Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-07-16
MONTANA MATTERS.
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.
Rewritten, Clipped and Con
densed From Our Valued
Exchanges.

/ White Sulphur Springs has o.
ganized a bicycle club with twelv
members.
Thos. Brnn was instantly kille,
III the Moscow mine at Butte las
Saturday by being crushed by
boulder.
Frank Snow, a Great Falls mu
sician, was held up on the bridge
in that city last Friday night ane
robbed of $95.
The mains are being laid in tht
streets Of Miles City to furnish tha
town with complete system 81
waterWorks.
Ed. Thompson, sheep herder
employed by L. Fitzpatrick il
Meagher county, was killed by
lightning Monday evening.
Fort Benton River Press: w. r
Ralston and brother Of Choteau
have just received GAO head of year
ling steers which they purchased in
Oregon.
Lehman & Co.'s large merchan-
disc store at Cottonwood was struck
by lightning Monday night and
consumed by fire. Loss, $4,000 ;
no insurance.
Herbert Snow and Stephen Bow
ers, arrested at Bozeman on suspic-
ion Of having killed Hans johnson,
whose body was found in a we'll
were discharged or a preliminary
examination.
1t is reported that the damage by
Washouts to the Montana Central
track between Helena and Great
Falls will be sufficiently repaired
by tomorrow to run regular pas
senger trains.
A. A. Haslar, who recently rob
bed the stage near Lewiston, was
caught, tried, convicted and SEN
tence to three years in the pentiten-
tiary, all Of which was accomplish
ed in one day.
Yellowstone Journal: A crew of
professional sheep shearers are now
at work on the north side of the
Yellowstone, and are reported to be
doing some very rapid work. One
man in the crew is said to count
two hundred as his daily stint.
J. F. Holbrook of Neihart was ac-
cidentally killed near Arlington
Saturday night of last week by the
roof of deserted cabin falling on
him, in which he intended to camp
for the night. The two companions
with him had just stepped outside
when the roof gave way.
Castle Reporter: A party Of ten
surveyors are now at work between
here and Neihart finding a route
for the Great Northern extension.
It seems that Mr.. Hill is not vet
satisfied that this route is impracti-
cable, and he has put on another
surveying party to test the accur-
acy of the first report.
Wednesday Of last week trainmen
on the Northern Pacific found the
body Of a man lying by the track
near Gallatin station, who had evil
dently been murdered. All cloth
ing except the shoes had been strip
ped from the body, and evidences Of
a struggle were apparent. It is
thought the murdered man was a
workingman.
A Bozeman special to last Satur-
days Standard says: A coIored
man was arrested on the train from
Helena last night by Marshal Gal
win, answering the description of
Dennis Pickens, wanted at st. Paul
for the murder of John Smith, an
other colored man, on March Is
last. The man is light mulatto,
gentee]ly dressed and Of refined ap-
pearance. The murder was most
brutal one, the victim being beaten
to death.
bud" Powell, alias John Thomp-
son, was arres ted at Boulder We'd
nesday Of last week, and taken
back to Texas for a train robbery
which occurred in 1886. A United
States marshal came after Powell
and said to Sheriff Halford, ''be