The river press., 1913-12-03
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items |
From Various Parts Of the state.

Butte, Nov. 25.-That a we'll organ
lied gang Of mail thieves has been
operating In Butte for some time. and
that they may have secured consider
able money and valuaDles from mail
pouches arriving at and being sent
from the Northern Pacific depot was
developed by the authorities today
when two more rifled bags were
found.
Billings, Nov. 25.-Wearing small
squares of the cuticle of twelve
friends who submitted to a skin graft
ing operation in the hope of saving
his life, Eric Freistad, injured in an
explosion of kerosene, is slowly re-
covering after lowering for weeks on
the brink of death. His legs from the
knee down were frightfully burned.
Great Falls, Nov. 25.-When Chief
Pontet told ]. w. Brown, alias +. A.
Thompson that he was wanted on q
charge of forgery, Brown slammed
the chief on the mouth so hard that
the official went down for the count,
but he came back with a gun in his
hand. firing into the air. AS a result
Brown was soon nabbed by others,
who ran after him, and is now in
jail.
Helena, Nov. 25.-Petition for the
disbarment Of Joseph ]. McCaffery,
county attorney Of Silver Bow, on the
grounds that he settled a personal in.
jury suit for $1,750, and then repre-
sented to his client the settlement
was only for about $500, was filed in
the supreme court today by Louis
Gotsis of Butte. He asks that the at
torney general of Montana be request
ed to prosecute the action.
Billings, Nov. 25.-Six hundred
thousand acres of rich agricultural
and grazing land in southeastern Mon
tana has been designated by the in.
terror department as subject to entry
under the enlarged homestead act of
February 10, 1909. The order be-
comes effective December 8. 1t will
mean the opening to settlement 1000
quarter-section homesteads in Yellow
stone, Carbon, Saltwater, Sweetgrass
and Musselshell counties.
Kalispell, Nov. 25.-This city came
into virtual possession OF the water
plant today, when check was drawn
on the city treasury for $4,000 pay.
able to the Northern Idaho and Mon.
tana Power company. Actual possess
sion Of that plant will be made next
Monday, December 1st and it will be
operated under the direction of q
municipal commission. Water bonds,
duly signed, were transferred to the
Byllesby concern on receipt of check
for $178,645.84, face value Of bonds
and interest to December l.
Helena, Nov. 25.-The state admin
istration today effected settlement
with the United States Fidelity and
Guarantee company OF Baltimore, by
which the latter agrees to make full
settlement for the shortage arising
from the defalcation of former
treasurer of Gallatin county, amount
ing, with interest, to $24,720, and as
a result, the bonds of that company
for state officials, which have been
held up will be accepted. The state
officials had refused to accept bonds |
of that company in view of litigation
which was pending growing out of the |
dispute as to the liability of the bond |
ing company.
Butte, Nov. 27-Four men were ar
rested by the sherifrs office and are
held as suspects in connection with |
the recent theft of mail sacks. Two
of the men. w. w. Jennings and John |
were taken into custody at |
where it is said, they were |
found selling cheap jewelry, and the |
other two were arrested in Butte.
Glasgow, Nov. 27.-J. w. Sullivan,
who gave his address as Memphis,
Tenn, was picked up In the railroad |
yards here last evening, minus an arm
and a leg. About an hour before a
train was being made up Sullivan
was seen hanging on the side Of a
boxcar. He was told by brakeman
to get off, but paid no attention to
the trainman. It is thought he was
caught between two cars and thrown
under the train. He lived for several
hours.
Glasgow, Nov. 27.-Mrs. Laura
Oaks. the twenty-year-old wife of Os-
car Oaks, an emplaye OF the Great
Northern railroad, who was so badly
burned yesterday morning, died at
.wo o'clock at the Deaconess hospital.
Mrs. Oaks was asleep in a chair by
The stove from which her clothing
caught fire. She ran out of doors and
before assistance reached her, she
vas so badly burned chat she died
rom the effects.
Helena, Nov. 27.-The state su-
'reme court has decided that mineral
ands reserved by the Northern Pa
'ific are taxable, just as are other
similar lands in the state. Attorney
General Kelly recently gave an opin-
on that these lands were taxable, as
he court now holds, when the North
'rn Pacific Railroad company brought
init against Park ~o,,pt1, ~ %ooA <L,