The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-07
A'uER5I'=BRAkEMAA KILLED
The Car Wheels Cut His Body in
Halves.
HE WAS CUTTING THE AIR
Livingston Water Works Litigation-A
Building Boom for the City Is
Promised-Freight BUSH
ness Increasing.

Special Correspondence of the Standard
Livingston, March An. w. Shafer,
the freight brakeman who was killed at
Prickly Pear Junction Friday morn
ing while running on east-bound freight
train No. So, was a resident of this city
and well known among the men en-
ployed on the road at this place. His
death occurred at an early hour Friday
morning. 1t appears that he was en-
gagged in cutting the air. from be-
tween two moving box cars, when his
foot caught in frog or was wedged in
the track in such manner that he
was pulled under the wheels and cut in
halves. The track of the wheels was
nearly in the center of his body from
head to foot and his death was instan-
famous. The train was in charge of
Conductor Joe johnson, who went back
to Helena with the body to attend the
inquest Shafer was an industrious man
and we'll liked by his fellow employees.
He was married and had wife and
child residing in Iowa. He had been at
work on the road out of this place
about five months He was a member
of the knights of Pythias and of the
Order of Railway Conductors, having
at one time been in charge of a train.
His remains will be taken East for bur-
ia1.
Saturday an application for a writ of
mandamus was argued in chambers be-
fore Judge Henry of the district court.
The water works which furnishes wa
ter to the city applied by their attor-
neys, Cullen, Day and Cullen of Helena,
Tor an alternative writ of mandamus
to compel the city treasurer to pay 7
per cent interest on city warrants in
stead of per cent as directed by the
council in an ordinance passed Deem
Der 9th of last year. The warrants are
drawn by the city clerk and when pre-
sented, If no funds are available, the
treasurer registers the warrant and it
draws interest from the date of it's reg
istration. The rate paid was formerly
Z per cent, but the council cut it down
10 per cent and the contention of the
LAWYERS for the corporation is that the
Ordinance is unconstitutional on ac-
2 count Of the inhibition of the constitu-
tlon against ordinances changing the
terms of a contract already made. f..
=. Day of Helena appeared and argued
the motion for the water works com
Pnh5t anu Slly attorney A. r. stark
took, care of the citys end of the case,
If the court denies the writ the COM
pany will lose only about $35 per year,
Ihe case was taken under advisement,
~ FROM present indications it looks very
much as If Livingston would expert
ence building boom this summer and
interest in city property and in all
forms of realty is picking up steadily
with the approach of spring In a con-
"a 70 =
with contractor and builder to-day
the statement was made that the firm
the contractor represented had closed
deals for five new dwelling houses to
be finished by the middle of the sum
mer. and as this builders firm is a
small one it is fair to assume that other
carpenters in the town are experiencing
ike degree of prosperity. Both build
ers and contractors are rather reticent
concerning their plans for the summer.
put number of deals for lumber have
been quietly arranged and workmen
VINO nave expressed their intention of
leaving town to secure work elsewhere
have been promised employment at
good wages here as soon as the building
season opens up. 1t has been a number
OF years since the prospects for a build
ing Doom in this city were as suspicious
as they are this spring, and with the
opening of the Trail creek coal mines
and the increased output of Cokedale,
Horr and Aldridge it is certain that the
prosperity will be permanent.
For the first time in about six wears
the services of two switch engines have
been required to do the work in the
yards at this place. Friday an extra
engine was at work all day and 1t is
likely there will be work for two
switching crews all of this week. with
prospect of a permanent crew for day
work, in addition to the regular crew
after the middle of the month The
extra work is occasioned by the work
incident to increased traffic on the line
and the necessity of clearing and ar
ranging the yards to enable the work
OF switching coaches when the new
passenger runs are put on to be done
with expedition. A force of switchmen
have been employed and the long lines
of moving cars and the rapid signaling
ana switching gives the railroad yards
q very business-like appearance.
John Chinaman" will have hard
row to. hoe in the Gateway city the COM
ing year in the laundry business. For
years the "chink' has had a MONOPOLY
of the laundry business to the exclusion
OF all white competition. bur
of late colored competition has
come in and bids fair to
compel the celestial and his suds to
part company or starve. The American
laundry, conducted by a colored man,
has this week ordered a new polishing
machine to keep up with orders for
laundry work in which a polisher Is
used, and the announcement has been
made that laundry plant will be in
stalled in the Albemarle hotel to make
further inroads on the pickings of the
pig-tailed pilgrims. C. ]. Thurston will
be the proprietor of the hotel laundry.
James samuels is the owner of the
American laundry and is enioyinr a
f1rst-class patronage. The aversion of
railroad men and the employees of the
mines TO the Chinese laundry is a suf
hcienfA guarantee that the new enter
prises in the laundry line will be given
the best of the trade if the work is any
where near as good as that turned out
by the celestials.
j. c. Lyons, necromancer. rainmaker,
lnesmerist and general all-round Jug
gler with the occult, is in this city at
the Park hotel and is ready to meet