The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-11

day return was made by the sheriff
Office that the amount had been paid
and the claim settled in full and the
property attached released.
A.yC. Logan and family have pitched
camp a short distance from the pump
ing station and intend to spend a (.
short. time under canvas.
This mornings Butte papers pub
Slish the fact OF the recapture OF
James Martin, one of the murderers
that escaped from Jail there last
Sunday. He was discovered in the
cabin of a woodchopper in Hail Co
lumbia gulch, IA miles north of Butte,
and was eating breakfast when the
officers found him.
j. Il. Gotto, tor the last two years
manager OF the Western Union office,
has been promoted to the management
CI the oompany's ffices at Marquette,
Mich. The offer OF the new position
was made condltionally, as it was no
known whether it would be accepted,
but Mi. Gotto considered it too good
to refuse and expects to leave shortly
Tor his new field.
If the truth were known it is prob
able that the explosives used in the
attempts to wreck the Northern Pa
cific bridge at Livingston and sub
s%equeasly the freight train near Boze-
man were stolen from one of the local
stores. Yesterday it became public
that during the night of July 81 the
was broken into and a box of giant
powder taken. Two days afterward
&Texplosion at the bridge occurred.
VLast evening a telephone message
was received from Laurel stating
that a string of empty Northern Pa
cifc freight cars, % in number, were
destroyed by fire there during the
afternoon. The fire started in one
of the cars and because of the utter
absence of any appliances with which
to fight it, it spread rapidly and only
ceased for want of material. A high
wind was blowing at the time. 1t is
Supposed that sparks from a passing
locomotive caused the blaze.
" The county commissioners are con
sidering the advisability of buying
land for a poor farm, They desire to
Xobtain prices on a tract of not les!
than 40 nor more than 80 acres. The
number of persons who are applying
for relief is gradually growing lar
ger as the county becomes nor
thickly settled and in the opinion o
the board the time has arrived whe1
} it is proper to begin consideration
of the matter of establishing a place
} where the unfortunates may be caret
for.
w. H. Rasppery of Carbon count
! was in the CITY Monday, yesterday
en- route home from a visit to Idaho
where he went with the idea of seet
ing a new location, and returns full
t satisfied that he cannot better hin
$ self by going to any OF the. farmin
t sections he visited. my farm IL
Carbon county is good enough for me-,
said Mr.. RASPBERRY, 'and l wouldn'
r trade it or a quarter section on tn
Yellowstone for five square mile
t of any land | saw in the famous Pay
cite valley or the horse heaven sec
e tion of Washington.
Richard Cummins of Glendive, a
n present employed by George Settle
of this city, has been appointed cade
to West Point, to fill the vacanc
S from this state that occurs next jun
n The appointment was made by Coz
e gresham Dixon and the appointee
father, r. r. Cummins, has been not
fed by the war department Of its a.
: ceptance. The young man has alread
passed the required examination b.
fore a board and unless he meets wit
accident to impair his physical col
dition will be enrolled next June. M
Cummins may be said to com fro,
l. fighting stock, as his father made a
+e excellent record as a soldier duril
5. the civil war.
" Search is making for a forger WI
$ succeeded in securing $45 from E.
Lightfoot, a Laurel saloon man, la
u Saturday. The man presented
le check for that amount, purporting
q have been issued by A. L. Thoma
'e Not long after he had advanced tt
a money Lightfoot became suspicio,
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