The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-06
IN BOZE MAN.
Serious Damage to Crops by a Heavy
Hail Storm.

Serious Damage to Crops by a Heavy
Hail Storm.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, Aug. 4.-The usual yearly
visitation of hail accompanied by ter
rife thunder and vivid lightning came
on Monday evening of this week. For
tunately the storm was not a general
! one and spent its force upon the crops
Of few unfortunate farmers. The
most damage was done across the West
Gallatin river some Is miles west from
BoZeman. The crop of Donald Came
ron of the board of county commission
ers, growing on two farms, was liter
ally moved to the ground. There is
another farm dividing the land of Mr..
Cameron into two sections, and on this
land the crop was scarcely touched.
Two men by the name of Ferguson had
the ranch of 7. Caldwell rented and
there was about lis acres more or less
of fine grain growing on it, but now
there is not enough left to feed to the
horses John Weaver Robert Shaw,
Vandenhooks and John Robinson also
had their crops seriously damaged and
several other farmers lost quite a little
grain. Before the storm reached Boze-
man it had expended all it's hail, but
had still plenty of electricity left the
lightning striking several houses and
damaging the electric lights and tele-
phones TO some extent.
Yesterday afternoon D. c. Campbell
was tried for being a common drunk
and sentenced to 80 days in the county
jail. Campbell, it is said, was a law
student in the office of the famous
| Judge Cooley a number of years ago.
For some time after he came to Boze-
man he followed the practice of the law
| with more or less success, but became
| addicted to whiskey and the liquor that
| inebriates. He got down very low
| about five years ago when a number
of the members of the bar and others
got up a subscription and he took the
| Kelley cure. On his return from TAX
ing the cure he kept pretty straight for
some time, but his passion for drink
finally returned and he has gone from
bad 10 worse until he is a physical and
almost mental wreck. He defended
himself yesterday afternoon and deliv-
cred quite an imprisoned address to
the jury, urging them to set him free
on account of the disgrace to his fam
lily should he be sent to Jail as vaga-
bond without any visible means of sup
port
Judge Mcpherson had a Chinaman
before him on Tuesday afternoon as
fit subject for deportation to the flow
cry kingdom. c. w. Burton, Chinese
inspector for the district of Montana
and Idaho, was in the city on Monday
and ran across this unfortunate celes-
tial without a certificate of identitica-
ton required by act of congress ap-
proved May 6, 1882, and Immediately
took him up before United States Com
missioner A. d. Mcpherson. Wong
Wee was the Chinaman's name and he
tried to make believe he had lost the
valuable paper in Great Falls, Helena
or some other town, but of no avail,
for he was sent to the county jail as a
Chinese laborer, with no rights at all.
George White, superintendent of the
Trail Creek Coal company, was down
from the mines on Thursday of this
week in the interests of his company.
He was trying to get the Gallatin Rail
way company to extend its line as far
as the mines of his company, which are
situated some few miles further up the
trail than the Mountain House mine.
Should they be able to get this extern
sion the coal company can get out
more than trainload a day of the
finest quality Of coal to be had in Mon
tana.
The Italian section gang on the
Northern Pacific Railway company's
road struck on Monday for higher pay.
not being satisfied with the contract
price which they have been receiving.
1t is probable the "dagOes" are at work
before this time, as they cannot colleNt
their back pay if they refuse to carry
out their contract
Some of the Trail Creek miners are
on a strike. They have been receiving
60 cents per ton and now they want
50 cents They say the nature of the
coal vein is such that they cannot make
anything at so cents.
A vast Improvement has been
achieved this week by the city. Nearly
the whole of the block from the Ma
sonic building to the hewitt block has
IL ~,
front of the buildings This good work
ought to so on down as far as the To-
tel