Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-29
MISS0uLA NEWS
Branch Office Inter Mountain Publish-
Ing Co.. 1876 Higgins avenue.
WAS AN ACCIDENT
coRoNER's VERDICT ON THE
DEATH OF HANS
v .. OLSON.
GRAMM Is A BAD NElGHBOR.
cape Nome a Hotbed of Misery and
Crime-Republican Pri-
maries.
GRAMM Is A BAD NEIGHBOR,
Missoula, August "a

- "iSooulup AUGUST 20.
The coroner called a jury Yesterday
evening to investigate the cause of the
Heath OF Hans Olson, who was killed by
a s"itch engine in the depot yards here
saturday night. The verdict of the Jury
was 10 phe effect that death was caused
oy accident by his being run over by the
"aiH. several members of the Jury
showed a disposition to incorporate in
iheif verdict a clause generating the
'allfoad company from all blame for the
The idea was not fayorably
received Dy a number Of the Jurors and
~ clause was omitted from the verdict.
W. g letter to County Attorney I. g.
Denny. Nice Landers, who Is %stenOgra-
nher for Joseph X. Wood, stationed at
cape Nome, states hat there are $50
lawyers there now and only about $50
Or the unfortunate list haye offices: the
other hundred are curb-stone lawyers.
Mr.. Landers has charge Of the criminal
docket and had entered almost so cases
UP to the time the letter was written,
which was about a week after he landed
there. Crime is increasing every day and
IT threatens to be a little worse than nay
thing he has seen after the dark season
comes. The town Is under martial law
now soldiers patrol the streets all the
time. Hundreds and hundreds of idle
men are around the streets looking for
work, but there Is Tor to be had. Simons
Brothers of Missolua opened a store
there some time in July. but there is no
business there and it Is doubtful if there
will be any more this year. The Cham
Der Of Commerce, has made demand on
the government for transportation for
the needy. but nothing had been heard
from Washington. ID. c.. to the time his
letter was written.
/ Simon Holman came in rom his ranch.
eight miles northeast of the city on
Grant creek. this afternoon and swore out
a warrant for the arrest of Henry
Gramm. an adjoining ranoher, for malic-
iously shooting his pet sorrel horse. which
had left its pasture and gone onto the
and Of Gramm The shooting occurred
some time Saturday and was done with
a shot gun and a large hole was torn in
the horses side and it lived in torture un-
til Sunday morning, when A man hap
| pened along ana humaneiy killed the
horse, as it was only a matter of time
; when it would die from the wound. Mr..
Holman realized that the horse could not
live. and that it was suffering terribly.
but it was a pet and he did not ave the
heart to kill it. Henry Gramm was ar
rested at the instance OF Mr.. Holman
about six weeks ago and lined $lV ana
costs for using obscene language in the
presence of his children.
/ Harmony prevailed at the republican
primaries held in the various wards
throughout the city last night. for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the
county convention, Which will be held in
: this city September LIST, when the win
ming ticket for Missoula county Will De
chosen. 165 votes were cast in the various
precincts, which is A very large vote con-
sidering the fact that only a single ticket
! was in the field. Owing to a misunder-
! standing a rival ticket was circulated III
the 4th ward but lost by q vote OF 81 10
~.
Robert Kennedy. a Northern Pacific
| collector out of Helena. died at the com
| pany's hospital in this city last night with
| typhoid fever. Mr.. Kennedy had been con
+! nected with the railroad for a great many