The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-07
J. D. SMITH HELD IN ST. PAUL
The People of Clancy Well Pleased Over
the Capture-A Shipment of Horses
Tor British Columbia.

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Boulder, March 5.-Sherif Sher-
lock has received dispatch
from NJ. w. Goss, chief OF police
of st. Paul, that he has arrested and
is holding John ID. Smith, who is want
ed by the officers here for criminal neg
ligence in allowing his child to die, as
alleged, without care or medical at
tendance. The case has been men
toned before as the parties at Clancy
who allowed their children to suffer
until the indignation of their neighbors
was aroused. The S-year-oId boy died,
probably on account of the neglect of
the parents; the little girl younger was
placed with a family in Clancy; the
woman, Mrs. Smith, was arrested and
is in jail here awaiting trial and the
man put up $50 cash bond and left the
country. There is quite general salts
faction at his capture, and there is lit
tie doubt but that the one held in ST.
Paul is the one wanted Sheriff Sher-
lock on his own responsibility offered IA
reward of $50 for his apprehension and
went to considerable expense in pro-
curing photographs to send out with a
description. He left for the East last
night with papers prepared for a
requisition for the prisoner.
The shipment of 434 head of horses
from here this week attracted little
attention. They We're not destined for
Alaska or the trail from Edmonton
northwest, as was at first reported, but
were to be shipped to Baltic on the
Great Northern then driven over into
British Columbia for use in ranch and
other work They were bought in Mad
ison and BeaVerhead counties and were
principally Mauldin and Poindexter
range horses and the price paid for
them was said to run from SIS to So
While they We're being loaded here
some Boulder parties thought they
found a horse with the brand OF a
rancher down the valley ana they in
sisted that it be held out, as no stock
had been bought from the rancher in
question. The shippers agreed to leave
the animal here if the complaining par
ties would deposit in the bank SO, the
amount the animal cost, and hold the
horse if they could prove ownership or
send the money to the shippers if they
could not After the shipment was
gone the brand was examined closer
and the parties who suspected they
had found stolen horse believe they
are mistaken, so they have bought an
animal al probably little more than
he is worth
County Commissioners.
The board of county commissioners
will meet in regular session Monday for
the transaction of regular quarterly
business, other matters coming UP viii
be the letting of the county printing
for the current year. At present the
entire board is away on a trip to a
place on the Jefferson river near the
mouth of Willow creek, having with
them the county surveyor, and they
viii have a joint session with the COM
mssioners of Gallatin county with ref
erence to the building of a bridge there.
The matter has been under consdera-
ton number of years, and as the riv-
er makes dangerous ford except when
it is very low, and as it is consider
able distance up or down stream to
another crossing, there is some merit
in the claim of the residents of that
part of the country that the bridge
should be built. Commissioners Smith
and Monahan drove from here Friday
and at Whitehall will meet Mr.. Fergus,
the chairman of the board, and Mr..
Mcneil, the surveyor.
Mammoth Engines.
Those mammoth engines on the Great
Northern are back in service again and
are objects of interest to all who see
them. 1t will be recalled that they
dard and also have been described in
mechanical publications in the East as
the largest locomotive engines in the
world. On their first trial over the road
about two weeks ago they seemed to
handle the heavy trains up the mount
ain grades all right, but they were so
heavy that they spread the rails. and
at the curves when the next freight
engine came along it would leave the
pa ri SpNaral thousand rail hraaaS
We're at once ordered and have been
put in place and it is thought that the
engines can now be used with safety.
Their run will be between Clancy and
Woodville.
He Was Acquitted.
John F. Smith of Bernice is often in
the justice court and appeared once
more last week before Justice Warner,
being charged with assault and threats
with a deadly weapon. After the ex-
animation of several witnesses, he was
acquitted.
Helping Him Out.
Quite a number of Boulder men are
coming to the assistance of Rev. Mr..
Shelton of Helena, WHO has had some
difficulty in procuring and re-
tanning bondsmen TO be his sure
ty as administrator in the set
tlement of the Smith estate in
Lewis and Clarke county. Several
of his original bondsmen have with
drawn or have become insufficient and
in calling on his Boulder friends they
have helped him out and qualified in
the following amounts: L. A. Leighton,
$1,000; j. b. Maxfield. $1,000: David
Hopes. So 900: l. ID. Shope. 81. 900; l.. @.
Shelton. $1,000. and j. II. Nelson, 81. 900.
Mr. Shelton claims that he is being per-
secuted and misrepresented by a Hell
ena attorney who is doing all that he
can TO get him out of the administra-
tion of the estate by harassing him
and making il difficult TO procure
bonds. with the object of getting an
other man appointed to the place.
4 Basin Mining Company.
Among the Incorporation papers filed
here during February WAS that of the
Basin Gold & Copper Mining company,
with Governor Smith, Lieutenant Gov