The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-08-24

American game before returning to Old
England.
The Gardiner Shooting Affair.
When Judge Budlong reached Gardiner
on Tuesday for the purpose of holding
an inquest in the case of the man John
Zutavcrn who had been killed by George
Weber on Monday, he found that the body
had been buried in the cemetery at Mann
moth Hot Springs and strange to say a
number of the Gardiner people determin-
edly opposed its cxhumation for
the purpose of holding an inquest.
The dead man was an Oddfellow, they
said, and had been buried to the satisfac-
ton of the brethren of his order, and they
did not propose to have the body disin-
tered. Beside this the property Of the
deceased had been seized upon and sum-
mary administration of his estate was in
progress. He had a considerable amount
of ready cash in his possession beside
horse and saddle and other effects. The
money had been divided up and the horse
was to he sold next morning at public
auction for tie benefit of the community.
Judge Budlong kindly but firmly in
formed them that the body must be
brought to view and the property sur
rendered to him as Il public custodian.
After dispute that was only ended by
threats of arrest the body was removed
from the ground and the inquest held.
The facts developed in regard to the kill
ing were substantially the same as those
already published. 1t appeared that
Zutaven was about 26 years old, native
OF Ohio, peaceahle Wan, and pcovident
enough to have accumulated propartyto the
value of nearly $1,000. After paying the
expenses of his burial the remainder of
his property will be turned over to his re-
lations in Ohio who have been communi-
Gated with by Judge Budlong. The cor
oners jury returned q verdict that deceas-
ed had come to his death by a shot fired
intentionally by George Weber.
Vice President Fogarty and Cashier
Ward. of the First National Bank, were
kept very busy yesterday and will be
closely engaged some time yet in signing
the notes of the bank received on Weonas-
day from the Treasury Department at
Washington. We have never seen bank
note that presented a displeasing appear
ance. but these are exceptionally hand
some, not only because they are crisp and
new and still without spot or wrinkle, but
from the fact that the design, even for a
bank bill, is unusually handsome. We
trust that our readers will all have an op-
portunity of inspecting them leisurely
after they get fairly into circulation, and
shall therefore enter into no description.
The first that were signed were taken by
Rufus Hatch last Wednesday evening to
the amount Of $1,000. part of which
were Immediately bought up by the men,
bers of his party, and he himself sent one
of the avs" home to his wife in New
York to be preserved as souvenir of the
trip and visit to Livingston. The fact
that bills of local National bank of a
town eight months old are circulating
through the world is no very bad record
for the town.
One Of our wholesale liquor dealers in
forms Us that dur1nga recent business trip
to Bozeman he took orders in that town
for goods to be shipped from here to the
value Of nearly $500, and has now on the
tapis deal by which he expects to send
much larger consignment to Eozeman.
When Livingston merchants arc already
able to sell goods across the divide it be-
gins to look as though this town is an
advantageous trading point. Still the
citizens of our sister town insist that ..thc
bottom will drop out Of Livingston inside
0f six mnnths.