The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-07-20
MONTANA NEWS.

c'uCHedSC IToH FOrC benton, with Wm
T. Turner as postmaster.
JEFF Sharp, an old-time Montaniar
died at his home, near Toston, Tuesda,
evening, from the effects of in njuries sus;
tanned by the kicking of broncho.
The examination at Missoula of Finle,
and Matt, the half breeds, for killing tn
Indian, Benway, resulted in their ac
quittal, all the evidence going to shoy
that the killing was justifable.
A: V. Ragsdale, prominent citizen o
Spokane Falls, was accidentally shot i,
the foot at Vermillion Creek, Montana
on the 10th, rendering amputation O
the injured member necessary.
On Friday of last week miner name6
Pete McGill, employed in the Granite
Mountain mine at Philipsburg, fell dowr
the manway to the bottom Of the shaft
distance of ninety feet, and was ia
tally injured.
Patrick Lyons, the man who struck
Thomas McGoogan on the head with ;
char at Butte last week, infiicting fata
injuries, has been admitted to bail il
the sum OF $1,000, to answer the charge
OF manslaughter.
William B. Courtwright, who was sen
fenced in the fall of 1883, in Jefferson
county, to one year in the penitentiarv
ON charge of manslaughter. has been
pardoned by Governor White and re-
stored to full citizenship.
A. j. Fisk, grand commander, has is
sued a circular letter to the Knight
Templars throughout Montana, calling
the annual conclave to meet in Helena
on Thursday, October 29th, the day pre-
ceedlng the meeting of the grand lodge
at Great Falls.
A wreck on the Montana Central oc-
Cured near Wickes on Sunday. Three
carloads OF cattle were precipitated from
bridge, distance of fifty feet. Thir-
teen Of the animals were killed The
wreck caused a delay of several hours in
the running of trains,
Bryson, the murderer. confined in the
Boulder Jail, was last week the recipient
OF several religious tracts from a ladv
in Portland, Oregon. accompanied by a
letter unsigned, exhorting him to pre-
pare his soul for the great beyond and
to meet her in heaven.
Under Sheriff Thomes on the 10Th
served writs of attachment on the Gil
max mill and mining property, on Divide
creek, to satisfy claims of $1,000 held by
Butte parties. The five stamp mill i'm
medlately ceased dropping stamps and
will hang up for the present.
John S. Mills, having resigned his DO
sltlon as editor of the Deer Lodge New
Northwest to accept position in Hell
ena, has been succeeded by L. P. Bowen.
formerly associate editor of the Leaven-
worth (Kansas) Times, and more re-
Gently editor of the Helena Journal.
Nose Miller, a cowboy working for the
Circle Bar company, was arrested on the
llth at Fort Maginnis by an under sher-
III OF Fergus county, charged with a
murder committed in 1884 near Merid-
ian, Basque county, Texas. He will be
held at Lewistown until the arrival of a
Texas officer, who has been advised of
his capture.
The body of an unknown man was
found on the track Saturday last near
Hardy, on the Montana Central railroad.
badly mangled. He was s,1rnsod to
have come from Helena, and was irving
to steal a ride to Great Falls. A man
tramping with him heard him say that
he was a piano tuner. His body was
buried at Cascade.
A vast amount of damage from forest
fires is reported near Basin, on the Mon
tana Central road. Five thousand cords
OF wood are said to have been consumed
and the flames are still uncontrolled.
The fires in the Elkhorn mountains are
also burning tiercely, but have spread
away from the wood camps and are do
ing no damage except to standing tim
ber.
At Rumsey, a small town near Phil
ipsburg, on the 11th, Charles Francis
was fatally shot by Ben Hill. Hill is a
wood contractor for the Bucket com
pany and Francis was employed as n
wood hauler. They quarrelled' about a
bill and to square the account Hill per
forated Francis heart with a bullet.
After killing his man Hill went to Phil
lpsburg and gave himself up. He says
that he killed Francis in self defense,
and that he did not shoot until Francis
had fired at him several times.
About 100 italian laborers on con
struction work of the Gallatin branch.
SIX miles from Butte, demanded that
two OF their countrymen recently dis
charged for laziness be taken back or
they would quit work in body, where
upon the contractor discharged the en-
tire outfit and replaced them with Amer
lean laborers. These dagos were i'm
ported from st. Paul. They grew
stormy soon after their discharge and
made threats of violence. Contractor
Drum, fearing trouble, went to Butte
and got Sheriff Lloyd and three deputies
to go out and keep the peace. The Off
GERS found the Italians excited but
peaceable and willing to go away with
out making any trouble.
The ranchmen of the Boulder valley
were last week circulating petition to
the governor, which was being extens-
lively signed, protesting against the ac-
tion of the managers of Central Park, on
the Montana Central road, in damming
up the waters of the Boulder to form
their artificial lake. The filling of the
lake at this season of the year, when
there was scarcely moro than 100 inches
of water in the stream, has cut off the
supply entirely from the irrigating
bitches and placer fumes along the val
ley, and has already caused great dam
age. They also express fear of the
of flood from the breaking
Of the dam with the first freshet, and
the consequent destruction of life and
There is some talk of apply
ing for an injunction prohibiting the ac-
cumulatlon of such a body of water at
the head of the narrow valley.
Miss Fannie M. Vandervoort, en-
ployed in the law Office of Col j. D. Nc
Cutcheon at Helena, was accidentally
shot Saturday afternoon. It appears
that Arthur McCutcheon. aged Is, re-
cent graduate of the Poughkeepsie mill
tary academy, and Miss Vandervoort
were in the law library, where the lady
usually performed her work. The young
man was exhibiting to her pistol, which
she asked to be permitted to examine.
He held it toward her and when she
reached to take it teasingly drew it back.
She said: Oh, if you won't let me see
it. you need not He again offered it
to her, when with quick motion she
grasped the pistol, self cooking, 80
calibre Smith Il Wesson, and it was dis
charged. The bullet penetrated the
right eye ball and passed back of the
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