Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-13
He is Accused of Having Sc nj
a Naughty Letter
THROUGH THE POSTOFFICE
Now in the County Jail--William
Ling's Alleged Actions Gauss
Complaint.

Robert L. Creek, a student at the Butte
College, was arrested by the
federal authorities at noon yesterday on
a warrant charging him with having sent
through the United States mai a letter
the contents of which would not look well
in print. The epistle was mailed in this
city and received by Creeks brother in
Anaconda about the first Of the year. At
that time the brother was the guest of his
brother-in-law, for whom Robert has
taken a great dislike, and the terms used
in the letter were to be delivered to the
brother-in-law by the brother. How the
letter came to fall into the hands of the
postoffice inspectors is not known, but it
got there. There was no name signed to
it, but all appearances pointed to young
Creek as the author Inc his arrest fol-
lowed. Along in the afternoon he was
taken before Commissioner Wood, who
fixed his bond at $ 1900, and his prelimin-
airy hearing for 3 o'clock Monday. Being
unable to give the bond he was sent to the
county Jail.
Greek is only about p years old. His
pdIeHtS feSlue III the IdlldllH valley dIlu
nave been notified of his arrest.
Mrs. Laura. Johnson of $50 East Mer-
curry street complained to the county at
torney today that William Ling had
threatened to kill her. She said she Kept
a rooming house and Ling had invaded it
and ordered her dodgers to leave. He
had also thrown stones through the glass
of the windows in the house and had
al, oop1,1ofoI fh,,,,ca1f in a ~ n
that led her to believe he was not in his
mind.
Mr.. Connolly gave her a complaint
charging Ling with assault in the first
degree and Justice Harrington, to whom
the document was presented issued a war
rant for his arrest.
In the district court today the Alice
Mining filed an answer against
it by Michael Reynolds about a week age.
In his complaint Reynolds alleged that
the had pumped water from one
of the mines and allowed it to flood his
house. In the answer the defendant
states that the course taken by the wat
err is the natural one toward Mlssoula
gulch; that the liquid comprises all the
allegations of the complaint, and axes tho
stand that Mr.. Reynolds house was built
too low in the first place.
Trouble has broken out in the ma
of the estate of Michael P. Flynn, de-
ceased. A few days ago John Curran, an
officer of the law at Walkerville, sold at
public auction to Ed Mathews, some
property belonging to the estate, and
Mathews paid him $50, of which $42.5
belonged to him as a legal fee for his
services as autioneer. Not knowing that
the latter sum was his own he says he
was induced by Charles ODonnell to
turn the money over to Mary A. Curtis,
the administrators. Afterwards he
learned Of his mistake and attempted to
get it back, but O'Donnell wanted to
compromise for IS. Later on he raised it
to $40.
Today Curran petitioned the district
court for an order to compel Mrs. Curtis
to return him the money. In the docu-
ment he describes the property sold and
the amount realized, and then adds that
Charles O'Donnell, as the attorney for
Mary A. Curtis, represented to him that
it was his duty to pay the $50 to Mrs.
Curtis; that, acting under such advice,
he turned the money over and took her
receipt for it; that thereafter O'Donnell
offered and requested him to take IS in
full for his services as auctioneer, but
him $40, which he also declined to ac-
cept. r. L.. Clinton is his attorney.
Judge Lindsay's calendar tomorrow
will be as follows:
Estate of A. ]. Davis; ~ Petition Of
Joseph A. Coram. ca Hearing in re claim
of H. A. Root
Estate of Frederick Huxham, petition
for letters.
Estate of Kendall L. Rogers, order to
show cause.
Estate of James w. Morgan, settlement
of account and petition for dismissal.
Estate of A. c. White, petition for pro-
bate of will.
Estate of NJ. P. Flynn, petition to pay
claim.
Lizzie Northey VS.. John Northey, plain
tiff's proofs.
William Wilson VS.. City of Walkerville,
ct al: "a tenure of City; CD demurrer
of Dennis Driscoll.
State of Montana VS.. c. @. Johnson ct
al, demurrer.
State eX rel Shanahan VS.. J. M. Lewis,
J. p, motion for new trial.
Mary Mulville VS.. Charles A. Nickel ct
al, order to set aside default.
r. c. FOrman ct al VS.. Oliver NJ. Hall
ct al, plaintiffs proofs as to O. NJ, Hall.