Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-05-21
Montana.

Helena for the year ending April 80 shows
that the total receipts of taxes during the
year were $lO4, ,53O.ss.
A party of government packers with
| 100 mules and outfits passed through Bill
lings the other day. They had been en-
ployed in the government relief expedition
to Alaska, and were enroute to Fort Rob
inson, Neb The men were in charge OF
an army lieutenant, and said they ex-
pected to be sent with the invading army
to Cuba.
John M. Evans of Missoula has been
appointed captain of Company J., Hell
ena, First Montana volunteers. Governor
Smith first appointed Julius Mueller of
Helena, but he declined the commission.
Captain Evans spent two years in West
Point, being the immediate predecessor
Of Lieutenant r. Bruce Wallace, who will
assume the rank of lieutenant colonel of
the regiment.
The new orchard company that is op-
Grating in the Eight Mile district near
Missonla, has completed the planting of
its new trees for this season under the
direction of President Mcdonald of the
company. The outlook is excellent The
ground is very favorable for orchards, and
the new trees ought to thrive. The num-
Der of trees planted this spring is 5000:
and in addition to this 1000 grape vines
have been planted.
Attorney General Nolan has rendered
an opinion to the effect that county Of
ticers who 60 to war lose their places
after 60 days absence from the state.
just as if they had gone under any other
circumstances. The report is made timely
by the fact that several county officials
in the state have enlisted in their local
companies. County Attorney Z. X. Chea-
die of Fergus county and two other coun-
ty officers, who have recently enlisted in
a Lewiston militia organization, are
among the number
Judge Woody has sentenced John P.
Pursell to imprisonment for life Pursell
was convicted of the murder of John Wal
ters. The murder was one of the coolest
blooded crimes ever committed in this
city, and aroused intense indignation at
the time it was committed Pursell was
cunning for a bartender who had refused
to give him drink. He had deliberately
gone after rifle, and when he found
the man he was looking for he leveled his
rifle and fired. He missed the man he
was after, but he shot poor old John
Walters, who lived but few minutes
after the bullet struck HIM Pulsell ad-
mitted the killing, and said he was glad
he had done what he had. At that time
he thought he had killed the bartender.
Major Geo. B. Mclaughlin and his par
ty are at Edmonton outftting for the trip
to Stewart river. They have 60 horses
forming their pack train, and have two
government packers to look after them,
and expect to start in few days on the
trail. Another party outftting at Ed
fnonton is the Peterboro klondike Mill |
ing company, to which Alexander Monk
man OF Butte is mineral expert. This
party will take with them two carts,
which they claim are historic The first
bore Louis Riel as a prisoner from Ba-
toche to the Regina Jail, and the other
was the triumphal chariot of Chief Pound
maker on his historic march to Battleford
One would Judge from the statement that
in the reconstruction of these and other
carts and harness used, it required 400
pounds of wire and six hides of Sha ggan-
appi that all of them had reached a re-
spectable old age.
The members of Company I, of Lewis
ton, are all stalwart, oad-shouldered
men, and although at present undrlled,
Will present magnificent appearance
when fully equipped, says the 1ndepen-
lent. There are men from all ranks of
ife to be found in the company, even
he ministry being represented by Rev.
Albert Pfaus, the Presbyterian minister
If Lewiston. Among others in the com
oany are James NJ. Croft, assessor of Fer
gus county; e. 7. Wright, clerk of the
district court; Z. X. Cheadle, county at
orney; A. NJ. Stoddard, merchant; G.
Preston, druggist; Professor NJ j.
Jarrett, former principal of the Lewiston
schools, and many others prominent in
business and social affairs in the Fergus
apital.