Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-06

Montana court upon a person convicted
ed.
Whorton stole $50 from a sick and
The Columbus Sand Stone company,
while boring for water a few days ago.
struck a sulphur steram of ~fncalculable
value n which gives promise of max
ing Montana the Carlsbad of America.
situated forty miles west of there on the
N. r. railway.
A deal has ben contaminated at Lew
istown, whereby Geo. j. BAG purchases
of Cyrus Stiles the latter's Touring mill
and electric light plant. the consideration
being $1O,0 600. The mill will be perma-
nently operated by Mr.. Bach who will
add man modern facilities to the plant.
It has not yet been fully determined as
to what disposition will be made of the
electric plant.
The smallest amount of bounty claims
filed with the clerk of the state board
of examiners in many months were filed
last month, the total amoun from the
different counties being but $1,936, &C
cording to the usual monthly table pre-
pared by Dave Hamilton, the clerk, to
the board, while the claims for February
last veal amounted to $5,787. The $1,936
in claims filed during February were Tor
the destruction of 702 coyotes, 1O5 wolves
and 3 pups. The largest claim for the
monh came from Custer county. 1902 for
SO coyotes, 20 wolves and 3 ups. The
county of Yellowstone came second with
1888 for LOG coyotes and 9 wolves. Lewis
and Clarke presented claims to the
amount Of $178. This was for the de-
str uction of 20 coyotes and "a wolves.
Choteau county, which generally files the
largest amount, filed no claims at all.
Granite did not file any either. The
/ working of the new bounty law is prov
ing very satisfactory to the number of
animals killed and in the lessened cost
to the state.
Charles Wallender met with a most
unfortunate and distressing accident last
Wednesday afternoon which resulted in
the loss of his left arm. says the Philips
burg Mail. He was engaged with his
steam wood-saw in sawir' some cord
wood near the residence of Thomas Bot
schneider on upper California street when
the team became frightened and ran
away with the machine while. the saw
was running with a full head of of steam
on. Mr.. Wallender attempted to get
hold of the lines. but missed and was
thrown against the saw, cutting his left
arm so severely that amputation at the
shoulder joint was necessary.
The Northern Pacific is replacing the
three wooden bridges across the Jocko
river, between Ravalli and Jocko, with
substantial steel structures. The work
is beng done by the Chicago Bridge &
Iron company, who have Il force OF 70
expert machinists with them. Besides
these men, the Northern Pacific has a
force of men laying the approaches to
the bridges.
The work of replacing these bridges is
not delaying traffic, as but one span at a
time is changed. The old bridge is cut
out in SO foot sections, and the Chicago
company's immense steel derrick replaces
it with a steel span of equal length in
a very short time. In all, there are nine
or ten bridges to be fixed in this manner.
and the company will be kept busy for
some time at this work.
The man suspected of having killed
Joseph Bogner at Columbus, Yellow
stone county, Feb. 10, was arrested in
Helena Friday night. He claims to be
able to establish an alibi that will easily
clear him of the serious charge. He Of
fe1s a plausible explanation of his ac-
tons since leaving Columbus and appears
to be very frank in his statement. The
next few days will develop how much
truth there is to his claim.
Evidence multiplies that the Kalispell-
Libby cutoff will be at least partially
built this summer, and possibly the new
track will be ready for use before the
snow flies next fall. says the 1nter-Lake.
The latest report the Inter-Lake has is
to the effect that a small force of men
is now engaged cutting out the right of
way in the McGregOr lake country; that
the force will be rapidly increased, and
that if the men can be obtained, the COM
pany will have a thousand men at work
on the new road inside of sixty days.
This report comes through railway
sources thai would seem to insure it's ac-
curacy. Another report is that nothing
but the rock work on the new road will
be done this year, as the contractors who
will do the work have their hands full
| with the work being done on the Mon
tana division and the Montana Central.