Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1894-08-25
HIS LAST REQUEST
Mrs Cunningham's Slayer VIII
Hang il September.
WANTS CHICKEN TILL DEATH
News From lhe Mining DIstriet.-rhe
Military Court Of Inquiry Be
gins Its Work at Sprague.

Military Court Of Inquiry BE
gins Its Work at Sprague.
t KAL1sPELL. Mont, Aug. 90 Charles
! J. Black, murderer of Mrs. Cunning
: ham, was taken into the district court
this morning for sentence. He was
cool and indifferent. The court room
| was crowded. Judge Dubois ordered
him to stand IN and then said:
''Black, on an occasion like this,
when we are almost in the presence Of
death itself, it seems to the court that
whatever it might say regarding tile
enornity OF your crime would have no
effect. 1t might seemingly degenerate
only into buzz Of a helpless man, and
it GER ainly would lessen the fotce Of
) that climax which. the law Las sincor-
poraled into its penal code W hen it SAYS
that any man who maliciously, will
fully ANA premed,atedly takes the llft.
OF another shall suffer death. Thus
have you broken the law, aud thus
will you suffer. Some four months
ago iii this courtroom | advised YOU
that you were in serious predicament,
and now you stand on the Threshold
of eternity. | give yoa this advice:
Do not let hopes which may prove
false prevent you from today making
your peace with your Maker. And
now. in accordance with the verdict Of
the jury, it is ordered, adjudged and
decteed that you, Charles j. Black, he
taken to the county jail CT Flathead
county and that you there be kept i'll
safe custody by tile sheriff Of said Flat
head county until Friday, the IS Il day
Of September, a. ID. 1894, ANA lhat
4 upon that day, between the hours q 8
/ O'Clock in the forenoon and o'clock in
The afternoon, you be taken by said
| sheriff az near the said Jail as p ISL BILE,
and there aud then you be hanged BY
the neck until you shall be dead, dead
dead, and may God have ineacy upon
you"
On being taken back to jail Black
asked the iailer to feed him chicken
while lie staid on earth.
LOCAL, MINING AND POLITICAL
A Newsy budget From The Heart of the /
Cnur d'Alenes.
OsBuRN, Idaho, Aug. 20-L. W. 4
Carson, for four years a capitalist and I
resident Of Osburu, will leave early
next week for the Wala Walla Gun
try, where lie has urehased 4S0 acres
Of y heat land. He will bring a cargo
Of bloodsd cattle from his old home in
Minnesota to lis new home and will
combine stockra sing with wheat
growing.
Mining Notes.
The immense trains OF Canyon creek
s0fe gGft!g through every day seem 10
di-credil the story given out by Super
intendent McNeill of the Q. r. d n.
Company that the Cnnr a Alene
branch was not paying lis own way.
This branch il running q mixed train
AID frequently 20 cars are attached 10
one engine, While tile passenger coach
is ostably lhfi and the express car
we'll loaded.
Alger, Young and Horton are put
ting a steam hoist in the Nellie mine
ut Osburn, and with a force of several
men are going to work in earnest. The
Nellie is one Of the richest properties
in the "dr." belt.
The new Stewart mining law meets
with the approval Of everyone in this
section. Men who would otherwise
have to forfeit good claims on account
Of hard times can now hold them for
another year by merely filing the neces-
sary at1idavts with the recorders.
All he mines on Canyon creek ex-
cept the Black Bear and tie Mann
moth are at ork, and the latter, it is
said, Will start up before the first OF
September. Nearly as many men are
~; iy,f
worked there ut any previous time
The sampling works between this town
and Wallace are running two shifts,
and much ore is going out direct to the
smelters without undergoing the samp-
ling process. :.+
An adjourned term of the district
court begins Monday, the Goth inst,
with Judge Pieuer of Moscow on the
bench. Some important mining cases
are TO be tried before Judge Pieper.
Judge Holleman being disqualified BY
reason OF having been All attorney III
the different eases prior to his election
to the bench.
California capitalists are looking over
soEae O,burn prosl ec's through Their
represent tative, Thomas Reynolds Of
this place. 1t is reported they have
already made All offer for the Cclnln-
hia, ST. Elmo and California Claims Of
$50 900, agreeing u pay S5, coo or its
in work WITHIN a year from
81 gniug parers.
Dr. j. Russ Moore i'll leave in Il few
days TO look after his mining interests
in western Wa -hington aud Oregon.
Local.
Adam Auibacl,, we'll known to fame
i'll the newspaper word. is construct /
ing a telephone line letUeen Murray .
and Wallace and may extend it to $
Spokane if business warrants.
There are openings in this town fur
several women who are willing 70
v ork for good pay as laundresses, gen
eral houseworkers, etc. At present
there is no laundresS IN town, ana we
bach eIlors are colnpelied TO do our oN u \
washing as we'll as baking and house q
cleaning. Surely there ere women i
enough and 10 spare III the rich and /
prolific Palou~e, aud | hope this >r'i i
lion will touch some responsive chord /
IN some husky feminine heart. In I
former years an occasional Work-ady 4
would stray into camp, but there are
% many alluring eligible bachelors
here that they just couldn't remain
single.
INVESTIGATION OF TROOP A.