Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-25

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The jewelry store of J. P. Miskinen
Of Glendive was burglarized Thursday
night and property to the value Of
about $4OO stolen.
The business of the Northern Pa
cific shops at Livingston has increased
to such an extent that the management
has found it necessary to put on a
night shift.
Chief of Police Stone of Dillon shot
and instantly killed a hobo named
Dan McCloskey. The chief attempted
to arrest gang of six tramps, when
McCloskey opened fire on the officer.
The chief killed the tramp at the first
shot.
A Miles City dispatch says that Ed.
Marsh, Joe Messersmith, Pete Knut-
son and Louis Smith are held in custo-
dy for Sheriff Webb of Casper, Wyo.,
who believes they are gang of horse
thieves of whom he has been in search
for some time.
From Helena comes the report that
the people of that place have succeeded
in raising the money required to buy
the old fair grounds and will deed them
to the state, thus insuring establish
ment there of the state fair, provision
for which was made at the last session
of the legislature.
Senator w. A. Clark left Butte
Thursday for Salt Lake to attend the
session of the National Irrigation con-
gress. From there he will proceed to
New York. Senator Clark expects to
take trip abroad returning the latter
part of the summer.
The immense smoke stack which the
Anaconda company is building at its
smelter in Anaconda will be without
doubt the greatest structure of it's kind
in the world. The man part of the
flue is 60 feet wide inside, and the
walls four feet thick. 1t is more
than 5, 200 feet in length and 15,OOO,-
pleted. ~
William Hardee, sentenced to be
hanged at Glasgow, June %, for the
murder of Charles Snearly near Gull
bertson in September, 1901, and who
escaped from the Glasgow Jail OH June
g, was killed by the posse that has
been on his trail ten days at a point
about rs miles southeast of Glasgow
Charles r. Hill, one of the posse, was
killed by Hardee.
Ed. Gum, Custer county sheep
herder, was bitten on the finger by
rattlesnake while clambering down
bank, supporting himself by grasping
the brush. Gum rode in to Miles City,
D miles distant, and physician met
him on the road. BY liberal internal
applications of the traditional cure for
snake bite eGunn had already destroyed |
the poison of the bite.
J. W. Pace, secretary of the Mon
tana Registered Cattle Breeders asso-
citation, has sent out notices calling
attention to the fact that the organiza-
ton will hold "a sale in the fall. The |
members Of the association will decide |
the time of the meeting by ballot
through the mails. It is understood |
that the sale will be held in Helena
Immediately after the state fair.
George S. Gordon of Avon reports a
remarkable increase in his Angora
goat herd this year. From 1O1 ewes he |
has raised 145 kids this season. Mr..
Gordon's ranch is about four miles |
from Avon and is remarkably we'll |
adopted to goat raising. He has been !
in the goat business about two years
and states that he has already more
than received the money he invested.
Ben D. Mjelde, district clerk at Big
Timber, who was charged with misap-
propriating funds which he had re-