Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-01-03
Montana Mention.
Billings has an ice skating rink.

Billings has an Ice skating rink.
Wife beating is becoming epidemic
in Butte.
The Helena building association
has made loans as high Is IL per cent.
1t has proved very successful scheme.
One H. w. Gray or William Gray
is wanted by J. NJ. Gray, of sutton,
Neb. There is money awaiting his APP
pearance.
The business men of Butte are
greatly annoyed by forged checks.
Several arrests have been made and
still the nuisance continues.
An insane woman in Helena has
been cured by mesmeric influences,
after having been given up as incur
able by all the physicians in the town.
J. b. Matt. of Musselshell. and Jack
Guy, of the same place, INDUCED in q
Christmas fight. The trouble was
caused by Guy not attending MATHS
dance. .-
G. II. Perkins brakeman on the
Utah q Northern. was friyhtfully
mangled and killed last Monday by
being run over by a train Of cars near
Silver Bow Junction.
Sam Wo, a we'll known Chinese
laundryman OF Helena. is reported to
have followed the example set by
Alderman McDougald and skipped
the town. He Is further alleged to
have left with all clothing entrusted
to his care by patrons aud without
effecting settlements with his credit
ors. He had heard that the Chinese
must go" and he went.
Sheriff Templeton, OF Livingston ar
rived In Billings Wednesday after
noon with Louis Greenwood In his
custody, arrested on charge of grand
larceny. For some time past, Bill
Lee, s. L. Holiday, Dabney Bros. Il
Daley, stockmen Of the upper Yellow
stone. have noted the mysterious dis
appearance Of their cattle. Watch
was set on the movements Of Mr.. 20
Greenwood, who was suspected from
selling beef at three cents per pound.
and the outcome was his arrest a.
above mentioned.
f. Z. Fsrmsn. second deputy dis
trict clerk and coroner of Missoula
county, skipped Saturday for parts
unknown. He had been gambling
for mouths past. making heavy Losses.
Aside from his official trusts, he was,
or had been, local representative Of
the Corbin Banking company. hsndl-
ing considerable money. as this COM
pany was loaning money on improve
ments on ranches In the vicinity.
The amount Of his defalcation 10 un-
known. He Is reported to have gone
west, probably TO Portland,
Plait Burr. the newspaper man,
sends re-assuring word from Haley,
Idaho. to his bondsnen In Butte. He
says that the late trouble that he had
in HALEY arose entirely from the fact
that the Butte gentleman who had
authorized him To draw on him had
left for New York before the DRAFT
reached Butte; that as soon ~ the mis-
understanding was explained he was
released and Is now q free man. He
says further that he Is right on the
point OF making $500, with which
he will come back to Butte and face
all his troubles. Some of his bonds-
men are still skeptical. however.
The Jail at Benton was successfully
broken on Christmas night by one
Charles Schmidt. alias Gahan, one Of
the prisoners. He was implies ted In
the forgery by which the FtrsE Ma
tional bank there was victimised o few
months ago. After the jAilef had
made his rounds Christmas night,
Schmidt slipped the combination lock
Of the cage with stick, unlocked the
doors OF his and other prisoners' cells
and bored hole through the beick
wall OF the building and made his
escape. He invited two oshes psison-
er to accompany him. but they rs-
fused. On his insisslLg however. they
accompanied him down town 10 ret
drink and returned 10 their cells be-
fore the jailor' knew anything Of
the escape. Schmidt preserved the
liberty he had striven for. and ~ last
accounts was stili II large. siI "
.r.i.r Hssthsn chisse. Il
The Chinese population Of the town
do not seem 10 pull tossfhsr In that
friendly way 10 which they SeGht.
Asho1 time back there was so0e h.
tie trouble amous them oyer . petty