The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-06-28
MONTANA NEWS BRlEFlETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

big irrigation tunnel of the Billings
Land and Irrigation company by the
swift current, OTTO Schuster, aged ten
years, and Amelia Younger. aged 10
years, met their deaths late Yesterday
afternoon. While playing near the
bank the earth gave away, cauetog
the girl to fall, aud she caught hold OF
the boy. pulling him into the stream,
where they were swallowed up in the
big tunnel.
HELENA, June ia c%ablegram was
received today In Helena from Bishop
Carroll, who 10 in Rome, announcing
that the Rev. Father Victor Day, vicar
general OF the Helena diocese, had
been appointed domestic prelate to the
pope, an appointment next In dignity
and importance to that Of bishop. The
appointment is q reward for long and
faithful service in the church in Mon
tana. Father Day has been q priest
in Helena for 16 years.
GLASGOW, June 2o.-Deputy Sheriff
John Kimmel was stabbed Sunday
night at Saco. about 40 miles west OF
here, and is now lying at the point OF
death. He had arrested q sheep
herder named johnson and was taking
him to jail when the fellow turned on
him with a knife aud before Kimmel
could make a move in defense he got
the knife in the abdomen, laying it
open for six or eight inches. The
| officer is liz a very critical condition.
ANACONDA, June 20.-Damage esti-
mated as high as S100, 600 was done by
q rainstorm that hit this city shortly
before noon yesterda y. 1t is miracu'
lous tn at 10 lives we're lost during the
| downpour of rain and hail that cane
with the volume and ~ferceness OF q
c%loudburst. The greatest damage was
in the eastern section of the city, the
district between Oak and Ash from
Fourth to Eighth streets receiving the
brunt of the elements. Not q single
section of the city escaped damage to
q greater or less extent. Portions OF
Washoe park were destroyed on the
west, while many cellars we're flooded
ia the extreme eastern portion Of the
city.
TWIN BRIDGES, June PA number
of carloads of oats are moving out to
the Butte market. Farmers last fall
did not sell nearly all of their oats,
consequently there is q good many
carlos ads yet ia the valley. The price
being paid is said to be around Sl.20.
BUTTE, June 21.-Backing up q
light wagon to the copper tanks OF the
} Leonard mine, two young men late Mon
day morning were in the act OF load
ing up with castings when the watch
man, Joe Stevens, detected them
} Before he could apprehend the pair
they ran, leaving the horse and wag
on behind. just at present the mine
authorities have both the coveted
> castings and the horse and wagon
The men a have the outfit by o per
sonal visit.
LIBBY, June 2l.- Because the dee
come on to his ranch in droves a
night and spoil his meadow, Care.
Ferguson, residing in the southeaster
part of Lincoln county, gets up sew
eral times every night and sets OF
Roman candles to brighten the ami
= mails away. Ferguson owns q nstura
= meadow In a sparsely settled locality
where the deer are very plentiful, an
! unless he takes some action to prever
it the animals will ruin his fields in
short time. He tried various plan
- and at last purchased q supply {
= Roman candles, and then, pitching
tent in the middle of his meadow, b
= succeeded in Frightening the animal
sufficiently so that o they are NJ
80 bothersome.
,n HAvRE, June 2l.-Slim Neugard,
"a chauffeur here who has the reputatiO
It of being a speed fiend, and from who's
machine, while he was driving !
D. young Anderson was thrown out la
" Saturday and killed, had anoth'
mishap today. He a. driving h
at machine west of Havre, going at II
rate of fifty miles an hour, it WI
&c said, when he struck John Bushey
+. mule and killed it.
Or BUTTE, June 20.-As q result Of a
~ quittal of Frank w. Parker, We
known accountant of this city, on d
charge of having embezzled $50
from a New York realty company,
I'd which Parker was manager, Park
instituted suited against J. E. Oppe
heimer, M OF the men back of t
re big Symons store, for s63, 200 daI
ages. Oppenheimer is wealthy and
identified with some of the biggest d
goods interests in Butte.
u. LIVINGSTON, June 2l.-Overcome