Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-03
Matters Worth Reading Which Have
Recently Happened, Compiled in a
Condensed Form.
DOINGS OF THE MONTANA PEOPLE

Politics lead two men of Ravalli
county to come together IN a fistic en-
counter.
The hotel at Granite Hot springs
was totally destroyed by ire Monday
morning.
The fair at Bozeman opened up
Tuesday with an attendance of over
1000 people.
| A section foreman on the N. p. at
Missoula was rund down by train
and fatally injured Monday.
Recent figures compiled by J. J.
Ryan, clerk of the state board of
equalization, fixes the number of sheep
in the state at 4,S1S,13s.
Pat Kelley was given Jail sentence
of thirty days at Billings by Justice
Mann on a charge of stealing a hat
from the store of T. F. Holly.
An immense deposit of what is
claimed by an expert in marble to be a
hne grade OF statuary marble has
been discovered in the Deer creek coun-
try, only few miles from Big Timber.
The Precious Metals company of
Helena have secured all the available
land up and down the Clark Fork at
Cooke City for smelter and townsite
They have also secured water rights.
Lonesome Joe, a noted character
| OF southern Montana and northern
Wyoming, who escaped from the Car
bon county officers !. week or two ago,
was captured last week at Red Lodge.
There is an epidemic of typhoid fever
in Billings. One physician reported
seven cases last Thursday, all of which
had developed in the past three davs
and other physicians are treating
many cases, there being no less than
fifteen all told.
c. H. Mott, proprietor of the steam
laundry at Miles City which was par
TALLY burned recently, was al
lowed $3.50 for damage to machinery
and $500 for loss on building. The
building was insured for $500 and the
machinery for 81, 500.
a negro piano player at Dillon runs
away with colored girl II years old;
they are married at Virginia City and
shortly after lodged in Jail to ans
wer to the charge of cruelty to animals
having driven livery team so hard
that the horses both died.
Billings Christian Scientists have
established church organization, the
articles of Incorporation having been
filed with Secretary OF State George
M. Hays yesterday. The articles
state that the purpose of the associa-
tion is to propagate the teachings of
the Bible and Science and Health,
with Key to the Scriptures, by Rev.
Mary Baker G. Eddy, and tomantan
public service of said church, and to
own and hold such real estate in the
city of Billings as may be necessary
for said objects. -
Walter Jackson, charged with the
murder of Fonnie Buck, had his ar
raignment before Judge f. c. Webster
in Hamilton last week and his case
was set for trial Tuesday, Sept. 8.
When the prisoner was taken into the
court room by Sheriff Pond and two
deputies he appeared nervous. When
asked what plea he would enter he
said mot guilty. in a faltering way.
Judge Webster appointed r. A.
O'Hara, member of the Ravalli coun-
ty bar, to defend Jackson.
The land office at Miles City has
received telegraphic instructions to
withhold from disposal by entry, forty
seven townships on the north side of
the Yellowstone river from a point
opposite Terry, northeastward to the
Missouri river, a distance of about 100
miles. The townships so reserved fol-
low the course of the Yellowstone river.
This is undoubtedly in anticipation of
the long-talked-of irrigating ditch,
the preliminary survey of which was
made by Colonel Scheetz several years
ago.