The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-09-23
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State,

, ed Sunday night and about 5000 in
cash and stamps taken. This is the
second time this year and the fifth
time in recent years that the office
has been ~burglariZed.
Dillon, Sept. 15.-Frank Bates of
Monida, deliberately lay down and
stretched his neck across the rails
TO commit suicide, according to the
findings Of a %cOrOner's jury, which
exonerated the Oregon Short Line
company from any blame. Bates
head a found on one side of the
track and his body on the other.
| Butte, Sept. IA. C. Dawson, a
mine worker, released some time ago,
was re-arrested last night by the mill
tary authorities upon a charge of hav-
ing aided in the kidnapping and de-
portation of Martin Glackin, a West
ern Federation miner. Dawson's re-
lease was the result of a mistake, &C.
cordirg to the officials. Troops last
night surrounded a three.story fiat
on a corner facing their quarters and
search was made for dynamite. 1t
| Ildu UCCl 1CpOl & " IIIc u1llIIld SldI
a box of so pounds of dynamite had
been secreted in the building, but
the soldiers could find no trace of it
although they ransacked the fiat from
garrett to basement.
Butte, Sept. 15.-An alleged plan to
poison 700 members of the national
guard now on duty here came to light
this morning when Fred Magnardot
was placed under arrest by the police
acting on orders of Provost Marshal
Frank Conley. MagnardOt vas taken
before Judge Advocate Roote where
he was charged with advising an
other person to place poison in the
water pipes at the court house, where
the militia is in camp. Magnardot, a
plumbers helper, and several other
workmen were engaged in a repair
Of the pipes according to the authori-
ties, when Magnardot advised one of
the men to place poison in the pipes.
The suggestion was spurned and the
officers notified.
Bozeman, Sept. 15.-The first and
only hunting fatality in Gallatin coun-
ty since the opening Of the duck hunt
ing season., was the death. by drown
ing, of julius +. Due, aged 26, brake
man on the Milwaukee, who, with two
companions, F. A. Fairburst and Ed
die Smith, went duck hunting on the
Jefferson river neal Three Forks Sat
urday. In attempting to cross the
Jefferson in an old boat they were
forced to swim from about the middle
of the stream, because of leakage in
the boat. Fairllurst assisted Smith,
but after he reached shore exhausted
he turned in time to see Due drown
ing. Dues parents live at Westphalis,
Ind, whether the body was shipped.
Butte, Sept. 16.-Four hundred and
fifty Masons, from all parts of the
state, gathered tonight at the Masonic
hall, where a banquet was enjoyed.
Rev. Geo. d. Wolfe acted as toast
master, and there were d number Of
responses. The occasion Of the gath
cring was the annual grand lodge SEES
sion Of the Royal Arch Masons. and
the order Of the Eastern Star.
Helena, Sept. 16.-The sandbaggers
and thugs who intend to ply their
trade in Helena fair week will have
hard shedding and if wise they will
give this town a wide berth. There
We're a series of holdups last fair
week, and two of the victims were
not only relieved Of their II blu.
were badly beaten. The local authori-
ties are determined that there shall
be no repetition of these occurrences
this ear, even if they have to place
a policeman OF every street and in
every block in the city.
Helena, Sept. 16.-The socialists,
today, adopted a platform in which
they Endorsed the compensation
measure, farm loan bill and woman
suffrage. A resolution was also
adopted in which Governor Stewart
and the citizens of Silver Bow who
asked the presence of the national
guard in Butte are alleged to be the
victims of a "dastardly conspiracy Of
the copper trust" Governor Stewart
is asked to make a personal investi-
CATION Of conditions in Butte and to
give the testimony or W~age-earning
witnesses the same weight as is given
that of others.
BoZeman, Sept. 16.-Another case
of a gun that wasn't loaded killing
its owner arose when little Orso
Richardson, an orphan, living at the
home OF his grandmother, Mrs. Sar-
all Strickland, on the Curtis ranch,
Two and a half miles east of Manhat-
tan. leaned a~s:tinst the muzzle of a
% caliher rifle and pulled the trig-
ger Will bis toe. 1t had been the
00y S custom, after using the rifle in
tie duytine 10 III load it at night. SO
n the nlprn;ng 0: Saturday, Septenl-
~ II. when he laughingly took up
the II. before his sister and grand
r.other lie thought i empty. The
shot killed him.