The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-16

with the shearing now in progress and
chill the sheared sheep and young
lambs, sometimes with fatal results
With wool prices rising and sheep IN
demand, fockmaster feels the loss OF
a few hundred sheep or lambs more
keenly than when prices are low.
District court convened on Monday
with light docket. Thomas Carless
pleaded guilty to grand larceny and
was sentenced to three years in the
renltentiary. His crime consisted in
driving away with intent to steal a
punch of sheep belonging to Lehfeldt
Bros. of. the Musselshell country
Ihere is another criminal case, that Of
M. L. Beals, alias Newman, who passed
a Worthless or forged check on the Lin
ton Clothing company. A jury has been
called for the 10th of this month
Louis Robbins, who had just en-
tered upon the duties of night police
man, met with an accident which will
lay him off for a few days, though he
has reason to be thankful that it was
no worse. He had finished his break
fast after coming off duty and was go
ing to bed when he accidentally dis
charged his revolver The bullet vent
through the f1eshy part of his right
thigh, causing pinful but not danger
Gus wound.
The police have arrested great
many tramps lately and the magistrates
have dealt with them severely but they
continue to arrive. Several petty thefts
have been reported, and two trunks and
a grip which had been left on the plat
form Of the Northern Pacific depot
were carried off recently and rified of
such of their contents as the thief COW
eted
August Evers, a wyoming 1ockmas-
ter, was kicked by his horse with such
force as to break his leg. He is now IN
st. V incent's hospital for treatment and
is progressing favorably
Mrs. Ida L. Camp has filed the plat
of East Laurel. an addition to the little
town of Laurel, the junction of the
Rocky Fork and Bridger branches with
the main line of the Northern Pacific,
and it has been accepted by the board
of county commissioners Laurel has
several pretty good-sized stores and is
taking on a building boom of good pro-
portions.
The contract for constructing a tele-
phone line between Forsyth and the In
dian agency at Lame Deer, a distance
of about IS miles, has been awarded to
E. M. Hungerford, manager of the
Billings Telephone company, and he
will commence work on July l.
S. c. Daley, assistant boiler inspec-
tor, was here this week and looked over
the boilers in the city He also granted
a first-class stationary engineers IL
cense to M. G. Roberts. and a second
class one to A. F. Skirving, engineers
employed at the Yellowstone Valley
mills.
The postal authorities have notified
Postmaster l.. F. Babcock that in the
new classification the Billings postoffice
has been raised from the third to the
second class.
Conductor John Rapelie of Glendive
has been appointed trainmaster of the
Yellowstone division of the Northern
Pacific from Billings to Glendive, re-
Gently created office on that road.
Machinery for shearing sheep has not
heretofore been used by our Yellow
stone flockmasters, but will be tried
this season by Bert Shorey, who has
made arrangements for shearing his
sheep and those of the Montana Cattle
company at Merrill by machinery. This
system has worked well in other place
and will no doubt come into general use
here.
The ranch house of Albert Newman,
a short distance from town, was de-
stroyed by fire on Monday while the
family were attending the circus. Loss
about $4,000, insurance $1,000. i