The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-11-28
Fan take to the camps at the top cash

can take to the camps at the top cash
price.
BILLINGS, Nov. "a. - An attemp,
was made to hold up the Northwestern
saloon in this city at ar early hour
this morning by two desperate looking
strangers. One of the men threw a
large gun in the face of the bartender,
who, in a fash, knocked the weapon
out of the would.be hold.up's hand
and grabbed his " weapon. The
men fed from the place and have not
been apprehended.
BROWNING, Nov. 24.-Wednesday
morning Dan WEIGH. a teamster of
the reclamation service at Babb, who
had been with them for three years,
was instantly killed by being run over
with a four-horse team. A wheel of
the wagon being broken, he jumped
off to attend to it, when the leaders
started to run. WEIGH was knocked
down. and as he sat up, the axle Of
wagon struck him in the head and he
expired.
BUTTE, Nov. 25.-Horses in the uu
dergrouud workings of the large cop.
per mines of Butte can see their finish
and the end is evidently not far of,
especially in the mines of the Boston
x Montana company, for that com.
pany has closed a contract for five
electric locomotives and q complete
underground hauling system. The
engines will cost about g., 900 each and
are to be delivered in about 80 days.
They will be of the Baldwin pattern
with the Westinghouse equipment.
The installation Of these engines and
proper electrical appliances to oper.
ate them will do away with the pres.
ent system Of tramming entirely and
assures the company of greater ad.
vantages in running its ore from the
various points of extraction to its
shafts.
LIVINGSTON, Nov. &c. Through the
purchase OF the Dolenty and Filing
stock OF the First State bank of this
city, w. G.. Conrad control of
institution. Banking men of
long experience will be placed in
of the First State, and an ef-
fort will be made to make it one of the
banking institutions of eastern
HELENA, Nov. 26.-Four new forest
reserves have been created and addi.
lions made to others in Montana, &C.
to proclamations received
here today by the local land Office.
The Little Belt and the Kootenai re-
serves are enlarged. The reserves
just created are the Missoula, the
Mountains, the Snowy Noun
tains and the Lolo.
GREAT FALLS, Nov. 26.-JOhn T..
Taylor, who was convicted Of man
slaughter by a jury in the district
court last Tuesday for the killing OF
William G. FADE at Sand Coulee last
May, vas sentenced to ten years in
the state ~penitentiary this morning by
Judge Leslie, the court giving the
prisoner the extreme limit for man.
slaughter. With good behavior, Tay.
Tor Ear ecure his liberty after serv-
ing six years and three months.
BUTTE, Nov. @-Thirty horses are
dead in the Northern Pacific stock
yards in this city out of a shipment
of 60 from u point near Great Falls
bound to Twin Falls, Idaho, the
property of the Cory Brothers Con.
s,ruction company. The horses were
loaded on cars just outside of Great
Falls on Friday last, according to the
statement Of the man who is looking
after the animals for Cory Brothers,
and were twelve hours on a siding, he
says, before they were moved beyond
Great Falls. Altogether, in making
the journey Of about 200 miles to this
city, they were 4S hours on the road.
The cars reached here this morning
and were Immediately transferred to
the Northern Pacific for shipment to
Twin Falls. 1t was then found that
the animals were in a very bad shape
and that some were likely to die.
\ Profitable Year For Railroads.