Daily inter mountain., 1899-07-10

tHe proposition mas carried Dy small
majority. as the county precincts are
strongly against it, but not enough to
overcome the majority in the city.
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Livingston: Saturday night a dement,
ed woman. Mrs. George Trischman. who
was being taken to the United States
hospital for the insane at Washington,
jumped from the park train and is still
at large. She was in charge of her hus-
band and Deputy United States Marshal
James Morrison. She left her seat on
some pretext and sprang from the moving
train before her attendants could pre-
vent her escape. Mrs. Trischman became
insane about the first of June and killed
one of her children with a hunting knife.
This occurred at Fort Yellowstone. where
her husband is employed by the govern
ment. Since then she has been in the
guard house, and was being taken to the
asylum as one hopelossly insane A
search is being made for her, but it is
thought that she will be found in the
waters of the Yellowstone. If at all, for a
suicidal mania is a strong trait of her
dementia.
Helena: Charles Walters, shortstop in
the Helena baseball nine, who. when not
playing ball, followed the vocation of a
bartender in j. CrOnin's saloon, failed to
put in an appearance Saturday and is
believed to have skipped. The receipts
for that day and $50 left at the place over
night by a patron, are missing. Walters
has been travelling at an expensive gait
Of late. and his friends fear he has had
to resort to other peoples money to keep
his end up. A warrant was sworn out for
his arrest, but at last accounts he has
not been located. Descriptive messages
have been sent around the state and his
apprehension seems certain.
Helena: The state board of equaliza-
tion Saturday received from Assessor
Wells of Granite county his report Of the
assessment of real and personal property
in that county. He reports that the as
sessment figures for 1899 have been in
creased $48,213 over those of last year.
The total assessment Of the county for
the current year is S1,913 1866. as against
$l,S7O,913 last year. The total assessment
of real estate is $1.2T.O1S. a decrease of
$25.59S as compared with last years fig
ures. The total personal assessment this
year is $642, ,10S. an increase of $73, ,S09. The
assessor valued the mortgages in the
county at $S5.262: the street railway. cleo
trio light and gas plants, etc. at SIS, 1926:
goods, wares and merchandise. $04. 466;
wagons harness, farming implements.
etc, at $22,375. The stock assessment fol-
lows: 225S range horses. at $40 per head.
$225S0; 1,071 work horses, at $50, 49,, ,26O;
1904 yearling cattle, at SIS. $27. 7.O6o LILO
2-year-olds at $40. $22. 200: 93 3-year- olds.
at $50 $2.79O; 1.497 cows, at $25, S37 ,425: :
1865 stock cattle, at $25. $73.375: S,O25
stock sheep at $3.50. $40. O62; 800 lambs, at
50, $1,000: AZ rams, at 81, $40; 143 hogs, at
&.41, $641 The net proceeds of the mines
are assessed at $22.434.
Livingston: The case against Henry
Rockinger for shooting Mark Terrell on
the night of July at Bear gulch. begins
to look dark for the defendant, who is in
Jail here. Last evening Coroner Lear and
County Attorney Miller came down from
Jardine, where the shooting took place.
They had the gun with which the shoot
ing was done. a 3S self-acting revolver,
and the bullet which was taken from
Terrelrs body after he died on Friday,
and a quantity of evidence taken before a
coroners jury. who brought in as their
verdict that the deceased came to his
death at the hands of Henry Rockinger.
One witness testified that he saw Rock
niger shoot Terrell after being told to do
so by one of the crowd with whom the
latter was having trouble.
Helena: United States District Attor-
ney Rodgers Saturday began in the United
States court some actions against the
county treasurer of Missoula county and
against the county for money paid in
taxes by Flathead Indians, and to recover
the value of the Indians property sold by
the county for taxes. The suits are
brought in the name of the United States
as guardian. One of the suits is entitled
Rocail Clarmount VS.. the county of Mis-
soula, for $2775, taxes paid invOluntariy
on cattle and horses. Another suit is
Teesphore G. nemers VS.. Alfred Cave.
county treasurer to recover the value
of II head of horses sold for taxes. The
property is alleged to be valued at 1851.
Robert Irvie is another plaintiff against
County Treasurer Cave. He desires judg-
ment for $53.55 taxes paid involuntarily
on cattle and horses. George Melette
wants $305 from the county for the value
of some property sold for taxes. There is
now pending before Judge Knowles an
action brought for the purpose testing
the legality of the taxes imposed by
County Treasurer Higgins upon some
property belonging to Indians living upon
the reservation. and the outcome of that
suit will no doubt determine the status
of those commenced Saturday.
Red Lodge: Two parties of distn-
guished visitors from the east spent Sat
urday in Red Lodge. One was composed
of ex-President Henry Willard OF the
Northern Pacific, and his wife and son.
and the other of DR.. Kimball director
of the mint under Cleveland, and his two
sons. Mr.. Willard arrived in his private
car by special train and spent the after
noon looking over the Rocky Fork coal
mines, in which he is heavily Interested
He left the same evening. en- route to Sc
attic. Mr.. Kimball, who is a noted min
eralogist Of New York, has just pur-
chased Andy Chapman's big sheep ranch
in the Big Horn country. Wyoming, and
he and his sons will spend the summer
in that country.