Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-21

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The Livingston Land and Abstract
company has been incorporated with
Judge Frank Henry as president. 1t
is capitalized for $4,000.
Albert Peterson of St. Paul, en- route
west, fell from the cars of the Pacific
mail train Friday morning near Jocko'
west of Missoula, and was killed.
With the disappearance of snow from
the country northeast of Kalispell,
search is renewed for the body of B. F.
Egan, superintendent of division on
the Great Northern railway, who was
lost last fall.
The 14th annual convention Of the
Montana Sunday School association
will be held in Butte May 1928. 1t is
expected that President Roosevelt, who
will be in Butte on the 9th. will spend
a short time in the convention.
So far no word has been received at
Billings from headquarters OF the Bur-
lington traffic department, and there
seems little likelihood of the excursion
being secured for the trip from that
city and Sheridan to the Custer battle
field on Memorial day.
Arrangements are being made by the
Billings public schools for holding
series of entertainments for the pur-
pose of raising something like $500
with which to buy a number of fine
pictures and framing them for the
different rooms of the schools.
Taxes cannot be collected in Lewis
and Clarke county on the certificate of
deposit for $l25,OOO deposited by Cor
nelius F. Kelly of Butte with the
supreme court in lieu of cash bond
il the case of Miles Finlen against F.
Augustus Heinze, Familiarity known as
the "Minnie Healy" case, and which
is held by Clerk of the Supreme Court
H ,nry G. Ricketts, subject to the order
of the supreme court.
June q has been named by Bishop
Brewer as the day Of the meeting of the
next convocation of the Episcopal
church. The meeting will be held at
ST. John's church in Butte. Delegates
will be elected by the vestrymen in
each parish; the missions are entitled
to three delegates each, while each
parish elects five delegates from the
laymen. The clergy are delegates by
right of the church laws.
AT an auction of state lands last
Thursday at Fit. Benton 1900 acres
were leased for $500 year, and as
the lease was for five years the amount
will be So, 100. There was sold outright
only 12O acres, but practically all of
the land in Choteau county which has
again with the exception of small
part on which it is understood the lease
will be renewed before the close of the
summer.
The suit of Mrs. Lucille Curtis
against Gold T. Curtis, ex-president
of the First National bank of Great
Falls, filed Wednesday evening, has
been declared off by the parties to the
suit, and they have kissed and made
filed, the wife alleging beatings in
Vulnerable and all sorts of defamatory
charges against her husband. Mrs.
Curtis now states she did not know
what was in the complaint when she
signed it.
A sensation was sprung in Missoula
last week by the serving of papers IN
a 10000 damage suit against Joseph
L. Young, the Ovando rancher who
assaulted Carl Dowdell, the well.known
postotfice money order clerk, March 20
last. The suit is brought by young
Dowdell, who asks that the court give
him a Judgment for $50, 900 damages
for personal injuries and for 81 800
damages for expense incurred in en-
ploying physicians and nurses and in
hospital fees while he was recovering
from the injuries sustained at the
hands or Mr.. Young.
Montana socialists, after much dis.
cussion and planning, have chosen
Missoula as the vantage point from
which to conquer the state. Here will
be established college for the teach
ing of conservative socialism. Here
public speakers will come from all
parts of the country and once every two