The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-21
CASES UP FOR TRIAL
John TOnkO Wants Damages for In
juries Sustained in Saloon Fracss.
AN INDIAN Girl, ROMANCE
The Story Goes That Her Hus-
band Cruelty Beat Her. and He
Was Afterwards Shot-His AL
legged Slayers Arrested.
AN INDIAN Girl. ROMANCE

Great Falls, March 2O.-The Steven
son VS.. Dwyer case was continued this
morning in the district court with the
plaintiff still on the stand. The prose-
cution was seeking to establish the
value of more than 500 articles of fur
niture sold by the sheriff, and it was
necessarily very slow work. When
Judge Benton discovered that the de-
Tense was prepared with several wit
nesses to testify to the value of each
separate article of furniture. which
would draw the case over two or three
days, he promptly put the matter in the
hands of referee, selecting II. II. Ew
ing to act in that capacity. The plain
tiff claims that hardly one part of the
original transaction from the judgment
TO the sale of the property was proper
ly and legally executed. After the value
of the goods is established by the
referee the case will come back to the
court.
This afternoon the case of John Tom
ko VS.. Mike Doris eft al. was taken up,
Mr. Brady for the plaintiff and II. II.
Ewing and A. p. McNulty for the de-
PENDANTS. The parties to the action are
all Slavs, most of whom talk no Eng
lish, necessitating an interpreter. The
suit is for $500 damages suffered by
Tomko from an assault on him by the
defendants in a saloon in Belt during
January. Tomko came very near to
being killed by his four assailants and
was laid up for a long time. According
to the testimony already in, there was
very little furniture larger than kind
ling wood left in the saloon when the
fight was over. The case will probably
go the jury tomorrow morning.
Judge Race to-day found Bessie Gro
min, the variety theater girl. guilty of
the charge of exhibiting herself in a
place where liquors were being sold
Sentence is deferred until tomorrow.
The full penalty is 500 fine and one
month Imprisonment.
O'Neil and Lameraux, the two men
captured at Malta and charged with
the murder of "Shoshone Jim" in Wy
oming and the abduction of an Indian
girl who was living with him, were
brought to Great Falls to-day and
placed in the county jail. The two men
are apparently confident they can easily
establish their innocence and claim
they were acting in protection of their
own lives. The story as told by Lam
eraux gives a romantic touch to the
adventure and is as follows:
Lameraux and O'Neil, or O'Dell, as
he says his name is, were ranchers and
cowboys in Wyoming, and being
thrown out of a job started with
heavy wagon and two horses for
Northern Montana, passing through
the Shoshone reservation. While in
camp there the Indian girl came to
them and asked for protection and
begged that she be allowed to go with
them into the Crow reservation. She
said she had been educated at the
reservation school and upon her return
to the lodge was forced, much against
her will, to live with 'Shoshone JIM"
the son of Washekee, a well-known
sr~l,N he
rived he had beaten her most brutally
and she was determined to leave him
and the life she was obliged to live.
They agreed and she left with them.
The next night they camped in the
brush. 1t was bitterly cold and as they
expected to be followed, dared not light
a fire Just as dark was closing in, |
they saw Indians crawling towards |
them in the underbrush and opened |
fire which was briskly returned. AS
the Indians closed in on them their |
chances grew desperate and they |
jumped on the two horses and fled |
north leaving the girl and the wagon. |
The marshal is reported as saying |
that eventually the girl got away safe |
ly to the Crow reservation through the |
assistance of another party of whites. |
Marshal McDermott was Obliged to |
leave to-day for Big Sandy and the |
Identification of the prisoners will not |
take place until tO-nOlrOW.
The two Indians who recently en- 4
gagged in a fight near Havre have been |
allowed to return to the Cree camp |
and will not be further molested by the
authorities.
The next term of court in Choteau
county is set for May s and a venire
for jurors for that term was drawn at |
Benton yesteray.
A lodge of Sons of st. George was or
ganiZed in this city tonight by State
Organizer Davies of Helena.
Howell Harris has just returned
from a trip to- California, where he has
been during the winter.
Switzer & Bateman have purchased
a Lot on Central avenue and will erect
thereon a handsome three-story build
ing this summer.
Annie Blanchard, an employe of the
Choteau house at Benton. died sud
denly Tuesday evening and the man.
ner of her death suggested an inves-
tigation by the authorities as to It's
cause. Judge DuBose ordered an in
quest to be held. An autopsy made
by the county physician resulted in the |
coroner's jury returning a verdict that
the young woman died from natural
causes. thus effectually quieting ugly
rumors that had been in circulation.
The remains were buried yesterday aft
ernoon.
A small frame building back of the
Montana house and used as a stable
was burned this afternoon. II was I'M
occupied at the time of the blaze and
the loss win be small.
The CITY r spub.icans.
Great Falls. March 2O-The republican