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er died and she was left to support
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lions have been filed in the district
court charging Harold S. Hanson and
George Kelly with robbing George
Spaulding of Butte or 500 at the
Broadwater natatorium Sept. "a, and
E. c. Cleveland of Butte of $40 at the
same time and place. Following the
filing of the informations Sprague,
who vas arrested with the alleged
holdup men who operated here fair
week, had his bail reduced, deposited
a certified check for $50 and was re.
leased.
Lewistown, Oct. 26.-John w. Smith
employed by the Great Northern as a
flagman at the joint Spring creek
bridge, fell dead in the street near his
post of duty yesterday morning. Heart
failure was the cause The decedent
was go years of age and leaves a wild.
ow and two children residing at Min
neapolis and a daughter residing in
Spokane.
Kalispell, Oct. 26.-Fire, believed to
have originated from defective cleo.
trio wires, is destroying the big fruit
sheds and cold storage plant of Sena.
tor Fred Whiteside at his beautiful
orchard home adjoining this city. The
fire is still raging, but 1t is believed
there will not be a total loss. although
the apples and other fruit and build.
ings to the value Of $4,000 are de-
stroyed.
Bozeman, Oct. 26.-Safe-crackers
broke into the freight depots of the
Northern Pacific and Milwaukee and
the Milwaukee passenger station last
night or early this morning, and met
with disappointment. They secured a
total haul of about SIS, and though
they wrecked the big vault in the
Northern Pacific office, they failed, af-
ter three shots of nitroglycerin, to
crack open the strong box inside the
safe.
Helena, Oct. I'D. W. Raymond,
secretary of the board of stock com.
missioners, has received many letters
asking If he can put the writer's into
communication with persons having
feeders for sale. Most of these in.
quirers specified a particular class of
stock they wanted, but explained if
they were not to be had, stock that
could be had would be all right. From
various parts of Montana, as we'll as
other parts of the northwest, these
letters are coming.
Red Lodge, Oct. 26.-After devoting
fifteen years to the gathering of yell
low gold from the rich placer beds of
the Yukon country in Alaska, Charles
Akin, worth half a million or more,
has returned to his old home in Red
Lodge to spend the winter. MI. Akin
and his brother have rarge placer
and property interests in the "land of
the midnight sum-" among which is
a number of rich placer claims on the
famous Sulphur creek, about IS miles
from Dawson.
Helena, Oct. 26.-Three fatal hunt
ing accidents have occurred in Mon
tana this year, according to reports re-
ceived by State Game Warden ]. L.
De Hart. More may have occurred,
but n lea Dillon, another near
Townsend and a third in the Flathead
country are all the game warden's de-
partment has been advised of. The
most recent occurred on the South
Fork of the Flathead river, when Ell
mer Wolf, a licensed guide, was mis-
taken by a member of the party for
an elk, and shot through the shoulder.
Wolf is not expected to live.
Billings, Oct. 27.-Word received
in Billings today is to the effect that
Charles Gates, commonly referred to
as Spend a Million" because of his
extravagances, is showed up in the
mountains west of Cody and may not
be able to get out for some time. Mr..
Gates is a son of the multi-millionaire
steel man and Joined the prince of
Monaco and Col William F. Cody in
! the big game hunt which was recent
ly conducted.
Great Falls, Oct. 27.-Joe Uvanni,
m~iddleweight champion of Canada
and Italy, reported to the police today
that a bag containing $2S4.70 which
included the states part of the admis.
sion fees to the boxing match Satur.
day night had been carried away by
hAo POI AK NAaCt W al IN AO
asked the police to locate Courval.
Uvanni says the states share of the
receipts was 5000 and was in the
bag. Until it is found he says Mon
tana gets nothing from the match, as
! all he had was stolen.
Butte, Oct. 27.-Acting in self.de-
Tense and preventing what appeared
to be an impending attack on his
mother and sister, John Oliver yes
terday shot and perhaps fatally
wounded his brother, William Oliver,
at the home of their mother, 215 East
Quartz street. William is at st.
James hospital with scant chance for
recovery, the bullet having lodged in
his spine. The brother, who was held
in the county jail until his brother
~exonerated him of blame, was re-
leased late last night on his W rec.