The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-17
State News.

Perly Lowell, prominent
sheepman Of Billings. accidently
shot himself last week The bullet
hit him in the leg, but before he
reached the nearest ranch, twelve
miles distant, he had lost so much
blood that he could not recover.
Keir Hardie, the noted socialist
of Scotland, now touring this
country, was in Butte last week.
Most of his talk was devoted to the
labor problem in its connection
with the politics Of the British
isles. He said there would be no
more sham battles between the
liberals and tories but hereafter the
independent labor party would at
all times be in the field.
The Montana convention of the
W. c. T. u. held in Anaconda last
week adopted resolutions charging
the last legislature with immoral
Eity and corruption. They further
asked that the age of consent be
raised to IS years; for mat ION at
the penitentiary, and they declared
in favor of crowding the cause of
woman suffrage to the front.
John Caddick killed an old mar
named Jason Lunsford, a man sixty
years of age at dance near Avon.
There was no cause for the shoot
ling other than drunken meaness.
Charles A. Mcclure, aged 26, a
freight conductor on the Montan
J Central, running between Great
, Falls and Havre, was run over and
instantly killed at the latter place
, last Wednesday.
The census of Utah this year
gives a population of 247,3 ,314 and
: property valuation of $96, ,9i7,15l
The capitol site commission has
! accepted the deeds to the Winnie
site, and the state will defend the
. title against the claim of Mrs.
Bullock.
Out of Is candidates who applied
, to the state board last week for
, certificates to practice medicine in
Mon tana only six were successful.
The next meeting will be held in
April and the standard for admis-
sion will hereafter be Is instead of
o 70.
S The Helena InuoPvuuv"~--~--
that ia four and one-half months
f. of actual work the mineral land
j. commissioners have examined in
the state $50, 900 acres at an esti-
Il mated expense of one and three
e tenth cents per acre, divided as
Il follows: Boxeman district 240. 900
# Helena district 1900 acres and
J. Missoula district 200, 900 acres.
IS Frank Cults, father of the deaf,
a dumb and blind child who was out
n ragged by Weir near Sand Coulce a
IS short time ago, comitted suicide in
is Great Fails last Sunday morning.
te Despon aency, caused by poverty
q and the crime committed on his
J. child, caused the deed. He took
l. big dose Of morphine.
m While hunting on the river last
IS week, says the Glasgow Record,
IS Messrs. Bcede, Lemmer, Beary and
ID KENNEL were startled by running
n onto man almost destitute of
y clothing and bearing the appear
A. ance of one half starved, as indeed,
le he must have been, for he was sub
h slsting solely on fish and the only
a. way he had OF cooking them was
+ by boiling, which he did in a tin
er pail. He had no other cooking uten'
at sils or provisions whatever, and all
a. inquiries failed to elicit any inform
1e alton concerning himself. The man
ne talked to himself almost constantly
OF but to others talked quite ration
). ally. The party gave him some
to provisions and left him, as he ex.
c. pressed no desire to accompany
pit them. He appeared in Glasgow
"a Friday and was indeed sight tc
1g behold. His bony hands and long
ne fingers were as black as tar an6
n scratched and cracked until they
A we're one mass of cuts and running
to sores. He refused to give his name
at or where he belonged. The mar
in ate hearty breakfast and with hi'
on tin pail started on east. He il
ed undoubtedly crazy, although NJ
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