The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-07-05

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said here, and she has been convicted
of sedition in Judge Matthews court.
The Jury recommended that a. fine of
$500 be imposed and this vas car
ried out by the court. It was the first
case to be tried in the district court of
| Wheatland county, under the anti
sedition law Of the recent legislature.
Lewistown-Unable to present as
strong a case as shad been presented
on the first trial of Fred Fink, charg-
ed with the murder of Fred ellis, a
homesteader in the Roy county, Coun-
ty Attorney McConochie dropped the
murder charge after the supreme
court granted a new trial and filed a
charge against him of burglarizing
the postoffice at Armellss in March,
1916. Fink was convicted and his pun
ishment fixed by the jury at not less
than seven and a half years nor more
than Is pear. Sentence was passed
Wednesday by Judge Ayers.
Fink was sentenced to life impri-
sonment following his conviction of
the murder of Fred ellis, but this
judgment was reversed by the state
supreme court.
Plains-When thrown from a hay
mower that he was operating, c. c..
Kinds, a farm hand, working on the
place of James Laurie, ear Eddy, was
instantly killed. His skull vas frac-
tured and he a cut and otherwise
bruised. Kinds was IS years old, hav-
ing come from Alexandria, MINI. He
was a stranger here. Coroner Nc
Caffery, who decided that an inquest
would not be necessary, wired rela-
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a reply. The fatality was due to the
team running away.
Missoula-The body of Peter j.
Leffring of Missoula, a conductor on
the Northern Pacific railway, was
found Saturday morning lying under
an overturned automobile in a gulch
at the foot of a high grade about six
miles west of St. Regis. An automo-
bile party, consisting of DR.. and Mrs.
G. W. Nash of Bellingham, WASH,
and Mr.. and Mrs. L. ]. Swift of Seat
tie, On their way to Missoula, discov-
cred the overturned car lodged be-
tween the trees at the foot of the pre-
cipice., Their efforts to get the body
from beneath the machine were I'M
Regis and notified the authorities
there. The Mineral county coroner
was called by phone. Undertaken
Charles H. Marsh of Missoula was
summoned to care for the remains,
which will be brought to Missoula for
interment.
Missoula-Fred Mass, a Northern
Pacific conductor on the run between
Butte and Paradise, was arrested here
on a charge of sedition. The charge
~~oo(~r1 0~nfnc% %h4 aool,ko>n loAoo
from six month back when he was
asked to purchase liberty bonds. "Any
time l give my money for the gov
is the answer he is alleged to have
money, and I'm going to keep it,"
Soon after that, It is said, he was
discharged by the Northern Pacific
about 5000 worth of the bondss. Thurs
company. Re Gently he purchased
day the conductor returned to work.
He was returning from his second trip
when arrested.
Culbertson-A young woman and
two girls, Mrs. Carl Larson and
Marie and Josie Ruffatto, lost their
lives by drowning in the Missouri riv-
err Monday. Their ages were 20, 16
and 10 respectively, and they were
all we'll known here, the tragedy
shocking this community. They were
bathing near Brockton, where the cur
rent of the river is swift. The report
to reach here stated that they were
wading near a sandbar in shallow
water when one of them stepped into
a deep hole. The others tried to res.
cue her, and were pulled into water
beyond their depth. None of then
could swim, and they were soon swept
down the river in the rapid current. A
younger Ruffatto sister, who had not
been allowed by the older girls to en-.
ter the river, gave the alarm. None
o fthe bodies had been recovered al
the latest reports.