The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-11-12
MONTANA NEWS BRlEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the state.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the state. +,
Butte. Nov. 4.-Federal Judge Geo.
N. Bourquin today impaneled a
grand jury to investigate among other
alleged violations of the United States
statutes, a number of white slave
cases. There are about 100 cases Of
various kinds for investigation by the
federal inquisitors. !
Livingston, Nov. 4.-One of the bold ,
est robberies which ever took place
In the city occurred yesterday after
noon. when John Ross and G. b. Rick
man, formerly a jeweler Of this city, !
took a number of rolls of wrapping
paper and paper bags from a North
ern Pacific al while the men loading
the goods for the Lindsay company
had gone into the warehouse for an
other load. Other teamsters were
loading and unloading goods on all
sides of the a when the men car
ried away the goods.
Dillon, Nov. 4.-Stock Inspector
Frank Nelson reports that 1880 head
Of cattle were shipped out of the coun.
ty this month to other states and that
1000 were shipped to Butte and Ana
conda making a total sale and ship
ment Of $3.50 cattle from Beaverhead
county during October. The most Of
the stuff was beef steers. Three hun
dred and thirty horses were shipped
from Beaverhead points during the
month.
Butte, Nov. 4.-Making his escape
from the custody of an Oregon Short
Line train at Apex, lei Dillon, early
Monday morning by daringly leaping
through a a window al the train was
running at the rate of forty miles an
hour, a Mexican wanted in Livingston
for a jewelry robbery is being pur-
sued by several posses in the sur
rounding hills tonight. The fu%gitive's
name is unknown. There is deep
snow in the mountains, and If the fu-
gitive seeks safety in the recesses of
the snowcovered gulches starvation
and exhaustion from exposure await
him.
Helena, Nov. 4.-According to fig
ures given out today, the new rates
for Helena on electric lighting mean
a total reduction to consumers Of this
city Of $4,000 annually. The state
utilities commission, which heard the
case some months ago, handed down
the new schedules today. The new
rates it is asserted, give Helena the
cheapest electricity OF any city in the
state. The Billings rates, that are
considered low, are much higher be-
cause of a 81 minimum there, which
affects most of the consumers.
Anaconda, Nov. 5.-Retrenchment,
drastic but necessary, will be proposed
to the city council by Mayor Ed.
O'Brien, based upon the report Of the
state examiners, who recently audited
the city books. The report of these
authorities is to the effect that Ana
conda is exceeding the income of the
city by $4,000 yearly in the expendi.
lures.
Helena, Nov. Ex-Governor Stewart
in answer to a telegram from Moy
Back Hin, Chinese consul for Oregon,
Idaho and Montana, announced his in
tention of taking immediate steps to
investigate the attack on a number of
Chinese residents at Havre a few days
ago. The governor has taken up the
matter with County Attorney Victor
R. Griggs, and declares in his reply
to the consul that every possible step
will be taken to see that the guilty
parties are brought to justice.
Helena, Nov. 5.-Governor Stewart
yesterday honored the request of the
governor of Wyoming for the arrest
of Joseph Brennan in Butte, who is
wanted in the neighboring state on a
charge of embezzling $500 last Janu.
airy. He was financial secretary of
the local 1856 United Mine Workers,
and fed to Butte, after the alleged
crime was committed. Within a few
minutes after Governor Stewart honor
ed the papers. Mrs. Brennan and her
two children entered the executive Of
fees, and pleaded with the governor
not to grant the papers.
Butte, Nov. .5-After asking Sheriff
Ia A0NOAA w ~ ~ O0t 641OOL ll111
or choose any other means to kill him,
Joseph Esper, the ~60.year-old Arabian
who attempted to take the life of 49,
year-old Nora Ferris, tried to kill him.
self by eating matches. Esper was
given matches by the jailers and then
secured as many more as possible
from the prisoners in his corridor. He
ate the heads of a score of matches
and then chewed and swallowed a bar
of soap. Esper was in great distress
when fellow-prisoners found him
writhing on the floor.
Billings, Nov. 5.-F'ailure of a slot
machine to pay two chips in trade,
won by John Miller, a local merchant,
has enlisted the offices of Attorney
General Kelly against this form of
gambling and may result in banishing
1t from Billings. So incensed was Mil