Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

Kalispell-Three cases of smallpox
were reported yesterday and as a pre-
caution the schools have been closed.
Two Of the men having the disease work
IN saWmills n came from Michigan
about two weeks ago.
Helena-The Virginia City Hotel COM
pany was Incorporated yesterday by
Ben j. Fine, Ben F. Fine and Thomas +.
Pollard. with a capital Of $1,000.
MISUNDERSTANDING J. X. Toole yes
terday resigned as a member of the state
board Of arid land commissioners and
Governor Smith appointed as his sue
cessor for the term ending April 8. 1905,
H. l.. Frank of Butte. Mr.. Toole re-
signed because his practice would not
anord him the spare time a commission
er's duties require.
H~elena-The 5-year-old son Of d. B.
Snyder. an operator working here for the
Western Union. while playing near the
railroad was run over by a freight car
yesterday right in the city limits. His
left arm was crushed and right foot in
jured. The arm was amputated, and the
question of the child's living is problem
atical.
Helena-Governor Smith will leave
Helena on September 16, via the North
ern Pacific. for San Francisco, to meet
the returning volunteers. who are eX-
pected to arrive at the Golden Gate about
September 20. He has advised all the
members of his staff accordingly. and re-
quested that if possible they
him on the same train from Montana.
Among the members of his staff he ex-
poets TO go are: A.. J. Campbell and Rod
Lodge: c. M. Crutchfield of Hamilton,
and Adjutant General English of Hell
ena. j. I. Stanford of Great Falls may
also go.
Helena-Governor smith made some
more appointments yesterday affecting
members of the First Montana regiment.
The appointments We're the result of the
promotion of Captain Green and Lieuten-
ant Bowman to positions in the United
States volunteers. The governor yester-
day received IA message from the war de-
partment stating that it was expected
the First Montana would reach San
Francisco on September 20, and if APP
pointnsents were made in time appointees
could be mustered iii upon arrival there
and before their final discharge. The APP
pointments We're accordingly wired to
the war department as follows: Samuel
Hilburn, first lieutenant Company H, to
be captain Of Company H, vice Frank Il.
Green, appointed captain in the United
States volunteers; Myles Kelly, second
lieutenant Company H, to be first lieu
tenant Of Company II, vice Hilburn. pro-
NOTED; Andrew w. Swaney. sergeant OF
Company II. to be second lieutenant of
Company H.. vice Kelly. promoted;
George E. Lowman, second lieutenant of
Company X, to be first lieutenant of
Company K, vice George T.. Kumpe. APP
pointed lieutenant in the United States
volunteers; George w. King, private of
Company G, to be second lieutenant of
Company X, vice Lowman, promoted.
Observation-Disclosures of the killing of old
man Mcintosh at Red Rock Monday were
received here yesterday. Alvin DE Witt.
the man who did the killing. saved
Sheriff Moore the trouble of a trip to Red
Rock by coming to town by the midnight
train and giving himself up. He is out
on bail and his preliminary hearing will
be had after the inquest. De Witt was
engaged in clearing out his water ditch
and had reached a point where it runs
along the highway in front of M]cIntosh's
house. Mcintosh came out and ordered
him to stop work. He refused to do so,
and Mcintosh pulled a gun. De Witt re-
monstrated with him, and said it would
be cowardly to kill an unarmed man.
Mcintosh then told him to go home and
get his gun and they would fight it out
at ten PAGES. Mcintosh then replaced the
gun. and while the men were still
~wrangling his little granddaughter
sneaked the gun out of his pocket and
took it away and hid it. After some fur
Their words the two men parted. De
Witt, going home and arming himself, re-
turned. When he came in sight McIn-
tosh opened fire with a rifle. De Witt re-
turned it and at the second shot got his
man, the bullet passing through McIn-
tosh's heart and he died almost Instant
~, even before his wife, who was a short
distance away, could reach his side. Pop
ular sympathy is with De Witt. McIn-
tosh was an old-timer, and father-in-law
of Judge Stapleton of Butte.
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