The river press., 1913-12-24
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short items
From Various Parts Of the State.

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the state.
Livingston, Dec. 1s.-The First
State Bank building, owned by the |
bank, of which w. G. Conrad is presi- |
dent, located on the corner of Main
and Calender streets, was destroyed (,
by fire this morning at loss of about !
one hundred and fifty thousand dol !
lars. The fire presuahly started from
spontaneous combustion.
Helena, Dec. 16.-Albert Huntley
and Joseph LaRock, the former 10
years of age and the latter 21, both
former students of the Fort Shaw In
dian school. pleaded guilty today to
grand larceny and were sentenced
to terms of one year each in the PEN
Tertiary. They stole two saddles
from John Lutro of Craig, and on
their fight stole horses belonging to
Rocky Boys band of Indians. Though
still in his teens. Huntley has already
served one term in the penitentiary.
and is wanted in Cascade county.
Helena, Dec. 16.-Should the state
lose a suit brought by the Republic
Coal company to recover from the
county treasurer of Musselshell county
money paid in as taxes on its net
proceeds, the effect would be to null
lily the net proceeds clause of the
state constitution. Attorney General
D. M. Kelly is assisting in the repre-
sensation of the states case and to-
day forwarded a demurrer to the COM
pany's complaint. Incidentally this is
the third impartant tax case to come
up under the present administration.
Malta, Dec. 16.-The Riverside
creamery at Malta which started op-
Grating last March has been a very
successful venture Of the public spir-
tied Malta citizens. The company
has been paying fancy prices to en-
courage the farmers to bring in
cream. The only serious difficulty
encountered thus far has been short
ages of cream due to the fact that
there are not enough milk cows in
the country.
Bozeman, Dec. 16.-Charles Ance-
ney who attended the international
livestock show at Chicago as repre-
sentative of the Montana firm of pure
bred stock growers, Child, Anceney
& Summers, made the largest pur-
chase of pure bred stock ever made
by one firm at the big international
show. He bought for Montana some
Of the finest Shorthorn animals in the
world. His purchases were II Short
horns, including five bulls; four
Percheron mares and one Percheron
stallion.
Bozeman, Dec. 16.-The jury that
heard the evidence in the suit of j.
E. Martin against the Gallatin Valley
Railway company, a Milwaukee
branch, for $3.50 damages for the
death of favorite Scotch collie shep-
herd dog, returned judgment of $50
in favor of the plaintiff. The Mil
waukee company expects to appeal.
The jury struck off the 5000 exem-
plary damages which were sought by
Mr.. Martin. The dog was run over
by an electric car on the Bozeman-
Salesville line June 9, 1918.
Billings, Dec. 17.-Because he pur-
sued and shot the man who held him
up, Otto Mason, a negro, was convict
ed In the district court of second de-
gree assault and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary. Manuel
Brown, the Mexican holdup, pleaded
guilty to robbery and also sentenced
to one year, but sentence in his case
was suspended.
Havre, Dec. 1.-Two robbers, each
about feet inches in height, their
faces covered with black masks, en-
tered the Montana hotel bar at 5
o'clock this morning and held up the
three employees who were on duty, to-
gether with several customers. While
one robber covered with gun the
several men inside, the other went
through the cash register, extracting
therefrom $270, but overlooking $3.50
that lay near the register.
\ Billings, Dec. 17.-Mrs. Ida Petroff,
who was recently severely burned by
an explosion of kerosene while start
ing fire, died yesterday at St. Vim
cents hospital and her five children
are homeless. They will become the
charges of the state. Mrs. Petrcff
had worked at all forms of mannul
labor in order to keep her little fam
lily together and the children in school
and the publicity given her accident
brought generous response from the
community.
Butte, Dec. 17.-William Fitz gerald
a mining engineer from Helena, who
is said to have been travelling pretty
lively pace about the city for the past
two weeks, appearded before Judge
Donlan this afternoon and pleaded
guilty to charge of grand larceny
and was sentenced to two and a half
years in the state penitentiary. Fitz-
gerald passed worthless checks on
saloonkeepers on West Broadway. the