Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-07-23
MONTANA MATTERS.
A RESUME OF IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS.
Rewritten, Clipped and Con
densed From Our Valued
Exchanges.

The races are in progress at Ana
conda with large attendance.
The assessed valuation of the
property Of Meagher county is $5,
454 $50.
The total assessment of Fergus
county, including mortgages, is
$4,510,5 $40.
The total assessment of Gallatin
county, exclusive Of railroad prop
erty, is IS, ,69O,360.
The Kalispell Graphic says the
Great Northern railroad will at once
begin the erection of extensive re-
pair shops at that place.
Frank Tohlman, grocery clerk
at Lewistown, committed suicide
Sunday afternoon by blowing his
brains out with revolver.
The Valley County News reports
that rust]ers recently run off thirty
five head of horses from their range
in Dawson county, near Glasgow.
The body of an unknown elderly
man was found near Dillon last
week, bearing evidence that his
skull had been crushed with a club.
The senate has passed the bill
appropriating $5,000,OO0 to the
worlds fair, providing it be closed
Sundays and that no intoxicants
are sold on the grounds.
Mrs. Ann Dodge Of Butte, who
claimed to be heir to an estate in
England valued at $S,00O,0O0, died
in the poorhouse in that city and
was buried in a pauper's grave.
Four men, laboring one week,
have produced 100000 worth of
sapphires from the fields of the
Montana Sapphire and Ruby COM
pany, which have been shipped to
London.
Eugene Turner, the colored boy
who robbed the postoffice at Living
ston, has had a preliminary hear
ing and been held to the United
States grand jury in the sum Of
81, 900.
Ralph Beaumont, who recently
spoke in a number of Montana
towns in the interests Of the peoples
party, is now campaigning through
Washington, but will return to this
state, it is said, next week.
VIM. Knox, who some time ago
murdered a man named Searles in
the Flathead country and afterward
escaped from the Missoula jail, was
captured last week at Demarsville
by Constable George Stowe
Stockgrowers' Journal: Dick
Grew, COW boy in the employ Of
M. H. Murphy, fell off the train
near Blatchford Monday morning
and was instantly killed. Jim
Drummond, the foreman Of the out
fit, was with Crew at the time.
In a drilling contest at Butte
Sunday in which eight teams were
entered, most of whom had drilled
at the mining congress in Helena,
Messers Burns and Mckee broke
the worlds record. They drilled
33 11-16 inches in fifteen minutes
The steam pleasure yacht Minnie,
with six passengers on board, went
over the dam opposite Great Falls
last week. Jack Delaney jumped
in the river with a rope to endeavo1
to avert the catastrophe and was
drowned. The passengers ali
escaped.
VIM. Lewis, Of Missoula, was &C.
cidentally shot last week at Colum'
bia Falls by Miss Addie Greenlea1
while engaging in target practice
with pistol. Ills wound is Of {
very serious nature and it is thought
he will die. The couple were te
be married in a few days.
| Flathead Journal: At II O'Clock
last Monday night John York com
mitted suicide at the crossing o
Main and Second streets by cutting
his throat with dull jack-knife
Several men saw him and he was
taken to DR.. Clients Office, where
he died in about an hour. Boil
arteries in the throat were severed
The suicide had brother and &
amilv living In Butte and hal