The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-21

Me, oh my! but it was a fierce
salt" said the motorcycle policeman.
He turned corners like fiend. Half
the time he was on the sidewalk. He
ran two blocks on the sidewalk on
7 hirty- fourth street. / fired five shots
at his tire during the chase, but 1
couldn't hit it. 1t was the most dare
devil driving that l ever saw. Even
when he hit the pillar and his left
wheel came off it didn't stop him. He
stuck to the machine and i slid a
whole block, it was going at such
speed"
Droit, who has been up against a
number of $50 fines, wasn't much con-
Cerned for the moment, but he rose
like a human yeast cake" when JUS
tice Wyatt before whom he was ar
raigned, said, in pronouncing sentences:
Il suppose it would have been the
same if the streets were full of peo-
pie. It's almost pity you weren't
killed. Thirty days and $3.50 is al
most the heaviest sentence I can give
you, I regret to say l wish 1 could
give you a year.
Droit must serve $50 days additional
if he does not pay the fine.
Perhaps there Is a real Santa Claus
At any rate, lot of Riddles in Brook
Ign think so, even if he may have
used a peculiar method of distribution,
all the while remaining invisible.
Or maybe the Dig Perchcron horses
| hauling the truck were imbued with
the spirit Of Christmas giving. Be
| this as it may, the facts in the case
are these:
More than $1,000 worth of Noah's
| arks, roller skates, drums and other
| things Gear to the juvenile heart were
spilled along Vanderbilt and st. Marks
| avenues, when the team of big truck
| belonging to one of the largest depart
| ment stores ran away, dragging the
| heavy wagon. despite locked wheels
Employees by the dozen did Mara
| thon after the runaway team, but none
was able to catch it, and all were too
tired to pick up the toys and they
walked puffingly back.
Patrolmen David Kelly and Michael
O'Brien, two of the heaviest men on
the force, tried to stop the horses,
| but they were bowled over like ten
pins, and the animals never stopped
until they had jolted the last toy out
of the truck.
Ere the rattle Of the runaway team
had died away, dolls, Noah's arks,
drums, trumpets and the like had dis
appeared as If swallowed up, and
many poor little poverty stricken
| ~. he
brighter for the involuntary distribu-
tion Of toys over a neighborhood where
it was most needed.
The department store will not nave
to go into bankruptcy over the spill
either
The new greensboro bridge across
East river and Blackwell's island is
safe in every particular. The birds
have said it.
Rudyard Kipling, in his story, 1.-The
Bridge Builders stands sponsor fol
the statement that any bridge or
which birds alignt and roost is safe.
The greensboro bridge has become
favorable rendezvous for all sort!
of birds, pigeons, sparrows and ever
wild ducks. They come with the dusl
by thousands, and are there until The
work,nen turn out in the morning.
Engineer Sinclair, in charge of the
Of 20 years he has never known {
bridge that birds have trusted to fail
He says:
ut is an indication that the struc
ture is perfectly strong and will stant
all tests. l was employed in bridge
building in Iowa several years ago
and before the bridge was completed
the birds strangely made their nome
on it. This bridge was also criticized
but it is standing today, and has done
twice the work ever contemplated
another bridge whose stability wa
questioned, and to which the bird
flocked, was built across the Missouri
river by the Atchison, Topeka {
Santa Fe railroad, and this bridge i
doing great work today. Many Of IN,
associates in bridge building have no
ticed this same true instinct of birds
and ornithologists say that birds il
large flocks will not settle on a veal
structure"
The Kaiserin Auguste Victoria ar
rived in port with two passengers tina
didn't embark at Hamburg. Fact Il
| they are twins brought to mid ocea
land dropped By the careful stor
right into the BOAT. The mother Mr..
Marie Lesser. was en- route to join he
husband at Manchester. N. H.
Mrs. Lesser, lii charge of an ager
for the Austrian Immigrant society
home, left the Ellis island boat carry
ing the precious pair in a cradle but
only for one. AS the agent and tt
woman We're about to enter a Mint
avenue IL" train, they were halted /
the guard.
"Yon can't bring that bundle
here" he said, pointing to tie cradl
THAT amt Il bundle yet" said Il
agent for the society, dots peoples
The guard took another look, and e,
claimed: "A bunch OF kids. Come {
/ and step lively"
, And even an elderly gentleman.
professional CROUCH" took look al
1 smiled.
~ T',vo souls with h,t a ciptrle n1,,h