The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
BIG TIMBER.
A Little Girl Receives a Severe Gunshot
Wound.

A Little Girl Receives a Severe Gunshot
Wound.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Big Timber, June 20.--The 4-year-old
daughter of Mrs. McLachlan, who is
employed as cook on the Parberry
ranch near Melville, was brought to
town Monday evening, suffering from
a severe gunshot wound in her left
hand. 1t appears that a herder had
pitched his tent in the ranch yard and
had a loaded rifle among his effects.
The little girl and her brother, boy
of 6, got into the tent While the herder
was out, and while playing with the
rifle it was discharged while the little
girl had her hand over the muzzle. DR..
Parberry happened to be on the ranch
and ligated the arm so that death from
hemorFhage was narrowly prevented
An examination of the wound by Doc
tors w. A. and J. H. Moore revealed
the fact that the entire back of the
hand was destroyed and the child was
given chloroform and the injured mem
Der amputated just above the wrist
joint. The little sufferer stood the
operation well and seemed in the best
of spirits when she and her mother left
for home to-day
The water in the Yellowstone river
a this point is higher than it has ever
been before. A report comes from
Springdale to the effect that the south
approach to the bridge at that place
has been washed away so that ingress
to the Hunters Hot Springs resort by
that route is closed NJ j. Fell, who
is in town to-day, says that he was
compelled to abandon his ranch Sun
day, the water now being several feet
deep in his house, Richard Cosgriff.
who is up from Gray Cliff. says that
a family named Flynn who have been
| living on an island in the Yellowstone
near Tom kent's place, have been
obliged to move and had tosswim their
stock across a slough, which is now
! raging torrent. The Boulder river is
| higher than it has ever been and some
) of the smaller bridges which span it
! have gone out. 1t is hoped that the
| cool weather of last night and to-day
! will bring the water below the danger
/ point
| Wool continues to come in to the
! local warehouse. and there are now
about 100000 pounds in storage. No
| offers have been made yet, as very
few of the clips are complete.
The proximity of the Northern Pa
cific grading gang to this town is max
ing times lively for the officers and the
school fund has been swelled to the
extent of several hundred dollars in
the past few weeks. The navvies will
daily with the Big Timber red eye
and the usual result is that they land
in the county Jail and are obliged to
pungle up snug sum in the shape of
a fine before they regain their liberty.
Monday night one of the gang INDUCED
in the pastme of shooting off revol-
Yer on Main street. Night Officer An
| derson gathered him in and he con-
| tributed $40 to the school fund. Last
night the gang came up to celebrate
! pay day and got into free fight. Sher-
| if Kellogg arrested two of the scrap
pers after considerable difficulty, and
| they contributed their snare cash to
! school uses this morning.
| Under Sheriff Hatch returned this
! morning from the old Independence
| mining camp, where he had gone in
| search of a man who is charged with
violating the game law. The warrant
| was issued upon complaint of State
| Game Warden Wagner. Sheriff Hatch
failed to get his man, who had got wind
of his coming and skipped out. The
people at the CoWles camp, so Sheriff
Hatch says. made no secret of the fact
! that they have been living on wild
game for the past two years in season
and out of season. Cowles told the
sheriff that he had sailed down 5000
| pounds of elk meat last year, and that
everybody in that neighborhood was
killing deer when they wanted any.
| There have been numerous complaints
of the slaughter of game out of season
in the vicinity of the Cowles camp and
| the officers are determined that these
| violations of the law shall cease, even
| though it becomes necessary to send a
| posse in there to arrest the whole gang
who are suspected of being principals
or fences for the criminals.