Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-12-02
NEWS IN MONTANA,

| The Bozeman National bank has 70
opened.
Helena prohibits coasting except on
two streets.
Populists have completed an organiza-
ton at Kalispel.
Since Jan. I the coroner at Butte has
held inquests over 81 bodies.
A Helena judge decided that man
must restore money lost at faro.
1t is said it will take six weeks to re-.
PAR 1he cave-in at the Wickes tunnel.
There are three aspirants for the Butte
?ostmasteIshlp, and more looming up.
Since Silver Bow county was formed
| there have ceen 80 murders and onlv
one hanging within its limits.
Editor Corson of the Choteau Montan.
ian h.-s been granted pension of 81 q
month TO date FROM July, 1891.
Slxty-one additions to the church ros-
1cr OF Bate have been male during tne
revival meeting now in progress.
In Miles City the other day, "Fatty"
Howard, we'll knowd in Butte as a
woman neater, was sent to the peniten-
taary for five years.
Work in the Parrott mine at Butte has
been resumed after Il shut down of over
three months. The Parl,tt snelter will
resume as soon as there is ore euouy:,
ahead.
The case of Neptune Lynch of Horse
slalhs against the Northern Pacific for
ga, 900 tor the loss of u leg in the United
States court ended in verdict for the
defendant, under instructions from the
court.
The case against Henry Prent;ss for
receiving a bribe from c. E. Walker,
contractor on the schoolhouse in the
Boston and Great Falls addition to
Great Falls, was dismissed. The states
principal witness, G. E. Walker, was
1mpeached, and the state so failed to
make case.
President Hough of the Montana Free
Coinage association appointed the fol-
lowing gentlemen as delegates to the sill
yer conference to be held at the rooms
OF the American Bi1netallic league.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 10, 1903: Hon.
Thomas e. Power, Hon. Charles S.
hartman, Governor j. E. Richards.
Hon. Marcus DAILY, Hon. w. A. Clark.
Hon. Lee Mantle, Ex-Governor S. T.
Hauser, Captain Thomas Cou h, Hon.
Caldwlll Edwards, Major Martin Magin-
mis-, B. J. Fine of Virginia City, Samuel
Mulvllle, q. K. Abbott of Neihart, Hon.
Thomas Marshall of Missoula.
The Great Falls Leader saws that Gns
Ockernan of Grafton raised this year
16o hogs. Last week he took to the
Fails 4-horse load Of pork, which he
soid 1or ~ cents pound. The Leader
says further: cat the farmers conyen-
ton held here last spring much stress
was laid on the profitable market af-
forded here for hog products, and the
practlcabllity of raising enough within
the county to supply the market here.
Mr.. Ockerman has demonstrated that it
can be done, and is satisfied that pork is
the most profitable thing that rancher
can raise in this country"
The Lewiston Democrat vouches for
the truth of the statement which recent
ly appeared in an Eastern paper to the
effect that near that point a cave has
been found in which the explorers tray
eled for mile over frozen floors. Rooms.
the like of which were never seen before.
were discovered glistening with ice and
minerals. Having blazed their way for
the distance stated the party returned,
their compass having become useless on
account of the magnetic iron ore OF
which the walls of the cave were made.
One Of the party, as soon as he got back
to town, filed d claim on the land and
after further prospecting thinks he will
work it.