Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-18
TURNED DOWN BY SENATE
BUT NOW APPEARS AS A BONA
FIDE LAW-MAY BE
OTHERS.
CAPTURED THE MAIL Thief
Clever Detective Work of A. ]. Craven
-Robber Was Bold in Showing
the Goods.
Special to the Inter Mountain.

Special to the Inter Mountain.
Helena Mont, March 1S.-The startling
discovery was made this morning that
house bill IS, after being turned down by
the senate, was signed by President His-
gins and approved by the governor,
March II.
The minutes in the senate journal in
regard to the bill read:
March Z. Read first and second time
and referred to committee on Judiciary.
Committee recommend THAT bill be not
concurred in. Report adopted.
The bill is an amendment of the sta
tute of limitations, and provides that
within five years actions must be
brought on contracts, accounts, prom
Uses, OBJ legations or liabilities not founded
on written instrument. trespass on real
property, for taking or injuring of goods
or ohattels, for relief on the ground Of
fraud or mistake, or to establish Will;
within three years, action against sher-
iff, coroner or constable, on liability in
Cured in official capacity, or to recover
damages for DEATH"
The discovery was made by l.. Parker
Veazey of Great Falls and A. ]. Shores
who today called the attention Of the
governor 10 IL. IL is Wudl W IA
be done about it,
1t is reported that a similar blunder
has been made in regard to the bill ap-
propriating $500 for an extra edition Of
the report of the bureau of agriculture,
present be verified.
The supreme court this morning heard
the argument on the appeal in the case
of Emil Freeman VS.. Sand COulee Coal
Company. Freeman sued for $4,000
damages for injuries due to fall from
a roof on December g. 1895 in the Sand
Colllee mine. The verdict went against
him and a new trial was denied in the
district court Of Cascade county. He
claims the lower court erred in instruct
ing the jury as to evidence of negligence.
The American Kootenai Mining and
Milling Company filed it's annual state
ment Showing capital of $1,000, 600 in one
dollar shares. all paid in property con-
sistng of nine claims and millslte in
Fisher district The assets are quartz
mil, sawmill and camp buildings worth
$4,000, cash on hand $1,2S3 and 100000
shares of treasury stock.
The arrest of Frank Monroe for steal
ing a registered mail sack was due to
his own imprudence and the following
up of slight clue by Arthur j. Craven,
lawyer Craven and friend met
Monroe in a saloon one day, when Mon
roe offered a mounted elk tooth to any
one who would pay for the drinks.
Cravens friend accepted the offer and
gave the tooth to Craven. 1t was found
by Craven that the inscription had been
filed off the tooth, and his suspicious
being aroused, he hunted up the jew
eler who had mounted it, who told him
1t had been done for woman who
was going to send it as a Christmas
gift to a friend in Iowa. The postoffice
inspectors had learned that this wom-
an had sent the tooth in a registered
letter the day the mail sack was stolen,
for they had collected a list of all arti-
cles in the registered letters that day.
Then they took care to arrest Monroe
at a time when he could not make
away with anything. and found on him
a hair chain and two rings which had
also been in the stolen sack.