Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-24
STATE NEWS

Joe Degenhart returned home last week
from a tour around Cape Horn, having
seen considerable of the outside world,
says the Philipsburg Mail. He left here
last April in company with George See
los and shipped from Tacoma to Callao,
Peru; from there, around the horn, TO
Germany. He spent some time in Ham,
burg, and lett there for home on Decem-
Der 22d. From New York he came by
way of Montreal n st. Paul.
HIS companion. George Seelos. enlisted
IN the service of the United States navy
at Callao, and is now on board the cruiser
M~arblehead.
The Boston and Montana's output of
copper in 1899 was valued at s., 800, 900.
tn number OF men on the last monthly
payroll, including those on construction,
was 1.50O, and the payroll amounted TO
$10o, 900. While details concerning guam
tity of ore treated and copper produced
are not available. it Is undoubtedly within
h bounds Of truth to say that ore
traeted will approximate half a million
tons, the copper production will aggregate
nearly or quite ~seventy-five million
pounds. with a proportionate quantity
OF by-products. gold. silver and lead.
The American Smelling and Refining
company. at Its Great Falls plant, ex-
pended during 1899. for ores. freight, sup
plies, ETC., 81. 1850. 900. The ore purchased
amounted to e.130 tons: lead purchased,
1.626,67O pounds: silver purchased, 1,4O3,-
500 ounces: gold purchased, 5,425 ounces,
The average number of men employed
was 200 and the monthly payroll ran from
business of this company this year will
be largely in excess Of that Of last year.
A. J. Corrigan, who killed Peter Kuntz
at Big Timber cOulee some three weeks
ago, and who was taken to Great Falls.
nlAcHn 1nnoT n rr00f ND pSnn IVA -
the Choteau county authorities, died on
Tuesday at st. Glare hospital at Fort
Benton from rheumatism Of the heart.
The Great Falls Roo and Gun club has
sent to Kansas for so Quails, which will
be turned loose in this county next
month. They will be divided into four or I
fve cOveys and placed in different parts |
OF the county where conditions are favor
able and they can be we'll protected.
Ed. Sawyer brought into Libby on Sun
day probably the largest mountain lion
ever seen in the Cabinet mountains, even |
by the oldest inhabitant. 1t measured
over ten feet from tip to tip and was ex-
ceptionally wide. How old the animal
was is the merest conjecture, even by
those who have done nothing but hunt
mountain lions all their life, but that he
was the Oldest mountain lion ever seen by
anyone is as equally admitted. All of his
SNSSAs ONSA lAlC lllt1S OueS III front, were |
worn almost even with the gums, while
the big ones further back in the jaw were
worn so low that the gums had grown
nearly over them. The animal was shot
by. Mr.. Sawyer not far from Wright's
cabin down the Kootenai river. a place
which has always been notorious as the
home of large umbers Of these deer de-
stroyers.
Says the Madisonian: C.. x. Laribee.
the banker OF Deer Lodge when that city
was the chiefest town of the state. came
over from Fairhaven. Wash, the last
part Of last week to look after his Brook
.Nook ranch, has the reputation Of being
the first horse ranch in the United States.
and from which fancy horse flesh has
and in which Mr.. Laribee takes a pardon
able pride. This is his first visit to
Madison county in two years, and as luck
would have it he was given a "hot" re-
ception at the ranch-for a few hours af-
ter his arrival one of the largest barns
took fire and burned to the ground.
William Pepo, who is under sentence
OF death in Teton county, for murder !,
ing julius Plath, can look only to the !.
governor OF the state for his life as the
supreme court Monday refused to grant
him a new trial. The higher court finds
the verdict of the lower court sustained
In every particular by the evidences.
The technicalities raised by the defense
are swept away and the court of last
resort declines to interfere with the
judgment and sentence that have been
against Pepo, and the con-
man will be hanged at Choteau
IN a few weeks, unless influences can
be brought to bear upon the governor
to commute the sentence to life impris-
onment. Judging by his decisive action
In the Allen case the likelihood of his in
terfering for Pepo seems decidedly rel
mote. ~
Claud s. Banta has sold half of his Car
ponado ranch outright and disposed of all