Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-04-09
NEWS OF OUR NEICHBORS
, Cleaned from Exchanges that Reach Our Desk
BEER PARLOR FIGHT VICTIM succuMBs-

BEER PARLOR FIGHT VICTIM SUCCUMBS-
James Mley. AZ who was shot in the head in McCcne
City December %, in an alteration over possession and
ownership of a beer hall at that city, between two Valley
county men. died Of his wounds at Warm Springs last
week. Miley was shot by X. H. Keith, Glasgow resident
and one Of the participants in the shooting A glancing
bullet struck him in the head. He was later committed
to the state hospital for the insane following an opera
ton to remove the bullet, which necessitated removing
part of his brain.
w CRIMINAL CASES In DISTRICT COURT
The Roosevelt county term of district court terminated
last week with verdicts reached in two criminal cases.
Ambrose Running Bear was acquitted of a statutory
charge involving a 14-year-old girl. A verdict of guilty
was made in the case of the State VS.. VIM. Youpee, also
charged with a statutory offense, and was sentenced to
two years in the state penitentiary. The case has been
appealed to the state supreme court as a test measure of
whether Indians in criminal actions can be prosecuted in
state or federal courts.
OUTFIT FORGERs GET PRISON TERMS
Lawrence Sassen and Willis Altman, l6 and IS respect
lively, were sentenced by Judge Pray of Glasgow last
week to serve a year and two months in a government
school and TO pay a $50 fine for forging a government
check at Fort Peck. Altman. formerly of Whitehall, took
a check from one of the government barracks and forged
the signature of the payee, and together with Sassen,
cashed it.
FORMER WOLF POINT RESIDENTS IN FLOOD
Friends of Mrs. Inglehart and family, who formerly lived
in Wolf Point and now reside in Hartford, Conn, have
received letters from the family telling of their exper-
fences during the recent floods which ravaged the east
en states. None of the family was injured. Mrs. Ingle-
hart was formerly county superintendent of schools in
Roosevelt county.
TWO PHONES IN WOLF POINT INSTITUTION
The Wolf Point Herald carries a story about two tele-
phones, on two separate lines, in operation in the North
west Service store in that city. The story says Nov we
are getting so civilized that grocery stores need two tele-
phones in order that some of their customers may not
have to listen SO often to that old, Disappointing, Lines
busy"
luck PAYS FINE IN DISTRICT COURT
John Q. luck, farm organizer and Farmers Union leader
who lives north of Brockton, was fined $3.50 in district
court at Wolf Point last week, after pleading guilty to a
charge which was appealed from a justice court in Gull
bertson. Zuck was the defendant in a trial at Culbertson
following an auto collision with a salesman on the high
way east of that city two years ago.
FARMER TAKES OWN LIFE NEAR WHLLSTON
Albert z. Peterson, Sc, farmer who resided near Will
lison, took his own life last week by shooting himself in
the head with a .22-calibre rifle. His body was found by
his son and a neighbor in a pasture near his farm home.
Dependency over the death of his wife, which occurred
a year ago, was given as the cause of his deed.
BIG FOUR TRACK MEET SET FOR MAY p
Advanced nOuceS from CulDertSOn OFFICIALS state the an
nual Big Four track meet will be held there Saturday,
May 2. Schools in four northeastern Montana counties
will send contestants. The meet is one of the largest an
nual track and field events in Montana.
DOG LICENSES NO JOKE IN wMLIsTON-
No license-no dog, is the ultimatum laid down by Po-
lice Chief Ole Olson of Williston last week. Announce
ment of the law on April l prompted the residents OF
that city to dismiss it as a joke, but the chief later de-
cared he was mot kidding"
BEET GROVE TO GET $4,000
Beet growers in the Sidney factory territory were mailed
checks in the amount of $4,000 on their 1885 beet pro-
duction on the basis of as cents a ton. The payment was
especially needed at this time to finance 1886 cropping
operations.
NASHUA TO HAVE TELEPHONE SERVICE
Nashua will have telephone service beginning April 20.
Installation of an automatic switchboard and other
equipment is expected to begin this week.