Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-05
State News.

railroad and warehouse commission
bill.
X. Rasmussen, sheepherder, was
found in Sixth street lodging house
at Miles City Thursday night with his
throat cut from ear to ear. "A coroner's
jury returned a verdict of suicide.
James Cusick, who shot and killed
Tom Baggs in Butte last June, was
Monday acquitted by jury in Judge
McClernan's court, on the ground of
insanity. Cusick will be examined bv
a commission and probably sent to the
asylum at Warm Springs.
The Kimberly Montana Gold Mining
company, which is to succeed the Bear
Gulch Mining company and the Gold
King Mining company, operating in
Park county, has been authorized to do
business in this state. 1t has a capi-
tai stock of S3,OOO,O 900.
For joke Representative Brownlee
and Miss Clara Kolb, of Great Falls,
were married in e of committee
rooms at the capitol F, iday by Repre-
sentative Everett. 1t has developed
that Everett is justice of the peace,
and what the real situation is, is prob
lematical. The house adopted con-
gratulatory resolutions, and Brownlee
said he hoped the ceremony was
straight.
Governor Toole has signed the dis
barment bill, which gives the right OF
appeal to the supreme court and in the
event of appeal permits the case to be
tried de novo. In the future the su-
preme court, which alone may admit a
lawyer to practice, will have super
vision over his disbarment. Although
an exception is made in present pro-
ceedings, the right is secured persons
involved in pending cases to have their
supreme court.
State Treasurer A. III. Barret's re-
port on the condition Of the various
funds in his keeping at the close of the
month of February shows that there is
a total of S6o62, 172.11 on hand. In the
school income fund there is S179, 900,
while in the permanent school fund
there is $4,000. The state bounty
fund has $4,000, while in the medical
board fund there is balance of only
S1.78. The receipts at the treasurer's
office during the month were $54, 9S5. O4,
while there was paid out "a total of
$50, S94.75.
After one of the most interesting
trials in the history of eastern Mon
tana, Will Countryman, Jess Lindsay
and Pat Murray have been convicted
of the robbery of the Stockgrowers'
Bank of Bridger. The jury brought in
this verdict at Red Lodge at o'clock
Friday afternoon after having been out
nearly "a hours. 1t fixed Country
mans term of Imprisonment at one year
in the penitentiary, and that of the
other two at eight years each. Coun-
tryman's youth and prepossessipg ap-
pearance have apparently stood him in
good stead.
Reports from Washington indicate
that change has been made in the
plans for the presidents western trip,
and it is now probable that he will
take two long trips during the spring
and early summer instead of one as
was at first announced. He wishes to
leave Washington as soon as possible
after the adjournment of congress, as
he feels the need of rest and recreation.
He will probably come to Montana
about the Goth of this month, and after
a short sojourn here in hunting big
game he will so through the Yellow
stone National park.
Twenty years in the penitentiary is
the punishment Judge McClernan Sat
urday meted out to George Cole, who
pleaded guilty to the charge of robbing
A. f. Devoe, the Northern Pacific Ex-
press company messenger, of $3.75
during the recent hold-up near that
city. While the plea was not wholly
unexpected, it was generally believed
that Cole would take more time in
which to decide whether or not to make
a clean breast of the affair and take
his chances of being leniently dealt
with by the court, or stand trial. With
out an attorney to advise him or ap-
parently any of his friends near at
hand to consult in the matter. Cole
faced the court and announced that he
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