Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-01-16
News in Brief.

Judge Mcpherson, at Bozeman, fined
Alex Weymss 500 for wrongly filling a
prescription.
"A special from Kalirpell says Section
Foreman Sullivan, while in a drunken
rage, killed his daughter and seriously
injured his wife, at Jennings, Mont
A jury in Justice Houtchens' court at
Missoula, fixed the punishment of Will.
lam Harvey at a fine of $40. He was
found guilty of stealing $45 from H. w.
Herbert, the colored wood hauler.
Marshal King, manager, and also in.
terested in the w. D. Ellis ranch, died
at Big Timber, after an illness of three
days. He was fifty-seven years old,
and had resided here sixteen years.
by the breaking of the ice above
Black Eagle dam, near Great Falls,
several persons engaged in ice boating
were thrown into the wafer, and one of
the party narrowly escaped drowning.
The report of City Trea ;urer Robert'
of Great Falls for December, shows a
balance in the treasury of $6S, $3.50.
The receipts for the month We're $24,
T74.37 and the disbursements $44 %
Postmaster l.. F. Babcock of Billings
has received all the blanks and equip
ments for the free rural mail delivery.
and the service will be inaugurated
Feb. 1, instead of April I, as was ex-
pected.
l.. X. Devlin, Robert T. F. Smith and
J. A. Wright have filed plat for a new
townsite at Havre. 1t will be called
East Havre. The new townsite is stu
ated near the roundhouse, and contains
ten blocks.
Floyd Closer, a we'll known lumber
man, slipped and fell under the wheels
of trolley car which he was trying to
board at Butte. His left arm was bad
ly crushed, and amputation was found
necessary.
The name given to the new town or.
Flint creek, near Stone station, Is Hen
derson. Henderson is the place where
the Mcclure mines are starting up.
They promise to give work to a large
number of men. All mail should be ad
dressed to Stone, Mont, to reach Hen
derson.
A man giving the name of George
Allen, aged forty-five years, is pris-
oner in the county Jail at Missoula. He
was brought there from Thompson on
the morning train having been held to
the QIStIlCl COuIl ny Justify w AlSOIt VA
the charge of forgery. No particulars
could be learned about the trouble AL
EN- refusing to say a word.
Several accidents are reported to have
happened on the river at Missoula dur
ing the last two days. Some of the boys
had narrow escapes from losing their
lives. They were skating, and, in some
manner slipped off into the river. AS
sistance being near, they were pulled
out before they were carried under the
ice.
A brakeman named Gilbert was the
victim of a painful accident on the
Montana division of the Northern Pa
cific. He was ri ling on the top of the
top of the cars when he vas thrown off.
Being new maa On the road, he was
unable to tell al W hat Joint he fell from
the cars, but believes it was at a point
short distance ION Greycilffe.
There was a fight in the Montana
beer hall, in MissOula, between several
soldiers. Just what caused the fight is
not known, but it is said that a hat was
given to one of the men to keep for a
while and when the owner found it in
his possession he proceeded to thump
the man who had it. The fight became
general and before it was finished six
OF eight soldiers We're engaged. One
man was badly hurt.
The report of the state land Office for
the month of December is as follows:
Permanent school fund, $4.582.65: school
income, S9,055; permanent university,
$210; university bond, $50450; state
capitol interest and sinking. $5,9O1 so;
school of mines. $74S: normal school.
$53.75; reform school, $50; deaf and
dumb asylum. $427; total. 1858. 40.
The receipts for December, 1900, We're
81 500 81