Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-03-20
MONTANA EVENTS.

Samuel Ashbaugh, one of the pio-
neers OF Montana, is dead.
At Glasgow, Jonn b. Hayfield was
acquitted OF killing william Palmer.
rhis was Hayfields second trial. Tne
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
a charge of conducting gambling
house.
George MacCauley, once famous
jockey, but who of late has lived IN
the slums at Butte, and who has been
kept alive by 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
Of earthquake were felt at Townsend,
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, lumberman en-
ployed by the Big Bfackfoot Milling
company, committed suicide in Mis-
soula five weeks ago and the body was
found recently in noisome and I'M
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 whisky jug over the
others head, fracturing the skull. Hart
will probably die. The trouble arose
over pillow and took place at Ryan's
house.
Railway officials in Butte have been
hOSAhOo Va bhO Poooo6O VI oIdSO 0OAoIC
bill No. 20, 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.
II. :
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 a beam breaking
anu 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
plow, killing one man, a bridge car
penter. The snow slid over 200 fee
and blockaded the track completely.
Still another wreck, caused by s
landslide. is reported on the Jenning.
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 IL
said to be assured.
The Portland police are looking fol
Frank Mcguire, an ex-convict, wht
they believe set fire to Victoria docl
yesterday.
Mrs. Joseph Reese of Prairie Cit,
committed suicide recently by jumping
from bridge into the John Day rivel
at point about two and half miles
from Prairie City. Her mind was at
fected.