Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-27
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

arrested eight Cinnamon in Kalispe1t
last week, the claim having been made
that they had been smuggled across
| the line from Canada.
Judge William Clancy, who was ac-
cused of criminal libel, has been dis
charged by Justice O'Connor who
found that the evidence adduced was
not sufficient to hold the judge.
A Great Falls hunter, while hunting
alo ,g the Missouri river recently killed
a.Canadian black duck. 1t was larger
than mallard and perfectly black,
with yellow feet, and its kind is rarely
seen in Montana.
A recent decision of the supreme
court of the United States says that
any stream in which log may be
t1oated is a navigable stream, within
the meaning Of the law, and cannot be
obstructed by a dam or boom unless
au; ;horized by government consent.
Patrick Noonan, who was arrested
in Helena a few months ago and taken
|
der, was convicted of manslaughter
last week and sentenced to one year in
prison. The crime was committed in
October, 1874.
The largest haul in the history of the
state in the way of capturing Chinese
illegally entering the country has been
| 1n hu h, Oa, ;,1.
the arrest of eight celestials at Kals-
pell. 1t is alleged that hey were all
smuggled across the International
boundary line and turned loose upon
the streets of Kalispell.
The Farmers union, organized Il
short time ago in Missoula county, has
established headquarters in Missoua,
and at d meeting recently in that city
adopted scale of pric S, the principal
of which are as follows: Apples, first
class, 81. 10 to ST.. IS per box; potatoes,
75c per cwt.; onions, 81; cabbage, 81;
other vegetables, Csc to ST.; timothy
hay, $13 a ton, balcd; oats and wheat,
S1.25 per cwt.
State Game Warden w. F. Scott is
of the opinion that he will obtain some
relief from the national government in
the m liter of regulating hunting by
Indians in various parts of the state.
He said recently that owing to existing
treaties with regard to certain rights
of the Indians to hunt out of season,
the state laws are powerless to deal
with their questionable methods of
hunting game.
Residents of the Deer Lodge valley
who have suffered from the loss of stock
because of what is claimed to be arsen-
ical poisoning from the big Washoe
smelter of the Anaconda Copper COM
pany, have engaged the services of DR..
Charles Gresswell, of Denver, one of
the most eminent veterinary surgeons
in the northwest to the end that he
may make an exhaustive examination
of the conditions existing in the valley
and determine. if possible, beyond any
doubt the cause of the trouble.
NONCluOl OOlC Ids ICCciVcu dH III
vitation from Charles +. Martin, sec
retary of the National Live Stock as
sociation, to make an address at the
annual meeting of the association to be
held at Kansas City next January on
the effect of the railroad merger on
the stockgrowing industry. The gov
ernor replied that he was obliged to
decline the invitation, owing to the
fact that the Legislature would then be
in session, and it would be necessary
for him to be in Helena. Governor
Toole is interested in the subject and
if he could have accepted the invitation
would have done SO.
Butte is in the midst of "A season Of
thick sulphur smoke, and everybody is
coughing, sneezing and swearing. The
other night the smoke was SO thick
that the street cars bored holes into il
and through these holes the people
walked and enjoyed measure of re-
lief, for it was some time after the cars
passed before the walls of smoke came
together again. Lights on the orpo-
site sides of the streets could not he
distinguished and the town was IN
heavy cloud. There was no smoke +,
WaikerVille, and one standing on top
OF the hill saw strange sight below.
1t looked like a deep blue sea. Stree,