Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-26
MONTANA NEWS

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ency of the suit, on the order of Judge
Harvey.
n. w. FlOwer wiper at the Mon
tana central shops on the West Side at
Treat rails, was painfully injured by
DeinS caught between an engine and
the side OF coal chute The lower
part OF one leg and foot were crushed.
Patrick Hays. the murderer of Will
lam j. McCatne. has received his sem
tehce. The passing of sentence was a
pertunctory formality. the jury which
Iouho Rays guilty having fixed the
punishment at ninety nine years in the
penitentiary
george w. Andrew has brought suit
against the Largely estate to recover
title to nine lots in the Park CITY Addi
tloh to Butte. The property passed
INTO possession OF the estate through
a delinquent tax sale. Andrew claims
mat the sale was not regular.
Jack Wright. an employee at the Dia.
Hhohu X concentration, at Nehiart. while.
oraklng car which was rolling rapid
~ along the incline track of the Mon
taha central to the chute at the con-
cehtrator was thrown by jar between
the cars and badly smashed up.
eugene Baudain. the young man who
was arrested at Butte, supposedly on
we authority OF the Dawson county au-
thorlties, vas released. Sheriff Kanne-
ny arrived from Glendive and requested
that Haudain be given his liberty. lie,
STATED that the arrest was a mistake.
Alex Walker, of the Gamer Walker
brokerage company. has been fined $50
by Justice OCOnnor of Walkerville for
contempt. walker was cited to pro-
duce the books of the firm for the in
spectiOn of the court. This he failed to
90, and the justice held that he was IN
contempt.
revenue Officer J. w. Hathaway Wis.
tied Missoula recently from the Bitter
Root valley, bringing the report that
ne had located an Illicit distilling plant
recently reported from Lolo. He states
that the identity of the nOOnshiners
mas been discovered, and arrests will
speedily follow.
There Is rumOr that when Nelson
Story builds his new mills at Bozeman
next spring. he will also arrange to run
small electric plant for the purpose
oil furnishing power to business men Of
that city who use. dynamOs, and want
q steady power with which TO run their
machinery.
Two cases or smallpox were discov
cred In Park county recently, one in
Livingston, George Barnes being the
afflicted person. He was taken to the
pest house. Alex Campbell, an old res
ldent OF Chico, is the other sufferer.
DR.. G. r. Wells, the county physician.
went to Chico to investigate
In tho ,l;ct,,t .o,,..
jury awarded A. r. Gillies of Great
Falls $4,000 in his $50, 900 damage suit
against the Clarke Fork Coal company
Of Gebo. Gillies was injured two years
ago by a fall from the tipple, while en-
ployed as carpenter for the company.
The jury at Miles City which investi.
gated the death of the Italian laborer,
Tofanic Flandosco who was killed be-
tween Tusler and Shirley by a train,
has exonerated the trairmen The men
who We're with Flandosco jumped from
the handcar on which they were riding,
while he fell under it. The body was
horribly mutilated.
The farmers who are patrons of tho
Pass Creek telephone line are so we'll
pleased with the workings of the line
that they are about to build IA line from
Pass Creek to Belgrade, which will en-
brace quite number of farmers homes
in the central portion of the valley.
Another private line will probably be
built from Bozeman to SalesviIle, and
thence to Red Bluff or Pony, by way OF
Norris.
Belt was visited by another fire re-
Gently, and as a result $4,000 worth OF
property is now smouldering in ruins.
The fire originated in a wash house in
the of the Belt hotel on Bridge
street. and before it could be quenched
1t spread to the hotel, which was COM
plctely consumed together with the
Belt feed store and the Cashier
Loud building.
The jury in the Kimber case. at
Townsend, returned "a verdict against
the defendant of manslaughter, and
recommended him to the mercy of the
court. This verdict seems to be some
what in the nature of a compromises.
Public opinion is divided. Some con-
slider the verdict very light, while 9TH
ers say they are thankful it was not
hung jury" The people throughout
the county are almost unanimous in
the belief that Kimber deserves severe
punishment for taking the life of Jacon
T. Leininger on the night of Oct. 2G.
1901.
Mrs. Marguerite NJ. Strang, superin-
tendent of schools for Yellowstone
county, has just finished her apportion-
ment of the funds to the various dis
tricts Of the county. The districts and
the amounts appOrtioned each follow:
Junction. $30l.55; Billings, $6,a76.40;