The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-04-13
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State,

A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
DILLON, April S.IThe Essler lake
dam In the mountains up the Rattle
snake creek, from which Dillon secures
its water supply, went out this after
noon and q raging torrent OF water is
tearing down the Rattlesn AXE valley.
1t is not known here at this time
whether any loss of stock will occur
or not At the Woods livestock ranch
on the creek, where several hundred
sheep we're drowned three years ago,
when q smaller dam broke.
LIVINGSTON, April cit is report
ed here that Jas. A. Murray has sold
Hunters Hot Springs to the Northern
Pacific Railway company. The price
paid has not been made public, nor
will any Of the officials of the North.
ern Pacific or Mr.. Murray himself,
admit that the sale has been made.
Nevertheless, the information is re-
liable and it may be put down for q
certainty that the resort has been die.
posed of.
BUTTE, April 9.-Dau Shea and
Harry F. Meeker we're killed instantly
by the premature explosion of fifty
sticks of powder % they were at work
IS feet above the 1,200. foot level of the
Moonlight mine at three O'Clock yes
terday morning. Both bodies we're
horribly mutilated and 1t was some
time before the pieces of Meeker's
head and trunk could be assembled.
Shea's hands and legs we're blown of
and his face was disfgured,
LEw1sTowN, April 9.--The biggest
landseekers' excursion of the season
thus far, arrived today over the Mil.
waukee, the crowd being 90 large it was
necessary to u the train in here in
two sections. The visitors are now
scattered all over the basin, examin.
ing ranches, and q considerable num-.
Der of them will arrange to return
here and reside permanently.
BUTTE, April "a record in fence
building was established last night
when 200 laborers, working under or.
ders of Superintendent J.. G. Adams
of the Boston & Montana company,
erected q four-foot fence around a IS.
acre tract OF land located just south of
the Butte & London company's shaft
in Meaderville, in about eight hours.
Incidentally, six or seven Italians,
who attempted to jump the tract, have
learned that the old saying, ION
again, off again." is peculiarly adapt
ed to themselves. The mining com.
pany put the men to work AZ 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and the fence
around the 45-acre tract, a little more
than q mile long, was completed It
about IL p. m.
BUTTE, April l1.-After agreeing to
changes in the plans for the construc-
of commissioners let the contra at to the
Sound Construction and Engineering
company of Seattle, Wash, for $780,
600. Work is to start just as soon
as the offices in the old building are
removed to the ja~il-probably within
the next 20 days.
HAMILTON, April ll.-Another i'm.
portant honor was paid Bitter Root
celery this week when H. J. Titus, su-
perintendent of the dining car service
of the Northern Pacific railway, con.
t racted with W. B. Lamphier, the
"Celery King OF Montana" for all
his next seasons crop, including pre-
vious contracts, for use on the sixty
dining cars operated by the company.
GLEND1vE, April 1l.-Due to the
unusually warm weather of the past
few weeks and the unusually heavy
growth of grass last season, prairie
fires are quite numerous In Dawson
county. One big fire yesterday is re-
ported from the Belle prairie country,
about fourteen miles northe asst of
Glendive, where the flames started in
the grass and swept over q wide
stretch of country, crossing the hills
toward the Yellowstone river and
burning down to Harpater's pasture
land on the river fats.
Proposed Changes In School Laws.