The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-19
GENERAL STATE NEWS,

Fred X. H0ss Of Helena has taken the
position Of business manager Of the
Bohemian Chronicle.
A M0uAtain lion measuring nine feet
Ia length and weighing lSb puonas, was
shot BY Ross Murphy about twenty-five
miles north Of Bohemian last week,
Thomas ]. Martin, aged 10. who az.
rived a few days ago from Alma, Wye,
was instantly killed In the Anaconda
company'a mine at Belt at s p, m, last
Saturday,
Lieut. W, n. PoormNn Of q company,
First Montana, who practices law IN
Livingston, has baen admitted TO prao'
tioe law In the United States circuit
and district courts upon motiun OF Hon,
n, q. Day,
Governor Smith, last Saturday, ap-
pointed John 7. Murphy and 4, A.
NARROW Of Helena aud ], M. Holt Ut
Miles City delegates on the part OF
Montana, at the third annual o0nven.
tion Of tho National Live Stock associa.
tion at Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 10 next.
Dan sulliavn, T. H. DAILY, Joseph
Briggs aud Charles Schildt, all Of
Shelby junction, were among those In.
dioted by the late federal grand jury,
They arc charged with selling liquor to
Indians. They have been arrested ut
Shelby aud released upon bail, They
will plead before Judge Knowles later.
George b, Fry, formerly postmaster
at HynuM. Teton county, who was ill.,
dioted BY tho federal grand jury for
making 4 false lepGlt to the postal do.
partMent M TO tho amount at stamps
cancelled for a certain quarter, pleaded
guilty 70 the indictment and was tlned
500, Fry had made restitution OF u
large amount Of his shortage,
According TO the report Of the state
board Of pardonS, which was filed last
week, Governor Smith during the fiscal
year Of 1890 pald0ned twelve oonivcts
confined In the penitentialy at Deer
Lodge. aud four persons imprisoned In
county jnils, During the fiscal year Ut
1893 he paldoned th~irty.one persons, Of
whom twenty.four were oonivcts at
Deor Lodge,
The need Of a thoroughly fsrst.olass
hotel, In which Butte has always stood,
Ia TO DO supplied by tho erection Of the
new Thornton block, now In course Of
construction AT the corner Of Broadway
and Wyoming street, With the com.
pleti0n OF the building Butte may boast
Of az fine a hotel az any city Of the state
with the possible exception Of Amazon.
da, The new building Ia to be a Ave.
story structure with basement, will be
ninety BY 900 feet In dimensions, and
Ia TO be built along the most modern
ideas Of hotel architecture, II will DO
ono Of Butta's finest structures,
Adolph WetMtein Of Butte has
brought suit against the Boston q
Montana Consolidated Copper aud Sill.
vor Mining company to compel 1t to
account 10 him for a million dollars
worth OF ore, or, rather to account 70
him for and pay over to him the value
On o%ne.quayter Of all the ore 1t has
mined from the Comanoha lode claim
IN this county, which he values at a
million dollars or more, The com.
plant further asks that the court nd.
judge the plaintiff to be tho owner Of
0%na.quarter Of the Comanohe claim,
and that u receiver be appointed for
the plaintiffs quarter interest In the
claim. e
Tho Helena land office has decided
al important casa Involving title to a
lot OF land IN Deer lodge county at the
western portal OF the Mullan tunnel.
II wa the protest Of 7. @, Power, A..
M, Hotter aud others against the classi.
fioat0A OF tho land M non .minaral IN
character, aud therefore the property Of
the Northern Pacific railroad, The
Aelena land Office. In an exhaustive dc.
eiGi0n. reviews the case. holds that the
classification OF the mineral land com
missi0nera should he upheld aud the
protest dismissed, The case will be
appealed 10 the commissioner OF the
general land office,
The fact that Joseph Weir may be Il
British subject will not save him from
tho punishment which the law has said
shall he his, for Governor Smith ha'
declined to grant his petition for par
don. Weir was convicted In Cascade
county Ut assault on n little girl, t.
which no pleaded guilty IN September,
1893, and was sentenced to life impris'
0nment in tho panitentiary, Wei,
claimed 10 DO u subject Of the queer
and some time ago interested the Brit,
ish oonsuI AT Chicago In his case,
That officer, William Wyndham, recent,
ly asked Governor Smith to inquire
into tho case and to pardon Weir II the
circumstances would warrant it. Gov.
evnor Smith did inquire into tbs case,
and found nothing that would justify
him IN granting the pardon,