The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-11
TWAS ALEX SANDERS0N
Drowned In the Yellowstone and the
Body Recently Found.
HE HAD LIVED IN CANADA
Accident to a Sheepman-Saie OF a
Ranch-RaiIroad Bridge Burned
RIoh Strike in the Black
Warrior Mine.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

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LIVINGSTON, April 9.-The mystery sur
rounding the drowning of the insane
stranger, who last November jumped into
the Yellowstone river eight miles east OF
the city, and the recent finding of the
body of q fioater in the same stream Is
miles east of here, has been cleared up
by q letter received to-day by Coroner
Shawk from Harry Bowyer of Griswold,
Manitoba.
1t will be remembered that the name of
the fioater was Alex Sanderson of Bran
don, Manitoba, as was shown by papers
found on the body. The dead man had
railroad ticket from Brandon TO La
Grande, Ore, and it was at first supposed
that it was issued Nov. IL. 1894, in which
event Sanderson could not possibly have
been the crazy stranger who jumped into
the river on Nov. 5. A closer inspection
of the ticket, however, revealed the fact
that the ticket was issued Nov. and had
a final limit of Nov. IL. This would give
the purchaser time to arrive here on the
day the crazy man made his appearance,
and there is now no doubt but that the
crazy man and Sanderson were one and
the same person. The letter from Mr..
Bowyer reada as follows:
"The postmaster handed me your letter
this morning explaining the sad affair of
Alex Sanderson. The deceased was a
cousin OF mine. I will try to give you an
explanation of how he came to be in
Montana: He left here on the Sd of last
November and / bought a ticket for him
to La Grande. Ore, where he has brother
and several friends. He had been drink
ing before he left here and was not in
very good shape to travel alone. He had
very little money when he left, but enough
to carry him to his destination If not reck-
lessly spent.
"He was of a very nervous disposition
in fact, about q year before he left he was
partially insane for about week. The
fact of the matter is that insanity runs in
the family, his father being now in the
asylum, where he has been for the last 90
years.
"Alex Sanderson was n general favorite
with everybody of his acquaintance,
straightforward, honest and obliging. He
had been farming in this country for the
last eight years. He leaves a wife and
two children, the youngest having been
born since the father left here. Mrs.
Sanderson and child went to Ontario,
Canada, four days after Mr.. Sanderson
left here.
II used every means to try to trace him
last winter, as he never reached his desti-
nation.
"Mr. Sanderson came OF respectable
parents-fairly well-io-do farmers in
Eastern Canada. His mothers address is
ID. d. Sanderson, wroxeter. Ontario. His
wife Is now at New Bridge, Ontario, and
have sent her newspaper clippings about
the affair. Mr.. Sanderson had u valise
full of clothes with him, but II was not
checked.
AZ wish you to mail me the papers and
the pocket book found upon the body,
also the railroad ticket, as intend to try
and get some of the price of the ticket
back for his wife, who is in hard enough
circumstances"
BY the explosion of 4i-caliber
rife cartridge Albsrt Rain, rancher
and sheepman of Chicken creek,
just ! east of the ely. lost
his right eye. and his partners boy
young Holderbaum-received the cha rye
of powder in the face. The boys eyes
were slightly burned and his face badly
dishgured. The accident occurred Mon
day while Rain and the boy were out
hunting. Rain was attempting TO remove
q cartridge which had become wedged i'm
the chamber OF his rifle, whom the shell
exploded. A large piece of the flying
shell struck RAIN squarely in the right
eye, cutting through the lids aud globe
and Embedding itself within the eye ball
The injured man came to town and DR.
Shawk performed an operation for the
removal of the piece of shell. The watery
fluid of the eye had all escaped, leaving
nothing in the socket but the sightiess
ball containing the piece of shell.
Otis e. Button has disposed of his ranch