Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1893-08-31
MONTANA NEWS.

Patrick Gallagher. who shot and kiIlsd
Mike Carney at Martina. Missoula county.
on June 9th. has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for a term Of thirty-seven
years.
The firm OF j. Basinski & Bro, doing
business in Bozeman and Miles City. has
made an assignment to Herman Orschel,
of Livingston. Liabilities about SIG. 900.
assets said to be $4,000.
1t Anaconda on the 23rd inst. Frank
Johnson, aged IL years, went ont hunting
grouse. accompanied by Alex. MeIntire.
aged only four years. Johnson had a rifle
carrying n 22 caliber bullet. Not finding
any game, johnson said as he couldn't kill
grouse he would kill his little companion
instead. He then deliberately shot him in
the neck and left the child lying in the pool
OF blood. The lad has since died from the
wound.
Butte had a little sensation one evening
last week when an immense hole 20 feet in
diameter and 200 feet deep opened sudden
ly or the corner OF Mercury and Idaho
streets. A man h happened to be walk
ing across the corner at the time came very
i hteA othh6 to ~ ooLooH kAS
managed to save himself by catching hold
OF the sidewalk and pulling himself out
The hole that thus suddenly opened out is
} undoubtedly an old prospect hole. but no
8 one has any idea what caused it.
A masked robber held two guns on the
night operator at Big Timber on the goth
inst, and demanded all his money which
s the frightened lightning jerker handed over.
! 1t was only fifty cents and the robber re-
fused to accept it but demanded that the
sale be opened and the railroad surplus be
handed him. The operator explained his
r inability to comply with his request and
the robber took his departure. There was
So, in the safe. but only the agent had
the combination--Billings Gazette.
A Billings special to the Helena Indepen-
y dent says: The prisoners ia the Jail at
tempted a Jail delivery on the 25th inst.
d The lock was sawed off on one cage in
e which six prisoners were confined and they
had got into the corridor and nearly com
u pleted a hole through the outer brick wall.
u The lock on another cage was nearly sawed
of. One of the sheriff's horses had broken
d loose in a stable near by and it is thought
e WV otoN hstet " u hoisc utbD
around in the stable deferred the prisoners
from completing their escape. All the pris'
!, oners were found this morning in their cells
In a vacant lot near the Axtell stables
stands an old Concord stage coach which
- was in active service between Helena and
e Benton from 1882 up to the completion o.
: the Manitoba Dad into Helena. Robert
,s Vaughn bought it OF Mr.. Root and intends
W to preserve il as a relic of the days wheI
III the whistle of n locomotive was unknowr
in these parts. Ii WAS made in 1882 fol
!; j. VI. Powers, of this city and Cans &
: Kline then owners of the Helena and Ben
ton stage line and cost $3.50. 1t is ar
T. eleven-passenger coach and in IA few year,
will prove to be a great cnriusity.-G. i
he Tribune.
" One OF the best methods taken by Helena
70 merchants to have their eastern friends re
alize what free coinage means to Montans
is the form in which many orders are nov
a given. a travelling man drops into thu
Office OF a Helena merchant To find out
what he needs for the winter and Christ
Y mas trade. After going over samples the
T. Helena merchant gives AN order, this pro
- NtNo DtlUR tiut poous " NC ebtpB't
October 1, 1898, providing there is then a
law in force for the free coinage OF silver
Otherwise this order is void" This is al
object lesson that an eastern wholesaler
can easily understand.-River Press.
Johnnie Southwood, the thirteen yea
old son of Thomas ~Southwood, ran away
from his home in this city about a veal
ago and all the efforts Of his parents to FIND
' him have proved f~ruitless until about two
u weeks ago. He was located by some COW,
s. boys over in the Big Horn country wheI
Il he was living with the Indians. He had
he adopted their life and was dressed as only
Ica'ans clothe themselves. The cowboy,
r enGeavored to bring him back and wher
about half way to Red Lodge the young
ster eluded his captors and escaped to the
hills, where be could not be found. Tit
life among the indian was too fascinatin,
=, for him and it is supposed that he will re
main in hiding among them until the search
z is abandoned.-Picket.
ID People who were fo%rtunate-or unfortu
ne nate-enough to be out on the stree,
vi about two o'clock yesterday morning, hao
e. a glimpse of a lunar phenomenon that they
don't get TO see very Oiten- AT that hOul
IL the moon was nearly due south and only
about thirty degrees above the horizon
" It's face was blood red. Men stopped anc
looked at it and wondered what it meant
" Folks who can remember SO far back say
&c that there was blood on the moon" jus'
rs before the battle of Bull Run, and agar
'r before the battle of Gettysburg. Supersti
ie tious people regard such a condition as in
dicative of disaster. The redness contin
es ued for half an hour or more, sometime
rs getting lighter and then again darker, an,
IL at times the color was 50 intense that tn,
N moon looked like an immense ball of fire
~ There was no cloud apparent between tn
it earth and the moon and the phenomenon
rs was not explained by anyone who saw j
1T except on the theory that it indicated tn
a advent OF Indian summer. The rednes
lasted about hall an then the moon shove,
up bright and clear like a big new silve
III dollar Mt a one to sixteen ratio.-Indepen
oil dent.
he Stock Cattle for Sale.