, Nov. 6.-Sidney Roberts, a re.
ligious worker, Sunday school teacher
and cornet player in a religious street
organization, is in the city Jail tonight
positively identified by John Coombs,
an old time miner, as the man who
robbed him Of $500 on the night of DC.
tober Is, according to the police. Rob.
erts, it is alleged by the police, left
prayer meeting to hold UP Coombs.
Livingston, Nov. 6.-Burglars this
morning broke into Otto Lenk's sa.
loon on South Main street and blew
open the safe securing about $500.
While the work was being done, ].
Schuman passed on his way home and
was held there with a revolver stuck
in his face until the job was finished
and the three burglars al into the
alley. He then called the police and
| although four were on hand within 10
| minutes no trace of the men has been
found.
Helena, Nov. 6.-Drastic action was
| taken by the state board of health
today to secure the enforcement of
it's orders to the. superintendent of
| schools in Great Falls, Hamilton and
Bridger, to require pupils to present
| certificates of successful vaccination
before being admitted to their classes.
Prosecution Of superintendent, teach
ers and members of school boards is
directed, as we'll as the closing of the
schools.
Helena, Nov. 5.-One of the old.time
prominent merchants Of the city and
state, David A. Cory, of this city, died
at his home suddenly this morning.
Mr.. Cory was one of the first travel
ing men in Montana. Later he became
a member of the old firm of Bach
Cory & Co., which had houses in a
number of Montana cities. He was a
member of the first state legislature
and also served as county commits
sioner of this county. He had not
been in good health for several years,
and had retired from active business.
Helena, Nov. 6.-There is a POSSIBLE
ity that John Sullivan, whose body
was found near the Great Northern
station yesterday, was the victim of
foul play and not of an accident. 1t
has been found that Sullivan sustain
ed two bruises on the head, but his
hat was on his head, and it showed
no marks. The body a found in a
clump of bushes, Is feet from the
spot where he was supposed to have
fallen from the embankment. The be-
lief of the officers is that he was kill
ed and his body placed in the bushes
by the murderers.
Billings, Nov. 1.-THE unusual pre-.
,alence of scarlet fever in Billings
during the Past month has called the
attention of the health authorities to
the danger of communicable diseases
being carried by cats and DR.. Z. G.
Balsam, city health officer, declares
they should be licensed and all the
strays killed off without further de.
lay.
Kalispell, Nov. 7.-Frank Thomp-
son, who was being held on a burg.
larry charge, made his escape from the
county Jail by saving off two bars
IN the window at the east end of the
corridor. Three or four other prison.
ers in the corridor, but made no
attempt to escape. Thompson made
the break sometime last evening and
his absence was not noticed until
morning.
Butte. Nov. 7.-Former Senator w.
A. Clark tonight announced that he
was heartily in favor of the proposal
for a monument in the state capitol
grounds in memory Of Senator Thos.
II. Carter, and that he furnish free OF
CIliA sc, uu IHc copper anu OTOuZc
needed to cast the statue; and that
he would have it cast without cost
in his bronze foundry at Bonnard, N,
]. Old timers in Butte this afternoon
announced their willingness to pledge
close to $500 toward the memorial.
Butte, Nov. Fired Z. Willard
has been found guilty of murder in
the second degree in connection with
the murder of Harry Shipper, a well
known pioneer, who was killed during
a holdup last April, and his punish
ment was fixed by the jury at thirty
years in the penitentiary. Willard
swore he was drunk the night of the
killing, and the jury thought in con
sequence of the whiskey drunk and
the small calibre of the gun used (22
caliber) that the killing could not
have been premeditated. Homer Gen
netti, an alleged accomplish, turned
states evidence, and the case against