The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-02-05
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.

What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.
LIVINGSTON, Jan. 31.-Three blood
hounds tracked . convict named 10,
Shilton. who escaped from q roat
camp three miles south of here las
night, to the local railroad yards
then lost all track. Later one dor
disappeared and the guards in pur
suit believe Shilton killed the animal
It 10 thought the convict escaped on ,
train.
BUTTE, Jan. 31.-Actions pending
against 50 residents of Silver Bow
county we're dismissed yesterday b.
Judge Donlsn on . motion from Coun,
ty Attorney J.. j.. McCsfery. The
county attorney claims that In the ma.
jority OF cases there is not enough evi.
dence to make conviction possible,
Some of the men dismissed upon old
charges are now In the state peniten.
tiary.
BIG TIMBER, Jan. 3l.-word has
been received from the northern part
of the county of the sudden death OF
John Dunn, an aged man living with
his wife and several children on q
ranch about eight miles east of Mel
Vile. Mr.. Dunn and wife were driv.
ing to Harlowton, when the reins fell
from his hands and he fell backward
over the seat into the box OF the light
wagon. Death must have been in
Simultaneous.
HELENA. Feb. 1.-The judgment oh.
tanned by Peter Marion against the
Great Northern railway company for
damages to property from fires start.
ed by the railroad along its Plenty.
wood branch in Valley county, was
affirmed by the supreme court today
in q decision by Chief Justice Brantly.
M1ssOULA, Feb. 1.-The body of an
unknown man discovered on Six Mile
creek below Huson yesterday was
brought to Missouls today. From the
clothing the body has been partially
identified 90 that of Levite Albert, a
young man we'll known in the French.
town valley. He was arrested
at St. Regis last November for
horse stealing, but escaped from an
officer and has not been heard from
since that time.
BUTTE, Feb. 1.-Delirious from the
suffering Of frozen feet, John E.
Smith, an Indian fighter and q pros
pector in Montana since 1862, died
yesterda y morning at the county hos.
pital, where he was removed by
sherif's officers two weeks ago.
Smith was found by prospectors in the
hills above. The 70-year-old pioneer
started out to spend the night with q
fellow ]prospector two miles distant.
He was lost In the hills, but walked
all night to keep from freezing TO
death. Both legs we're frozen to the
krees.
BILLINGS, Feb. lie. Club Fuller,
aged 48 years, committed suicide in
his room In q local hotel about 3
o'clock this morning, by taking q
large dose of strychnine. His groans
we're heard and the door was broken
open. Fuller expired within one
minute afterwards. He came to Bill.
lings about one month ago as repre-
sentative OF 9 st. Paul printing house,
ran out OF money and became des.
pondent. He announced q few days
ago that II something did not turn up
to improve his future, he would com.
nit suicide.
BUTTE, Feb. 3.-Five engineering
parties have left here to survey q Mil.
waukee cutoff from Great Falls to
Missoula. Work, 1t is semi-ofcially
stated, will begin THE spring, If q
feasible right of way is secured.
HELENA, Feb. 3.-The electrical
pumping station for the first unit of
the Prickly Pear Irrigation project at
Helena, was started on Saturday and
the water turned into the bitches. The
machinery performed perfectly and to
the entire satisfaction Of the engineers
having the equipment in charge. This
is the largest pumping project ever un-
dertaken in the country. and it's sue
cessful operation marks the beginning
of q new era in irrigation. The entire
construction, including twenty-six
miles of main bitches, fumes, intakes,
pumping plants and distributing sys.
tenn, was completed within seven
months from the time the work was
started.