Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-07-18
MONTANA ITEMS

Il. Sawtell has been appointed post
master at Sylvanite, vice ]. T. Craw
ford, resigned.
A great Increase in the quantity o.
wool marketed in Eastern Montana
Will be shown by the sales this year
George Rowan, Northwestern man
ager OF the California Packing com
Fpany, was killed in runaway at Mis-
soula recently.
The capacity of the Greenfield Shirt
and Overall factory at Helena is to be
doubled at once by the installation OF
new machinery and an addition to the
building.
George Cannon, who was killed in a
mine accident at Franklin, Wash. was
well known in Park county, having
worked in the Aldridge and Caroline
mines for several years.
T. @. Benbow of Carbon county. af.
ter working at Washington, D. c.. in
secret for a month constructing a diri.
gible airship, upon which patents have
been issued, has left for Frankfort. N.
T., to give the machine the first pub
lie trial.
The mining camp of Spotted Horse
in Ferguson county was visited by a
fire last week and practically wiped out
the mining plant and other buildings.
The fire is believed to have been of in
cendiary origin. There was no insur-
ance. The plant will be rebuilt.
Recently Willard j. Hawkins of
Rocker, years and 4 months old. was
playing in the kitchen and tipped over
a pot of boiling water. The child was
badly scalded. 1t was thought at first
that his life would be saved, but the
little one died later in great agony.
In an explosion of matte In the con-
verter building of the Washoe smelt-
ing works at Anaconda recently George
Persic was instantly killed and John
Galich probably fatally injured. George
Goodwin and John Nadeau were both
badly burned and cut by flying par
ticles of molten matter
Last month was record-breaker in
the bounty claim business of the state,
and 1t is apparent that If the present
rate of killing coyotes and wolves is
kept up for many months the supply
must be exhausted except in other
states where the bounty is not as at
tractive as it is in Montana.
At Butte the jury in the famous
Colbert will case returned a verdict
awarding the wealth of Charles Col
bert to the state, finding the Wool
beater will to be forgery. The COM
monwealth claimed the estate on the
ground that Colbert died without any
known heirs and without making
will. The estate is valued at $780,
900.
/ AT Butte James Martin was found
guilty in the first degree of the murder
of Fireman John R. William at Silver
Bow junction May 10 last. Williams
was killed while attempting to escape
two holdups. Charles Lennox, his ac-
complete, who confessed the crime,
charging the killing to Martin, is next
to be tried for the crime.
Richard Morrison, somnambulist,
died at Butte from the effects of an ac-
cident sustained ON the Fourth of
July. Morrison had been assigned to
an upper room in a hotel and was seen
to open his window and walk out upon
the second story. Before any warning
could be given him he walked to the
edge Of the roof and stepped off.
The free scholarship for woman in
the National College of Law in Nash
vile, Tenn, has been offered by State
Superintendent w. w. Welch to Miss
Pearl M. Kennedy of Choteau. It is
good for three years. Miss Kennedy
is teacher in the Choteau school and
has distinguished herself by contribut-
ing some poems which bear marks of
genius to the Rocky Mountain Maya
zine and other publications.