The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1892-04-16
NEWS or THE STATE.
A WEEKS RESUME o. M0NTANAs
M05T NOTABLE EVENTS. @

News. Notes anh Gossip Concerning Mat
iers Of General Interrst-Tl,r Beings Of |
P"oul" and the tsrroru of Affairs Con- |
den,c;l for our READERS.
Attorney General Haskell has rendered
an Jpluion that mem ber- of the Montana
National guard are exempt from paying
the poll tax.
Robert Farmer. of Butte, has secured
Il verdict for $4,000 against the Montana
Union railroad. His suit was for 10000
damages. lie WAS injured by Il train
RAINING into Kim at the railway crossing
at the Colorado >mrlttr While he was
driving an ore team.
The storms which have prevailed for
two weeks on eastern Montana ranges
have been disastrous to COWS and young
calves. Wool growers We're more fer
! tunatc than cattle men and have been
able to keep their tlorlS sheltered. but
met With some loss Notwithstanding.
Stock in other parts Of tAn state IS in
excellent condition auI with losses com
parttivrly light
! Mis,o.lE. r.l rpmontn With any other
town in tl. state in the. line Of maria Lp
| and divorce ,tN ;:ltipns THURSDAY license
| to MARRY w,ss taken out by WIN. Ii. R;ty
mrr who will we'd Mrs. Mary ShieI.
| 'rwo Years 400 AIrs. Silicl obtained 4 di
| vurce fr"m ltlyner ln married 4 nun
named Slater. Last February she rot IL
divorce Irpm S.lt-r Autl j us GOES buck
4 u hrr first !ttl,baul ipr Z glorious honey
| moon.
| 1fhr proposed Kcrlry institute fir
Butte has Been abandoned, anl tAr juts
DESTROYS Of reform hy that popular
inrthol will huvr to III '.Shot" IN some
othor bitA!oride maiipulutor. Ti4e site
| had already been selected and many
thousand collars subscribed BY Butte
people, when information vas received
that the Salt Lake parties had disposed
1 Of the Montana rigAt IL Great FAILS cap
italiSt- for SIT 600 without consulting or
thanking the B,l1te people who had i'll
tcrrStrd themselves in tile affair.
News is given out that 800 determined
i cowboys ars. trailing the cattle thieves,
ndprospertsarc that blood ,iln Twill come
from other places, in addition to that
which has been reported trom Billings.
The movement is full of drnger to the
mon on both sides Of the tight. Since
the raid began the rl,stlars have unlnr
ta1cr to ret:late Ivy inlislrilnnata II
| wasteful slaughter of cattle tnl horses
belonging to tnttIemcn. TAc number Of
cattle they have stolen and destroyed is
almost beyond estimate, and their steal
ings Of horses alone is eStinlteu to
have reached 10000 head.
The body OF 4 murdered man found
near Billings Thursday was Identified as
| W. Il. l5atthrl, OF Fargo. lie had seven
rifle bullet wounds in his body. i'll fired
from the left side and apparently 1t
once also revolver bullet through the
head. He left Billings, March 6. With Il
partner, who has not been found, but
may possibly be under the snow drift
The body had evidently been thrown
over II bluff and lodged OH a shelf Of
rock, where it had hecn covered With
snow until lately. Two dead horses.
bridlcd, lay about fifty yards from the
corpse, and two saddles were found 100
yards further on, thrown into Il coulrr
The inquest Developed no cltw to the
perpetrators.
The State Board OF Parlolls recently
met III the Office Of Attorney General
Haskell, and after reviewing the eases Of
Wm. H. Allen and Curlry Raney, who
are now conliued in the state pcnitpu-
tlary at Deer Lodge, decided to concur
i'll the recommendations Of Governor
Toole for thrir pardon. Raney was con
victrd at Miles City Of rape, and was
sentenced to four years in the peniten-
tinry, two Of which he has served. Nm.
II. Allen was convicted Of hiy:lny at
Deer Lodge and sentenced to prison For
one year. Since his incarceration his
first wife has died. and he promises to
take care Of the second. Carl Tcichcrt.
who was sentenced to one year for shoot
ing and Wolluding Il woman in Helena.
served his time out and has been restored
to citizenship. John p. Trout, who cut
Il man with knife in Park county, has
also served out his time ana h;t,, his cti-
ZcnShip restored.
y Mammoth Arch.
CnlCAGo. April 1.-THE largest arch
ever constructed for any building, tllat OF
the manufacturers buillingat the worlds
fair grounds, WAS completed this evening.
The immense steel span has u height Of
2l2 feet and Il Width at is base of 3,,5.
The Treasury decision that Canaaians
cannot serve rs sailors on American YES
sells on the lakes, under the alien labor
law, will probably result in q general
scramble for first papers Canadians
will not be kept out Of American bus
mess aud labor circles for SO small a
matter as British ailewiance.
Whiskrrs that are prematurcly gray
or faded should be colorcd to prevent