Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-24
MlSS0uLA VIEWS
Branch Office Inter Mountain Publish
Ing Co.. 1856 Higgins avenue.
GOOD FARM
JUDGE GETS AHEAD OF souAT-
TIERS RIGHTS TITLE.
TRAIN COMES NEAR TO WRECK.
The Mayors First Marriage-Cigars
for All the Witnesses
Present.
TRAIN COMES NEAR TO WRECK,

M~lSSOula, August ~.
Late yesterday afternoon Alexander u.
Dumontier, q years of age, now resid-
ING at Stevensville, and Miss Emma
Niles, - years of ge, residing at Am
brose Greek, called at the office of Coun-
" Clerk SLOANE and asked to have a mar
flage license issued authorizing their
marriage. The judge fixed them out
shortly and they inquired for a justice of
the peace to perform the marriage. Jus
llce hayes was up at Darby, and Justice
fioutchens on his claim near Lo Lo, and
on being told that the justices We're out
OF business for the day, and seeming to
nave an aversion to being married by a
minister, they took on a rather disap-
POINTED look and were celebrating over
the matter when Mayor F. C. Webster
arrived on the scene. Judge Sloane sug-
gested that they be married by the mayor
which they declared would be perfectly
satisfactory, and the ceremony was per-
formed in the clerks office with all the
polnp and effusion becoming tc the occa-
sion, and the happy couple went their
way rejoicing. The IS fee received by
the mayor (Which is the amount usually
paid the justice for his %trouble) soon went
fer cigars in celebration of the first mar
rage ceremony performed by the
1t was indeed a very official marriage,
considering that the mayor. Judge John
l.. Sloane, county clerk and Constable
w. w. Mccormick were present.
A washout occurred on the main line
of the Northern Pacific, two miles east
of Thompson, Tuesday afternoon, and
train No. ) only missed running into it
and being wrecked by the timely dis
corery of the weakened track, made by
some section men who were on their way
to Thompson. A freight train passed
over the spot where the washout occurred
about twenty minutes before train No. 3
was due and the track was all right, but
tho NO Iva a 4 tn NO - ~ 49, -
was done in less than ten minutes after
wards for the section men only discov-
cred it in time to flag the passenger
and a serious wreck was narrowly av-
erted. The train was delayed an hour
! while the track was being repaired, and
the passengers were impatient. but few
understood the seriousness of the situa-
ton or realized the narrow escape they
had.
! Justice Houtchins made a very lucky
strike this week when he discovered thai
the ranch of John Baxter. deceased, sit
uated above Woodman, IN the Lo Lo
| was open for entry, as the survey a not
been accepted by the government, and
also that the administrator for the heirs
could not prove up for them. Baxter
who died a short time ago, had wo-ke5
the ranch for several years and has con.
siderable under cultivation and has i'm.
, proved it with a good log house and barry
and has built a few miles OF fence. He
had only a squatter's right, but wa:
ready to prove UP Is soon as the survey
was accepted by the government. Ev
erybody but Justice Houtchens, who were
i acquainted with the circumstances, be-
lieved that the administrator could prove
up for the heirs and when the judge
made the startling discovery he lost NJ
time in getting his family on the ground
where they will make their home for the
present. The judge returned to own last
night with the air of a farmer from
the Lo Lo.
Mrs. Kate H. Mccormick, through he
attorneys William Wallace, Jr., of Hell
ena, and Marshall & Stiff of this city, fill
ed complaint in the office of the clerk o
the court against F. c. Webster as assig
nee of the C. P. Higgins estate, and sue
for the payment of $1,000 with interes
from 1898. 1t is alleged in the complain
that on December LIST, 1892 plaintiff Dor
rowed a sum of honey from the c. P
Higgins bank and put up three $500 Mis-