The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-11-05

were IOund guilty and fined 500 each.
The convictions were obtained
through evidence furnished by two
speclal detectives, who testified that
they were employed during September
by Mayor N. T. Lease and County At
torney Melgs to ferret cut gambling
evidence. The mayor used his own
FUNDS to pay for the services of these
men.
Billings, Nov. IA gift of S1O,O 900
to the Parmly Billings memorial H.
orary, was made in the will Of tile late
frederlck Billings, Jr.. has been Toy.
mally accepted by the library trustees
n will be invested in Billings real
estate. By the terms of the will only
the income is to be devoted to tie
maintenance of the library, which
Frederick Billings erected as a me.
mortal to his elder brother.
Butte, Nov. 1.-William Harris, for.
merly a member of the Butte police
force n Fred Nichols, arrested and
charged jointly with the crime of
highway robbery, entered pleas of
guilty when arraigned yesterday be-
fore Judge Donlan. They had little to
say In excuse of their actions, but
Harris declared his penitence and
said he was intoxicated when he took
part In the crime, and was not con-
scious of what he was doing. Judge
Donlan sentenced each of the pair to
the penitentiary for n year.
L~ewistown, Nov. 1.-The chamber
of commerce has now made all the
preliminary arrangements for bring
ing the Holden better farming cam
paign to Fergus county some time
during the winter. The party is head
ed by Professor P. S. Holedn, a IA
nous agricultural authority, and all
the lecturers are men of very high
standing. The parry was organized by
the International Harvester, which is
spending a million in the work of ed
ucating the farmers along lines that
will bring them better results.
Helena, Nov. six informations
were filed in the district court today
against Mark Good, charging him
with forging the endorsements on as
many different checks made out by
the secretary of the state board of
stock commissioners in payment of
estray claims. Among the m of
the witnesses endorsed on the infor-
nations, besides those of Helena
bankers and employees, are Gov. s. v.
Stewart, George E. Hurd, special pros
ecutor of the entertainments from the
office of the secretary Of stock board,
and S. W. Langhorne Jr., who served
a term for a similar offense.
Helena, Nov. LIN an effort to
have the federal government bear the
burden of taking care during the win |
ter of the Cree and Chippewa Indians,
M. l.. Hickman, secretary of the bu-
real of child and animal protection, |
wrote to Montana's representatives in !
congress today, requesting their CO.
operation and assistance. Hill county |
last winter, expended 5000 on food and
provisions for the Crees to keep the /
children from starving to death. That
county feels the burden does not prop
erly belong on it's taxpayers and is
getting tired of being saddled with it.
Butte, Nov. 3.-Henry Bennett,
cashier of the Silver Bow National
bank and o of A. j. Bennett of Vir-
ginia City, Mont, a pioneer Montana
banker, jumped from the third story
window of a local hospital Sunday
morning, while in a delirium incident
to a high fever, and was dashed to
death on the pavement below. Ben.
nett had been in the hospital for five
days suffering from a heart attack.
Butte, Nov. 3.-Francis Caldwell,
son of David Caldwell, a miner, living
In Walkerville, is at deaths door with
a bullet wound through his back and
lungs, received when Marshal John |
Grogan, in an effort to scare a crowd
Of boys last night, discharged his re-
volver. The bullet detected and
struck young Caldwell, who was on
his way home. The dying lad was
not a member of the gang playing
Halloween pranks.
Great Falls, Nov. 3.-Charles E.
Bolster, % years old, whose mother
resides at Toronto, Canada, lies
at Columbus hospital at the point of
death as the result of a revolver shot
he fired into his breast in Hotel Rain
bow. Bolster came here recently and
had secured employment with Lind
say Fruit company. Last night he
went to his room, destroyed all letters
and other Of Identification, then
bought a revolver went to the hotel
into a room adjoining the lobby, and
fired the shot. Dependency over
debts due to dissipation, he told at
tendanes at the hospital, caused his
act.
Great Falls, Nov. 3.-With nothing
but a Boise, Idaho, trade mark in a hat
on which to work Sheriff Kommers
and Coroner Irwin are bending every
effort to solve what is believed to be
a murder mystery revealed by the dis
covery of the body of a modishly
dressed man in a Draw about six