The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-12
THEY SAY Go AHEAD
People Who Want the Court HouS,
Yard Beautifed.
CASES IN DISTRICT COURT
The Story of the Trouble In the
Whitaker Logging Camp Told
on the stand by Witnesses
to the Affair.

Great Falls, April ia petition is
in circulation and receiving a large
number of signatures urging the
county commissioners to continue the
work on the court house lot park The
position taken is that the county could
not possibly get the work done cheap
er than by this method 1t is claimed
that the cost is mere bagatelle COM
pared with what the price would be il
given out under contract The extra
help outside the prisoners and a man
10 look after the grades and stakes was
taken from families which the county
had to support, thus getting the work
practically for nothing. The signers
expect that when the matter is brought
before the board, there will be found
some way of arranging the matter
In the district court this morning,
Albert E. w. Conkrite was arraigned
TO plead to an information charging
him with assault in the second degree
upon Officer Grillenberger. He had no
attorney and was given until Monday
to answer.
The case of the state VS. James Bar
ker, was then continued and the state
by several witnesses laid the founda-
ton for the testimony of Pugh Hutch
lnson, the complaining witness.
+. M. Woodward testified to the stu
alton OF the conflicting lumber claims
in Saw Mill gulch near Monarch. ]. c.
Hutchinson, brother of the complaint
ing witness, when he was employed by
Woodward to take charge of the camp
in Saw Mill gulch. Whittaker's camp
was located about three quarters of a
mile away. Jan. IA the day before the
shooting, Barker, the defendant called
at the camp in company with Knudson.
In the conversation that followed, wit
ness told Barker that the men were
IncrC In h IL.
he had three-sighter Winchester and
90 rounds of ammunition and would
shoot any man found cutting logs and
would make a corduroy road out of
them. Whitaker drove up and when
told that Woodward's men were work.
ing in the gulch said he would drive
them out. Witness suggested that il
was possible to so arrange IL that both
parties could cut timber peaceably
Whitaker said If the men did not stop
they would get hurt. He sent six men
TO cut logs the. morning of the 18th
Upon cross-eXamination witness said
that he knew that his men had no guns
with them.
John Ramsey testified that Barker |
came to his cabin the morning of the |
trouble and borrowed his rifle and 10 |
cartridges, for the purpose of trailing |
deer, as he said.
Hugh Hutchinson gave an account of |
a fight in the gulch. He said he and
Wllkey were standing on log when a |
bullet whistled past his hand, singing
1t. He said Whitaker and Barker were
behind some bushes about 20 feet
away. Witness called to them to stop
and come out and talk Whit
taker and Knudson came out and Bar
ker ran up the side of the hill, hiding
himself behind some bushes. Witness
and four others followed the tracks in
the snow quite a ways towards Barker
when he called on them to stop or he
would shoot them. They went back to
the place where they were cutting logs
and soon the firing began once more
and from various directions and the
men left for the camp.
Several other of the men in the
Woodward crew testified to the facts of
The shooting in substantially the same
-orm as Hutchinson. The state rested
IT p. m. and Mr.. McAnnelly of the
fefense said IL would be proved that
Barker was not present at the time of
he trouble, but had gone deer hunt
ng in the opposite direction and did
lot return till the next day. They
would also try to prove that the trouble I
vas all started by the Hutchinsons
md that the firing was all done by
hem.
Fred Whitaker was the first witness J
or the defense and said that Barker
vas not present at the time and that :
he and Knudson had no guns and did
70 shooting. The case will be finished 7