The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-01-02
state News.

The city authorities .of Bozeman
have passed an anti-gambling orr
dinance.
The Great Falls National bank
has reduced its capital stock from
$3.50, 900 to s125, 900.
The Billings Gazette will issue
semi weekly paper at the same
price as theu weekly.
Joseph Cadotte, the murderer OF
Oliver Twist, paid the penalty OF
bis crime on the scafoli ct Fort
Benton, on Dec. 27.
c. K. Cunningham, the news
paper man who skipped out OF
Great Falls some time ago, is re-
ported to have repeated the per-
formance at Billings.
According-cto the Record, r.
Lewis, of the Gazette, has quit the
county seat-of Valley county, and
is seeking ''greener fields And
pastures new" in the east.
Judge speer, OF the district
court, at Butte, has decided the
entire license Law of the state un-
constitutional. An appeal will be
taken to the supreme court.
The corrected total assessment
of the state for 1895, as Just re-
ported by the state board of
equalization, is 1924, ,O76. 585. so,
or s5,2l5, $3.50 more than for
1894.
The progressive little city Ct
Havre IS looking with wistfui eyes
on the county seat OF Choteau
county. Old Benton must look
out or she may wake up some
morning and and the county
officials doing business elsewhere.
The little thirteen year old
daughter of VIM. Gay has been
making the. round Of the west side
towns for the purpose of raising
funds for her father tc employ
counsel In case he should get
new trial. This it would seem
from her success was foregone
conclusion In that quarter, since
she seems to- be tmeeSsng with
great encouragement.
/ During the prevalencs Of ths
severe wind storm On the night Of
Dec. %, the wagon bridge spann>
ing the Yellowstone, FIVE miles
south of Livingston, was totally,
wrecked, and now lies at the bot
tom OF the river 1t was the long.
est span -bsidge in the state, being
22O feet in length and erected two
years ago. The structure was
wrecked a year ago by wind aud
rebuilt last spring free OF cost by
the Gll'ette-Herzog company Of
Minneapolis, the contractors.
Section 146 OF the civil code
contains provision that, when .
divorce is granted, the guilty
party shall not marry within three
years, and the other party shall
not marry within two years. Fol>
lowing this section, in brackets, 10
the following. "House bill No.
146, approved March 6, 1895, in
its body repeals section Jag, bu.
no reference is made to the sec.iou
in the repeating act" Judge
Benton aud Clerk Cockrfli have
searched for the act OF March Q,
but have been unable to fDd it In
the ccdes or the supplements that
has been published, and whether
the law is in effect or not, no ore
knoWs.-Tribune.
The Great Falls Leader OF Dee.
27 contains the following account
of the wreck on the narrow gauge:
The train due here from Leth.
bridge this morning at IL o'clock
will not arrive until about IL
o'clock tonight. The passenger
coach was attached 10 the cabooss
of freight train and proceeded
along all right until within a few
miles of Shelby junction, when the
high wind that has been blowing
for the last % hours struck the
coach with such terrific force thar
it was blown from the track,
Dragging the caboose with it.
Both passenger coach and caboose
were dragged several yards before
the train could come to a stand