The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-22
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

formerly owner OF the largest herd of
buffalo on the American continent
and n of the most picturesque char
acters of western Montana, died sud-
denly Saturday afternoon at his ranch
near Roman. Burial services were held
today at the Old Mission church at St.
lgnatius and burial was in the old
Indian cemetery, close to the mission
Butte, July 14.-After Is hours in
vestigation on the black hand letter
received by Thomas Tomich, the pion.
eer Servian groceryman, Chief MUIR
ply and County Attorney McCaffery
have reached the following conclusion:
That the life of Tomich is in actual
danger and that IN attempt upon his
life may be made at any time. That
there is an organized band of ten
blackmailers in Butte who have a list
of proposed victims.
Helena, July 14.-Dr. William F. Fa.
Der, rector of St. Johns parish, De.
! troit, telegraphed his acceptance of the
position of bishop.cojutor, to which
he was elected at the recent confer
ence in Butte of the Episcopal diocese
of Montana. The election must now be
confirmed by the standing committees
of the dioceses of the country and by
a majority of the bishops. This will
require about two months. !,
Helena, July 14.-Because Montana
merchants have favored imported but
ter as against the product of local
creameries, the creameries have been
forced to ship their product to Chica-
go, and the increased marketing cost
has cut the price of butter fat to the
farmers and curtailed the amount of
money they have to spend with the
local merchants that have importd the
butter. A big kick has gone up in re-
cent weeks over the drop in the price
OF butter fat.
Havre, July llama Thackery,
wife of Jack Thackery, committed sui
eide by blowing the top of her head off
with a shotgun Monday forenoon at
their ranch in the Bear Paw noun
tains, Is miles south Of Havre. She
was 80 years old and was married one
year ago. She vas Miss Anna Nc
Laughlin of Kremlin. She attempted
to set fire to the house by piling the
furniture in the dining room and set
ting fire to it last Saturday. Insanity
which is prevalent in the family, caus.
ed the tragedy. The remains were
brought here and funeral services will
be held Wednesday morning.
Livingston, July 15.-Ten cars, hea-
Willy loaded with Yellowstone park pas
sengers, probably escaped being
thrown off the tracks and down a
deep canyon while passing through
Yankee Jim's canyon on the park
branch by a warning given by two
women living near the tracks. They
saw where a cloudburst had washed
under the track and ran ahead and
stopped the train.
Butte, July 15.-An ordinance pro-
yiding for the closing of saloons from
l O'Clock in the morning until 6
O'Clock and for their closing on Sun
days, was introduced in the city u
Gil tonight by Alderman A. B. Clinch.
This is the first time in Butte's his
tory that any move of this kind has
been made, and the bitterest fight
in the history of the council is pre-
dicted.
Butte, July 15.-Gregson Springs,
hotel, about IS miles west of Butte,
was damaged to the extent of about
$4,000 by fire which broke out at
4:3O o'clock yesterday morning. The
blaze "a discovered by the night
! clerk, who gave an alarm which ar
OIsed Manager Hugh DAILY and Chief
Rougherty of the volunteer fire de-
partment. All the guests fed in their
night robes.
Helena, July 15.-On grounds of in.
sufficient evidence the criminal indict-
ment that has been pending here four
years against Louis Hoffman, charg-
ing him with illegally fencing public
land in Meagher county, has been dis.
missed in the federal court. Frank
Chapman of Miles City, tried on a
! charge of rustling horses on the Fort
Keogh reservation, was found guilty
and given six months in jail.
Butte, July 15.-The Typographical
union of Butte has rendered it's good
; Offices to union No. / of the Western
Federation of Miners, and to the
Butte Mine Workers union, the or
ganization of the miners seeding
from the federation, in an effort to
bring about a settlement of the min.
ers' trouble through arbitration. The
! federation has accepted the offer, and
the executive board of the new union
is considering it.
Dillon, July 15.-Mrs. Charles Beer.
her, wife of a we'll known pioneer
ranchman on the Lower Big Hole
river, met a terrible death when she
was drowned in a room of the Beer.
her ranch home in the mountains
! when a water spout washed the house
and other ranch buildings away. Mrs.
Beerher was alone at the time. A
water spout zane down the sides of
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