Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-16

GROCERY, MEAT AND F
uor Dorsey probably would have sue
ceeded had not MIR. Vale grabbed the re-
volver in such a way that his hand came
between the hammer and cartridge. pre-
venting the explosion of the cartridge
dorsey was arrested and placed in Jail
He was taken before Justice Mann Sat
urday and sentenced to three months inn
! prisonment in the county Jail.
! considerable difficulty in securing ice for
! the coming season on it's division. The
company has heretofore secured its sup
ply from the slough above Fort Keogh,
| near Miles City. at what is known as the
| ice spur. and last fall the bridge gang
! constructed chutes and made other pre-
! parations for harvesting the ice this VIM
| ter. There was four feet of water in
| the slough last winter. and the men had
| ne dlfticultN in putting up Ice. as there
| was plenty of water in which to float
! the ice. The late fall rains. however,
! brought a large quantity of sediment
| down from the hillside and filed up the
: slough with sediment and dirty water
This was not noticed at the time hut
when the foreman and some of his men
prospected in the slough a few days ago
they found only II inc!ehs of ice frozen
to the bottom and no wafer to float II
IL. This will necessitate a change in the
arrangements. and the company viii
prospect for ice at Hoyt and Pompey's
! Pillar. The work of harvesting the ice
for this division is quite an important
!
men for about a month
Thursday evening between and
! O'Clock while the attendants were at sup
pei and the place was temporarily
closed. some one broke into Holly &
Moure's store. on Montana avenue. and
robbed the cash drawer of $55.25. includ-
ing check for $l5.55 on the Yellowstone
National bank. Entrance was effected
by forcing the rear door. The theft was
apparently committed by somebody
familiar with the premises and the hab-
its of the occupants. Marks left in the
STOW in the rear show The thief To have
loitered about the place some tlme. wait
ing for the opportunity to break in.
George Freshman Of Fort Yellow
stone. Wyo, was in the city yesterday,
having come up from Glendive. where
he Went to identify the corpse Of the
woman found on sandbar in the Iel-
lowstone river and supposed to be his
wife. but the remains were not those
OF Mrs. Freshman. The booy had not
been in the water any great length
Of time. the flesh still clinging to the
bones. The skull. which had become
separated from the body, had full
set Of solid teeth, while Mrs. Freshman
had had an upper set Of false teeth
Mr.. Freshman thinks his wife was
drowned in the Yellowstone. but does
not believe that the body will ever be
recovered.
Judge G. H. Loud Of Miles City has
set the following dates for holding dis
trict court in Yellowstone county dur
ing the year 1901: January 10, April >,
June II and October 15
w. j. Scott ana Erick Erickson, pro-
prietors of the Billings steam laundry,
have gone to Butte to spend a few Gays
looking over the laundry plants of that
city with the purpose of receiving ideas
for the erection of new building in
this city.
Billings sportsmen are beginning to
interest themselves in the proposed
race meeting to be held in Montana
this season in the hopes that this city
may be included in the circuit. This
city always has and can still turn out
as big attendances at racing events as
any city in the state. excepting possibly
Butte. and there seems no reason Why
Billings should not be on the circuit.
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John Lamey, a mail clerk on the
Northern Pacific. is rejoicing over the
arrival of 12-pound baby boy at his
home in jamestown last week Mr..
Lamey is former Yellowstone county
boy. a son of Daniel Lamey,' who re-
sides in the valley. He has received
transfer orders to run on the Burling-
ton between this city and Edgmont.
and will in a sh ort time remove his
family to Billings.
The funeral of the infant daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Rain was held from
the family residence, ia North Twenty
ninth street, Saturday afternoon. con-
Quoted b., Rev. G. c. Stull. The little
child had been very ill for the past two
or three weeks.
Ross. both of this city, We're united in
marriage by Justice Sumption at Sheri-
dan, Wyoming, last week.
George A. Miller, one of the trustees
Of school district No. rs, east of Billings,
was in the city Friday circulating sub
soription paper for the purpose of rails
ing funds with which to build new
school house in his district to take the
place of the one destroyed by fire last
spring. The paper received numerous
signatures.
Will Dickson. young man, was
brought into Billings Thursday night
from McShane's grading camp. and
showing signs of insanity. He was ex-