The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-10
DEER LOI CO NEWS.
All Wing Doesn't Like to Go Home-As
to County Finances


Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
DEER LODGE. March 9.-The following
real estate transfers were recorded during
the last weok:
Augustus Slaughter and wife to 2. w,
Murray, Lot s. block 40, in the city
OF Anaconda, cohsi lera, ion ...... S $50 90
George Bradley TO l.. c. Chapman. q
interest in Little Rachael lode min
ing claim situa ed on Warm prings
creek, consideration. ............... go 90
L. G. Chapman to j. v Collins. "a in
terest in Little Rachael lode lining
claim situated on Warm Springs
creek, consideration. ............... M
Thomas +. Cakes, Henry G. Payne
Henry G. Rou g, receivers of the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
to Thaddeus Davidson, lots and
4and east q of the sw. a (e. a of
sw. "a OF section in township
north ran ge 10 west in Deer Lodge
county. consideration ............... I49i 90
All Wing, a Chinaman serving a life
sentence, was granted an unconditional
pardon by the governor and was released
from the penitentiary to-day, after having
served five years. He was Immediately
arrested by the sheriff upon telegraphic
instructions from United States Marshal
William McDerunott, and is held awaiting
the arrival of the marshal. All Wing was
convicted of murder in the second degree
in the district court in Beaverhead county
at the October term, 1889, and sentenced
to imprisonment for life. HIS pa rdon was
asked for on the ground that he was suf-
fciently punished and on account of the
circumstances surrounding his crime;
and that upon his release he would return
to his native land.
The petition asking for his pardon was
signed by Ex-Governor White, State Sena-
tor Brown, Representatives Knippenberg
and Jones, State Superintendent L. A.
Steere, Judge Bake, who presided at the
trial, nine of the jurymen who brought IN
the verdict of guilty, as well as several of
the county officers and other prominent
citizens of Beaverhead county. He does
not take kindly to the idea that he is to be
deported and intlmated that he would
rather stay in the penitentiary than be
compelled to run the gauntlet i'm China
when he arrives there.
The following is the report of J. G. Mo-
rony, clerk of the court:
To the Honorable Bard Of COuRtu Commission
s. Sers9 Deer Lldge County Montana.
rGENTLEMES.-Herewlt is submitted the an
nuai stat 'ment of the county finaHeesfor the
fiscal year ending March /. SO =, which shows
The in,,eb, edn OF the county to be si65553 a.
In this statement is credited the Granle
county Indebtedness. We hold their warrant
for this indebtedness; IL is certainly an asset
and have considered IL as an offset and so
credited il. | have eliminated Ss6935 the
amount of two estates in the county treasurer's
hands. These were credited last year In the
statement as an Offset, but as escheaied estates
ali go into the state treasury they SHOULD not be
credited To the county.
BY way OF comparison, the Indebtedness for
the fiscal year just ended ha, increased from
sl09 9sS. 81. the ndeb edness for the year preyi-
GUS the ne incre Sc Of S5j,54j 49,
This increase can be accounted for in several
ways. While the tax levy for last year was 80
mills, o. this the county fund got l. the poor
fund 1. the road fund mius. and the contin-
gent fund nothing, being al told but a levy
OF mills 10 sustain the county, aside from the
public school fund.
Tins levy was manifestly insufficient 10 meet
the expenses Of this county Tor any her
county,: II WAS entirely inadequate. Excep,in.
the contingent fund, al the di ferent funds ran
behind. The county iund ran behind So .UOO
after having had the benefit o. a Siu.l 90 transfer
from the continent fund. The warrants drawn
against the county fund for the last fiscal ear
amounted 10 S55l72 o.. as against S4l.4s2 G5 for
the year previous. or the char-e az inst the
coun fund Tor the past year SIS 20 Wis for
dist LEI court eNpeuS =. jurors and witness fe-s
II crIm.nA- eases a yer, IN cd tem cons 4ering
the fac. that among he large number o. crlmI-
ma eases trieI there were three murder trials
and two big cattle stealing cases, IN each %
which there were necessarily large number Of