The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-20

theirs being involved, and who were
fined S25 each. Six Garrison section
hands were charged with killing
grouse and will be tried Saturday.
LEw1sTowN, July 15.-Sheriff Ed.
Martin will be back from St. Paul
this week with Sheridan Burke a. bis
prisoner. Burke IL the brakeman who
on the morning of July 6 made a muir.
derous assault on Trainmaster c. G..
Reynolds and then fed only to be ar.
rested at St. Paul. Mr.. Reynolds is
in the hospital at Great Falls.
HELENA, July 14.-After trying for
four months to the bit of q
diamond drill, which lies at the bot.
tom of a 5O1.foot hole at Silver camp
on the Big Blackfoot, the Sullivan
Diamond Drill company of Denver,
has given up and pulled out its ma
chinery. The bit was worth @, 600,
but as the gems were of unusual quail.
ity, he company cared more about
the bit itself than its monetary value.
GREAT FALLS, July NJ ael
Orr, an Austrian employe of the Boston
q Montana smelter, overcome with
the heat this afternoon while on his
way to work and lost his balance while
descending the long stairway at the
smelter, falling a distance of 800 feet,
breaking his neck, fr%acturing his
skull and receiving a number of in.
ternal injuries, each of which would
have proved fatal. The accident was
witnessed by a large number of the
smelter employees.
HELENA, July 1.-Two more indict-
ments against Great Falls enumera.
tors were made public today. One
charges Thomas Daley with having
falsely returned the names Of fifty
persons as living at lib First avenue
South. The other is against Joseph
Thompson and contains two counts.
One charges him with having falsely
returned the names of Al persons as
living at 500 Second avenue south:
and the second count with having
falsely returned the names of 81 per.
sons as living at 4l9 Second avenue
south.
MILES CITY, July 15.-An arrival
from the eastern part OF the county
tells a story of the death of T. w.
Whitman, q farmer who had made
good In Montana near the Dakota line
the past few years and had sold out
at good prices and was about to return
to Illinois. Whitman was selling q
horse and slapped it with his hand q
couple Of times to demonstr ate its
g%entleness, when the animal suddenly
wheeled and kicked him in the face,
gouging out an eye, breaking his Jaw
In two places and otherwise batteriug
up his countenance. Whitman died
as the result of his injuries and the
body was taken back to Illinois.
HELENA. July 15.-Great gains in
the number OF acres assessed in Mon.
taua counties. compared with the acre.
age assessed . year ago, 10 shown in
reports being prepared by ]. J. Ryan,
clerk OF the state board of examiners.
With one exception every county
shows . substantial gain in acreage.
and most of them show gains in live.
stock and personal property.
GREAT FALLS, July Is. Victor
Scott and George. Burns we're arrested
here early this morning charged with
the robbery of Hirshberg's store at
Conrad, which occurred q few nights
ago, when merchandise amounting to
$1,000 was stolen. Some of the stolen
property was found on the men when
searched.
GREAT FALLS, July l6.-The Mis-.
souri, river executed q new freak 70.
day. The water in that stream fell a
foot and three-quarters during the
past "a hours. and IL ia ono ~ ~.