Daily inter mountain., 1899-01-18
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Miles City News: On Tuesday last
Charles Decker arrived in town from LIT
tie Pumpkin creek and reported the mur-
der Of Harry Bell by Robert Nelson. The
particulars of the shooting as gwen by
Decker. are that Bell and Mrs. Nelson
were riding along horse back near Grlf-
fms ranch when they met Nelson, who
when seeing them drew Winchester and
told them to halt, which Mrs. Nelson did
and Immediately dismounted and got be-
hind her horse for protection, Bell rode
toward Nelson when he fired, the ball mt
ting Bell in the left breast, above the heart.
W hen the shot was fired, the horse on
which Bell was riding took fright and ran
about one hundred yards when Bell fell
off, striking on his face the revolver land
/ ing about 25 feet farther on. Nelson then
rode to Chas. Daly's ranch where Mr.
Griffin was working and offered to sur
render to them but the latter declined to
receive him, but Immediately returned
home where his wife is sick and the shoot
! ing happening in front of his house, he was
afraid the shock might cause serious re-
suits. Nelson then went to his own house,
and he and his brother Chris, came to
town and he surrendered to Sheriff Cato
and was locked up. Nelson claiming he
Nelson have not lived together for year
or more and she has recently applied for
a divorce the summons in said case hav-
ing been served on Nelson last Friday.
Bell has been paying Mrs. Nelson much at
tention of Late, taking her to dances and
places Of amusement and trouble has been
brewing for some time between them. Mel
son is a ranchman and has place on
Little Pumpkin creek. Bell is well known
nor wi, lynH several for
r. r. Selway
Great Falls Leader: News comes from
Shelby Junction that Dr. Almas, of that
place was seriously injured yesterday
morning by being hit with a piece OF
scantling, welded by Dan Sullivan's bar
tender
1t seems that about two o'clock yester-
day morning the doctor was called upon
to attend a man who had been hurt earli-
er in the evening at SuMlVans saloon
When he got to the place he attended to
the wounded mans injuries and after
ward got into a row with the bartender,
which ended in his being hit on the head
with a piece of 2X4 scantling, resulting in
a fracture of the skull and an injury to
the left eye il is feared that doctor will
lose the eye Hhis brother, who is a doc
tor at Havre was Immediately teegra phed
to.
| Further particulars ire unobtainable
and the Leaders informant was unable
to say how the dispute arose. Shelby
seems to be renewing its lost youth and
the people there are evidently afraid the
town will lose it's tough reputation unless
something is done.
Another account of the affair is to the
effect that Almas and others were taking
in the town and that the doctor got into
a dispute with the bartender, who hit
him with a club, laying open one side OF
his face SO that it took five stitches to sew
it up, but doing no other damage.
| Great Falls Tribune: IT is reported from
| Glasgow. that the sudden disappearance
of A. ]. Foster, on the night of December
26, still remains enshrouded in mystery,
| DESPITE the efforts of the officials and Fos-
! ters family to locate his whereabouts
On the night in question Foster, who is a
half breed and lived in a log cabin near
the Great Northern reservoir, gave his
wife $25, given him by Eugene Coleman
in payment for wood. and in company
with Tom Lowe left for the camp of Joe
| Marte., saying he would be gone but a
short time Marters place is some two
miles east of town, near what is known
as Beaucrafts ford Upon arriving there
a huge Jug of whisky was produced to
pass away the time and Foster and Marte1
imbibed very freely of liquid disturbance
which led them into arguments as to the
relative worth Of each as a fighter 1t
| was Marters night to fight and several
times he attempted to dispose of Foster
with the aid Of a hunting knife and a
dangerous looking pistol. He would pro-
baby have succeeded had it not been
for the interference of Lowe, whose ath-
lletic prowess several times averted the
shedding OF human gore on the cabin
floor. Lowe says he left the place at II
Io'clock and came home. leaving Foster
who was considerably under the influence
of liquor, engaged in an argument with
Martel That was the last seen of him.
All efforts to locate him have proved fu-
tile. On the morning following, Martel
left for the agency at Poplar with his
family in a wagon. Wagon tracks going
down to the river and circling around an
air hole near Mooney ford aroused sus-
lpicion and the sheriff landed Martel in
the county ba ctile on a cha rye of rnl,vder