The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-01
BY THE BIG BLACK FALLS
The Happenings Of a Day in Cascades
Capital.
YESTERDAYS LIVELY GRlST
Tho DoIngs of the People Recorded
IN a Faithful and Readable
Manner-Fresh Occur
renCes and Events.
YESTERDAYS LIVELY GRIST

GErAr FALLS, Dec. 3I.-A party OF dis
tinguished railroad men arrived in this
city last evening. 1t comprised Samuel
Hill. president of the Montana Central !;
J.. T.. Shelby, traffic manager for the coast
lines of tho Great Northern; Charles f..
Shelby, and others. The party left for
the cast this evening and all except L. T..
Shelby will return TO ST. Paul. The latter
goes to Seattle.
SherfT-Eect Mclaughlin of Choteau
county and his under sheriff, Mr.. Howell
Of Havre, spent Sunday in this city.
Additional advices from the Little
Rockies, respecting the killing of Powell,
or Pike" Landusky, which was exclus-
lively published in the STANDARD, says
that the Curry brothers and the dead man
were at swords points for several years.
The dead man was one of the old timers
of this section and about so years of age.
He came TO Montana in the early days,
first locating in Fort Benton, then 10 Last
Chance gulch, where he followed mining
for several years with variable success.
After placer mining became thing of
the past, Landusky turned his attention
TO other vocations and became known as
an Indian trader in Fergus county. He
achieved some notoriety in fight with
the Indians, in which he was shot through
the arm and body and had a portion of
his jaw shot away. About 10 years ago he
took up a ranch on Rock creek near where
that stream energies from the Little Rock
les. With the Manning boys he began
prospecting in the adjacent mountains
and discovered the Gold Boy and Gold
Bug lodes, which are said to be very rich
in gold. These discoveries gave an inn
petus to mining which resulted in the
sprnging up of the present town of Lam
dusky.
About three months ago Pike returned
from a visit to his old home in Missouri
and brought with him a colony of rela-
tives and friends. who located in the new
camp.
About two months ago the Curry boys
got into some trouble with Landusky
which resulted in their being arrested and
taken to Benton. The case was con-
tinued to the next term but it is under
stood the boys attributed their arrest to
Landusky. This deepened the feeling be-
tween Pike and the boys.
The Butte gentleman bearing the name
of "lron-Foot'' Johnson, made his APP
pearance in Great Falls Saturday, coming
from the West. His stay here was de-
fact that an edict had been issued by Mar
shall Pontet to arrest him on sight, so Iron
Foot made himself scarce some time on
Sunday, for the police secured the city i'm
search of him last night but were unable
to locate him.
This evening Officer Martin was sur
prised to see Iron Foot peering out of the
window at a variety theater and lost no
time in arresting him. At the police sta
ton johnson told Marshal Pontet that he
had failed to make connections with the
east bound freight and if granted a
further reprieve he would certainly leave.
He was allowed the statutory "a hours in
which to depart and was given to under
stand that if found here after then he
would be added to the snow-shoveling
gang.
Thomas Henry Carter appeared upon
the scene Sunday afternoon, coming from
the city at the head of Last Chance. He
secured quarters at the Park and gave it
out he was here on legal business. This
is not credited by the knowing ones who
hold that the oleaginious gentleman is
in the city to stffen up the back of his
senatorial boom.