The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-05-27
MONTANA NEWS BRIEFLETS
A Budget Of Readable Short Items
From Various Parts of the State.

r ouo9et OF READABLE Short Items
From Various Parts Of the State.
Butte, May 19.-Charles Reinhart,
one of the best known carpenters in
the city was instantly killed today
when he fell off the fourth floor of
the Hennessy annex building into a
lightwell 80 feet below. The man was
foreman of a carpenter crew that
was tearing up the roof of the build
ing.
Butte, May 19.-Thirteen students
of the Montana school of mines &C
companied by President E. j. Bowman
and two other members of the faculty
departed last night for Lead, S. D., to
study practical mining in the Black
Hills district. The students will make
a two weeks investigation of methods
used there. They will return for grad
uation here.
Billings, May ia hose cart, not
a hearse, will, at his own dying re-
quest tomorrow morning bear to its
final resting place the body of Alder
man Frank Kihm of this city, who died
in a Minnesota hospital following an
operation. The deceased alderman
was chairman of the fire committee of
the city council and was intensely de-
voted to the welfare of the firemen.
They will escort the body to the grave.
Billings, May 19.-For the purpose
of driving "deadbeats" from Montana,
or compelling them to reform and pay
their bills, the Montana Retail Mer-
chants association has adopted a plan
proposed by ]. E. Kurtz, secretary
and general manager of Yegen Bros,
of Billings and Butte. This contem.
plates the establishment of a credit
bureau, the preliminary details of
which are now being arranged through
which the credit experience of every
merchant who cares to take advantage
of it's benefits will he available for
all.
Great Falls, May 19.-Four men re-
ceived prison sentences in the district
court today, three of them having been
found guilty at trials conducted dur
ing the present jury term in Judge
Ewing's department. They were Mike
Politch, sentenced to IS months for
burglarizing a Great Northern mer-
chandise car; Walter Miami, sentenc-
ed to n year, and Emil Lampola, two
years, both for robbing a butcher at
Belt, and Archie Aker, sentenced by
Judge Leslie to five years. Aker had
been arrested May 10 after he had
forced an entrance into the Hub cloth
ing store, where he discarded his old
clothes and dOnned an entirely new
outfit from the stock. He pleaded
guilty to a charge of burglary.
K~alispell. May 20.-Two men sus.
pected of being the bandits that held
up a Great Northern train Friday
night at Rondo, Mont, are in custody
tonight at Bolton, a station 80 miles
east of the scene of the holdup. The
| prisoners will be brought here tomor.
row.
Helena, May 20.-The Montana rail-
for, the Great Northern, not later than
September 1, to maintain a depot and
agency at Ulm, Cascade county. If
dissatisfied with the business done at
that point the order permits the car
rier any time after February l, 1915,
to file a petition asking for the dis
continuance of the agency.
Judith Gap. May 2O.-It is estimated
that at least 10000 gophers bit the
dust from the time they made their
first appearance this spring up to last
| Saturday. This wholesale slaughter
was brought about by the bounty Offer
ed for gopher tails by the business
men of Judith Gap, who designated
Saturday, May Is, as the day of re-
demption, at which time nearly 10000
| tails were redeemed at one cent each.
At least double that number of the
pests were killed but scampered into
their holes before dying.
Kalispell. May 20.-Deputy Sheriff
Drake of Lincoln county was shot, per-
haps fatally, today by a man suspect
ed of being one of the robbers who
! Limited near Rondo, Mont, last Fri
day. Drake was at Troy today look
ing for a man who robbed the roads
powder house of dynamite when he
attempted to stop the suspect. The
suspect fired two bullets, one lodging
in brakes shoulder and the other in
his side. The suspect escaped but not
before Drake put a bullet into the leg
| of the fleeing man.
Dillon, May 20.-The worst hail
| storm of the year visited Dillon yester.
day just after the noon hour and beat
down with terrific force for 20 minutes
stripping the trees of their new leaves
and buds in many instances, and 9TH
erwise doing minor injury. Fortunate.
ly the grain in this section is hardly
far enough advanced for the hail to do
serious injury. although the sprouts
were stripped from alfalfa plants in
some sections. The hail struck the
valley only in places and Dillon SEEM
| ed to be the choice of the storm. Hail
was piled up for six inches in the door