The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-05-27
MONTANA BRIEFlETS.
SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE

| SHOHJ ITEMS Of NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE STATE
What Has Happened in Montana Dur.
ing the Past Few Days
Butte, May 21.-United States Dis
trict Attorney B. X. Wheeler yester-
day filed two suits against the Great
Northern Railway company, asking
that the company be fined $1,000 for
keeping a telegraph operator on duty
for more than nine hours, in violation
of the federal law. 1t is alleged that
last November, an operator worked
more than a nine hour shift, and that
the same thing occurred on April 90.
Helena, May 21.-Thomas Cruise,
the millionaire banker of this city,
and father of Mary Margaret Cruise
Cotter, again was made defendant in
a suit brought here in the district
court by Harry Cotter of Spokane,
husband of his daughter. In this
suit, damages are asked in the sum
of 100000 for alleged alienation of
affections. Mary Cruise Rae, aunt of
| Mrs. Cotter, also is named as a de-
PENDANT.
Butte, May 21.-While about to en-
ter his home On South Montana street
at l o'clock this morning, John Toles
narrowly escaped death at the hands
of a lone highwayman who dealt him
a powerful blow or the head with a
blunt instrument, dropping him un.
conscious. While Toles was senseless
on the ground, the bandit went
through his pockets, securing 500.
Fearing his victim was dead the ban.
! dit escaped.
Kalispell. May 21.-Ester Peterson
Is years old, fell owe the dam across
! the Big Fork river at the Big Fork
power station this afternoon, and
drowned in the rapids. The body was
not recovered tonight. She was with
two other girls and three boys who
were crossing the river a short dis
lance above the dam, walking on a
| slippery log boom. All three girls
lost their footing and fell and one Of
the boys went in, %'rescuing two. The
| l CuCI wi 6hA was C"SPt oSCl tiC
dam before she could be reached.
Great Falls, May 22.-Word has
reached here of a premature explosion
of dynamite today in the McVey camp
of the Sun river reclamation workers,
by which six men were injured, one
fatally and another possibly fatally.
| The camp is located in the San Juan
river canyon, some distance from COM
munication. The men were at work
in a cut. McVey has a contract from
the government.
Billings, May 22.-Throwing himself
on the rails in front of the night train
from the west. three miles west of
Laurel, a man, believed to be Thur
man T. Young, homesteader of Bould-
err, vas literally ground to pieces early
this evening. The locomotive and four
coaches passed over his body before
the train could be stopped. An in
. quest will be held tomorrow. Papers
found in his vest pocket offer the only
clue to his identity.
Butte. May pa weeks banquet
ing and joy riding on the part of a
middle aged man, who represented
himself a part of the time as the
Count of ~Falkansein" a member of
the royal family of Berlin, and at 9TH
ers as II. j. Holden. cousin of the
count vas interrupted Thursday by
his arrest on a charge of passing a
number of worthless checks. When
confronted by his victims, the count"
admitted that his lame is Hamilton
burg.
Billings, May 22.-Word reached
here today Of the drowning in the
Tongue river, near Decker, Mont. OF
William Mckinley, a rancher. and two
of his children, a girl. aged 6, and a
boy aged 9. Mckinley neglected to
adjust his ropes properly in crossing
the river on a ferry boat connecting
his house and garden, and the boat
overturned. The bodies have not been
recovered.
Kalispell. May 22.-An amount OF
road work that no one has attempted
to translate into figures of value was
done on Flathead county highways
by farmers and city residents, work
ing as volunteers on the first Good
Roads day. So successful was the
project that everyone is now talking
of making it an annual holiday. Gov
ernor Stewart, Secretary of State An
derson and State Highway commits
sioner Metlen visited each of ths
camps. They We're delighted with the
unanimous turnout, and Commission
er Metlen was expert authority fol
the statement that the work done was
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