The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-03-05
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROn
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.
BILLINGS. Feb. 27.-Mrs. 3. Heger
mar dropped dead In the street Il
Columbus, Mont, % her husband va
being taken to jail on . charge o
forgery. Hegermsn claims that b.
formerly va . cashier of q bank /,
Fargo. N. D.
LEw1sTowN, Feb. 27.-O6cers an,
detectives engaged upon the mysser
ious disappearance Of Clinton Green
the 6ve.yesr-old con OF Mrs. Vireini.
Green, from Main street last Friday
are working on . kidnapping theory
that SCENE to them worth following
up. The, father, . livestock iuspec'
tor, reached here today from Big
Sandy.
HELENA, Feb. 27.-Charles Froh.
ner, . resident Of this city for many
years, and . we'll known mining man,
vas killed yesterday afternoon, in the
bottom Of IN ore chute % . result of
. $50 foot fall, from On uprise in the
Wickes-Corbin mine, according to
news received last evening.
LEw1sTowN, February 27.-Depusy
Stock Inspector BiRlen and other
officers today located the nineteen
head of horses driven into this section
from Blaine county last week by Har.
~ Asher of Chinook. They drove the
band into this city last evening and
will now undertake to determine IL the
animals were stolen by Asher or
whether he vas really employed to
drive them to Forest Grove as he
claims. Asher 10 nov in jail at Chi
nook. 1t took q search of several
days TO locate the animals.
BOHEMIAN, Feb. 27.-Frank Collins
was convicted of the charge of carry.
ing concealed weapons, in the district
court, yesterday, and was sentenced
by Judge Law to serve ten months in
the state p~enitentisry. Collins shot
W. P. Robinson in the arm . few weeks
ago, when the two men were quarreliu9
in q saloon.
LEw1sTowN, Feb. 26.-Willism
Munger has brought suit against the
Land company to recover
$50, 646 damages alleged to have re-
suited from the defendants actions in
TO Leper and Carl over 5000
acres of the compsny's tract of Is, 800
which he claims be had q contr act to
sell.
Hell ENA, Feb. Feb. 25.-H. N.
supervising engineer of the
United States reclamation service, has
left for w %ashington D. c., to develop
policies in connection with the O
struction of irrigation work on the
Sun river project and the Milk river
project, including the St. Mary's
storage feature. Mr.. Savage will
visit the plants of steam shovel manu-
featuring companies in connection
with the use Of electric power sbovels
On the Sun river project.
GREAT FALLS, Feb. 28.-W. S.
Scott, a manufacturer and vendor O
. patent medicine, who was arrested
months ago, charged with
practising medicine without q license
the state board of medical ex-
aminers, following the death of Ira
B arkley, whom Scott had been treat
ing for dropsy, today was sentenced
by Judge Ewing to 80 days ia the
county Jail after having been found
by a jury. Scott was operat-
ing under the name of the Winfield
Scott Medicine company. 1t was not
SCOTS treatment OF Barkley that had
fastened the %la.ter's death and this
case was only considered as one of the
many tire ated by the defendant.
DEER LODGE, March 1.-"Wait a
AhAa"NS ~ l. SCt AIS L oulg SllOul. |
ed John Boyer when called by Mr.. and
Mrs. Hendrickson, with whom he was
rOoming, to come out of the room
shortly after the mau entered to re-
tire. Boyer was overcome, dragged
out unconscious and died early this
morning.
HELENA, March 1.-The quarantine
which was placed against horses from
Kansas and Nebraska, which was put
into effect by the Montana livestock
board las. September, has been raised
in a proclamation issued by Governor
Stewart. 1t was supposed when the
ban vas put on that the horses in the
two states were suffering from an in
fictitious disease. 1t has been found
they were suffering from forage pois.
oning.
HELENA, Mach 1T. T. Maronav