The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-25

ANNSuA OO AL AVG" III n O1 JIC 01uS1Oys
ment and education Of indians by the
reclamation service. Last year the
service gave employment to 4lO adult
Indians out of a total of 500 on the
Blackfeet reservation, paving them
for their work and that of their teams
100000. MIR. Savage said there is
much interest in the east in Montana
and the people are anxious to learn all
they can about the state.
Lewistown, Feb. 20.-Judge Ayres
in the district court today sentenced
Edward Tanquary to life imprison.
ment for the killing of John Craw.
ford, on account of the latter's atten-
tions to Tanquary's pretty young wife.
The jury found TanQuary guilty of Sc
Ond degree murder.
Helena, Feb. 20.-An auction sale
of firearms, seized by the game war
den's department, will be held Satur-
day afternoon at the state house. The
weapons are those confiscated from
aliens and consist of So revolvers, 20
shotguns and 10 rifles. The whole lot
will be offered first and If there is no
bid, they will be sold in small lots.
Anaconda, Feb. 2O.-Joseph Ervath
died at st. AIMS hospital this morn
ing from injuries received at Browns
quarry yesterday. .Ervath was engag-
ed In shoveling rock from the foot of
the quarry into car. The rock had
been broken down by blast and was
along the slope of the hill. Ervath
was In STOPPING position when a
stone bounded down the slope and
struck him on the side of the head.
He was picked up by his companions
but was unconscious.
Billings, Feb. REORGANIZATION has
been perfected of one of the largest
live stock feeding companies in east.
ern Montana through the filing of ar
ticles of incorporation of a 100000
concern the stock of which is held by
Lee Simonsen, Harry A. Snyder, Lulu
Simonsen and Lucille Snyder. Mr..
SimOnsen is one of the heaviest live
stock operators in this section of the
state but has heretofore devoted his
attention to grazing on large scale.
Lewistown, Feb. 20.-Judge Ayres
made very plain the policy he intends
to pursue toward violators of the anti
gambling law this afternoon when
four of the five men just indicted by
the grand jury pleaded guilty, the
fifth asking for a delay of few days.
The court fined the defendants 500
each and imposed penalty Of 100
days in the county Jail, in addition.
The Jail sentence was Immediately
suspended, but the court announced
that ii any of the men were caught
gambling in this county in the future
the Jail sentence would Immediately
be enforced without further cere.
mony.
Helena, Feb. 29.-Canals, distribut-
ing systems and diversion works on
the Milk River irrigation project will
be completed in the spring of 1915,
the st. Mary storage works in 1916,
and the first division of the Sun River
project, covering $4,000 acres on the
Greenfield bench, in time to deliver
water in 1917 according to H. N. Saw
age, supervising engineer of this dis
trict of the reclamation service, who
has just returned from an official visit
to Washington. Splendid progress is
being made by the reclamation SER
vice ON the building of the automobile
highway in the Glacier National Park
to Lake McDermott, where the Great
Northern has begun the construction
of fine 264-room hotel.
Lewistown, Feb. 21.-Mystery sur
rounding the disappearance of Charles
Sundberg, January 21, was solved
when his body was found in a storage
closet of local church. Sundberg
disappearded in his night garb during
a delirium and it is believed he made
his way to the church and there died.
Great Falls, Feb. 21.- Twenty.six
indictments were returned this morn
ing by the grand jury in the first re.
port since it went into session last
Monday. The jury will be occupied
for several more days, probably fin.
ishing up their work on Thursday and
making from 25 to 30 more indict-
ments. A venire of 60 names for a
trial jury on March 9 has been sum.
mOned.
Butte, Feb. Platter more than
hours of desperate work,
the two entombed miners at the South.
ern Cross mine in Georgetown, John
J. Sullivan and John Hart, both of
Butte, have not yet been reached. AL.
though $50 men employed in the mine
have formed themselves into relay
groups of rescue workers, they are yet
separated by many feet of solid rock
and dirt from the point where the two
men were buried 100 feet below the
surface. The cave-in reached clear to
the top and incessant smaller caves
are delaying the rescue work and max.
ing it extremely dangerous.
Butte, Feb. 21.-One hundred petit
tions are being circulated in Butte to.
day and are receiving many sigma
lures of parents of school children