The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-09-04
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS,
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts O the State.

Deeks u dlOOs. q nave the grazing
contract for the Northern Pacific
double track between Livingston and
Muir, were ated in q fire of un-
known origin last night at one Of the
camps near Muir.
M1ssoCLA. August 27.-The Amos
Buck Mercantile company store build
ing at Stevensville is on fire and
heavy damage will result. All Ste.
vensville is making a heroic effort to
save the building and prevent the
spreading Of the Ere. This store is
the Oldest in the Bitter Roo. valley.
BUTTE, August 27.-In words that
could not be misunderstood, Police
Magistrate MCGOWAN today from his
bench warned the politicians to keep
away from his court. He stated that
an eff or had been made to bride him
and Il influence him on behalf OF Ger.
tain criminals, a class particularly
low in the scale of humanity.
BILLINGS, August p. - A heated
campaign is being waged in this city
for the taking over Of the Billings
Water Power company by the munich.
pality. AT an adjourned meeting of
the city council tonight, the report Of
q special committee vas adopted, pro.
vidiug for the Offering to the water
company Of the sum of $4,000 for
their pumping plan, and distributing
system. In the event of the refusal Of
the offer an appraising committee is
to be appointed.
BUTTE, August 27.-Startling stats.
tics concerning wayward girls are
submitted to the board of county com.
missioners by the Butte Florence Crit
tenden circle, which has appealed to the
board for 500 q month to carry on
the rescue work. During the past
year, the circle states that it picked up
Is hayward girls and young women,
the number having become so numer-
Gus that financial aid is imperative.
BUTTE, August 27.-Three men we're
killed and one injured by a premature
explosion of blasting powder at the
Milwaukee railroad camp, near the
Eighteen Mile house, about 10 o'clock
this morning. One of the men died
from his injuries when he was brought
to town. The men who rescued him
after the blast were obliged to dig him
out of the debris.
HELENA, August 27.-Preparations
for the building of the third dam on
the Missouri river have started. The
company which will build it has begun
securing land along the river which
b. needed for flooding and other pur-
poses. One Of the biggest tracts the
company is reported to have
secured is the Hilger ranch at the
G ate of the Mountains, belonging to
Nicholas Hilger of this city. 1t is said
that the waters will be raised TO such
a height by the dam that this ranch
will be flooded and it was for this rea.
son the company secured it.
BILLINGS, August 2s.-Thirty miles
in an automobile vas the trip made
early this morning from Park City to
Billings to save the life of little John
Foster. who accidentally shot himself
Sunday afternoon in Park City with 9
.32 caliber rife with which he was
playing. The physicians At the hos.
pital declare that had the little fellow
come to Billings on the train be would
have died for want of proper medical
attention.
BILLINGS, Aug. 2e.-The Montans
Il Wyoming Oil company hiss struck
large quantities OF gas uear G Garland,
Wye, while drilling for oil in that
vicinity. The dow is unprecedented
and is being used at present for many
purposes. A new we'll has been start
ed aud at a depth of 200 feet the drill
became stuck. Another hole was
started to bore out the drill and this
also became stuck within ten feet of
large oil strata.
BUTTE, August 26.-Striking tele.
graphers in Butte today received a
statement from S. G.. Small, presi-
dent of the union, asking then t con.
tribute to two funds which will be
maintained by the organization. One
is to be a strike benefit fund and the
other a government ownership fund.
In his letter Presiden. Small says the
photographers will starve before they
will submit unless a settlement OF the
present trouble satisfactory to them is
reached.
BUTTE, August 2s.-A plain sn all
package addressed to Miss Mary
Cruise, Thornton hotel, arrived this
morning at its destined address,, aud
when Miss Cruise opened it there gilt.
tered within a s 1900 diamond brooch,
which mysteriously disappeared from
Miss Cruse's apartments about two
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