Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
GOT THEIR MEN
TWO HORSE THIEVES LANDED
AFTER HARD CHASE.
CAPTURED AT MEETEETSE, WY0
Prospective Bridge for Billings-B1ll-
ings Takes Its Turn With
Smallpox.
Billings, Mont, Dec. 81, 1900


Van Tassel returned to Billings Thurs
day afternoon. having in charge the
thieves who stole the two horses ana
saddles from Gilsdorf Bros. barn. week
ago, and whom the officers captured a'
Meeteatse Wyo., last Monday. Ihe trlp |
after the thieves was nara one' oue
the persistence of the offers was re- |
warded The officers started from Bis
lngs nearly a days time behlnu u"e
thieves and had to combat with several
difficulties besides. A raging snow
storm on Saturday interfered greatly
and one day the trail was lost, COM
pelling them to go about 70 miles far-
Their The officers arrived in Meeteetse
last Sunday night and on inquiring the
following morning We're convinced that
they had arrived before the thieves. AT
about noon Monday Deputy SherlH
Sayles was standing on the street with
HIS eyes fixed on the bridge across tine
Grey Bull river, a short distance away,
when he espied the thieves coming TO-
ward town. They rode on into town and
went to a blacksmith shop, where they
were arrested by Deputy Sayles. The
men offered no resistance, ana in view
of the fact that the horses were the
the thieves The return trip to Billings
was begun Tuesday morning and reach
ing here Thursday afternoon. The names
of the men arrested are Mart Thompson
and Jim Clifford Thompson had been
working for Gilsdorf Bros. UP to the
time of the robbery. He came here
few months ago from Fergus county and
the sheriff believes he is the same per-
son wanted there by Sheriff Shaw for
the theft of horse from a Mr. Lewis.
THOMPSON is well known around here,
being one of the heirs of the Pagan es-
tate, and the reputation he bears is not
one Of the best. They We're arraigned
before Justice Kelly Saturday on a
charge of grand larceny and waving pre-
ligninary hearing were bound over to
await the action of the district court,
which meets in January.
M. B. Rademaker is very low at his
home, with pneumonia, and but little
| hopes are entertained for his recovery. .
]. H. Bernier has sold his dye works
| to H. C. Clark and S. w johnson and
| possession is already given. Mr. Clark
| has been engaged with Mr.. Bernier for
several months past. Mr.. Berner in
| tends to locate at Victor, Colorado and
| will leave Billings in about ten days.
| Mrs. Bernier will go to Toronto, On
| tario, about THE same TIM for visit
to her parents, and will ZEN join her
husband in Colorado.
| Mike Flanagan, one of the valley
| farmers living two miles west OF Billings.
reports that ON Wednesday he finished
| i,, y,-;N1
| probably sound rather strange to the
| eastern farmer but it only goes to show
| that Montana is equal to most any cli-
matte conditions. The weather which
has prevailed here so far this winter.
| with the exception of one cold wave in
November. can not be equaed any
| where.
Cody, wyo., is soon to have bank
institution, the application of Col w. F.
Cody, Hubert II. Hake, c. F. Hayden.
j. w. Chapman and Benjamin F. Hake
to organize the First National bank OF
Cody. Wyo., with $25, 900 capital having
been approved by the government.
An operation to remove the left eye OF
Harry Mann, the eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs F. l.. Mann, was performed Thurs
day forenoon by Doctors ]. II. Rinehart
and Carl Schulin in a successful man.
ner and the patient is now getting along
nicely and there S little probability that
the other eye was injured in the least
by the defective optic. Harry was acct
dentally shot in the eye several months
ago by a ibuckshot from an air rifle ir
I the hands of a playmate. For a timt
afterwards it was thought the eye wOuli
eventually be all right, but it was only
short time until he was totally blint
in that eye with no hope OF recovering
his sight. An examination about II
days ago resulted in an operation being
| decided upon in order to prevent thu
other eye from becoming diseased.
Mayor Yegen has received word from
the Northern Pacific railroad compan,
that it VIII sell its old bridge, which ha!
been replaced by new one at Town
send Mont, and which has been figures
on for a wagon bridge across the Vel
lowstone river just east Of Billings. Tn
. railroad company asks two and one-aaal
cents pound for the iron work and will
donate the lumber which was used Il
the bridge. Arrangements are now be