The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-01-21
MONTANA BRlEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE

ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days
of Sept. 1926 inclusive the Montan,
State fair will be held next fall, til,
date being selected by the board o
directors at the annual meeting THU
afternoon. The board also hearth.
endorsed the movement for a celebra
ton at the state fair of the fiftieth an
niversary of the creation of the ter
fifth anniversary of it's admission as &
state.
Butte, Jan. 15.-The commissioners
of Silver Bow county are today in re
ceipt of a letter from Governor Ste
wart advising them that the state
board of land commissioners will pur
chase the entire bond issue of $780, OO
for the completion of the county Jail,
If the same is Endorsed at an election
to be held February "a. The govern
or states the Indebtedness of this oun
ty including the proposed bond issue
will be less than One-third the amount
permitted under the law.
Butte, Jan. '15.-Jealousy over the
affections of a pretty young woman
of "a years. led to the killing of Sam
Fornich, aged ~, in a room of an East
Butte lodging house tonight. by John
Standohar. The latter fired at a dis
lance of less than six feet, and three
bullets pierced Fornich's body, one of
which went through the heart. Stand
dollar set partly undressed on a bed,
with a revolver in his hand when men
from the saloon below rushed in.
Butte, Jan. 15.-Since the first of
the veal there have been 30 cases of
smallpox discovered in Butte and as
many cases of ~chickenpox. exclusive
of those that come under the direction
of the county health officers. Yester-
day County Health Inspector Girror
located three leases of smallpox and
the patients were sent to the county
pesthouse. Since the epidemic was
discovered there have been enough
patients discharged from the pest
house so as not to overcrOwd it.
Bozeman, Jan. 15.-From Bozeman,
Montana, to Calcutta, India, is the
long journey that some Montana-born
Rainbow trout must take soon. w.
T. Thompson, superintendent of the
government fish hatchery in Bozeman,
has received instructions from Wash
ington, D. c.. to prepare for shipment
a number Of Rainbow trout, which
will be shipped by way of San Fran
cisco to Hong Kong. China, and from
there over the lines of the British
Steamship company to Calcutta.
There the fish will be turned over to
the British fisheries department.
Butte, Jan. 16.-The Butte Miners
union today wired another donation
Of $40, 900 to the relief of the striking
COPPER miners of the Michigan fields.
This makes a total of $4,000 sent to
Michigan by the Miners union of
Butte alone. Funds sent by other To-
cal unions swell the total sent from
Butte to $10S, 600.
Dillon, Jan. 16.-Chas. Phillips has
contracted for the sale of ten carloads
of turkey red winter wheat to the
Hugh Ayres company of Denver, Col,
which will be shipped from Dillon at
the rate Of two cars a day, the first
shipment being made today. Mr..
Phillips will receive SIPS for the
wheat. which is said to be the finest
in the country.
Butte, Jan. 16.-Having his perfect
ly healthy and strong leg cut open and
a slice of bone two inches long ex.
tracted to be used in piecing together
the bullet shattered frame of his right
arm, is the unusual operation for
which John Liebe is preparing. Liebe
was shot by a friend on New Years
day. Surgeons tell him this operation
is the only hope of saving his arm. His
leg, they say will not be permanently
injured by the extraction of part of the
bone.
Helena, Jan. 16.-Frenzy to raise
money with which to speculate in land
is the cause assigned for the downfall
of J. l.. Chevigny, whose conviction on
a charge Of arson and sentence of /:
years in the p%enitentiary was affirm
ed by the supreme court today, in q
decision by Chief Justice Brantley
Chevigny held a mortgage on a lodg
ing house in Missoula. Twenty-Five
people were asleep in it when it was
destroyed by fire October Is, 1911. A
month later Chevigny vas arrested
and charged with the crime. He was
tried later, convicted and sentenced.
Butte, Jan. 16.-Arrangements were
made today by f. w. Vaille, superin
tendent of the railway mail service
with headquarters in Seattle, for thu
establishment of a railway termina
postofice here for the purpose O.
handling the heavy parcel post mai
that centers in Butte to be reshippei
to various points in this district. 4
site will be selected near the depot