Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-12-23
NEWS IN MONTANA.

Pauline Leutz of Glasgow, disap:
pointed in love, committed suicide.
The Jail population of Butte is only
2s, less than it has been for years.
It is stated that 1000 miners will 10
at work in the vicinity Of Ncih.rt ii,
1894.
Two masked ihen held up saloon-
keeper and guests st Zig Timer, get
ting 500.
The county treasurer at Butte paid
out $685. 600 tor registered Warrants ons
day last week.
Henry Owen O'Connor. auditor of the
Marcus Daily company, will be witness
III the Cronin trial at Chicago.
Judge Coleman and George McGrati,
have sold out the Butte ropuhst Iriiuns
to Dullstan & Oates, its former proprir-
tors.
1t is stated there is another coal deal
on which will result in the opening up
Of Il large area between Belt auu Arm
ington.
Scott Wike, acting secretary of the
treasury, submitted estimates for the
colnpletion OF the fish culture stltion at
Helena, $1,000.
The trial of Patrick O'Gorman for the
murder OF Nellie Meisgs at Butte has
teen post 4.oned until the next term Of
Court. The date as fixed is Feb. 5.
At Butte man giving tho name Of
johnson threw rock through the court
house windows. He said he had Teen
living on wind for week and wanted
something to eat.
Charles R. Craig, Lookkeeper for the
Helena lndepend ut, was hcl up wlllia
on his way homo and ROBBED of his
watch and cham at the point OF pistol.
Ine robber was arrested with the stolen
property on him.
The house committee on public lands
has reported iavorahly bill allowing
Montana to select tine lands she WIS
granted under the enabling act before
they are surveyed. Title will not pass
until survey is made.
The ladies OF the Ladies' Columbian
association of Lewis and Clarke county
have donated the fountain exhibited by
them at the worlds fair, to the county
ct Lewis ami Clarke, to be erected lii
the corridor of tho first floor Of the
courthouse.
Alilt Wall, the colored man who rifled
the mail sacks wnllo conveying them
from the Livingston p' siot1ice to the
depot there. plead guilty i'll the United
States court at Helena. HIS stealings
had been going on for 1, long time, anI
Wall is supposed to have gotten largo
amount.
j. W. Moor, formerly postmaster 1T
Anaconda, Was indicted three years ago
on the charge Of e,nbezzllng funds Of
that office wnlle iii charge of it. Tho
case has never been tried, and in the
United States court at Helena last week
D.strict Attorney Weed ordered nolia
press entered i'll the case.
Ben Keely, the trapper, who assisted
the Carlln. party to escape 1rom the
Clearwater eovntry, was i'll MissoulA
one day last week. He gives an ac4
count of the trip which, in many re-
spects, contradicts those h,reiofore pub-
hshed, and intimates that the abandon.
ment IF Colg. to was cowardly drser-
ton. keely IS suing General C..rlin for
the reward offered.
Frank Miller, who killed his brother,
P. J. Miller, during a quarrel at Il ranch
in the upper Yellowstone valley last
Wednesday afternoon, was given hear
ing before Justices Lepley anl Ross at
Livingston. The defense set up tho plea
that the killing was done in self dclense,
and that it was the result of fight in
which the deceased Was the a,sresscr.
The court deemed the evidence not suf-
fcient to hold the prisoner and he Was
released