Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-05-02
state News In Brief,

Actual work has commenced on the
Portage cutoff on the section just east
of the Fifteenth street bridge at Great
Falls.
Judge Clancy Of Butte has granted q
divorce to w. w. Wright. Wright tes-
titled. and his testimony was corrobor-
rated. that his wife eloped with Joseph
Freeman several years ago.
The Diamond Creek Mining company
has filed articles OF Incorporation at
Butte. The incorpOrators are G. w.
Walton, G. A. Chevigney and Joseph
Mitch. and the company is now capi-
talized for 100000.
Word has been received at Bozeman
from Trail Creek, stating that while
some children were playing with a load
ed gun 1t was accidentally discharged
and a niEe-year- old son of Mrs. Harris,
living close to the Mountain House
mine, was killed
The Butte Municipal league, an Or
ganization inaugurated a few days ago,
Is making strenuous fight against the
granting of tenyear franchise to the
Butte Electric company. Members Of
the league are seeking signatures to a
protest which will be presented to the
new council.
The most pleasing news that has
reached the ears of Big Timber resi-
dents for some time is the announce
ment that the trustees OF the new WOOL
EN- mill company have succeeded in
raising sufficient additional money to
put the plant in shape for operation
just as soon as the machinery can be
put in position.
Officers are looking for Attorney f.
w. Merrill, ex-public administrator Of
Cascade county, who is short in his ac-
counts and who Is believed to have left
Great Falls. His shortage is supposed
to be about $4,5OO belonging to some
dozen estates. S. f.. Atkinson, John J..
Ellis, Matthew Dunn, Harry J. Skin
ner. James TRULY and Frank Glab are
his suretes.
The Catholic clergy Of Montana viii
meet in Helena July II, in the sixth di-
oce3an synod Of the church held in the
diocese of Montana. Bishop Brondel
has issued a call for the synod. There
are thirty-six secular and twelve regu-
lar priests in Montana who are expect
ed to be in attendance upon the synod.
Following the synod or conference Of
tHt pflcSlS, thcfe VIII De an exafnlfla-
ton of the younger clergy.
Park county will number another
coking plant in full blast before the
present season ends, if present indica-
tons count for anything. There was
lately granted to the Nolan Brothers OF
Livingston, patent to fifty acres Of
coal land, said to be the most valuable
coal tract in the county, on which are
several well known veins Of valuable
cooking coal. The NOlans have interest
ed Eastern capital in the ground, and
will build twenty-five coke ovens this
season.
Ex-Gov. s. Il. Hauser, formerly presi-
dent of the suspended First National
Bank of Helena, has compromised his
Indebtedness with the bank practically
When the bank closed it's doors the last
time, in 1896, he owed the institution
$2S5, 872.16 of which notes amounting to
SIC. 900 were barred by the statute of
limitations. He also owed the bank tina
sum of $4,000. the amount of his as
sessment upon the stock he owned in
the bank, or a total indebtedness of
which has been approved by the con-
troller of the currency and by the dis
trict court, by which he pays the re-
ceivcr OF the bank $4,000 in cash and
surrenders receivers certificates and
various securiticc.