The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-01-27
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.


his head. Nearby lay q revolver.
The till had been robbed, and Halli.
day having discovered the robbers
they returned and killed him. L. A.
Gardner aud "Indisn Joe" are under
arrest on suspicion.
BUTTE, Jan. 20.-Trudging along
with his collie pup beside him
on the railroad tracks near
Whitehall this morning. little
eight-year-old Roy Hendricks, un.
able to hear the reaching passen.
ger train which was speeding toward
Butte trying to make up time through
the binding snow, was struck by q
Northern Pacific passenger train and
tossed high to his death. The engin.
eer of the appro aching train saw the
boy too late and was unable to stop
his engine in time to avoid the trsg.
edy.
BUTTE, Jan. 2O.-Hereafter all ap.
plicants for positions in the train ser.
vice of the Northern Pacific railroad
will be required to pass rigid physi.
cal examination. A circular just is.
sued from headquarters contains th at
announcement. The examin ations
will be conducted by the company
surgeons, but will be subject to the
approval of the head of the medical
staff in St. Paul.
M1ssOULA, Jan. 20.-The flood
conditions west of here are growing
worse and all Northern Pacific east.
bound through trains are stalled on
the western division. The conditions
are very bad around Pasco, Wash.
Local trains are moving through vest
ern Montana today, but the tracks
are in bad shape owing to the rapidly
melting snow. Several snowsIides
occurred west of St. Regis during the
past "a hours.
MISSOULA, Ian. 20.-While attempt.
ing to dislodge quantity OF ice which
threatened the destruction of q trestle
over He'll Gate river, near Gold creek
this morning, Roy Robbins and an.
other man whose name ia not known,
lost their balance and fell into the
stream. Robbins was crushed to
death between the ice gorge and a
bridge pier, and his companion
buffeted about by huge cakes of ice,
was carried 100 y ard sId ownstream and
only rescued with difficulty. He cannot
live.
HELENA, Jan. 23.-The apportion.
ment of the state school money this
year may reach 1926 per capita, an
increase of 15 cents over the appor-
tionment last year. There Is S25, $50
to be aportioned among 77.04O chill.
dren.
GREAT FALLS, Jan. 23.-Postmas-
ter E. 81. Cooney was notified today
by Representative Pray that plans
for the new federalbuilding had been
completed, and that bids for con.
will be asked by May l.
The site for the federal building is on
First avenue north, between Second
and Third streets, consisting of half
q city block. The frontage is $50 feet.
The building is to cost 5000, 900, and
will be three stories in height, with a
basement.
MILES CITY, Jan. 23.-South Da-
kota has issued quarantine against
sheep and cattle from Montana and
under an erroneous impres.
sion that those states have among
their sheep the dreaded foot and
mouth disease. The only cases of the
alleged disease in Montana that are
known OF are at Ismay, about Is
miles east of here, but DR.. John r.
chief Of the pathological di.
vision, bureau of animal inspection,
who has examined the tissue from
bucks in Custer county by federal in.
spectors, declared emph atically that
It 10 not the foot and mouth disease.
LEw1sTowN, Jan. %. Judge Cheadle
has sentenced George Roberts to two
years in the penitentiary and Ed
Peters to sixteen months in that in.
for burglary in the day time.
The men were recently rounded up,
With others, on suspicion Of being
engaged in raiding sheep camps, and
County Attorney Huntoon, who went
out on the range to investiga ate, secur-
I'd all the evidence of their guilt that
1e required and the prisoners decided
% plead guilty.
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