The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10
MONTANA BRIEFLETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE.
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days.

What Has Happened in Montana Dur
ing the Past Few Days.
BUTTE, Feb. 5.-Richa ards Hooking,
employed as q clerk In the Butte post.
Office for the past two and q half years
is In the county jail, charged with ap.
propriating to his own use funds
which passed throught his hands while
working in the money order depart.
ment. 1t Is thought that his defalca.
tions will amount to $4,000.
KAL1sPELL, Feb. g. Valuable
jewels, ,|consisting Of two diamond rings
and one opal ring worth sl5O, were
strangely restored through the mail
to Philip Jacoby. q jeweler here, to-
day. The gems were stolen from his
store nine years ago. A letter from
Rev. Peter Thielen of Milwaukee pre-.
ceded the package, stating that the
confessional was the means of re.
covery.
BOHEMIAN, Feb, SC. c. Collins, a
we'll known rancher living q few miles
north OF Belgrade, has been taken to
the state insane asylum at Warm
Springs. Collins is one of the oldest
and best known ranchers in the Gal.
latin valley and recently became vio.
lently insane. He is GO years of age
and has a brother and son living near
Bozeman.
BOzEMAN, Feb. 6.-Defnite infor.
nation has just been given out by
some of the business men of Bozem an
that the electric road leading from
this city to Salesville will be con-
structed this spring and that work on
it will be begun as soon as the weather
permits. Later, the road will be ex-
tended to Three Forks, which will
place Bozeman in direct communica-
tion with all the principal towns of the
valley.
BOHEMIAN, Feb. GA large delega.
tion from the state capital arrived
this morning to inspect the new agri.
cultural building OF the college and
inspect the school generally. A spe.
cial invitation had been extended to
the members of the Legislature and
their ladies and to the state officers,
to be the guests of the faculty and
local executive board on the occasion
OF the dedication of the new $50, 900
building. Included in the party that
arrived this morning were several
state officers.
DILLON, Feb. 6.-The Idaho Utah
Sugar company has offered the Beav-
erhead valley ranchers 81 per ton for
the sugar beets to be grown in this
valley this year, the beets to be de-
livered at the shipping points in the
valley. The company has secured
rate OF 81 ton freight on beets from
here to the factory at Blackfoot, and
the company will pay the freight. The
company is also looking after secur-
ing the Japanese laborers to do the
handwOrk in the beet fields for the
Beaverhead valley ranchers.
GLEND1vE, Feb. 6.-Foreman ames
Donaldson of the Yellowstone irriga.
tion canal near here was almost
blown to pieces by dynamite in an
explosion yesterday morning. w. M.
Kissler, a laborer, who ran to Don
aldson's assistance was 80 seriously
injured by flying debris that he will
probably die. Fifteen sticks of dyn.
amite were thawing at the quarry,
about mile from the main camp,
when some OF them caught on fire.
Donaldson's attention was called to
the fact and he foolishly ran over to
save few dollars worth of dynamite
and was blown to pieces when the ex.
plosion took place.
BUTTE, Feb. 6.-Because he gave
his life to save that of his companion,
who was overcome by gas in the
depths of the West Colusa mine, the
Casualty Company of America refuses
to pay the life insurance of s1,5O0
carried by Joseph Battista Pinazza.
On May 30 last, John Lubik was sent
down into the mine to fight fire. He
was overcome by poisonous gases.
The word was carried along that one
of the boys lay dying in drift with
gas crowding thicker about hin every
moment. Pinazza did not know who
John Lubik was, yet he rushed back
to that scene of danger and dragged
his fellow miner to safety. When his
deed was done, he fell fainting to the
ground. The physicians could do
nothing for him and he died.
Charges Of Graft Denied.