Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-04
Refuses to be Blown up With
Giant Powder.
THE JUDGE IS OVERDUE
It is Feared That He Has Been Cor
nered By a Bear In the Big
Hole Country.

0"AtSA b4O6dH, resulting III oOulH
Butte, called at the county attorneys
office today and made complaint against
some fiend who last night endeavored to
blow the head off his bulldog with a stick
of giant powder. He said the would be
assassin entered his yard, en:iced the
dog away and attached the explosive to
its neck. By and by the dog returned
home with a partly burned fuse attached
to its neck, and the supposition is he did
not Like the smell Of burning powder
and fuse n shook the dynamite off
while making his run. AS Brogan had
not witnessed the performance he had
nothing OIL which to base a complaint
against any particular person and there
fore nothing could be done for him by
the attorney. He said he had seen the
footprints of a man in his yard and they
were so peculiar he was sure he knew
who had made them. Brogan believes
that some enemy of his, being afraid to
face him personally, attempted to vent
his spleen on the dog.
Up to a late hour today Judge William
Clancy of department No. 2 of the dis
tflct court had not returned from his
bear hunt in the mountains of the Big
Hole river, and some expressions of I'M
easiness as 20 his welfare were heard
among his friends in the court house. He
was due Thursday, and is therefore two
days behind. The judge has promised
his friends trophies of his expedition,
and it is possible he has not had luck in
bagging them. Then again, he might
nave met the enemy and surrendered. In
the Big Hole country bear are wild and
Woolly and will fight at the drop of the
hat, not being particular whether their
opponent is a judge or a steamboat cap
tain. The judge, however, is heavily
armed and if tackled will put up a fight
that will surprise bruin or any of the
other beasts of the forest.
f. L.. st. Onge informed the county at
torney today that he had dreamed last
night a warrant for his arrest had been
ISSUED and asked if there was anything
in it. He was told there was; hat on
the I'd a complaint against him had been
sworn out by a woman named Mary Cor
coran. charging him with having taken
a counter belonging to her.
well, if that is the case" said st.
Onge, TN go and surrender"
And away he went
John H. Viol of ~PhiliDsburg declared
himself a bankrupt to Referee Thompson
Campbell today. His liabilities are placed
at about $1,000 and his assets 5000.
Judge Lindsay did not v his de-
partnent of court this morning, but held
a long session this afternoon. Among
the business was the hearing of proofs
in six suits for divorce, as follows: Au-
gusta Dillon vs.. Clayton Dillon: Joseph o.
Cornell VS.. Zoie Cornell; Minnie Schrep-
per vs.. Henry Schrepper; Bessie Scott VS..
Walter Scott; John Koenig VS.. Lizzie
koenig, and Francis Z. Grossweiler VS..
VeIonika G~rossweiler.
Judge Lindsay called his calendar to-
day and set the following cases for trial:
Nov. 13-O'Rourke VS.. Mary Schultz;
A. Eustis VS.. John II. Curtis eft al: Ana
conda Mining Company VS.. f. w. War
mock Owo suits, one set for the 14th.)
Nov. 14-John Zelner VS.. Joseph Z. OPP
penheimer; Callahan VS.. Callahan. di-
voree.
o 15--Amy and Silversmith Mining
Company VS.. Joseph Annear; Josie l..
Talbot VS.. w. A. Clark; Lena Mueller VS.. |
George RenkeS
Nov. 16-George H.. Casey VS.. Andrew
Anderson ct al; Lee Mantle VS.. Lulu r.
Largey, administrators: Mary Sloan VS..
the kenyon-Connell Commercial Com
pany ct al 1.-TWO suits.)
Nov. I-Anaconda Mining Company VS..
the Butte & Boston; Charles Nuss VS..
James Larkin: Montana Union Railway
Company VS.. Peter Wastl.
After the call had been made County |
Attorney Connolly asked that the case |
of the state VS.. Thomas S. Courtney,
charged with the sale of liquor at retail
without a license, be set for trial. as a
number of similar actions depended upon
its disposition. The matter, he said, had
been pending several years. Mr.. Court
ney was only the nominal defendant.
nearly all the grocers in the city being
involved.
The court set the case for the Goth.
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