The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-06-04
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.

signment OF new maps. A shipment
IT 500 wa. received apd more are ex.
p.cted In the hear future. Al fast a.
possible ali applications for the maps
will be filled.
HELENA, May q The young Mems
Christian Association fund which
started last night at $50, 900 has in
creased to S42. 900 this noon, when
fourteen soliciting teams reported TO
headquarters. The campaign for
500, 600 closes next Monday night.
aud the promoters are confident there
will be no trouble In securing it..
LEw1sTowN, May q. william
Sullivan. one of q gang of strangers
who have been hanging around ssl'
looms suspected of awaiting opportun.
tiles to flch money from intoxicated
men today pleaded guilty 10 . charge
OF robbery and was given q year in
prison. The police have arrested two
others for similar work.
HELENA, May 27.-Takine advsn.
tage OF the confusion IN the recrea.
ton yard incident to the building of .
new addition, four girls confined In
the House of the Goud Shepherd es.
capped Sunday noon and their absence
was not noted until nightfall. Moth
ing has been seen OF them since, al
though police throughout the state
have been notified.
CONRAD, May 27.-U. S. Brennan,
q rancher living eight miles south.
east of this city, gave his life to saw
his team OF horses this afternoon and
that after they had bolted and ran
away with him. Brennan was drown.
ed in the reservoir of the irrigation
project in about IL feet of water, the
body being recovered some three
hours after the accident The 12.year-
old con Of the victim was q witness to
drowning but vas helpless to aid his
father whom he saw sink to his death
after the horses that had caused the
trouble were liberated and SWAN to
safety.
BOHEMIAN, May 27.-The county
commissioners OF Gallstin county
have made application for convict
labor for the county roads, and the
convicts will be put to work in Rocky
canyon. Work 10 being done on the
roads between Bozeman and Belgrade
by regular laborers under the direc.
ton the good roads committee Of the
Gsllatin Auto club. Six hundred and
seventy avedollars has been subscribed
to be used toward macadamizing q
portion of the road north of this city
on the Belgrade road.
HELENA, Mey 28.-Mrs. Ruth Mey-
er, a bride of five months, was shot
down in the stree, In front of the feder.
al building tonight by her hus-
band, Charles Meyer. Following a
quarrel in their home, Meyer, gun in
hand, drove her from the house, FIR
ing as she a about five yards ahead
of him. With the fourth shot she fell
screaming in the gutter.
VICTOR. May 28.-The present high
water in western Montana, which fol-
lowed the warmth of the past few days
caused the first death by drowning in
this part OF the state, when James
White, aged 81, was swept from q
ferry In the Bitter Root river. He at
tempted to cross the channel by means
Of = ferry. The force OF the current
was 60 strong that bic ferry was swept
away.
MIssoULA, May 28.-With the Mis-.
soula. Bitter Root and ST. Regis riv-
ers rising rapidly, many places in
western Montana r threatened with
foods. The worst damage 10 reported
from the Saltese where two buildings
were washed into the river early this
morning. A bridge In this city over
Rattlesnake creek went Out this norm
ing and = number of others are threat
ened.
HELENA, May %. The statue Of
Colonel Sanders probably will be un.
yelled with appropriate ceremonies,
July 4, according to q suggestion
made At q meeting of the state board
of examiners yesterda y. Members of
the board state tn at the statue will be
placed in the rOtuuda of the capitol
building, providing the floor is sutfi.
GENTLY heavy to carry it. In case this
is found not to be the case, the floor
will be strengthened In order to sus-
tain it..
BILLINGS, May 2S.-After making a
record flight from Billings to Park
City, DR.. Frank j. Bells aeroplane
engine ven dead at az altitude of
1900 feet and he volplaned to the
earth without mishap. Later, 10 max
ing q flight over a small irrigation