Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-02-07
Montana Mention.

OF the term was adopted at the cleo
ton iu Missoula last saturday.
1t is reported that Fort Shaw will be
abandoned during the coming summer
aud tina, new post will be built north
Of Choteau. III the vicinity Of the
Blackfoot agency.
There are thirty-hve men wintering
in the sweet Grass Hills, all making
preparations to commence washing
dirt as soon as water is available in
the spring. Some quartz has already
been discovered in the diggings.
Clara l.. Clinton; known in Butte rs
Madame Aimee, n fortune teller, has
brought an action in the district court
of the second Judicial district, against
the city of Butte, to recover the sum
of SIS, 900 us general damages for suf-
ferings of body and mind" and $3.50
special damages for medical attend
ance, etc. She fell in hole in the
street.
A carp fifteen inches long and
weighing three pounds, was on exhi-
bition at w. q. Preuitt's store this
morning. II was killed by some men
cutting ice on the pond at Hundley d
Preuitt's ranch. 1t is one Of "A hun
dred placed in the pond ayear ago last
November. They were thea very
young and about al inch and half
long. The size and weight Of the dead
one shows how they have tiourisbed
In Montana waters.
A few days ago Court Sheriff, of
Canyon Ferry, took twelve head of
calves to the river to drink, and cut
hole in the ice as was the custom of
his hired man, and being busy turned
about something else, when after some
minutes his attention was called TO
calls head bobbing up and down in
the current If the open water below.
and turning to his herd all had taken
drink except two and disappeared
beneath the ice.-Rocky Mountain
Husbandman.
The heathens on Galena street, Butte
were in high feather Thursday. The
high rollers" were gambling high
for Chinamen) and money changed
hands every moment. Every gambl-
ing table in their quarters was sur
rounded with anxious betten and cur
ious lookers-on. The Joss house was
visited by scores Of white men and
: women who wanted to see the heather
+. god in all his glory. All the delicscies
known to the Orientals were spread in
their several eating houses, and opium
smoking was INDUCED in in the sleep
ing apartments. Ii was n gala day for
the Butte John.
Friday morning, sheriff Sullivan,
OF Butte, went to Dillon on a freight
train and at 1890 o'clock he returned
with f. G. Letter. Sheriff Jones re-
ceived the telegram at Milrose, telling
him to arrest Letter. When the train
arrived at Dillon, the prisoner, who
had already been arrested, was lodged
: in Jail, and when Sheriff sullivan ar
, rived, at $50 o'clock a. No., he took
Letter and started home at $40 o. clock.
Mr.. Letter states that he only intend
ed to go to Dillon to take rest. He
says that he had been greatly troubled
over his first arrest, and desired to get
away from the hearing Of it awhile.
He purchased ticket for Dillon, and
I. when arrested he had only about Sl4
r In his possession. During the after
a noon his boudsmen were all released /,
and the prisoner was lodged in the
a county Jail to await the action of the
r grand jury.
h Tuesday last, Charley Jennings, a
territorial prisoner confined in the
county Jail at White Sulphur Springs
owing to the territorial prison at Deer
y Lodge being full, made n bold strike
h for liberty. Taking advantage OF the
d jailor's absence he broke through the
e bars Of the cage, (E. Pauley 4 Co.'s
d PATENT erawled through the transom
+ over the door in the jail building,
e armed himself with the turkeys re-
a volver and belt Of cartridges, and ap'
= propriating Under Sheriff Walwork's
: schans, overcoat and gloves, saddled
up his (Walwork's) horse, which was
: in stable near by, mounted and rode
away in broad daylight. unmolested
! and unsuspected. A number saw him
ride leisurely away. His exit from
the cage was made through couven-
lent hole broke in the side Of the cor
ridor by means of an iron bar and .
|. piece OF gas pipe used about the sink.
: The bar Wa one ussd IN riveting the
cages together. and has lain ON top Of
the same. bus out of reach Of the pris-
: oners. With this instrument the lat
: !. tice work of the jail was snapped Oh
! like pipe stems, and hole made sufka-
. Gent to allow . man to pass out with
e ease. The bar was ouly AZ inch In
, dimaeter and shout i've feet 10 length.
i The Stats Of the cage, which are hall
4 an inch thick. two inches In width
L and made of several kinds of metal.