The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-09
In Park County He Prefers the
Hands to the Lips.
DR.. COGSWELL A VICTIM
Suicide OF Mrs. M. Tetmeyer - Engineer
Billiard fnjured-A Blow on Mans
Jaw Breaks 1t in Three Places.
Mr.. Huff Chops His Foot


deaths occurred within the 81 days in
which Father Time swung his sickle
| and reaped his July harvest of hor-
| rors, but this months bids fair to
eclipse the last in quantity, if not in
| quality, of the sensati tons served up to
| the reading public. Since Wednesday
| evening of last week casualties have
| crowded thick and fast, and while they
| are mostly of a minor nature they may
| be harbingers of more direful conse-
| quences later on. There seems to be
an epidemic of accidents and of dire
| full occurrences calculated to keep doc
tors busy.
Livingston leaped into fame last week
! in a way that should make all her
citizens proud of the place. What the
rest of the world has the Gateway City
| also reaches out for. For instance the
kissing bug, which is considered the
very latest fed, found a home in the
county seat of Park county about as
| soon as 1t did anywhere in the West.
DR.. w. F. Cogswell was the victim of
! the first coming of this ultra scientific
marvel and the doctor was not alto
gether pleased at the antics Of the os-
culatory insect Like a cavalier of
other days the kissing bug got in its
work on the doctors hands. EscheWing
| his lips entirely it chewed his palms
| until they swelled up in a way not far
| from startling. DR.. Cogswell had been
! busy with other branches of medicine
| and the visitation of the kissing bug
was altogether new, unexpected and
| strange. He thought there was some
| thing seriously wrong, and was inclined
| to think that the matter needed i'm
mediate attention. This was Wednes-
| day, and anyone who cares to look the
| matter up may find that on that night
an engine and car, bearing a physician
| with a pair of swelled hands, left this
| city for Helena at the rate of 90 miles
an hour. Like many people, young and
! old, the doctor thought that something
| he was unprepared for was apt to DO
him harm, but his good physician friend
| in Helena Gained his fears, and he re-
turned wiser and not a whit sadder,
from his experience. All this goes to
show that the excellent doctor and the
| town he lives in are not a bit behind
| Butte or any part of Montana where
! the kissing bug is putting people in
the hospital. The Park county bug
has a habit of nursing the objects of his
affections on the hands instead of aim
| ing at the usual target for this pleasing
| pastime, and this goes to prove what
| has been said before-that Livingston
is reaching out for the latest sensa-
| tions.
Wednesday evening of last week
Mrs. Martin Tetmeyer of Trail creek
| took her own life by a weldireCted
| bullet through the heart, fired from d
44-caliber revolver. She was 81 years
of age, and had been in ill-health for
some time. Dependency is said to be
| the cause of her rash act. The deed was
committed at 7 o'clock Wednesday ev-
ening, and the following day Coroner
| s. E. Leard went to Trail creek to de-
| termine the cause of her death, and
| found the facts substantially as stated
above. The womans husband, Martin
| Tetmeyer, is a rancher on Trail creek,
and the couple have resided in that To-
cality for the past nine years. Four
| children were left motherleSs by the
woman's reckless act. 1t is supposed
that temporary insanity unbalanced
her mind at the time she took her life
| Engineer Forrest Billiard was the vic
tim of an accident Wednesday night al
Manhattan that will lay him up for
some time. He got his leg caught in
the reverse gear by the breaking of
part of the machinery, and is suffering
a severe confusion of the injured men,
Der. DR.. Cogswell, the company's phys
ician, attended the injured engineer
when he arrived in this city. and the
patient is now patiently awaiting the
action Of nature and the physicians
| prescription.
Sunday morning, at a suitably be-
witching hour, a pilgrim, puglistically
| inclined, wandered into a local saloon
and announced that he was filled with
| a yearning desire to bat the everlasting
| stuffing out of everybody in sight. He
| had just squared himself to make
| long speech to the barkeeper when
| bystander casually siugged him on
the jaw, and broke that member in
| three places. 1t took a doctor and
| dentist to wire the worthys face into
shape He is not so pretty as he was,
| but he knows a great deal more than
| he did.
Dick Huff of Shields river came to
| town Thursday and secured surgical
| attention for an injury to his right foot,
which he accidently injured by cutting
| it with an axe while chopping wood.
| The bone of the foot was broken and
| the member was encased, by the doc
tor, in the usual appliances to aid in
the art of surgery. DR.. Pimpel was
| called upon to reduce the fracture.
| A young child of Joe Briscoe of the
Upper Yellowstone was brought to this
| city Saturday and submitted to sur
gical operation by Dr. b. l.. Pimpel.
! The little girl had been kicked by
| horse on coming home from school Fri
| day evening. and the middle finger of
her right hand injured so that am
putation was resorted to. The little
| one underwent the operation with I'M
usual fortitude, and is now fairly re-
| covered from most the disagreeable eff
| fects of the injury.
| The Ancient Order of United Work
men and the auxiliary of that excellent
| order, the Degree of Honor. will meet
| in state convention Aug. % in Butte.
| From this city there will go Mrs. d.
| Short. as delegate, and Mrs. J. A Bailey
| as alternate. Several other members
of the d. of H. have expressed their
h. ,r,.l tt,,Tr
exercises in the Smoky City during
| the convention.
Miss WHINE Hunter was in the city
| over Sunday from Shields River. where
| she is conducting an unusually sue
Cessful term of school. Miss Hunters
| duties in her present situation end in
| two weeks, and the young lady will
return to this city and prepare to take
| her place in the faculty of the city
| schools.