Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-12
DIVERS WORK AT TOWNSEND
GREAT IMPROVEMENTS ON NOR
THERN PACIFIC LINE IN
MONTANA THIS YEAR.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAv0R LEADER
Founder of the Organization Will Visit
Helena May 24-State Conven
ton May Greet Him.
Special to the Inter Mountain.

special to the inter Mountain.
Helena, April 12.-The Northern Pa
c.fie has struck SO many obstacles in
clearing the site for the center pier OF the
new steel bridge across the Missouri at
Townsend that it has brought diver
from Tacoma to help in the work. The
bee is full of timbers and rock used in
the pier for the old wooden bridge, and
the diver will attach graphing hooks,
so the timbers can be hauled out by ca
bic. Work is also under way on steel
bridge across the Gallatin at Logan, 500
feet long.
A tunnel has just been finished 800 feet
long to divert the stream near Pipestone
On the Butte line, SO that a bridge ITO
feet high and 800 feet long can be filled.
Another tunnel near Homestake, 600
feet long, will be finished in a month,
doing away with two wooden bridges.
Midway between these tunnels steel
viaduct one thousand feet long and 125
ieet high is being built.
Information has been received in Hell
ena that Francis e. Clark, father of the
Christian Endeavor movement and presi-
dent Of the international Christian En-
deavor union. will be in Helena May "a.
The state officers will try to have the
state convention, which was to meet in
Butte June II, change the date so that
Clark can attend. The letter was from
c. c. Fuller, former president of the
state organiza ton, who is studying at OBJ
erlin College, Ohio. to prepare for taking
charge of the industrial department OF
the Presbyterian missions in South At
RIGA, for which he will sail in August.
The Armour car lines, incorporated in
New Jersey, filed articles of incorpora-
ton with the secretary of state today.
The Montana headquarters is at Butte,
X. l.. Clinton, agent. The object is to
build and operate refrigerator and venti-
lated cars ice houses, ice factories and
Iefrgeratng plants. The capital Is
500, 900, in one thousand shares, all paid
in cash. Officers are George B. Robbins,
vice president and acting president,
Charles w. Comes, secretary, other di-
rectors. Frederick w. Ellis, p. A. Valen-
tine and ]. Ogden Armour.
The sale of Ming's opera house to John
Cort. manager of the Grand opera house
Of Seattle, by Receiver Wilson of the
First National bank was confirmed by
the district court and means that
Helena , with Butte, Great Falls and
Nllssoula, will be included in the syndi-
cate of northwestern theater managers
Which has contract with the eastern
which come to the west at all the cities
here it controls theaters. Mings will
remain the property Of Cort but will be
managed by syndicate composed of
himself, Cal. Heilig of Portland. and
Dick Sutton of Butte. 1t controls also
tneaters at Sokane, Seattle, Tacoma,
Whatcomb, Everett, Victoria and Von-
CLuver. The eastern syndicate with
Which this syndicate has five years
contract includes Froham, Al. Hayman,
1 k]aw- -Erlanger company of New York.
Nixon Zimmerman, Philadelphia, and
Rich & Harris, Boston.
A five years contract has been made by
Cort, who paid $4,000 for Mings. He will
refurnish and recarpet the house for the
fall season, and ultimately extend it on
the north side and build a new balcony
SO as to increase the seating capacity
from 500 to 1,5O0.
Edward D. Mccall was convicted of
marrying Mabel Hancock, knowing her
to be the wife of another. The jury was
out an hour and a half.
The trial of the contest of James Bryne
against the probate of the will of Mollie
We.nsheimer, for which her husband,
William Weinshemer. has prtftloned, De-
gan in the district court yesterday, but
was continued pending decision of the
legal question. Bryne. who is brother
of the woman. alleges that Weinsheimer
obtained her sigma ture to the will by in
timidation. brutally beating, the use of
drugs and making the woman drunk The
estate is worth about $4,000.
Up to date here there has been filed in
the United States court 300 voluntary and
% involuntary bankruptcy petitions in
Montana. Forty-five voluntary and five
involuntary petitions We're filed in the last
six months.