Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-13

tdDllSIIIleLl VI d department " uAHel-
alogy and mines similar to the depart
ment of agriculture. He proposes that
there shall be a cabinet officer called
secretary of mineralogy and mines. The
purpose of the new department will be
to prepare and diffuse knowledge rela-
tive to mining matters.
D. F. Payton died on Tuesday morn
ing at the ranch of o. Thomas, about
seven miles west of Chinook. He had
been i'll for several days with the grip
and that was the cause of death. The
deceased was an old-timer in the Milk
river country, and had earned the re-
spect Of all the people of that section.
He was "a years of age and was born at
Mortified, Boone county, Ind.
The Montana Society of Civil Engineers
met in Helena yesterday in annual SEES
sion. There We're about a dozen members
present the first day. Papers were read
and discussed. A large attendance is eX-
pected.
News of a distressing accident is re-
ported from Middleton, Idaho. Jonn
Martin and Mary Cathcart were married
Wednesday. A crowd of boys had an
nounced that they intended to charlvarl
them, but Charles Martin, a brother or
the groom, sent word that if they tried 1t
they woul get hurt. The crowd came
I anu SldIlcu up L JIG Ia AAo JN"N
as the minister had finished the cere-
mony. Charles Martin rushed from the
house with a shotgun and fired into the
crowd. People ran from the house as the
Boys scattered and picked up a little
form lying on the ground. 1t proved to
be the sister of the man who fired the
shot, who, Disgusting herself in boys
clothing, had gone out just to see the
fun. Part of the shot took effect in her
face, and, although she may live, she
will be blind.
A sequel to the story which was re-
Gently told of Bill Howard, or Russell,
which ever his name may be, comes from
Great Falls, says the BOZeman Chronicle.
He will be remembered as the smooth in
dividual who rather coarsely tried to
work off a lob lot of Chicago hides on
the officials of this county and met his
undoing by a black wolf pelt. Russell
and his partner got hides in Chicago
which they successfully worked off for
the bounty at Big Timber, but the Gal
latin officials, especially Sheriff Fran
sham, drew the line on black wolf hides
and Russell is in Jail in consequence 1t
seems thai Russell, while in Chicago last
fall, started in by adopting a. child and
giving it out that he was a sheepman.
Several ChicagoanS were interested In
his scheme to extensively engage in the
sheep business. Failing to hear salts
: factorily from Russell, they came out to
Great Falls, where they learned that he
was an impoStOr, and they are now pos
sessed Of some doubts as to what he in
! tended to do with them when he got them
there.
Boulder Age: In Justice Taylor's court
last week Lulu Wheeler was charged
with selling liquor without a license.
George F. Cowan appeared for the state
in the absence of County Attorney Lyon,
~ Wy p,t+ :, "a
peared for the defense. After strenuous
but %unavailing efforts on the part of the
defense to knock out the on
technicalities, the defendant plead not
guilty and demanded a jury trial. After
evidence was in, the jury found defend
ant guilty and fixed the fine at 81, which
was paid. The bright jury, however,
failed to make the costs go with the fine,
as is necessary under the present law,
so they became a tax on the county. The
jury was composed of Sam Mackey,
Doc" Smith. f. M~cLaughlin, A. Ham
mer, A. J. Locker, Mike Weller and f.
Patterson.
J.. f.. Dewing, who was down from
Horn Tuesday, disclosed to his friends a
novel method of gold hunting. he eX-
hibited a nugget worth about 20 cents,
which he AYERS was taken from the Slz-
zard Of a duck, and which he asserts was
only a portion of the yellow metal Sc
! cured from that source. He procured the
duck along with others for the holidays,
and gave several of them to Henry Rock
niger. In dressing his ducks, Rockinger
! discovered that all the glzZards contained
small particles of yellow metal, the av-
! erage output being 80 cents to the giz-
gard. This fact he disclosed to DeWing,
who inspected the giZzards of the re-
naming birds with like results. Now
DeWing is on the trail of the man who
.z:..1 A. l,,clc which uvnra chlnnp6 tn
him from Helena, and when he locates
/ his man and the duck pond he promises
to also locate his friends on claims that
will rival those Of the Klondike,-Li
ingston Enterprise.
Depuyer Acantha: The Acantha does
not believe there is any truth in the re-
mort printed in the Montanlan-and
copied in some of the state papers-m
which it was stated that George b. Nc
Laughlin and two companions had been
murdered by the Indians on the trail re-
turning from the Klondike. 1t will be re-
membered by our readers that Charles
Barber of this place returned from a trip
through the Northwest Territory two or
three months ago, and reported having
met Mclaughlin about the first of July,
q couple of hundred miles north of Ed
monitor, and over 200 miles off the trall
to the Klondike. He was alone at this
ime-having left the party he started
out with-had grub enough to last only
two or three months, and said he in
ended to push through the Smoky river
country, where he hoped to find employ
ment as a miner. 1t is not probable that
he turned back and started for the Klon-
dixie with only grub enough to last so
short a time, and if he did it is hardly
possible that he could pick up compan-
ions in that part of the country who
would care to carry him through. An
other thing that discredits the story Is
the fact that the neWspapers of the