The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-16
IN BOHEMIAN.
The Last Weeks Work In the District
Court.

Court.
| Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman. Aug. 1.-THE district court
of the ninth judicial district has been
in session during the past week. The
! Jury were called for Monday and sat
first of all to listen to the facts in the
case of State of Montana VS.. stephen
M. Silvers. his was a murder case,
which happened on June LIST. at Man
haitian, on the farm of the Manhattan
| Mailing company. when Silvers. after
an u~nprovoked assault. shot and killed
Thomas Broderick. The plea of self
defense was put forth by Hartman
Bros. & Stewart. Silvers' attorneys,
with the result that the jury returned
a verdict OF not guilty after being out
in the Jury room an hour and a half.
On Wednesday the case of Nellie Bra
dy VS.. Lavinia r. Brady. a water
right case, was fought by the respec-
tive counsel. ending in a verdict for
the plaintiff. The rest Of the week was
consumed with the case of Riddle &
Suffer VS.. The Peck-Williamson Heat
ing and V~entilating This
suit grew out of the installation of the
heating, ventilating and sanitary ap-
paratus of the defendant in the agri-
cultural college, agreed TO be complet-
ed and lone by Riddell & Suffer, who
alleged that though there was no time
stipulated on the contract, yet they
were entitled to their pay as soon as a
certain amount of work was done and
measured up by the defendant or its
agent. A certain amount of work had
been done, the Peck-Williamson COM
pany refused to pay for IL when II was
measured up. Riddell & Suffer refused
to complete the work. and hence the
suit by the plaintiff for the value of
the amount of work and material done
and performed. The case will be given
to the jury on Monday.
The commissioners, or board of equal
i~Zation, met last Monday and made the
tax levy for the year 1859. which. in
Guiding the state levy, is 2 mills higher
than last year or a 15-mill levy. This
raise is due to the fact that there H. >
greater demand for more funds 10 carry
on the necessary expenses OF GaIlatln
county. The levy Is made up as fol-
lows: State fund, 2lR mills: general
fund. 2a mills; contingent fund, 2l5
mills; school fund. 3 mills: road fund, .
mills; bridge fund, l mill; sinking fund,
IL mills. After adjournment the com
missioners arranged to go up the Gal
latin anyon to view the new road lust
completed by the firm OF Cockrill &
Callaghan, road contractors. The will
go up the West Gallatin canyon as far
as the upper basin and thoroughly in
spect the bridges and grades before the
IOou u . dI1tDN0u dE n Nnble. lHtN Itli
on Wednesday for their trip.
Bozeman has been very quiet the last
week or two on account of the farmers
being busy with the hay harvest and
now with cutting the golden grain
which is rapidly becoming matured
with the hot weather of the last four
or five days. In some places in the
valley the crops promse to be as large
as last year., or perhaps a little larger
as TO WELD I'm others pWtDO IN the cold
weather which prevailed I'm the spring
and lasted quite late. the yield will be
lighter. in some parts quite small COM
pared with the average. The valley has
been remarkably free from hailstorms
this year, which usually do such great
damage to some crops every season,
and everything for the last three
months has been all that could be
wished for by the most exacting Of the
ranchers.
The weather for the last week has
been intensely hot, Il being 9s in the
shade n day and nearly as hot the
rest. On Saturday IL cooled off sufi-
GENTLY TO become pleasant and the sun
remained behind the clouds the great
part of the day. Dust coats. fans, UNI
brellas and shirt sleeves are the order
of the day.
Nelson Story e. Co. are putting on a
large addition TO their mill in Bridger
canyon, which will be nearly as large as
the original mill itself, and is costing
In the neighborhood of a thousand dol
lars.
The old academy building is being
renovated by Mr.. Story. He is having a
new roof put on, the walls weather.
boarded and the whole exterior and in
terror torn apart n put together again,
so that those who were wont to pass a
great deal Of their time there during it's
tenancy by the college or when the merry
roller skaters used to roll around on its
floors in years gone by. will hardly rec
ognize II In its new garb.
Miss Calvin, the instructress in the
music department of the agricultural
college, has built a very pretty little
residence on Grande avenue, which will
soon be ready for occupancy.
Mr.. Esgar and Mr.. Wells have both
erected neat little dwelling houses in
Mendenhall street which they will soon
move into, and Mr.. Logan n Professor
Phelps will soon have houses fit to live
in on the same street. There are sew
eral other houses in the course of erec-
ton n probably several others will
soon be begun so as to be inhabitable
by fall or early winter.