Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-23
THE news IN BRIEF
Ella Boland, Marcus Days tilly, wor
the three furlongs race at California Sat
urday from Loeb katrine and Kitty
Kelly.

| ufQaN from LOcl hdlIlllC anu nifty
Kelly.
Gov. Smith in his message to the house
Saturday said that the estimated cost of
maintaining the asylum for the ensuing
two years is $12O, 900 per year and of the
state penitentiary $57, coo per year. The
reform school estimate is $40, L 1884 for 1899
and 81 ,O96. 50 for 1900. For the soldiers
home, the estimate of the board of man
ayers is reduced from $4,000 to 5000 for
1899, and it is left at 5,196 for 1900. The
cut is made by the governor in the year
1899 m is in the cost of the new hos
pital building and in wages of employees.
The care and instruction of the deaf and
blind is estimated at $12,715 for 1899 and at
$11, 1l5 for 1900. The estimates for the nor
NAL school at Dillon, as prepared by the
local executive board. We're $13, 100 for 1859
and s16, $50 for 1900. These are reduced by.
the governor to $13, 5000 and $13, 140. The re-
auctions are chiefly made in the salary
list. The state university estimates, as
prepared by the local board, were $23, $40
for 1899 and So, 290 for 1900. The governor
reduces these estimates to $19, $40 and $780,
040, the reductions being in the additional
instructors that had been suggested by
the managers and in the expenditures for
equipment and Improvement. The state
orphans home calls for $14, 900 for 1899
and $14. 600 for 1900. The state agricul-
tural college estimate, outside of the fed
eral appropriation, was $4,000 per year.
This is reduced by the governor to S1O,260
for the two years.
Bozeman Courier: Miss Carrie Foster,
who was called home to Bozeman on ac-
count of the death of her brother, Willie
Foster, returned this morning to her
school at Norris.
Stevensville Tribune: Amos Buck re-
ceived IN assay from Butte on some Clare
mont ore recently which went 1920 in
gold, As o., in silver and 46.7 per cent
copper to the ton. L. c.. McHaffee and
Theodore Truxler are running a tunnel on
the lead and will cross cut the same when
in deep enough. The Tribune congratu-
lates the miners upon this rich strike.
Billings Gazette: w. B. Sleeper OF
Butte has been in the city several days
visiting his mother and sisters. Mr.
Sleeper is a travelling man for a Chicago
house, and is on his return home from a
trip to Washington, D. c., and the east.
Livingston Enterprise: William ]. Hav-
erstack, who was acquitted by a Jury ir
the district court Tuesday night of the
charge of murder for the killing of Johr
Z. Maher at Cokedale on the night of Au.
SuSi -'ti. laS', vas ItalItStPu w euHPSudN
on a warrant issued out of Justice Bend.
er's court. charging him with assault il
the first degree. The complaint is made by
Ernest p. Water, who alleges that jus
prior to the time of the killing of Maher
which ocucrred in Waters saloon. Hav.
erstack took a shot at him with his re
volver, but that he escaped by duckinf
behind the bar. Haverstack was ar
raianed in Justice Bender's court Wednes,
day and, upon representation that he de
sired time to consult an attorney, he wa:
given statutory time to plead and held il
bonds of 5 900 for his appearance il
court the following day. In default Of bal
he was committed to the county Jail.