The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-23
GENERAL STATE NEWS.

MUCCuS 0Aly Iueb WITH Ull NCOlu6UG IL
New York u few days ago BY which h,
had two ribs broken.
The county assessoYs Of Montana
will hold their annual meeting in the
capital CITY Jan. 28.27.
John Lepley, the well-known stock.
man, capitalist and Montana pioneer,
died Saturday night at his home in
Fort Benton, from a%poplexy.
The annual report of the commits.
sioner for the insane Of the state shows
that there were 477 patients in the asy.
lum Of whom 275 were men and 1O2
women.
Frank Normyle and 4. r. Butler, OF
Butte, Z. Fl. Cooney, Of Great Falls
and Fl. o. Collins, Of Missonla, all
newspaper men, have been subpoenaed
to appear in Washington and tell what
they know about CLARK. DAILY methods
Of election.
G. w. Ellingwood of Butte has been
appointed as chief clerk TO Ex.Governor
Richards, census enumeration for Mon.
tana. Governor Richards says he wish.
es that the newspapers OF the state
would give publicity to the fact that
the Office Of the supervision Of census is
in Butte and Is not in Helena. Fully
25 per cent OF his mail in connection
with census business il sent to Helena.
Steps are being taken for the forma.
ton Of a State Intercollegiate track as
ISOLATION for an annual contest in track
athletics, such as running, jumping,
shot put, hammer throw, pole vault.
etc. A meeting is to be held in Helena
shortly, where delegates from tile col.
leges Of the state are to formulate a
constitution, and lay plans for the sum-
mer meet.
Blaokleg is said To have made its APP
peaIance in some cattle herds on the
Missouri river. j. O. Patterson's cat.
tie are suffering from the disease,
though he has lost but five or six head
so far. He has vaccinated a lot Of
calves in the hope of securing immun.
ity. Some Of the best known cattlemen
in that section, however, do not believe
il vaccination and refuse to longer
practice 1t.
John Zupanolioh, who killed Frank
Mehar, IN Boston Heights, Great Falls,
October 20, BY cutting his throat with
a broken beer bottle, must 20 to the
p%enitentiary. At 3:45 o'clock Thurs.
day afternoon, the Jurors, who had
been out for twenty-five and one-half
hours, reported that they had agreed.
Their verdict was guilty Of voluntary
granddaughter, az charged" and they
recommended the prisoner to the mercy
Of the court. The penalty is imprison.
,nelIt for not to exceed ten years.
Both the proposition to extend the
limit Of debt in the city Of Helena for
the purpose Of negotiating for the con-
struotion or purchase Of a water plant,
and the advisory proposition regarding
the municipal ownership Of all electric
lighting plant were carried at a special
election Thursday. The proposition to
extend the debt limit received a major.
thy Of 86S in a total vote of $50, and
the proposition to embark in the light
ing business was carried by a vote Of
654 to 200, q majority Of 454 in a total
vote Of 1914.
The Montana-Idaho boundary line
will no longer be a subject for possible
dispute between tho two states, the fed
eral government having located aud
marked that part Of the line, the loca.
ton of which was formerly a question.
In 1894 during the administration Of
Gov. j. r. Richards, the location Of
the Yahk mining district was involy cd
IN a controversy, over the jurisdiction
Of Al officer, q controversy which vas
decided IN Montana's favor. The
official survey was made by the United
States geological survey makes a recur.
renee Of the dispute impossible.
William Pepo, who Ia under sentence
Of death IN Teton county, for numbering
Julius Plath, can look only to the gov
ernor Of the state for his life as the su.
preme court yesterday refused to grant
him a new trial. The higher court
finds the verdict Of the lower court sus-
tanned IN every particular by the evil
denoe. The teohnicalities raised by the
defense are swept away and the court
Of last resort declines to interfere with
the Judgment and sentence that have
been recorded against Pepo, and the
condemned man will be hanged at
Choteau in q few weeks, unless in.
t%iuences Gan be brought to bear upon
tho governor ia commute the sentence
to life imprisonment. Judging by his
decisive action in the Allen case the
likelihood Of his interfering for Pepo
seems decidedly remote,
A story Ia current to the effect that
on January ID a council Of the chiefs
and headmen on the Blaokfoot reseiva-
ti0n wal held, and addressed by Chan.
oellor Charles O'Donnell OF Butte, who
has been retained by the Indians to
prosecute n claim against the United
The Indians, it is said. claim
through tho Misrepresentation Of
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