The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-03-05
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

4 Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
BUTTE. Feb. ga suit for the re.
covery of s47,515 was brought today
against the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railway by A. B. Melzner as
administrs tor Of the estate of Albert
Page. 1t IL claimed that Page lost
bis life through the c~arelessness Of
OF the company by being struck by al
train while he was walking across
numerous tracks to reach his board
ing house.
HELENA, Feb. &.-Foliowing . con-
s%ideration of complaints by coal mine
operators In the Bear Greek district
that the rates charged BY the Crest
Northern for shipments from that point
into L%ewistown are excessive, the state
board of railroad commissioners TO-
day submited to the Hill lines . sched-
ule BY which the charges will be 70.
duced from 1856 to %. Is per ton.
BUTTE, Feb. 25.-More desths have
been recorded by Butte undertakers in
the last 10 days than In any previous
period since the smoke days. Tuber.
cular pneumonia contributes largely
to the total. There were 20 bodies
awaiting burial in Butte last night.
According to . local undertaken there
have been more deaths in the last two
weeks than for any other period in re-
cent years.
GREAT FALLS, Feb. 25.-while
Deputy Sheriff Henry Hayes of Lewis
and Clark county, here on Official bust
ness, was occupying . room in q 1odg.
ing house, he was awakened BY .
burglar, who was making q cleanup.
Hayes jumped from his bed, and. pull
ing on his trousers, chased the fellow
into the street, where he arrested him
aud turned him over to the police.
He gave the name Of Charles Bertz
and 10 held under q charge of burg.
larry.
BUTTE, Feb. 25.-Tunnel No. 10 on
the Great Northern seems to be
hoodooed. A number of suits for
damages have been brought by work.
men who have been injured ct one
time or another in that tunnel during
the course of construction or repair
work, and yesterday another action
VA brought by Peter Bueuch against
the Bates 4 Rogers Construction COM
pany, who were In charge Of the tun.
mel work. Bueuch says he was sent
after . sack of cement and the stack OF
bags rolled down on him and injured
him, for which he blsmes the con.
%struction company and demands $40,
$50 damages.
LIVINGSTON, Feb. 25.-J. r. Break
narrowly escaped death last night
when q pack of wolves pursued him
while he was IN his way to his home,
two miles east of town. BY lighting
matches and shouting the man kept
the angry pack of until he arrived
near his home, and his wife, hearing
his calls for help, brought him q gun
with which the wolves we're driven
away. Break works in the Northern
Pacific shops. The wolves appeared
to him like dogs until they we're near.
ly onto him. This ia the first attack
by wolves Is this vicinity in recent
years.
GREAT FALLS, Feb. 26.-The feder-l
81 grand jury, which has been in ses-
sion here for . week, has returned
eleven indictments and ia still con-
sidering b number Of cases. T. Toda,
Japanese employe Of the Nor.
thern Paoi6c, ri indicted on six
counts and 10 charged with the theft
OF . mail package containing . large
cum st Garrison.
LEw1sTowN, Feb. 26.-The Fergus
County Fair association will not un.
dertake the management of any more
fairs or ace meets, but will endesvor
to have such enterprises taken csre OF
In the future BY other parties or or:
g~anizations. The association has
had singular bad luck In recent years
its fairs having been . complete fail
ure four seasons because of weather
conditions, while II has accumulated
IN indebtedness of some Oh, 200.
BUTTE, Feb. 26.-Thst an innocent
mar might b released from jail, s.
J. Bonner yesterday entered . plea of
guilty before Judge Donlsn to the
charge of attempted robbery and was
sentenced to q term of six months in
she state ~penitentiary. Thomas Cole.
man, friend Of Bonner, was released
by an order OF Judge Donlan at the
request OF Chief Deputy County Attor.