The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-29
General Interest.

DIX thousand fewer cigarett
es We're smoked in the United States in
1899, than in 1893.
According to United States Assayer
Braden the copper taken from the mines
OF Montana last year was worth no less
than S~40,000,000. That is the largest a
mount of that metal ever produced in
any state in a single year, and it takes
no account of the revenue from other
mineral resources there, either.
Tarantulas are being raised in Austria
liza for the sake of their webs, the fila
ments OF which are made into thread
for balloons. They are lighter than silk,
and when woven, lighter than canvas.
Each ~tarantula yields from twenty to
forty yards of filament, of which eight,
twisted together form a single thread.
Milton 0. Howell was sentenced by
j Judge Du Bose at Lewistown last Sat.
urday, to be hanged on the 9th day of
April, for the murder of Thomas Roz-
ling. The murder occurred on the
morning of July 9th, 1893, when in re-
venge for asound ~thrashing administered
by Rolling, Howell waylaid him and shot
him twice, from behind. The cause of
the trouble was a dispute over water
Howell disappeared after the
murder, and vas traced by detectives in
the employ of P. I. Moule and others, to
Texas, Ontario, and finally British
Columbia, where he was arrested last
October. Howell's plea was self de-
Tense, but it had no effect on the Jury,
although his quiet demeanor at the
trial elected some sympathy.
In conversation Monday evening, saws
the Lewistown Argus, Judge DuBose
said that he expected to sail from Seattle
for Cape Nome about June 10, and that
Judge Leslie, of Cascade county, would
attend to his work in the Tenth judicial
district during his absence. The Judge
will not resign his position before going
north, but says that he hardly believes it
possible that he will return for some
time or that he will be a candidate for
re election this fall. However, he de-
'ires to make a thorough investigation
the condition of affairs at Nome and
n the 60 days leave allowed he will have
ample opportunity to investigate the
reliability of the reports he has received
from the great district and determine
upon the ACCESSIBILITY of his abandoning
MS judicial position for the practice of
in the far north. The opportunities
offered him are seemingly great, not
Tithstanding the h~ardships to be en-
;ountered, and he feels well satisfied
hat the present term is his last upon
he bench in this county.
Alta recent meeting of the stock
holders of the A. M. Esler Mining & Con
'~entrating company, the following were
elected directors for the coming year:
\. nj. Esler, F. w. Rossberg, Sherwood
Wheaton, B. Warnken, John Schonborn,
". H. johnson, w. M. Cockrill. The
rustees elected A. M. Esler president.
Walter Shobe secretary and treas
lrer.
The company will erect this spring a
concentrating mill of 100 tons daily ca
in Swift Current mining district |
n Teton county, under a contract to con-
'entrate 100000 tons of copper ore, for
which they will receive Sc per ton.
Information received at the p~ostoffce
department indicates that the efforts to
yet mail through to the gold fields
trough the Alaskan mountains are
Meeting with great success. Mail was
ecently transmitted from Skaguay to
Circle City ia 10 days, which broke all
ecords, and the dispatch of a letter
rom Circle City to Washington in 30
lays, as was recently done, would have
zen impossible last year.
On the evening of Sunday March 18th
Pooley shot and killed his own
laughter. and her husband, Thomas
Iittlejohn, on the street in Butte. The
auses leading up to the murder are
LEGGED to be of a nature, which if true
eLder Pooley unworthy Of any human
ympathy. The Standard claims to
POSSESS absolute proof that the father
Lad peer intimate with his daughter,
or a long time previous to her marriage.
As a result of this intimacy, a child was
'orn in June 1892, and although the
of gossip did its best to make