Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-06-19
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Preparations are being made to test
the Farrelly antitrust law passed by
the last Kansas legislature. A case has
been brought up by the Kansas retail
grocers against the Kansas Wholesale
GrocerS' Association, a new organiza-
ton recently formed at Kansas City
for the purpose, it is alleged, of evad-
ing the Farrelly law. 1t is stated that
sugar, tobacco and other trusts are
placing contracts with the new Whole
sale Grocers' Association with a view
of evading the law.
Sheriff Gibb and Deputy W. D.
Smith have arrived at Miles City,
Mont, from Rosebud station with two
Indians, Yellow Hair and Sam Grow.
who are connected with the murder of
Hoover, which precipitated the recent
Indian scare. They We're taken to the
Jail, where both Indians implored the
sheriff not to put them in the same cell
with WhirlWind. already arrested. BY
sign language they indicated that he is
crazy and that they feared violence at
his hands. The officers do not know
whether it is a case of real or feigned
insanity
While Respondent over hard times
William Hunter, an Albany, Or, farm
er, jumped into 63-foot we'll last week
and was drowned.
coal mine near Clinton, burned last
week, causing $4,000 loss. The Is
men working in the mine escaped.
During friendly wrestling match
in Brooklyn between Albert Benson and
T. Olsen last week the formers neck
was broken.
During a hail and wind storm at
Caldwell, Ohio, last week many build
ings were unroofed and hail stones as
large as hens eggs broke hundreds
of windows.
Governor Rogers has appointed Dan
Stewart of Walla Walla, T. B. Gum,
]. M. Baxter, William Lee, North va
kima, and F. D. Schnebly, Ellensburg,
state fair commissioners.
Word from Washington states that
the missing papers in the case of Nc
Bride VS.. the state of Washington have
been found, having been in the hands
of a special agent who failed to turn
them over to the department.
A new volcano recently broke out
near Tehuantepec, Mexico. In the ac-
companying seismic disturbances the
village Of Mistequilla was destroyed,
but no fatalities are reported.
Farmer D. Estes and Ray Estes of
Leavenworth, Wash, charged with as
saulting George Briskey with intent to
Kill, have been bound over for trial be-
fore the Kittitas county superior court
in $4,000 bonds. 1t is doubtful if they
can secure bonds.
The Reading, Pa, iron works has
closed indefinitely, throwing 1000 men
out of employment. The cause is that
men in the departments supplying the
iron are on a strike and the supply has
run down.
Harry Whallen, the ''human ostrich
died at Kansas City from the effects of
a surgical operation to relieve him. Two
pocket knives, three knife blades, three
ounces of fine glass, tacks, nails,
screws and staples to the number of
10, were taken from his stomach.
Last week Edward S. Edwards
Welsh rider of the Century Wheelmen
of New York city, raised the Ameri
can record for "a hours road riding to
349 2-5 miles. The next best previous
record, 314 miles, was made by Smith
of Baltimore several weeks ago.
The report of Expert c. P. Dam, who
has been at work on the books of King
county, Wash, shows a shortage in the
accounts of County Treasurer w. Cor
don of nearly $4,000.