The river press., 1914-11-04
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

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From Various Parts Of the State. /
Helena, Oct. 27.-Game Warden ]. l..
DeHart has been advised from Ovando
that last week a hunter from the South
Fork of the Flathead brought out an
elk head, the horns of which had
spread of 50 inches. The record head
in Montana heretofore had spread of
II inches.
Helena, Oct 27.-Word was received
in Helena today that Roy H. Blow, a
young man, % years of age, who has
spent the greatest part of his life in
the vicinity of Elliston, dropped dead
yesterday afternoon while hunting in
the mountains along Little Prickly
Pear creek. His death was due to
heart failure.
Helena, Oct. PA decree issued
, by Judge J.. Miller Smith of the dis
trict court here results in placing Ed
ward H. Dresser Of Deer Lodge in an
embarrassing position, for it gives
him two wives. Dresser secured
divorce from his wife last June and
immediatel remarked. Judge Smith,
having now set aside the divorce,
Dresser finds himself with the first
. wife on his hands as we'll as the
second.
Butte, Oct. PA 1O-inch butcher :,
knife, thrown in fit of anger by Mrs.
Allen J. McCaskell at her husband
during a quarrel yesterday. missed
it's mark and struck the 14-months-
old baby of the couple, Anna Jean
McCaskell, with such force that the
blade plowed it's way through the front
bone and embedded itself in the little
child's brain. When the blade was
taken out it was found that it had
entered the child's skull and brain
four inches. The child was alive late
tonight, but there is no chance for it
to survive.
Butte, Oct. 27.-Following the dis
covery Of portion of the body OF
Henry Elmberg, wealthy hog ranch
Ter, in the smouldering ashes of his
home three miles south of Butte,
Sheriff John Berkin tonight arrested
John Ensign on a charge of murder.
Elmbergs throat had been cut and it
is believed that his assailant burned
the house to conceal the crime. En-
sign was recently arrested and re-
leased on a peace bond for having
, made threats against the life of Elm
} berg in quarrel over the possession
: of mining stock.
l L or10 Mt A,,fn ,C1Ni i1,
bandits made a raid in Harlowton yes
, terday and stole Car belonging to w.
c. Husband, a local attorney. Officer
| Grivette gave chase afterward, but
, was unable to find any trace of the
robbers.
Helena, Oct. 2S.-Six months in Jail
and a fine of 500 were imposed upon
} William Cedarface, a full blooded
: Sioux Indian, who pleaded guilty to
white slavery. Cedarface imported
? Laura Claymore, an Indian girl of 16
years old, from Edgermont, S. d., to
the Grow Indian reservation for i'm
moral purposes. Nine bootleggers who
pleaded guilty were given two and
| three months in Jail and fined 500
each.
Dillon, Oct. 2S.--Five carloads of
saddle horses will be shipped from
Dillon this week to Canada. The ami
mails were purchased in this city by
buyers for the British government
and force of broncho "twisters" have
been busy the past month breaking
, a part of the horseflesh for cavalry
; purposes. The horses being shipped
this week are consigned to the British
Remount Commission and to General
Sir +. Benson of Toronto, Canada.
!, Billings, Oct. 2S.-If the workmen's
compensation measure which will be
voted on next Tuesday carries, there
will not be a second creamery here
this winter. This is stated emphati-
cally by +. N. Martin of Spokane
company, which has been investigat-
ing conditions in the state and which
had practically decided upon Billings
as the site of one of it's chain of
creameries. The notification came in
telegram to a prominent Billings
man and is dated Chicago, where Mr..
: Martin went on business.
Butte. Oct. 2S.-Major H. H. Miller,
who has been in charge of the Fort
Belknap Indian reservation for four
years, will leave in few days to take
charge of Fort Hall, Idaho. reservation
Major Miller has been in the govern
ment service for u years. most of
which time he has been Unidentified
w; Tn1 a hn
ceeded at Fort Belknap by Jewel d.
Martin. who comes here from Utah
Major Miller has been in attendance