The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-11
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE

49,.
What Has Happened In Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days
Helena, Feb. 5.-Henry Collins, con.
victed three times of horse stealing
was again convicted by a jury in the
district court here and will be sen.
fenced Saturday. Collins stole a
horse from George Johnson in the
northern part of this county, and then
fled owe into Canada, where he was
nabbed by the mounted police and re.
turned.
Billings, Feb. 5.-This region got
it's first taste of real winter weather
tonight, when the temperature fell
from 1S above in the afternoon, to "a
below at 10 o'clock tonight. This is
five degrees colder than the lowest
record last winter. Train service has
been almost demoralized by the in
tense cold and trains are running two
to four hours late.
Helena, Jan. SIN the short space
of three years. more than thirteen
million acres of public and Indian
land were entered upon in Montana,
according to a compilation made by
the bureau of agriculture and publ
city based upon reports of the gener.
al land Office. OF the total acreage
over eleven million acres we're en-
braced in original homestead entries.
These figures give some idea of the
tremendous rush there has been to
the state.
Butte, Feb. 5.-A wholesale forgery
better planned and better executed
than was the attempt to forge the
Anaconda Copper Mining company
payroll last summer, developed yes
terday morning when numerous Butte
saloons presented forged checks pur-
porting to be paying checks of the
j. T. Carroll Lumber company and
bearing the forged signaure Of w. G.
Carroll, the manager. All of the
checks were for more than $50 and it
is estimated that 1000 was secured
on this forgery and a second forgery
on half a dozen checks on forged pa
per of a produce house.
Butte, Feb. 5.-One of the most re-
markable decisions ever placed in
records of a divorce court in this
state was made today when Judge
McClernan, in the district court, |
awarded to Mrs. Jennie V. Mayes the |
custody and possession of the family |
dog paddy" Mrs. Mayes secured a
IF divCroo from, T0cor1, NEo,,oc
a travelling salesman, yesterday. The
decree was entered today and besides
asking for alimony in the sum of SIS
a month the lawyers demanded that
in the division of the family property
Mrs. Mayes be given absolute owner
of the dog. 1t was so ordered by !
the court.
Red Lodge, Feb. 6.-Judge Sidney |
Fox, aged 46, long prominent in legal
throughout the state, died to-
day after an illness of five days dur
alton. Judge Fox left the bench a year
ago, after he had been on the district
court bench of Red Lodge for six
years. Prior to that he was county
attorney of Sweetgrass.
Helena, Feb. 6.-Hundreds of dol
ars worth of damage was done by
frozen pipes in Helena last night. The |
telegraph companies experienced diff |
today in keeping lines of COM
open. Wires kept break
ing like so many sticks of macaroni
fast as they were patched. The
Great Northern reported train No. 1886
Havre i've hours late this noon.
The train froze up at Havre while
waiting for the train from the east.
Butte, Feb. 6.-Breaking into the
trunk of his roommate while crazed
by drink and stealing a rifle, Frank
a miner, held the town of
at bay for an hour yes
terday morning. During the reign of
terror he rushed into three saloons
forcing patrons to line up, and then
chased a half hundred miners off shift
from the Leonard mine. back to the
dry house. Later he returned to his
room, where he left the rifle. He then
disappeared before he could be placed
under arrest.
11ClCId, TCu. o. lie campaign LOT
the repeal of the Kiley boxing law is
to be renewed. Such was the con-
clusion reached by the Montana Pub
lie Welfare and Good Government
league at a meeting here, and, along
with it, war to be waged on the Ii
quor traffic and horse racing. There
was much discussion over the report
of a committee on aims and budgets.
1t stated the league has four aims,
first, the repeal of the Kiley law; Sec
ond, the repeal of the law permitting
race meetings; third, midnight and
Sunday closing of saloons; and fourth
better enforcement of all moral laws.
Big Timber. Feb. 6.-There will be
shipped from Springdale, seventeen
miles west of here, to the Chicago
market by N. Eberg and Son, 10000
fat lambs, which will be the last of
a total of $4,000 head shipped by this
firm since Oct0hor last and which