Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-29

'He gang, a1ter the robbery of the Stock
Growers bank of Bridger, to assemble
twenty men in western Carbon county
and make raid on Red Lodpe. with
the loot OF the three banks as the prize
in store. This conspiracy was inter-
rupted, it is claimed, by the fact that
the suspected robbers were trailed in
the snow to Rainey McDonald's cabin
IN Rosebud county, where four of them
were arrested by Sheriff Potter's
posse.
Ihe jury venire in Judge McClern-
an S court in Butte is being drawn TO-.
day. The jury when drawn will he
called upon to try two important muir
der cases, that of J. w. Kelley and
Ruth LaBonta, charged with the mur-
der OF Doctor Galley in that city several
months ago. Kelley is well-known in
newspaper circles throughout the state
and Immediately prior to the killing
was city editor of the Inter Mountain.
The LaBonta woman also resided there
for a time and prior to going to Butte
lived in Carbon county. When their
cases come UP for trial they will at
tract an unusual amount of interest.
The Canadian French society of Butte.
OF which Doctor Galley was a prominent
member, will do everything in its
power to secure a conviction of kelley
and the LaBonta woman.
An amusing incident occurred at the
state prison one day last week. Will
liam Mckinley, who had just finished
a l2-year sentence, and who was sent
up for robbery from Silver Bow county
in 1895, was to have been released, and
Tor that purpose he was taken to the
prison Office outside the walls, where
he breathed free air for the first time
in more than seven years. Some pre-
liminary matters were being arranged
when Herbert Mattison, the Great
Falls defaulter, who works in the
othce, missed his gold trimmed glasses.
The guard in attendance at once sus-
rected Mckinley as the purlo,ner and
began search, which resulted in find
ing them in McKinley's pocket. In
stead of being released he was taken
back inside and locked up. 1t has not
been determined yet just what will be
done, but no doubt Mckinley will have
to serve out several days of the good
n hn <<>L
him.
Capt. James O. Ward, of the North
west Mounted Police with beadouar-
ters at Calgary, announces that the
Canadian government will not take
back the Cree Indians from Montana
and Washington unless the government
Of the United States is willing to bear
the entire expense of the deportation.
Ward says that the United States gov.
ernment has allowed the Crees to re-
main on this side of the line so long
attempting deportation that
Canada will certainly decline to defray
The expenses of another removal, though
heir reservation on the Saskatchewan
river still awaits them, just as they
eft it. The Crees want the Canadian
government to support them and be-
cause it will not they prefer to roam
about In the more thickly settled dis
rict across the boundary and take life
Easy. Negotiations for deportation are
1ow pending, Ward says, between
Washington and Ottawa.
Joseph X. Clark, brother of United
States Senator w. A. Clark, died Sun
lay at the home of his sister, Mrs. G.
:. Miller, in Los Angeles, Cal. Mr..
lark accompanied by his family. went
Los Angeles last Thursday to attend
family reunion in honor of the eighty
llnth anniversary of the birthday of
lis mother, Mrs. Mary Clark. Friday
tternoon Mr.. Clark was stricken with
popleXy and sank into unconscious.
eSS, from which he never rallied.
lr. Clark was Il native of Pennsylva-
Ia, having been born in that state
'eb. :, 1872. He WAS an old-timer in
lontana, coming here from Colorado
4 the 1all Of 1864. He mined in Alder
ulch in 1865 and at Elk c, eek in 1906
engaged in merchandising at Bear
uich; sold ou- soon after and took a
lb-contract for carrying the mail from
'issoula to Walla Walla. He went to
utte in 1875 and has since been iden-
he'd with the mining interests of that