Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-12-30
NEWS IN MONTANA.

Big Timber is to have 5o-iarrel -four
| mill.
Two Helena men were arrested for
ST aling ice cream ireezers.
Ninety per cent of the taxes of Fergus
county had been paid Dec. /.
David 3. Brown has been confirmed
as collector of customs for Montana AMI
Idaho.
An important discovery Of ore has
been made at the Whiproorwill mines
III the Bitter Rot country.
Heavy SHOWS north of Fort Benton
have put the roads in a bad condition
and travel is all Tut suspended.
Three milk men were held up near the
Silver Bow mill, Butte. and relieved Of
$40, ali the money they had with them.
In the United States court at Helena
George W. Morgan postal cle,k was
found guilty OF abstracliny money from
the mails.
The jury in the case of Herman PEN
nell and Angus McKi!lican. charged
with assaulting AMI rebl,ing Chinanan
at Marysy:lle, brought in a verdict of
guilty.
The damage cccasioled by a cavcin in
the Wickes tunnel Oil the Montana Casl-
trail a few weeks ago, has Leeil repaired,
and trains are again running through it
Gs usual.
The vestry of the Catholic church at
Butte was robbed OF silver cilalice and
other things valued al $50 A chulice
valued at over $10o WAS overlooked by
the thieves.
G. 4. Ven ScIrlitz, lo.al manager Of
the Rocky Mountain Bell T,lephcns
company at Butte. is a defaulter i'll II
sum exceeding $1,000. lie disappeared
very suddenly.
The board of state prison commission
ers have decided TO ask for plans fer IL
$4,000 prison building at Billings. The
architect who finds favor with the boa1l
will. get $3.50 for his plans.
The government we'll d,illers at Fort
Assinaboine appear 10 have struck tho
they have come to a cavern which goes
deeper than any OF the drills can reach.
Fred Wyman, son of the Lite Captain
Wyman, has been again sc,tnced to the
Deer Lodge renitentiary for stealing.
Judge Hunt Of Helena gave him two
years. Wy1nan went by the n,tme Of
Frank Whitney.
Judge Knowles in the United States
court at Helena overruled the motion to
quash the indictments aglinst Hanks,
ex-president Of the Merchants National
bank of Great Falls. The motion in ono
case was based on the fact that each iu-
dictment charged two offenses.
Governor Rickartls has pardoned Mar
tin Scott, convicted in Fergus county of
burglary and sentenced June 8, 1892, 10
three and a half years at Deer Ledge
penitentiary the grounds of the par
don are Scott's previous good character
and the fact that he w,is drunk at tho
time the offense WIS co1nmit'ed; also,
that not having any money and 10 coun-
Sci, and not knowing his rights he had
allowed plea of guilty to be entered
when arraigncd.
James M. Talbot, special administra-
tor cf the A. j. Davis estate, over
which a great Will contest is penl-
J. Davis, Jr., and the First National
bank of Butte, of which Davis is cash
ier, to have him turn over to the adj
ministrator $50 shares of bank stock
worth $1,000 per sh re. Young Davis
has all along claimed his uncle gave
him this stock shortly before his death
and refused to report it in the assets
of the estate.
c. T. Raeler of Butte has returned
from the mining regions OF South Africa.
AS a result Of his observations, he adj
vises American men to stay away from
South Africa. The Eocky mountains
present incomparably brighter chances
for success in mining than can be hoped
for by outsiders who IL ay hereafter 20
to the South African fields. "Practical
mining men with money for investment
and good mining engineers AMI experts
might accomplish something at Johan-
nesburg," says Mr.. Reedcr, Tut the
working miner should avoid South At
RIGA as he would the pestilenve"
The supreme court has handed down
decision which involves the very i'm
pcrtant question Of the exemption FROM
taxation OF all property belonging TO
charitai le institutions The ca-e VS.
that of the Montana C.:tholic Missions,
Society OF Jesus, plaintiff and appellant,
versus the county of Lewis and Clark
and r. P. Barden, treasurer, defendants
and respondents. Only two points We're
involved and on these the supreme court
ruled, first, that an institution Of public
charity itself is not mpt from PAYNE
taxes on its property, but that certain Of
its property is exempt; second, that the
property is exempt which is actually
used for an institution Of purely public
charity. Lands held as an investment
are not exempt.
SAN FARNClSCO BLAZE.
Half a Million Dollars Goes Up in Smoke.
Newspapers Suffer.