The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-11-07

will pass readily unless critically in
spected. Strenuous effort is bein!
made to locate the guilty parties.
BUTTE, Nov. At a meeting 0
depositors Of the defunct Aetna Bank
ing 4 Trust company. today, a com
mittee Of five depositors were selected
to provide ways and means to secure
for the depositors such funds as ma,
now be found in the bank: also t
secure the prosecution OF such indi
viduals as are responsible for tn
wrecking of the institution. F. Au
gustus Heinze, formerly the head o
the Aetna bank, was censured at thu
meeting for failing to notify the public
of his severance with the aft airs of the
bank: also for bis turning over the
bank to irresponsible hands.
BUTTE, Nov. 3.-George F. Dancer,
recently convicted on q charge of be-
ing an accessory to q county official
in the purchase of evidence of indebt.
edness against the county, was SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary
yesterday to by Judge Donlan Of De-
partment III. of the district court.
The evidence against Dancer was tha,
he furnished money to Farrell while the
latter was chief deputy clerk of the
court for the purpose OF purchasing
ce rtificates from witnesses and Jurors,
and that Farrell issued bogus certii.
cate to the extent of about s15, 900 dur
ing his term in office, and that many
of them we're "assigned" to Dancer,
who cashed them.
BUTTE, Nov. 1.-Two men lost their
lives in the Never Sweat mine today
through a fall Of ground. James Nc.
Govern and Con Niece were the vic.
Tins. The accident occurred on the
1000 foot level and both men were
buried so deep in rock and earth that
it is not expected the bodies will be
recovered before early tomorrow
morning.
LIVINGSTON, Nov. 5.-The capture
Of the Cunningham boys who we're
making way with q band of stolen
horses the other night will result
eventually in the breaking up OF q
band of horse thieves that from all In
have been making raids in
different parts of the country and
catching the horses in the hills. The
discovered. since making the
OF the Cunningham boys, a
cache of fifteen horses.
BUTTE, Nov. dedicated in his eff.
70 make a speech to q crowd Of
about 5000 in front of the Butte hotel,
F. August Heinze tried tonight, after
an hours vain effort, to get a hear
ing. Kisses, boots and cat.calls
greeted the speaker as he vainly at.
tempted to control the big crowd.
Raising his voice to s%tentorian pitch,
he insisted, pleaded and all but
threatened the men who were making
the disturbances, but repeatedly got
the worst of every exchange.
BILLINGS, Nov. 5.-Arrested on the
charge of burglarizing the wool ware
house of the Northern Pacific Railway
company, George Smith and Edward
McDermott are languishing behind
the bars 10 Jail, having been arrested
by officer Mccoy, who is in the EN-.
p!oy Of the railroad company, last
night. Three or four sacks Of wool,
household goods and merchandise
stored in the place are alleged to
have have been taken. The men have
been in the employ Of the Mccormick
company Of this city, and a warrant
for their arrest was issued at the in
stance OF J. w. Huse, manager Of that
concern.
BUTTE, Nov. 5.-Au enormous lum'
Der hume to extend l. miles in length
Is being built by the Butte & Boulder
Lumber company from the head of the
North Boulder to Bernice, a station
about - miles above Butte on the
Great Northern railway. Fifty men
are employed on the construction Of
the hume which will cost "a, 900 wher
completed. 1t is an average cost o
5000 per day to the company and viii
require six months before it a bt
put into commission. With such ia
cility for transporting the lumber a
the hume will afford when the wate'
is turned into it, the country west o
Bernice promises to become . grea
numbering section. Not only this. bu
farming will be given a boom in tina
section as the water will be draine
from the tlume in many places to I'll
irrigation bitches.
Graft In Yellowstone Park.
. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-AccOrdiu