The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-03-20
MONTANA EVENTS.

Samuel Ashbaugh, one of the piO-
neers OF Montana, is dead
AL Glasgow, John d. bayfield, was
acquitted OF killing William Palmer.
rms was Haytield's second trial. Inc
jury disagreed at the former trial.
nayfield is only 16 years old.
Chief of Police Thomas Travis OF
Helena invaded the Montana club Sun
day afternoon and placed Henry l..
Meyer the steward, under arrest on
charge of conducting a gambling
house.
George MacCauley, once a famous
Jockey, but who of late has lived In
The slums at Butte, and who has been
kept alive by a fund raised by the
sporting editor of the Inter Mountain,
died recently.
The Great Falls land office received
orders to withdraw from entry all
lands which the government proposes
to use as a reservoir for what will
probably be the first work by the gov
eminent under the new irrigation law
About noon Sunday distinct shocks
Winston, White Sulphur Springs and
other points in the Missouri valley
Many people ran out of their homes In
alarm. No damage was done. Two
shocks were felt in Helena, both
severe enough to shake buildings.
Joseph Cassidy, a lumberman en-
ployed by the Big BIackfoot Milling
company, committed suicide in Mis-
soula five weeks ago and the body was
found recently in a noisome and un-
used cellar beneath the Headquarters
saloon. A jagged throat wound and
dull pocket knife at hand told how the
deed was committed.
During a quarrel between Bryant
Hart and James Ryan, brothers in law
and neighboring ranchers, near Bill
ings Sunday night, Hart was badly cut
by knife in the hands of Ryan, who
also smashed a whisky jug over the
others head, fracturing the skull. Hart
will probably die. The trouble arose
over a pillow and took place at Ryan's
house.
Railway officials in Butte have beea
notified of the passage of state senate
bill No. 70, introduced in the last legis-
lature by Senator Hopkins. The law
is in effect Immediately and provides
that all railroads must correctly re-
port delayed passenger trains to the
travelling public by posting notices in
conspicuous places in the stations and
notify telephone exchanges.
Several wrecks occurred on the
Great Northern last week. One was
at Lake View, west of kalispell, where
A. L. Solberg was badly injured, hav-
ing his head BADLY crushed and three
ribs broken. 1t was a freight wreck
and was caused by beam breaking
am striking the frog of the switch,
which derailed the cars and several
were badly smashed.
Another wreck reported was the
west-bound passenger just east Of Els
SEX when it ran into the rotary snow
pillow, killing one man, a bridge car
penter. The snow slid over 200 feet
and blockaded the track completely.
Still another wreck, caused by Il
landslide, is reported on the Jennings
branch. in which it is said the whole
train left the track.
Another freight was reported wreck.
ed in the mountains east of Kalispell
A jackrabbit cannery for Echo is
said to be assured.
The Portland police are looking for
Frank Mcguire, an ex-convict, who
they believe set fire to Victoria dock
yesterday.
Mrs. Joseph Reese of Prairie City
committed suicide recently by jumping
from bridge into the John Day river
at point about two and half miles
from Prairie City. Her mind was af
| fected.