Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-05-12
MONT ANA.

The county Jail at Butte now con-
tains seven men charged with the
crime of murder.
What to do with the dandelien is
the question that is agitating the
minds of lawn owners at Missoula.
The Montana baseball season will
commence May %, when the Anaconda
team will play the Butte club at Butte
W. H. Black, commander of Lincoln
post No. 2, G. A. r., at Butte, says that
the members of the Grand Amy of
the Republic and Women'g selief Corps
and Spanish-American organization
will jointly observe Memorial Day,
May 80.
The last legislative assembly made
no appropriation to defray the ex-
penses of Montana mineral exhibit at
the Worlds fair at Paris, which is
opened. Just why the legislature made
no move to supply the funds is left to
conjecture.
NJ. E. Flanagan of st. Paul is in
the county Jail at Bozeman from
severe cash in his neck and raving
in the incOherent accents of mad
man. He was taken from the west
bound passenger train and is charged
with insanity.
A sawmill was ordered for the ANA
dor on Iron Mountain several weeks
ago. and word has been received that
it was shipped and is due this week.
| AS soon as it is here it will be sacked
| in, the animals used for taking it in
bringing ore out on the return trip.
| Michael O'Farrell a nephew of Mar
Gus DAILY, was thrown from his buggy
! in Butte while driving and seriously
| injured. He was thrown to the side
walk, striking on his side against a
post. He was for several years super
| intendent of the High Ore and Bell
mines.
Over 10000 fruit trees have been set
out this year inKalispell valley, and
more will soon arrive from eastern
nurseries. Many hundreds of pack
ages of small fruits have been shipped
there this year. Inspector Parsons has
been busy the past six weeks inspecting
and fumigating the shipments.
| Ranchers in the vicinity of Missoula
are experiencing no little amount of
| difficulty in obtaining the help neces-
sary in order to get in their crops in
time to reap the benefits of the April
showers. Several good men could OBJ
! tain steady employment IN the valley
at good wages.
The Conrad Investment Co. has pur-
chased $500 head of yearling grade
Hereford heifers, which will be ranged
in the vicinity of their ranches on Du-
! puyer creek, and will soon receive
shipment of thoroughbred Hereford
bulls. which were purchased in the
east.
Saturday two laborers discovered the
body of a man in the smelter yards OF
the Montana Ore Purchasing company at
Butte. They were unloading car of
coke, and they found the body in one
end of the ear where it had evidently
| lain for two months. An old-fashioned
revolver, four chambers loaded ana two
empty, was lying by his side Near the
heart were two bullet holes, and in the
top of the head was a deep wound, suf-
ficient to have caused death. No papers
or letters and nothing to identify him
were found 1t is either ease of sui
eide or murder, probably the latter.
Members of the North Montana
Roundup Association, in session at
Helena, endorsed the bill pending in
the United States senate to extend the
maximum time cattle may be trans
ported on cars without unloading from
% to 40 hours, and also condemned
the bill seeking to prohibit the max
ing of oleomargarine. Such prohi-
bition, the association declared, would
take SO to 81 from the value of each
animal, that being the worth of the
butter fat in each carcas for the manu-
facture of substitutes for butter.