Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-23

the past year. Mr.. Finlen recently re-
turned from Washington where he met
all of the Montana delegation interested
in the Clark senatorial fight. w
Kenneth Campbell a we'll known and
popular young engineer of Meaderville
was removed to Murray & Freund's hos
pital yesterday. He is i'll Of pneumonia
and Is receiving the best attention pos
sible. "a %.
B. F. Brown a mining man Of Garrison
who makes an occasional trip to Butte. is
in the city shaking hands with old time
friends.
The Frank Moody who was arrested re-
Gently in San Francisco for attempting
to murder a man whom he was trying to
hold up, is the same Frank Moody who
arrested here bou three years ago
for the murder of P. w. F. Kroger. Moody
and his partner Tom Franey were tried
and acquitted, chiefly because the testi-
mony was so contradictory.
After getting out of that scrape Moody
went to Salt Lake and enlisted with a
Utah regiment and was sent to the Phil
ippines. Here he distinguished himself
by his. utter disregard for danger. His
companions say hat he knew not what
fear was and always sought positions
where the bullets were the thickest. He
returned to San Francisco with his regi-
ment n after being mustered out en-
listed in the regular army.
A few weeks ago Moody waylaid a gro
Gerry man on a dark street and command
ed him to hold up his hands. The grocery
man failed to comply with the demand
and started to run and Moody sent a bull
let after him The bullet lodged in the
grocer's neck, but the wound was not a
fatal one. Two vaqueros on horseback
were in the vicinity when the shot was
fired and started in pursuit Of the would
be-murderer. They succeeded in run
ming Moody down. He was dressed in
the garb of the U. S. regular. His revolt
YER was found in an alley where he had
thrown it in his flight. a. 5te
After being taken to the county Jail
Moody was recognized as a man who had
attempted to hold up several other citi-
zens. When seen at the sail he at first
denied ever having been in Montana, but
later admitted his identity n was very
anxious to earn the whereabouts Of his
old chum Franey. The latter is said to be
locked up in the Washington peniten-
tiary. The San Francisco officers say they
have a sure. case against him and believe
that he will be sent up for a long term of
years. H'is
"California is very prosperous" said a
recent NiSltoT 10 the coast TO an Inter
Mountain reporter today. The war in
the Philippines helped the coast wonder
fully and the acquisition of the islands
has created a great trade with San
San Francisco and other coast towns.
This trade has brought the western me-
tropolis into closer relations with China
and Japan and this influence is extend
ing southwark to Australia and even as
far north as Siberia. The Alaska trade
has also materially helped the California
coast towns"
"Our part Of the state is one of the
greatest g~rain-producing areas in the
United States" said H.. A. Pease of Boze-
man, Mont, in a Salt Lake Tribune inter-
view. We grow the finest barley in the
world, barley that produces fifty bushels
and over to the acre, and it never fails of
finding a ready market. The brewing
interests are only too eager to buy all
they can get. Buckwheat used to be
cultivated in Montana, but of late years
do not recollect of having seen any
there. Why, l do not know. Our wheat
grows thirty-five bushels to the acre and
as of fine quality. In short, the opDor-
tunities for successful farming in central
Montana are numberless. Irrigation is
reduced with us to q science, so that the
valleys are we'll supplied with water. But
along the benches of the mountains irri-
cation. is not necessary because of the
regular rainfall there, which however.
does not cover tine valleys, as the clouds
follow the line Of the hills.
THE coal deposits are inexhaustible in
central Montana. The coal is of a high
grade bituminous. and the Northern Pa
Gifts draws immense amounts from New
Rozeman for consumption on it's line.
The coal cokes well, as the arrays Of
ovens near Helena, for instance, will tes-
tfy. The cattle interests are furnishing.
but owing to the increase of population
and the consequent restriction Of range
areas, many cattle are kept in inclosed
pastures and fed in the winter. There
is less ad less range lands each year, and
anything like extended ranges are a thing
of the past. ~
1.-The Northern Pacific road has decided
to do a mighty good thing for the farmers
along its line this winter and spring. in
opportunities to ship during the next six
ty days all of their grain, at 20 per cent
off from the regular rates. This will be
apt to move the crops. for the growers
being fairly we'll fixed, have held back
their last falls grain in expectation of
securing better prices in the spring. Con-
sequently. if the crops are moved by this
action on Tie part of the railroad, there
will be immense quantities Of grain plac-
ed on the market before long. The ac-
QUESTION Of the Pacific Islands by the
United States ought to, before long. be
instrumental in turning the heratofore
eastward movement CT grain toward the
Pacific coast ports for As:atic shipm ant."