The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-18

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morning in the form of a $4,000 dam
age suit, filed in the district court. Mr..
Custer alleges that the defendant has
damaged his reputation as a business
man by defamatory statements con-
corning his integrity in floating a
large creamery company here, and at
lacking the quality of the goods turn
ed out. The $4,000 asked as DAM
ages is split into six parts, each slice
being demanded on a separate count.
Butte, Feb. 14.-Katherine Mitchell!
of Salt Lake City was bound over to
the grand jury in Great Falls on a
perjury charge by United States com,
missioner Van Etten at the conclu-
sion of her preliminary hearing to-
day. 1t is alleged that she gave false
testimony at the preliminary hearing
of Henry Smith, charged with being a
white SLAYER, in an effort to save the
man from prison.
Butte, Feb. 14.-Saimi Hoffman
| filed suit against DR.. Edward j. Rinck.
ell, a prominent dentist today, alleging
that he knocked her into a chair and
extracted two teeth he had placed in
her upper jaw when he failed to col.
lect for the dental work. She asks
$4,000. The plaintiff alleges she ar
ranged payment for the work before
it was completed, but that while the
dentist was waiting for the cement to
harden in the teeth he demanded pay.
ment of $50. Previously she said she
had paid him $25.
Billings, Feb. 14.-Ralph Lopez, the
Mexican bandit who killed six men
before taking refuge in a Bingham,
Utah mine, and whose subsequent es-
cape has baffled a continent is believed
by officers of two states tonight to be
hiding in the hills near Billings. Heav-
lily armed, a man tallying exactly with
the description of Lopez was arrested
late Friday night at Lowell, Wyo, af-
terward breaking jail there and start
ing north. A network of police and
sheriff's deputies is spread over the
intervening region in the hope of
catching the noted gunman, although
his record as a slayer will cause them
to take every precaution in attempting
his arrest.
Miles City, Feb. 100. Hubert
former agent of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad at Terry,
Mont arra;gned on a charge of en-
bezzlement of $500 today, confessed
his crime and pleaded guilty.
Lewistown. Feb. 16.-The first
grand jury called here in thirteen
years was sworn in this morning. In
his instructions Judge Roy Ayres
charged the jury especially to inves-
tigate gambling, and also called atteh-
ton to the alleged s%windling of set
tiers by locators who were reported to
have sold worthless ACCOMPLISHMENTS
and otherwise defrauded the new conf
erS.
Butte, Feb. ia special from Hell
ena says the supreme u this
morning issued a writ of prohibition
against the county commissioners of
Silver Bow county preventing the
holding of a special election on Feb
ruary "a for a proposed ssue of $780,
900 bonds to complete the new county
Jail. The court held that the election
call was illegal.
Billings, Feb. 16.-Thirteen men,
bers of the Pioneers of Eastern Mon.
tana died during the past year,, accord
ing to Henry A. Firth, secretary of the
society, who has completed arrange.
ments for the annual banquet which
will be given on the night of March
q HrNvVy fIDC0 yrv1r~ nyN IN NH,ro4
previous to 1884 are eligible to men,
bership and 1875 of these are still res
idents of this state. About so more
have removed to other localities and
it is not expected they will be pre-
sent.
Great Falls, Feb. 16.-As the result
of the accidental discharge of a shot
gun loaded with buckshot. which he
was holding, Chirgen Olsen, employed
on the ranch of County Commissioner
Johnson, is in a local hospital with
slight chance for recovery. The mar
was riding on a hay wagon when a
jolt caused the gun to discharge and
most of it lodged in the side of his
face.
Butte, Feb. 16.-Believing that the
gossip that he was an eX-convict had
worked against him until he could not
get work and could not lead an honest
life. Ned Tracy, aged 80, who was re
leased from the Deer Lodge peniten-
tiary three weeks ago, broke into and
robbed the p%ostottice at Silver Star,
Mont, hoping that the haul would be
large enough to enable him to get out
of the country. Tracy confessed to
the robbery of the postoffice yester.
day and says he is anxious for an i'm.
mediate sentence. The robbery net
ted him $1.15O.
Glendive, Feb. ia. j. Steele, for.
merly a Northern Pacific passenger
brakeman, was shot and killed about
midnight Saturday night on a wagon
bridge owe the Yellowstone river
here by Ray Johnson, twenty years
old, a farmer residing twenty miles
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