Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-09-17
MONTANA MATTERS.
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.
Rewritten, Clipped and Con
densed From Our Valued
Exchanges.

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survey Of public lands.
f The firemens' tournament
Butte last week was grand SUI
: cess, being largely attended an
: the prizes hot]y contested fo7
{ Butte's team got away with til
lions share Of them.
George Erickson was killed ii
/ the shaft Of the St. Lawrence mia,
at Butte early Monday morning
, With seven others Ile-was hein
hoisted to the surface, but fell OF
between the 400 and 500 font level
and his body was found lifeIess q
the bottom Of the shaft.
Sam Collins, a miner employed
at the Anaconda mine, was killet
instantly last Sunday Afternoon
while at the bottom of the shaft en-
gagged in hosting machinery.
part Of the machinery slipped ane
fell, striking him on the he ad. IL
lived but a few minutes.
It is said that raiIroaders ir
Mlssoula county have been ordered
to let politics alone or quit thei.
jobs by Superintendent Brinson
| One man concluded to do the for
mer, but Two others, Chief Dis
patcher Burke and superintendent
Of Bridges Angevine resigned.
Butte Bystandcr: The strike of
the Ba kers' union and the boss
bakers was settled Wednesday
evening by the arbitration commit
tee. The new basis of work is TO
hours each day except Friday night,
which is II hours. The wages are
T25 per week for foreman and $21
for hench hands.
The Musselshell Telephone com
pany has filed articles Of incorpora-
tion with the secretary Of state,
with capital stock of $4,000 in
f1GO shares. Chas. E. Severance,
Geo. r. Monroe and Chas. 3. Carr
are the lncorporators. It is pro-
posed to run a line between Okla
and Castle: Meagher county.
Helena Herald Another large
drive Of 1000 cattle has just been
put on the lower Milk river range.
We are informed that they come
principally from Wyoming and
Fergus county. The cattle which
We're loaded at Chinook during the
present week, for Chicago market,
are pronounced equal to any ever
shipped from the Montana range.
Dillon Tribune: BENZ. Handy, |
we'll known rancher of Upper Big
Hole basin, was killed by a bear
Tuesday afternoon. The bear had
oeen prowling about in the vicinity
II Hamby's ranch for several days.
Tuesday at noon he started out
with a gun to look for it. The body
vas horribly mutilated The neck
vas broken and right thigh badly
rushed.
Philipsburg Mail: Walter Con
ey committed suicide il G al X
donday by taking morphine. Al
oho!ic insanity is the supposed
ause for his rash act. He lcif;
etter in which he stated that IL,
ad nothing to do with the murder
f Policeman Jordan in Butte.
Since it is not known that Conlev
7as accused Of the crime his proc
amation is considered rather pc J
uliar.
Valley County News: In Havre, c
ast Monday, Ed Nesbit was fooling t
18th a supposed-to to-be-unloaded re- t
Oliver, while John Kamla of Glas- q
oW stood in front of him watching G
ne exhibition. After one or two r
licks of the hammer A cartridge l.
as exploded and the ball entered t
le abdomen Of Kanla, inAicting d
ound from the effect of which he !,
led the next day. Before dying il
-ainla exoneratcd >Nesbit and de- o
Jared the shooting to be entirely d
occidental. Kamla leaves a wife y
I'd five small children now resid s
g in Glasgow. /,
At Missoula Sunday morning I
IAN staggered into a saloon on the h
'w run by John Wilson, and ap- is
cared to be under the influence of h
quor. He called for drink and p
rattd two or three bystandcrs, h