Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-22
HAMILTON NEWS

Hamilton, September q, 1899.
A determined effort will now be made
to save the life Of Nels Peterson, who was
on Tuesday sentenced to be hanged for
the murder Of Andrew Nelson on Friday,
November 3. The trial and sentence have
awakened a number Of Peterson's coun-
trymen who nave some means, n who
will communicate with his friends in
Sweden, inc if necessary raise funds to
carry the case through the supreme court
or to take any other legal action deemed
advisable. The jury that tried Peterson
was one of exceptional discretion and in
%telligence and the verdict rendered gives
general satisfaction, and it is very doubt
tul II any sufficient reason for a new
trial or a stay Of execution can be made
out. Peterson has lived in the commu
nifty IN which he committed the murder
for more than ten years, and the question
OF his sanity was never before raised.
His comprehension is as great and his
mental conceptions as active as many
of his countrymen in the vicinity. He
may be lacking in the finer moral sensi-
btities. but his actions and conduct nave
never been such as to demonstrate that
he IS not fully conscious of the crime he
has committed, and circumstances fur
Their point to the fact that the killing Of
AAAN >A@ w. " Nh( AAASt Ia ~
the kind he has committed.
Mr.. Thomas Roe Of Dillon has just ar
rived in S~tevensvllle with his family and
purchased the property vince by l.. j.
Knapp, adjacent to the school building.
The property consists of a commodious
new dwelling house and five acres of
land, with several hundred fruit trees.
Mr.. Roe's son recently bought the ranch
owned by DR.. Gwinn, near Stevensville,
and will move thither the coming spring.
Real estate in and about Stevensville is
enjoying a genuine boom and property is
in great demand by newcomers who wish
to locate permanently in that section of
the valley.
An epidemic of cholera infantum seems
to have struck Stevensville, and it bids
fair to make sad havoc among the little
ones. The little son of John Mclaughlin,
the ~well-known blacksmith. died yester-
day after a brief illness from the disease.
He was about Is months old and an only
child. Several other children are very i'll
and some are not expected to recover.
The physicians attribute the prevalence
Of the disease to the present weather.
which is extremely favorable to it, and to
irregularity in diet.
DR.. and Mrs. George McGrath, accom-
panied by the doctors brother. Henry,
left this morning for an extended trip
east. They will stop a few days at Han
nah. N. D., where Mr.. Henry McGrath
will spend the winter, while DR.. and Mrs.
McGrath will proceed to their old home
at Peterboro, N. Y; from there the doctor
will go to New York and take a course Of
lectures in the New York Clinical School
of Medicine, and expects to return to
Hamilton about December 10.
Attorney George r.. Baggs of Stevens
vile, who represented Nels Peterson. the
condemned murderer, at the preliminary
examination, but who was subsequently
| dropped and c. b. Calkins engaged in
stead, has begun a suit against Peterson
for $500, alleged to be due for profess
sional services.
County Clerk tuart has sent notifica-
| ton to the state board of equalization
that he will not comply with the late
order to raise the assessment on live
stock. The supreme OF will be obliged
sooner or later to define the exact power
of the board in this matter.
Richard Wells of St%evensville, a cor
poral in the First Montana regiment, will
not return home with the rest of the
boys, but will remain in the Philippines
and continue the publishing of a news
paper. which he and two associates start
ed some time ago in Manila.
The school trustees at Grantsdale arr
advertising a sale of bonds to the amour
Of 81, 500, for the purpose of %refunding ths
present Indebtedness at a less rate of in
terest. The sale will take place mex
month,