The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1892-06-04
NEWS OF THE STATE.
A WEEKS RESUME OF MONTANA,S
MOST NOTABLE EVENTS.

= WEENo RESUME vi MON ANA'S |
MOST NOTABLE EVENTS.
news, Notes and Gossip Concerning Mat
ters Of General Interest-Thc Doings OF
People and the Record of Affairs Con
densed for Our Readers.
Land Commissioner Carter and family
Will return to Helena from Washington
june H. The family will remain in
Helena during the summer.
Governor Toole has offered a reward
OF $500 for the capture Of the man who
murdered John Swanson and Shot Police
man Sch1rrenbroich i short time since,
4 special city election was held at
Dillon Saturday to vote on the question
OF bonding the city for a sum not to OK
coed S25,DoO for watcrworks. The vote
was very light, s3 for and u against.
Retiring Superintendent Ramsey was
presented by the employees Of the Rocky
Mountain division Of the Northern P4-
citic With testimonial and 4 purse con-
tanning d $1,000 and $500 bill, at Mis-.
soula Thursday evening.
Jew Jake, who Shot Marshal Treat,
If Great Falls, and Joe Iessuml. on
November 18TH last, Is said to br ia i
very precarolls condition. Eyer since
his leg Was amputated hc has been @et-
ting worse. 1t is now said that His mind
il impaired.
Last Saturday morning. Nv. r. McIn-
tosh, late city marshal of Dillon, entered
the bagnio Of Madame Smith ana began
I shooting with the evident intention Of
| killing tle owner. The women tlef. When
| Mcintosh fired 1T Charles Snyder, Who
was il the woman's room The latter
responded and Mcintosh was fatally in
jured.
Robert McDonel, the we'll known
Philipsburg horseman. has leased the
/ lhilipsburg race tracks and proposes
/ 0tfnriny several purses tor both runners
and trotters on July B. The purses will
be large and it is thought that there
/ viii be several entries for each race, III
i
tered in the threeminute trotting race
Several matches are also about 10 be
made for that date
The jury in the 100000 damage case
OF William J. Beayer, administrator Of
tile estate Of Cha.les Gottrill, who was
killed by 4 motor on Arizona streetl Il few
yearsago, returned a verdict for the street
railway company. II is the first case for
some time IN which the railroad company
came out victorious i'll q damage suit,
and its attorneys were highly elateG.
The jury was not polltd, but they stood
= to T. Butte Miner.
Bert Hunter WAS found ina dying con-
lition 1t t1reat Falls one day last week
BY his side was an empty morphine
bottle and scraps Of Il letter, showing
conclusive evidence of suicidal intent
The man was 1t once removed to the
hcounty Jail, whore four physicians worked
over him until nearly midnight before
signs Of life returned. He died Il few
J hours later He recently sold some min
ing stock for about $4,000 and stlllAnlereG
: il all. lie was without money or work
and despondenGy IS supposed 10 be tAt
, case oil the rash act.
, Ex-Governor 3. T. White OF Dillon
recently roturneel from an eNtende,
J Eastern trip..Ele concludes that til
: commercial transactions OF Chicago ant
, other Eastern cities are on the increase
: at the rapid rate Of fully 25 per cent pc
! anntu. He says: ..The present suppl,
t Of gold, the production Of which is fallin!
{ off, will not be at all sufficient, and "le1
:. !. this becomes apparent, the gold bug
: Will be forced, through absolute neees
i sity, to recognize silver, but until thi
: time comes, silver will be ignored"
:. A fire broke out in Centerville ON Ma
: 81 aud consumed eight dwelling houses
= partially destroyed another and threat
ened for Il time to wipe out the entir
village. The fire started at the hous
Of John Wraitll, corner of Pacific an
. Montana streets, which was the only on
+ on which there was any insurance. Their
il being no fire company in Centerville, TIL
5 departments Of Butte and Wnlkervill
l. went to the scene and stopped the prt
o gress of the flames before the leNinyto
i mill was reached. The eight house
!, burned were valued at about $500 eacl
: The Miners union, OF Butte, wi
it celebrate the fourteenth anniversary /
! its organization on June Is. There wi
be q procession III the forenoon, the men
Y bers reporting at9 O'clock III the mornln!
i The procession will form at the hall at |
i. O'clock, march up to Walkeryille, an
: countermarch to Butte, passing dow
5 Main to Granite, to Wyoming, to parl
l. 10 Washington, to Granite, to Main,
e Broadway, to the opera house. The orr
i tor Of the day will be Ralph Beaumor
: Of New York. In the evening there vi
e be two grand balls, one at the Miner
# Union hall and the other at llibern
II hail. All labor organizations are invite
tn parti rip in tho naraHa