The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-12-17
MONTANA DRIEFLETS.
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
Missoula, Dec: Ito. P. jackson.
a resident of Missoula for over 80
years died Of heart trouble last night
at the family home. Mr.. Jackson
was about town yesterday and COM
planned OF a shortness of breath, He
was advised to go home and rest. He
was seated in a chair shortly after
midnight when he suddenly pitched
forward. He was dead before medi-
cal aid could reach him.
K~alispell, Dec. 1.-THE jury in the
case Of j. c. Alexander, executor of
the estate of j. P. Hall versus the
Great Northern railway, found in fav-
or of the plaintiff for $4,000, of which
sum the widow is to receive Sc, 900,
and the balance to be divided among
the children. Hall who was a con.
ductor or the Marion branch of the
Great Northern railroad, was killed in
a wreck on October II, 1911, caused
by cattle straying upon the tracks.
Miles City, Dec. 11.-Charles Whit.
ney who was tried in the district
court on the charge of horse stealing
and found guilty was sentenced yes.
terday by Judge Hurley to three years
at Deer Lodge. One of the features
of the trial was the bringing of a
prisoner already sentenced to Deer
Lodge, A. H. Young, all the way to
Miles City to give testimony, which
was against his former pal.
Billings, Dec. 11.-With the Judging
of corn and the bestowal of prizes in
the boys and girls contest, the work
of making awards in the first annual
pure seed exposition OF the Montana
Seed Growers ASSOCIATION was COM
pleted today. The corn samples main
tanned. the high standard of yester-
days prize winners. There were 200
contestants in the children's contest
and the quality of the corn excelled
that of any heretofore exhibited.
L%ewistown, Dec. 11.-Beginning
with Jan. l, the Lewistown.Butte
train on the Great Northern will be
officially designated as 1.-THE Judith
Basin Special" Notification of this
choice was received yesterday from
Vice-president Kenney, who some
time ago wrote to John D. Waite and
J.. E. Lane, asking them to give sug.
gestions for a name. Although Meth.
er man knew the other had been writ
ten, their suggestions were identical
and their joint choice was immediate
ly adopted.
Butte, Dec. 11.-Winnifred Rhoads,
former postmistress at Rhoads, Mont,
charged with embezzlfng $500 of gov
eminent funds, pleaded guilty to that
charge in the federal court and was
released by Judge G. M. Bourquin on
her own recOgnizance TO appear in
Billings for sentence. She was
brought to Butte, arraigned in the fed
eral court, and a day later became
a mother at a local hospital, where
she vas hurriedly taken from Jail by
the United States marshal, and she
had been there ever since.
Billings, Dec. ia campaign for
statewide prohibition is to follow on
the heels of the suffrage agitation in
the event Montana women are given
the ballot next fall, according to Mrs.
Ada Wallace Unruh, national lecturer
for the w. c. T. u, who filled an en-
gagement in Billings while on a tour
of eastern Montana.
Butte, Dec. IAN order was made
by Judge Bourquin this morning for.
feiting to the United States three gal.
Ions of whiskey, a gray gelding, one
set of harness and a buggy, taken
from AL NORM On the Flathead res.
ervation when arrested for selling
whiskey. NORM has since pleaded
guilty and was sent to jail for 100
days. 1t was also ordered that the
property be sold at public auction by
the United States marshal.
Helena, Dec. 12.-Valley county Of
ficials must adjust their W differ.
ences and fight their own fights un.
aided by the machinery of the state
government. This was in effect what
Attorney General D. M. Kelly inform
ed James Fox, assessor Of Valley
county, who came to Helena to enlist
the aid of the states legal depart
ment to compel the board of county
commissioners to move his office back
into the court house. Fox claims the
county records n in jeopardy in the
quarters assigned him by the board.
Malta, Dec. 12.-Malta's police force
Louis Dubois, was tried Monday in
Judge RAIDERS court on the charge of
gambling, and was bound over to the
district court under $500 bond. He
was sitting in a quiet game of smear"
recently and was pinched for failing to
observe Malta's high standard of Of
fetal integrity. To add to Louis
troubles. the city council at its reg
ular meeting separated him from his
municipal pay check and appointed
| Robert Mclean to un0old the dipnifx