The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-12-07
HeRRIBLE mUnpER.
meeting ofthe T~erriterial Board or Can.
vassers.
H"Ftner Particular About the Accident
At Wickes.
M"kinnfs' Majority.
Especial to the MINER.l

HEELNA, Dec. 8, 1880.
Alessrs. Shipper, Hodgins, Mike Duvall and
J.J. Bowles, the parties who succeeded i'm
erecting the capture of Pelkey, the murderer
oi Charles Tackle, called at our office to-day
and informed lis of the murder Of Henry
flanagan, which occurred about the first of
october last at his cabin on the Missouri river
near Round Butte, and between Fort Peck
and the mouth Of the Musselshell. The
oody was discovered by a hunter named Jack
Brown, who happened to be in the neighbor-
hood OF the cabin, and whose suspicion of
foul play was aroused by the discovery of
traces of blsod upon the river bank. A
search was instituted which resulted in find
ing the body of the murdered man in an eddy
OF the river a short distance below. The VIC
tim had been struck on the back of the head
With a club, or some other blunt instrument,
which had crushed in the skull, and the
jugular vein was afterwards cut with a pen
knife. An examination of the premises fol
lowed, and a mark made by a skif which
had landed, and numerous marks of govern
rnmen shoes in the sand were discovered.
Upon the table in the cabin were the remains
of an unfinished meal, which was laid for
three persons. The murder is supposed 10
have been committed by two soldiers who
deserted from Fort Assinabolne and passed
down the river in a skiff. Flanagan had at
the time about 5000 dollars on his person,
which is supposed to have been the motive
which led to the preparation of the crime.
The murdered man is thought to have a
father living in the Bitter Root Valley, and
it is with the hope that ibis friends may be
appraised of his sad fate that the information
was given.
About 3 o'clock this afternoon, at the Alta
Montana company's works, one Jacob Ssdy,
an e,nploye in the Krom mill, while endeavor-
ing to remove a large piece of ore from the
steel rails which it refused to pass through,
lost his balance and fell. The rolls caught
his arm and drew it in, forcing him with such
| violence upon the rolls as to break his neck,
killing him almost instantly. His arm was
almost torn from its socket, and his head and
body bruised and mangled. Mr.. Sody was a
young man, industrious and of good habits.
He has friends in the states.
The general convassing board, composed
of U. S. Marshal Botkin and Territorial
Treasurer Weston, met at the marshal's office
and in the presence of the executive proceed.
ed to canvass the votes polled for delegate at
the last general election. Except that from
Deer Lodge, all abstracts from the several
counties were found in proper form. The
Deer Lodge abstract was signed by the chair.
man only of the county board and it was
held that such abstract was not in csnformi-
ty with the law. Therefore a messenger was
dispatched to the clerk of Deer Lodge county
to procure such an abstract as the law COLI
templates shall be furnished and awaiting
the same, the board adjourned until Deem
Der 9th, then to reconvene at the office Of the
United States Marshal.
The face of the several abstracts show the
following vote to have been cast:
Martin Maginnis. 779s
w. E. Sanders. .63ol
Scattering.
Total. l4lcI
The delegate vote at the preceding cleo
ton, 1878, was 9,242.
The vote of 1880 shows an increase IN two
years of nearly 5000, or exactly stated, 493S