The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-11

money at the muzxle Of a revolver. DAY.
export grabbed the weapon TO take Il
away from his a~ssailant, when 10 was dis
charged, the bullet passing through his
hand and narrowly missing his head. The
robbers becoming frightened ut the rum
pus then made their escape without secur-
ing any booty.
Mrs. John Parker. wife of a Dawson
county farmer, has started a new industry
and one that promises to be a perfect sue
cess. She has about six thousand silk
worms, which she hal carefully tended
this summer and which are now slowing
themselves away into golden cocoons
These worms have for some time past re-
quircd half n dozen baskets full of mul
berry leaves n day TO satisfy their appe-
titles. Mrs. Parker will enjoy the distinc-
ton OF being the first woman to wear a
silk dress made Of South Dakota silk.
A correspondent OF the Jamestown
Alert tells a hard story of a turkey COB
bier In his town. The aforesaid bird,
without any regard for his sex, has for n
year been possessed of "a desire To raise n
family, and none of the usual arguments
applicable to hens In like cases would per
suade his gobblcrsbip To the contrary. SO
his owner concluded to let him set. In due
time a dozen chickens rewarded his care.
The chickens were taken away as soon as
batched. The gobbler was disconsolate
and was given a secon batch Of eggs to
operate upon. Another brood is due soon
and the gobbler will be allowed to have
full control of their bringing up.
A Bismarck dispatch says the two con-
victs who escaped from the state peni-
tiary last Friday night were detected by n
couple of men early this morning attempt
ing To enter "A clothing store at Mandan.
The discoveries quietly procured arms,
determined to capture the jail birds dead
or alive, and claim the reward. Half a
dozen shots were rapidly exchanged on
10Th sides,anda after an exciting encounter
u of the prisoners was winged and car
ried back to the penitentiary on a
stretcher. The wounded man was foolish
TO attempt to escape, as he had but five
more months to serve, and now his action
Will go hard with him. The other convict,
named Wolf, who was doing a lifetime
sentence for wife murder. is still at large,
heavily armed, and says he will die before
taken back to prison.
The citizens of Bismarck, n. d., will
o be edited by n double Indian execr-
~" H'cNt WV ofiti tko luEtlt-ANo-
Head accidentally shot another
ndian while hunting. The
squaw of the dead Indian
attempted TO hire a young half-breed
named ONConnor, to kill Turtle..No Heads
squaw. The half-breed finally consented
and killed the squaw by crushing her
head with an AK as she was entering her
tepee. The crime has been kept quiet.
The United States marshal went to Fort
Berthold last week and arrested O'Con-
norand h squaw who caused the MUIR
der. and the prisoners have been
lodged in the county Jail 10 await hear
ing Thursday. A number of Indians
as witnesses are in own and a great many
nave been attracted by the coming trial.
The two will doubtless pay the death pen
atty. This will be the only legal trial Of
an Indian in the Dakotas since the execu-
ton OF Brave Bear at Yankton ten years
ago, for the murder of n white settler
named Johnson.