The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1892-05-28
NEWS OF THE STATE.

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A WEEKS RESUME OF MONTANA's
.. MOST NOTABLE EVENTS.
News Notes and Gossip Concerning Mat
ters Of General Interest-The Doings Of
People and the Record of Affairs Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Senator Sanders has introduced a bill
reserving easements for common high
ways in the arid states and territories
They are to be fifty feet in width around
the extreme limits Of each section of
public land in the arid region.
News comes to the residents of Miles
City who have been former residents of
Wyoming that the outfits in that state
are making quiet preparations to drive
their herds OF cattle across the border
and on to the Montana ranges.
III. j. Mock and ]. w. Connor have pur-
chased the Kalispell Graphic from the
O'Connor Bros, and will issue that paper
| reliably Republican. The O'Connor BOYS
got out a good paper and it will be kept
up to the old Standard for Mr. Mock is |,
newspaper man. .."#
1t is announced that the editor of the
neW Democratic morning paper, soon to
be established il Missoula, Will be II. W.
Rittenhouse, formerly editor Of the Butte
Miner The contract has been already
signed between the manager OF the com
pany and Mr.. Rittcnhouse
Mrs. Drake, the lady who shot and
killed man named Coblrn in the Judith
basin last week, has been exonerated
from all blame. Coburn forcibly entered
| Mrs. brakes house during the absence
| of her husband, and the woman success
| fully defended her honor with rifle.
| Charles Countryman was convicted Of
| murder in the second degree in the dis
trict court Of Yellowstone county, last
week. The crime with which he was
| charged was the killing Of his cousin,
Charles Henry Countryman, at Still
water. He was sentenced to twenty
| years in the penitentiary.
The following delegates and alternates
were appointed by Governor Toole to
represent Montana at the national silver
convention in session at Washington this
week: Delegates w, A, Clark, A c..
Botlin, t. E. Collins, G. S. Warren.
Alternates- Martin Maginnis, W. +. San
ders, w W. Dixon, T. c. Power
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I John Swope was shot near the race
night, and died soon after. An investi-
cation showed that Swope tried to enter
the cabin of a miner named Linder, prob
ably with burglarious intent. He pulled
the latch string Of the door, and as a con
sequence discharged u revolver which
had been arranged as a guard, and sent 4
! bullet into his abdomen.
A keeley institute, for the cure of the
morphine and drunken habits, is to be
established in Helena within u few weeks.
The people taking charge Of the matter
are prominent St. Paul and Minneapolis
capitalists, who have ample means at
their command, A prominent Mime
apolis physician is to be in charge. The
success Of the Keeley gold cure seems to
have been thoroughly established and its
usefulness is generally acknowledged.
Harry B. Turner was shot by sam Rus
sell, a tin horn gambler, in Mollie Dalton 8
bagnio, at Billings, Friday Of last week.
His father is a Baptist minister at Eureka,
Kansas. Turner and an inmate OF the
place had row in a bedroom. Russell
rushed in, struck Turner down with his
revolver, and rs he arose shot him in the
abdomen. Russell got away, but was
captured by a sheriff S posse at noon and
is now in Jail. Cowboys, friends Of Tur-
ner threaten lynching, but it is thought
the sheriff will prevent it if attempted.
The Montana grand lodge Of Knights
Of Pythias, in session at Great Falls last
week, elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: Past grand chancellor,
james B. Gallagher, of Butte; grand
chancellor, c. S. Whitney, of Miles City;
grand vice chancellor, G. E. Barnaby, of
Bozeman; grand prelate, J. S. Hammond,
Of Butte; grand NJ. of E., E. II. Talcott
of Livingstone; grand X. of r. S., Jacob
Loeb, of Helena; grand M. at A., Thomas
McTague, Of Deer Lodge; grand inner
guard, w. L. Wright, Of Butte; grand
trustee, A. E. Dickerson, of Great Falls
Helena was selected as the place for the
next annual meeting
| MINE OWNERS ri AMEl ESS