The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-18
SHE'S WANDERED AWAY
Rony, the Good Old Cow, l.
Among the Absent Ones.
LIVELY AIRS IN THE COURT
This Entertaining Case and One Fur
nished by an Alleged Crazy Man
Puts New Life in Boulder
Court Spectators.


Boulder, May 16.--County Commissioner
w. M. Fergus was before Justice Sweet
yesterday charged by E. g. Brooke with
stealing cattle, namely, one roam COW. ia
miliarly known, designated and called Ro-
n.y. The case came from Whitehall
where Mr.. Fergus is engaged in business
and near where Major Brooke is we'll
known rancher and old-timer, in fact
among the earliest settlers of that local
ity. In the trial the major was the first
witness, and told of missing the COW from
Mobiles pasture at the time Fergus sold
some cattle to John II. Murphy of Helena
for shipment to another part of the state
In the course of his testimony he entered
into a wild denunciation of Mr.. Fergus
and could not be controlled by justice or
attorney. Other witnesses for the prose-
cution were E. W. Wolverton, S. Wolver-
ton o. Woverton and M. Noble, who
told of seeing the roam cow with the
bunch that Fergus sold to Murphy, and
one of them saw her loaded into the car
G. w. Scott told of the cattle he bought
of Brooke and sold to Fergus and the
lodll was not III the lDt. y. w. collins,
stock inspector for this district was pres
ent in Whitehall when the cattle We're
loaded and saw some with the Brooke
brand, but did not keep a record of how
many Here the state rested.
For the defense Mr.. Fergus testified as
to buying cattle from Mr. Scott. There
were six Brooke cattle in the lot of 80
that he bought: didn't know whether the
roam was one of them or not A. Near
1ttr al r,fl Ia tr1I 49,
purchase and of driving the stock to the
railway yards; didn't remember anything
about the color of the cattle: didn't know
If there was roam COW among them;
didn't know if the six cows with the
Brooke or "tomahawk'' brand were black
or white or red or any other color
Major Brooke was again called and
made another speech and gave his opln-
ion of Mr.. Fergus in unmistakabe Ian
guage, and in the midst of his denuncia-
ton court adjourned.
AT the evening session Justice Sweet
rendered his opinion to the effect that the
major had evidently lost Il COW, but that
the evidence was not sufficient to connect
Mr.. Fergus with taking the animal, and
he was acquitted.
Another cattle stealing case has been
commenced by parties down the valley
and is to be heard Monday. One rancher
accuses another of stealing a calf
The Windsor hotel changed hands Mon
day, Colonel William Trotter having sold
to William Barrett and Henry Detour of
Winston. The colonel will be greatly
missed from Boulder, where he has con-
Quoted a hotel for many years and where
he and his family have many friends in
fact, his reputation is statewide for being
a genial landlord and making his guests
feel at home He expects to take a rest
from the labors of hotel keeping for a
while. He will be in Boulder about a
month and then expects to go to a ranch
in the Smith River valley and engage in
the stock business.
Last evening James Mckee was exam
ired in the district court as to his sanity,
Drs. Vawter and Hunter being the exam
ming physicians. He is a native of Scot
land is Al years of age, has lived in Mon
tana 16 years, coming here from North
Dakota. He lived at Elkhorn for a while.
but recently has been in a cabin up Basin
creek, about two miles from the town of
Basin. He talks sanely on some subjects,
but has Authorizations regarding women.
dogs and birds He claims that a woman
in his neighborhood dressed her little boy
in dogs clothes and made it walk on all
fours and work like a dog. He said also
that little bird always followed him
wherever he went. The judge asked him
where it was now and he pointed to the
CtillIlS anu saul IL was up tileTe. lie ralu
he could hear it. and as-.ed if the Judge
could not. But the bird was only in his
aginaton. Constable Wall of Basin tes-
titled that Mckee worked as a wood
chopper and was of good habits: that he
brought the patient from Basin on the
train instead of by wagon. Mckee said
he was glad of that because he could
thus get away from the bird. The phys-
clans rendered a verdict that he was in
sane and that his condition was brought
on by solitude and an injury to his head,
and he was committed to the state asy-
lum He said that he had a brother near
Bozeman and another brother and two
daughters near Chestnut this state.
On judgment of something over $1,000,
obtained by the receiver of the First Ma
tional bank of Helena against T. f. MUIR
ray, formerly a resident of this place, the
sheriff offered for sale considerable town
property, but there were no bidders other
than George o. Freeman, representing the
bank, who bid in the property for 81, 600
Boston Wool Market.