The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-12-10

twO men started out with the purpose
OF holding up an Oregon ven street
car in order to secure money to pur-
chase a counterfeiting plant.
Great Falls, Dec. 6.-George Knerr's
saloon at Geyser was wrecked by the
explosion which opened the safe from
which yeggs got about $500 cash and
valuable papers last night, according
TO telephone information received by
Sheriff Kommers today. Representa-
tives Of the sheriff's Office were dis
patched to the scene to Investigate
The cash box of the safe was found
a distance from the scene. Every
thing indicates the job vas done by
clever hands and that more than n
bandit was engaged.
Butte, Dec. 6.-Gaining momentum
at every turf of the drivewheels, two
runaway Great Northern engines,
forced down the sharp grade between
Jefferson and Alhambra Springs by
35 loaded ore cars and a caboose,
jerked the cars with frightful momen
tum and after some OF the train crew,
intent on saving their lives, had jump
| ed, the 35 cars gained such frightful
speed that they catapulted i've the
embankment with their human freight
a torn, twisted and hope;essly wreck
| ed mass. Five men were injured, two
fatally. Failure of the airbrakes to
work is the reason unofficially assign
ed for the accident.
Lewistown, Dec. S.-The farmers of
Fergus county do not seem to take to
flax very kindly. The faxseed crop
this season is the smallest for three
years, although the yield appears to
have been about up to the average of
past years. The estimates show that
not much over 100000 bushels of flax
was harvested, less than half the total
of last season. The production of bar
ley, on the other hand, shows a very
heavy increase and the quality of the
grain produced averaged high.
Butte, Dec. S.-All records for pay
days in Butte were broken today when
the Anaconda Copper company began
to distribute it's pay checks for the
month of November. The company's
district for the month aggregated ST.
10000, which is the largest sum dis
bursed by the company in Butte in
wages during any month. The Ana
conda company's payroll for the mines
and surface men aggregate $4,000 a
day. November's payroll was made
up on a basis of 1915 for miners.
Lewistown, Dec. S.-F. H. Piercy,
convicted last week Of forgery in con.
: @nection with a swindling scheme for
, the sale of alleged oil land locations
+ in Natrona county, Wyoming, was to.
, day sentenced by Judge Roy Ayres, to
, fourteen years in the pen. This is
4 the heaviest penalty ever inflicted in
this judicial district for a like crime
Piercy and his associate cleaned w
twelve hundred dollars in a short time
here, and Jared even better in Other
parts of the state.
d Billings, Dec. AT the feed yards
OF the Billings sugar factory more
n than 100000 sheep and 1000 cattle arr
d being fattened for market on bee
a pulp, a by-product in the making o
e sugar. Some Of the sheep were re
a Gently grazed on lands of the For
e Peck Indian reservation which wa;
opened to settlement a few week
d ago, having been purchased in larg'
Is numbers by local buyers. 1t has beel
found that the pulp is valuable as
i, lat producer and stock prepared 70
ty market on it bring top prices. TIL,
n winter shipments to market will be
V. gin the week before christmas an,
nluch OF the meat output will go t
is Portland and other coast cities.