Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-02
HAMILTON NEWS
Hamilton. June 1.

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Wednesday morning, Judge Woody pre-
siding. Stenographer Frank Woody
came up from Missoula Tuesday night
and all the officers of the court We're in
attendance. In the matter of the trial
jury. the verire was returned and all but
three jurors answered TO their names.
After listening to all legal disqualified
tons and excuses. the following persons
We're chosen to constitute the trial jury
for the term: ]. j. Bond, Joseph Wag-
ner. J. NJ. Simpson, +. L. Robbins, Q. l..
Kenney, E. w. Waddell, Lawrence
Peters. Hugh Mcneil. S. n. Ault. Law
renee Lovey, Adolph Click, w. A. Nc
Laren. w. II. Jameson, Frank Simpkins.
J. E. Laws. Charles johnson. John HornJi
Isaac Bergman, A.. w. Jameson, j. A.
j. Chapman, J. A.. Landram, NJ. M. Will
Jams, Fred Baufieu.
In the matter of the case of the State
VS.. Arthur McClelland and Mike Harri-
gar, informed against for robbery, which
case was set for trial at 9 q. in. on We'd
nesday, defendants, by their attorney, r.,
Lee McCulloch. appeared and filed an
atfidavit for a continuance, alleging the
witnesses, one Philip Ward. George
Wicks and Casey, could not be found.
Under the showing made the court
granted a continuance of the case until
Wednesday, June Z, at 8 a. N. |
The county attorney filed an informa-
~ III III CIll y L sou NiiAk'
an attempt to intimidate witnesses. De-
PENDANT was arrested and arraiSned at
8 O'Clock Thursday morning and entered
a plea OF not guilty.
The next case was that of the State VS..
Henry Pool, charged with arson, in the
attempted burning of a dwelling house in
the town of Florence owned by Joseph
Little. A jury composed of Lewis Har-
ris. Charles Johnson, j. j. Bond. NJ. NJ.
Williams. John Applebury, S. N. Ault, f.
II J1,t No. ~.
Click, Isaac Bergman, e. w. Waddell
and j. B. Laws was chosen to try the
case. The county attorney stated that
he had a plain case against the defend
ant. Attorney William Draffin, repre-
senting the defendant, set up the defense
I OF accident due to the drunken condition
of defendant. Seven witnesses We're en-
amined for the state and five for defend
ant. and after argument and instruction
by the court, the jury eturned a verdict
finding defendant guilty of arson in the
second degree and fixed his punishment
at confinement in the state prison for
one year. Saturday, tune 8, at 8 a. m.
was the time fixed for passing the SEN
tence of the court.
Litigation relative to the estate of Eva
B. Letter has attracted considerable at
tention in this county. Mrs. Letter and
her husband We're owners of, and resided
on a fine tract of land adjoining the
present townsite of Victor, about IS
years go. Mr.. Letter died. and shortly
after Mrs. Letter and two daughters left
the country, and nothing has been heard
from them until a few weeks ago. In
behalf of the mother of Mrs. Letter,
Harry d. Moore, the present register Of
the state land office, took up the matter
of the probate Of the estate: went to the
supreme court twice, and finally secured
a decree, declaring Mrs. Letter legally
dead, and distributing the estate to her
mother; and now comes Mrs. Gertie
Morris of Carson, Nevada, in a letter to
her unit Mrs. b. +. Tudor, of Victor,
stating that she is the daughter of Mrs.
Letter and that the family now resides
in Carson. Mr.. Moore has recently pur-
chased the ranch and is setting out sew
eral thousand fruit trees and otherwise
improving it, and, in the opinion of at
torneys he will have q hard fight to per-
e feet his title. ,
T The river has been running with full
D banks for the past three weeks and
. many persons are hopeful that we may
escape the threatened floods this year
t but persons who have watched the re-
! cession of the snow line for several years
I and are familiar with the amount OF
snow now in the mountains are not sc
hopeful. The mountain streams on the
: west side, from Lo Lo to Victor, are still
I low, and running clear as crystal
q Usually at high water about twenty OF
them discharge a volume of water, each
:, equal to that carried by the Bitter Roo,
in low stages. At the present time thu
. snow is very deep on the summit.
Thomas Keeting of Alta, who was re.
= Gently served with notice to show cause
(, why he should not be enjoined from
+. longer working his mining claim by the
! Wood Placer Mining company, crossed
I the II from Hughes Creek to Gibbons.
ill Loot Jrnnly nnl ,,,Nr< re.. l.
Butte to consult counsel relative to his
r case. He returned to this place on Tues.
t day and filed his answer. He will be rep.
e resented in court by Messrs. Stapleton &
Stapleton.
the Stevensville school, drove up to Ham,
ilton Wednesday,. The board at Stevens
! vile has not elected teachers for the en-
suing year, but Mr.. Sharp's service.
have been eminently satisfactory to tn,
board and patrons of the school, and w,
are authoritatively advised that he will
be retained another year.
- Forest superintendent ]. B. Weber ha,
just returned from an extended trip t,
Hughes creek and other stations of tn
fOrset rangers. Under the nstructio
of Mr.. Weber the work of the ranger
in clearing tracts, preventing fire, an,
II depredationS upon government timbe
l. within the reserve, will prove very effec
lie tive.
g Wagner and Sevigne, the publishers O
the souvenir of the Irrigating Con
gress," are cleaning illustrated and his
%torical matter from the valley for thei
book which will be the most complet
and artistic memento of the ~resource
of Western Montana ever published.
Miss Adelaide Dow, our popular musi