The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-07-23
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE,

SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.
M1ssoULA, July 17.-After deliber.
ating nearly ten hours the Jury
brought in q verdict of granddaughter
against Porter A. Pelkey. fixing his
sentence at three years. imprison-
ment. Pelkey shot Arthur Olson and
two other companions at. Iron Noun.
tain on April 20 last during q drunk.
en- melee, Olson dying from the effect
Of the wound the following day.
HELENA, July 16.-The hearing was
begun In the federal court today 10
the equity suit of Mary G. Flock OF
Garden City Mo-, against her six
stepchildren, through whose CONN.,
vance with two Garden City bankers,
she charges, she was induced to sign
away her interest 10 . $50, 600 Fergus
county ranch In exchange for . house
and lot In Garden City, which che
later found to be heavily indebted.
HELENA, July 17.-Grievsnces of
hog raisers of Sweet Grass county
will be aired before the Montana
railroad commission ct Big Timber
next Monday, July 81. The hog rails.
ers contend that freight rates are dis
criminatory q compared with rates
on cattle and sheep. The Northern
Pacific regulations only allow hogs to
be carried In single deck cars, and
the complainsnts allege that on &C
count of this restriction, as we'll O. to
get the tunnage into q az compared
with the tunnage n shipments of cat
and sheep, that the rates on shipments
Of hogs should be reduced.
BUTTE, July I7.-Joe Clark and Ed
DAILY, Northern Pacific section hands,
were killed near Skoues siding, seven
miles east of Butte, this morning
when . twenty.ton rock toppled down
the mountain upon them, crushing
their bodies to q pnlp.
LEw1sTowN, July H.. Assessor
Mike G~urnett's returns for this year
show how the wool growing industry
has been falling off in this county
It is not many years ago since the
returns showed half q million sheep
In the county. This year they mum.
Der about 240. 900, . decrease of ST.
600 a. compared with last season.
BUTTE, July 1s.-Fsrk Forni, age
So years, employed Is q driver and
magazine worker for the Butte Powder
company, wss fatally injured about
500 O'Clock yesterday morning about
a mile west OF Silver Bow junction,
when be vas struck by the Butte. Ana
cond q g. Pacific "paper" train while
he was driving across the tracks.
The train hit the wagon. demolishing
it and throwing Forui out on his
head. He suffered q crushed skull
and q hemorrhage Of ths brain, dying
two hours later in the Murray hospi.
tai, where he was taken for treatment.
HARLowToN. July 18.-Dennis J.
Lynch, a ranchmau living near Judith
Gap, was murdered by parties un
known, sometime this week. The body
was found in the stable by Matt Ror'
gen. A blood.soaked bride was nea,
by, and under q pile OF sacks wal
found q king pin, covered with clotted
blood and gray hairs. A crumpled
newspaper was bloody, as though thu
murderer had wiped his hands on it.
A rifle, containing an empty she'll
was found In the house, and q bulle
hole was located in the stable in di
rect range with the body.
BUTTE, July 2l.-More than 1000
harvest hands are wanted between nov
and August Is on the farms of Mon
tans. North Dakota and Minnesota
according to q notice issued by a 0
the railroads today. Montana alon'
wants 1900 men at wages varying iron
Sl.75 to o q day.
BUTTE. July 2l.-Charles Steele
father of Ralph Steele, who rau dow
and killed Mrs. Rose Amelia Levi
on the night of June 5 at the corner o
Park and Columbia streets, this after
noon was proceeded against at the in
stance of the family of Mrs. Lewis TO
the sun OF s55 900 damages aud costs
for the loss of her life.
JAMESTOWN, July al. S. Nc
Laughlin, q we'll known rancher q
Gsruiell, last evening shot and kille
Patrick Duffy. another rsncher OF this
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