Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-07

AROUND THE STATE i
ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Philip D. Watkins, who it was al
legged. left trail of worthless check,
and drafts behind him, beginning a
Buffalo, N. Y, and extending to tn,
southwest coast, besides being charged
with having cashed a fraudulent checl
for $50 with Geo. Bennington, propri
etor of the Grand hotel, was acquitted
by jury at Billings Thursday with
out word of testimony in his owr
defense.
The little town Of Frank, situated a,
the foothills on the slope Of the Rocky
mountains, was overwhelmed with dis.
aster about 4:30 O'Clock Wednesday
morning. What was apparently a vol.
canic eruption on the top of Turtle
mountain, overlooking the town, scat
tering an immense quantity of rock
and debris over the town, stopping up
a mine, imprisoning the miners, crush.
ing a number of houses and killing 60
persons.
The Bozemon Onyx company has
just been organized as a corporation
with o. P. Chisholm as president,
Charles Chisholm, vice-president, and
r. D. Chisholm, secretary and treas
urer. This company owns 80 acres of
land four miles north of Manhattan on
which is located a deposit of very fine
grade onyx. It is the purpose of the
company to at once develop the property
and place the onyx on the market. This
company will add new industry to
the list of those already established in
the state.
The Hay-Cowan damage suit case
in the district court of Ravalli county
at Hamilton was brought to a sudden
close Thursday afternoon by the de-
PENDANT, James Cowan, compro missing
with John Hay, the wronged husband,
by paying him the sum of 81, 900 for
alternating the affections of his wife.
The compromise was only effected,
however, after some of the warm and
ardent love letters of the 75-year-old
Lothario to the handsome, dashinp
young grass widow had been read to
the jury.
The United States has responded ia.
'orably to the appeal from the Montana
state board of health for assistance in
determining the origin. cause and ma
lure of the mysterious maladv, known
as 'spotted fever" which has prevail
I'd every spring for several years in
certain portions of the Bitter Root VAL
ey, in Missoula and Ravalli counties,
Or. John r. Anderson, an expert of the
United States public health and marine
hospital service has arrived in the Bit.
er Root and entered upon his invest,-
cations of the disease.
1t is expected that the session laws
# the Eighth assembly will be issued
'bout the Goth of May. 4he volume
will be one of about 400 pages, and
viii be unlike its predecessors in sew
raj particulars. It will have mar
final index and the old form of print
ng the laws of the session under the
leading ''house bill" or "senate bi1ln
ollowed by the number of the bill will |
lot be employed. Instead, the bills
will be given by chapters, being num-
'ered in the order in which they were
pproved by the governor.
Although the initial trial of the T.
:. Benbow airship, invented by a we'll
nown rancher of Absarokee, Carbon
ounty, was surrounded by almost
very unfavorable circumstance imap-
nable, so that practical test of the
nvention could not be successfully ac-
emphasized, the promoters of the enter
rise which seeks the defeat of Santos
)umont and other well-known airship
uilders and the capture of the 500. 600
rize offered by the managers of the
It. Louis Worlds fair for successful
erial navigation, are not by any
,eans discouraged.
When Clerk Ney N. Davidson of the
tate board of examiners, footed IN
ne filings for the month of April
thursday in the bounty department he
ound that the claims for the slaughter
ng of coyotes and wolves during the
'onth aggregated $40, 400. This shows
considerable decrease as compared
nth the same month of last year,
hen the total was Sl6.576 The dc.