Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1889-02-28

Ed Anderson and Ira Dodge who were
furnished with money by our citizens and
ordered to arrest the men engaged ia killing
elk in the Madison Basin. returned on Sat
! urday with two men named Gates aud Lo-
winski. They were bound over in the sum
of $50 each. an amount which they read
, lily furnished. Thrre are others engaged in
the same business. who could not he cap
turcd. Couri-r.
T.. e. Waters. Of the Park association.
was in Livingston last week and informed
AN Enterprise reporter that "a hotel wac
to he built at Grand canyon. II will con
tain POO rooms aud all the modern con
venience-. 4 steamboat is to he placed
upon the lake To accommodate forty per-
sons. aud hotel is to he built on the lake.
Mr.. Waters irit for Washington this week
ia the interest "i The as-oeiaiion.
The ranch of John Tinker deputy clerk
of the district court. which is located n Few
mile. west of Billings. was the scene oi a
coniagration ABOUT noon last SUNDAY
which destroyed the barns. implements.
sheds. thirty tons of hay, and all other
buildings except the house. The live stock
cont aimed IN the buildings was saved. but
almost entire list ri farming implements
Figures in the loss. The origin oi he fir. il
unknown. The io-s IL est mated at : 900
with ne insurance. The blow TAILS heavily
on the owner. -t;azettr.
Dan Donahue. u miner employed in one
III the l.ee mountain mines. at l,imini. fell
invent weight ie~t dow" stopc, sustaining
u broken leg aud some body bruises. lie
WAS standing On some staging stopping out
II chunk ni ore which weighed about 600
pounds. The rock feel Ia the II ~ gng. break.
ing. ~ l'onahue supposed, bat one board.
Ns he stepped ON brace to cont inue his
work the brace savcway as wcll rs u guam
THY al rock aud D"nahn~ irll To- the bot
tom. u distance ri heavyweight feet, with
the above result. lie was brought To IIel
ena and taken To- the Grand central. where
br. Morris attended him. independent.
The bule, oi he Hue Jay min. ut Butte
burst on the afternoon Of Eeh. . aud mar
rowly missed killing live men. The boiler
was blown 100 lee, direct through the com
panys office, which was rntirely destroyed.
The gallows frumc was blown iirely away.
Ths five men Who were working at the
mouth Of the shaft narrowly escaped death
and all were injured. Jim Met 'rimmcn was
the worst hurt sustaining II severe scalp
wound. and is now at the hospital. lie was
struck On he head by an anvil which was
blown sixty feet by the explosion. bu, he
will recover. The accident is explicablc,
as the boiler was ut low pressure when the
explosion occurred.
On Monday there was an interesting pre-
liminary trial held before United States
Commissioner Bates. 1t was the ease in
which the United States. through Mai. +. l..
Briscoe. Indian agent at the Crow agency.
appeared as plaintiff and Al Morrison, Ber-
nard Bravo and James b. Cooper as de
PENDANTS. the two former being on trial for
returning to the Crow reservation after
having once been elected and forbidden To
return, and the latter for cutting timber on
the Grow Indian reserve and removing the
same from the Indian lands. The trial was
of rather Il short duration. District Attor-
htN NHlllil Appearing nor iht Plhihiih ali
Glib \. Lane for the defendants. aud the re
suit was that the defendants were hound
over To- appear before the United States
court ut Bezcman next May.-tazettc.
\ Butte special to- the lndependen, of the
2lsi inst. says: An accident which may
result fatally happened in the main shaft !
at tlark's Fraction. which lies between the !
Alice aud Magma Charta. yesterday after /
noon. The foreman, James Curran. in
company with n couple Of visitors named /
Michael Barrey and Albert Boyle, boarded |
the cage to show them through the mine
The engineer, "A brother 81 the foreman. was |
at the throttle lowering them, and con 1
trary to orders used the brake instead Of |
the clutch. When the cage was within $50 /
feet of the bottom the brake slipped aud ,
the cage dropped the iuli distance. The /
foreman sustained a broken thigh. crushed /
hip aud his spine was seriously affected. !
The visitors were injured internally aud /
were carried Ia the hospital in u bleeding
coudit ION