The Billings gazette., 1899-01-03
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

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erect a new parsonage soon.
Miss Sadie f. Malloy of Illinois has
been appointed assistant teacher at the
Fort Shaw Indian school at $54O a
year.
The comptroller Of the currency has
appointed the Liberty National bank of
New York as the reserve agent for the
State National bank of Miles City.
l.. G. Olmstead of Big Timber, repre-
senting company, has just secured a
franchise for furnishing Glendive with
electric light and will put in plant
right away.
State Senator Hannah, who left Big
Timber last May to join the Montana
regiment and returned Saturday, was
rendered rousing reception Saturday
night by his home people.
In rear-end freight collision on the
Great Northern near Fort Benton last
Friday. Rev. Father DE Manez, rector
of the Catholic church of Lewistown,
was SO badly injured that he died soon
afterwards.
State Senator Hannah of Sweet Grass
county, who left Montana as member
of the First regiment OF Montana vol
unteers, has returned to his home and
was on hand at the assembling ct the
state legislature yesterday.
The biennial report of the trustees of
the state reform school at Miles City
shows that the gross> expenses for 1897
were $40, ~ and for 1898. $19,-
| 541.27. The school has seventy three
inmates, sixty-one boys and twelve
girls.
H. Fl. Nelson, a we'll known sheep
man of Cascade county, has sued the
Great Northern railroad for 50, ,576. 81,
for alleged damages claimed to have
been sustained through the company's g
management of thirteen carloads Of
sheep loaded in this state and destined
for the Chicago market.
The state furnishing board OH Friday
awarded the contract for the printing
| of the various state reports, etc., to the
State Printing company. There was
some delay in the awarding Of the con-.
tract, owing to the fact that allegations
had been made that there had been
overcharges in the last contract
An unofficial estimate, made in ad-
| vance of the formal and official reports
that will be issued later, indicates that
the value of the principal products Of
the state during 1898, including metals,
live stock, coal, lumber and grain. will
be in the neighborhood of $S4, 1000, 900,
which is an enormous increase as COM
pared with a year ago.
Maj. Henry Elling, the president Of
the Society of Montana Pioneers, is
anxious that all pioneers send him their
names, addresses, places Of nativity
and date of arrival within the confines
Of what is now Montana. Mr.. Elling
is anxious that complete record of all
the old timers may be compiled before
the state society meets in Virginia City
next summer.
Judge Smith. at Helena Saturday,
the case of the state vs. Joseph Allen,
convicted of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to hang for killing j. S.
Reynolds in Lewis and Clarke county
last summer. J. NJ. Clements, Allen g
attorney, will appeal to the supreme
court. Failing to secure new trial
from that tribunal, it is expected he
will appeal to the governor to commute
the sentence to life Imprisonment.
Sheriff Regan of Silver Bow county
has gone to Richmond, Va. with re-
QUESTION for L. S. Hatch, arrested in
that city on the charge Of having en-
bezzled money from the Mutual Life
Insurance company, while agent for
the company in Butte. The particular
offense for which Mr.. Hatch is wanted
is the alleged embezzlement Of $3.50. so,
which he collected on check given the
company about year ago by Colonel
Kessler in payment OF the first premium
ON e25, 200 life insurance policy.