The Anaconda standard., 1896-03-24
TO NAME THEIR MEN
Livingston Democrats and Republicans
Will Hold Primaries This Week.
JOHN BURNS is NERVOUS
The Man Who Took Daniel O'Con-
nell's Life Is In Precarious Po-
sltion. and He Knows 1t Bet
ter Than Anybody Else.

Special Correspondence OF the Standard.
Livingston, March 22.-At a meeting
OF the democratic city committee last
night, a call was issued for holding the
ward primaries for selecting candi-
dates for aldermen of the city of Liv-
ingston. The primaries will be held at
s p. m. on Friday. March %.
In the First ward the place of meet
ing will be the East Side school house
The outgoing alderman is George A.
Gordon.
In the Second ward. at the city hall:
outgoing alderman. +. A. Krieger.
In the Third ward, at the court
house; outgoing aldermen, John Mar
tin, sr., and Alex Livingston Cunexpired
term.)
The republican primaries are called
to meet at the same places for the re-
spective wards on Saturday. March 2S.
The First ward committeeman are w.
III. Yeaton and N. Davenport; Second
ward, NJ. II. Lashorn, A. w. Miles and
J. c. Villas; Third ward, c. GARNER and
Samuel NJ. Nye.
John Burns, whose hands are stained
with the blood of a fellow man, was
visited in his cell in the county jail to-
day by the Standard correspondent.
and the man who is soon to be placed
upon trial to answer to the charge OF
murder in the first degree, exhibited
more concern as to the outcome or the
case against him than he has before
shown since the fatal blow was struck
which caused the spirit of Daniel
O'Connell to take its flight 10 other
worlds.
Burns realizes now in what precari-
Gus position he stands and he is max
ing every effort that he can to prepare
a defense which will lead the jury TO
bring in a verdict that will mean not
more than a few years for him in the
state penitentiary. He has not much
hope of escaping Scott free. but he has
not the remotest idea that he will be
fund guilty of murder In the
first degree and sentenced TO
be hanged. He has been in
correspondence with some people over
on the Blackfoot, in Missoula county,
with whom he worked last fall pre-
vious to going to Anaconda, and they
set forth that Burns is personally
known to them as being possessed of
integrity and sobriety, with charac-
ter above reproach, and has always
proved himself Industrious and inoffen-
sive; and can vouch that the crime he
Is charged with, If committed. was
wholly in self-defense: and sincerely
trust he will not be harshly dealt
with"
There are 2S signatures to the above,
and IL is printed because Burns thinks
IL will serve to place him in more Ia
vorable light in this community, where
he Is a comparative stranger He says
he never was associated with the idle,
rowing classes, but always earned his
living by the sweat Of his brow. Since
the hard times set in he was not able
to find steady employment, and conse-
quently drifted from place to place in
search of work. He has an Idea that
the witnesses at the coroner's inquest
could have put things in more IA
vorable light for him, but for their fear
that IL they exhibited the least modi-
cum of knowledge about the AFFAIR,
they would be held as accessories; also
for fear that he CBurns) would try to
show that they were implicated in the
quarrel, unless their testimony was
non-committal as possible. Burns,
however, says they were needlessly
alarmed on this score; he was not only
willing. but anxious for them to relate
lust what happened, and he was not
the kind of a man who would attempt
to get out of his present predicament
by seeking to place any part OF the
blame upon innocent shoulders
Messrs Martin, Jeays and Bowhay
expect to have their electric light plant
at Big Timber running about the LIST
of MAY. The plant has been ordered
from Massachusetts, and will arrive In
about three weeks. In the meantime
work will progress as rapidly as possi-
BILE on the necessary buildings.
Fred Hathhorn. who is building up a
lucrative law practice at Billings, was
in the city to-day.
w. II. Poorman and wife arrived
( from ST. Paul to-day.