The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-07-09
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

| ELI A, july I.-0OVoC0OT .. v.
Stewart left this morning with Dr.. w.
J.. Butler for the Frontier Day cele.
bration at Miles City July 4. upon
which occasion the governor, attired
In cowboy costume, will lead the
mounted procession, composed of cow
girls, cowboys, riders and Indians
from all parts of the country.
GREAT FALLS, July AS the re.
suit OF a fake prize fight held In Mel
hart Sunday night, James Pappas, q
Greek. 10 in the county jsil at this
place and the officers are searching
the hills about Neihars for another
Greek, while Ben Stsrnum is under Q
ply sician's care with . bullet hole in
his shoulder.
HELENA, July "a verdict for the
defendant was returned today In the
district court In the suit of r. F. Mo.
Lsren against Fred Whiteside. OF Kali
ispell. McLAren contracted to buy Q
tract Of land In the Sunny Slope or.
chard, the defendant to plant and care
for the trees for . period OF years.
The plaintiff declared the defendant
had not cared for the tract, had not
pruned the trees and wa ~nsglectful in
other ways.
HELENA, July 2. - Twenty. three
counties were represented At the confer.
held here today by State Super.
intendent of Public Instruction 81. A..
Dsvee with the county superintend-
ents. There wss . general discussion
of school problems, and the sugges.
ton vas advanced that much better
schools would be secured II arrange
ments we're made to. hold q TRUSTEES
day. At the county fairs, for the con.
Of problems of ell kinds
and to hold also q trustees oonven-
ton.
HELENA, July "A year and adsy
M. Ross will have In Lesvenworth
p%enitentiary to ponder upon bis
bringing under promise of marriage
rom WATERFOWL, S. D., to Miles
City, Ruth Hallen, an l8-yesr.old
girl, and then failing to keep his pro.
He was also fined $3.50 and
costs. Hallen explained to Judge
before whom he pleaded
today. that he did not marry
he girl because she vac going around
With other men.
GLEND1vE, July 2.-F. ]. Olson,
OF a moving picture show
q this city, was arrested today by the
under the complaint issued
rom the county ATTORNEYS Office
him with exhibiting animal
ed pictures of q scene depicting the
crime of murder, also assault In the
degree. He was released under
$3.50 bond pending = trial, the date Of
has rot been fixed. This is the
first instance in this city or in so far
b kuowp, Montana, for the arrest of
D moving picture operator for the of.
alleged.
GREAT FALLS, July 4.-Although
the old rusty rife barrel with which
be was playing vas stockless, trigger.
less and hammerless, the weapon
proved dearly to l3 .year.old Paul
Ujcheck At Belt, and when q cartridge
he had inserted in the breech
exploded, the bullet entered his heart,
death.
HELENA, July 4~,-Alleging that he
has been loaded by escaping fumes
from the east Helena smelter, Peter
aolmberg, an employee of the Ameri.
can Smelling & Refining company,
yesterday instituted q suit In the dis.
trict court against the company for
$40, 900. He alleges his health has
been permanently injured.
GLEND1vE, July Awhile engaged
In digging a we'll on his homestead,
ten miles north of Sidney, Nels N.
Rudl, aged Is years. was overcome by
gas and died before he could be
brought to the surface, He was being
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