Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-06

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Frank Gibney. an old-time resident
Of MissOula. is dead
A movement is on foot at Missoula
looking to the organization of a state
| agricultural society.
State Senator w. A. Clark of Madison
county and Susan Bun Houghton were
united in marriage in Pony recently.
Farmers in the vicinity of Kalispen
will build a flour mill. A meeting has
been held there with this object in
! view.
The horticultural society will meet in
Missoula Feb. IS. The session will last
four days, and visitors are expected
from all parts Of the state.
| Opposition to the practice of dumping
screenings into the Yellowstone river is
developing at Livingston. Coal compa-
| MES al Hart are responsible for the bad
| condition of the water
| Mrs. Lillian Thalmueller has brought
suit against Herman Thalmueller for
divorce at Butte. She alleges that her
husband has not supported her for over
year. She also asks for the restora-
ton of her maiden name.
G. A. Bennett, indicted twelve years
ago for cattle stealing, and recently ar
rested in New Mexico, has been brought
back to MissoIla. He is a brother Of
Nelson Bennett, and was formerly en-
gagged in the mercantile business there.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
the city Of Dillon $500 for a public IL
brary if the city will furnish the neces-
cary site and make an annual appropri-
alton for the maintenance Of the insti-
tuition. The matter will come up at the
next meeting Of the city council.
A stranger, giving the name OF John
Higgins, is in the county Jail at Missou-
la. One night recently he entered a
Chinese store on West Front street and
drove everone out Of the store. The
Chinaman notified Officer Wilson, who
arrested the man and locked him up.
Higgins was considerably under the in
fuence of liquor.
The Helena Water company has filed
a bond for $4,000 to make good re-
straning order issued by Judge Knowles
against the city, commanding it not to
operate q water plant in opposition to
the water company. The city attorney
says that the city will appeal at once
from Judge Knowles to the court of APP
peals at San Francisco.
At a. rec ut meeting of the city coun.
Gil Of Great Falls a successor to Aid.
Mattson was to be elected, and con-
test for the place developed. Mattson.
who resigned on account of charge of
embezzling bank funds, is Republi-
can, but the council, which has the
power to select his successor, is COM
posed of three Republicans and four
Democrats.
The case of Edward Stauter, who bur.
glarized the barber shop Of James
Smith, is an illustration of, not the
laws delay, but it's ability to be speedy |
at times. He was arrested the next |
morning. and, four hours later, pleaded |
guilty to an information filed against |
him and was sentenced to one year in |
the penitentiary. He secured but S. |
from the barber shop. /,
Thomas Ridout, section foreman at |
Pasco Wash, on the Northern Pacific. |
was brought to the hospital at Missoula
for treatment. On the 21st of Decem
Der Ridout was in the act of repairing
switch in the Pasco yards, when an en-
CINE was backed on to him. The wheels
ran over an ankle and the foot had to
be amputated. DR.. Essig of Spokane
performed the operation.
Ralph A. Lewis and Saul j. Ornstein
TWO of the leading cattlemen and butch
crs of Butte, have left for Argentina
where they intend to embark in the cat
tle-raising business if the conditions
there warrant the investment now con-
TEN plated. If these gentlemen conclude
that is the best country in which to do
business, they may induce other men in
Rnttp tO iOin them in the pnfarnriSp
Edward Beauore, who is seven feet
eight and a half inches tall and weighs
267 pounds. is at Great Falls, awaiting
an engagement with museum or cir
Gus. He is one of the biggest men in
the country. He is only twenty-one
years old, and was over six feet tall al
the age of twelve. He was formerly a
cowboy, and it was his pastime to
sta nd over 9O0-pound horse and lift it
Fl ON the ground.
In reply to an inquiry from State Vet
M. E. Knowles, Attorney Gen
aral Donovan has given an opinion of
great interest to all sheepmen. The re-
luest for the opinion was the result of
the refusal of a sheep owner to obey an
order given him by deputy state vel
erir arian for him to dip sheep that had
ocen exposed to scab The state veter-
marian desired to know if the owner
e uld be compelled to obey the order to
lip the animals. Attorney General DON
wan, in an extended opinion, says he
AN be compelled to dip the animals
hat have been exposed, and if he refus-
IS to do SO, it is the duty of the inspect
u to do SO at the expense of the owner
Pretty Close to PerpetuaI Motion.