Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1905-04-21
Washington, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON news ITEMS.
. Few Interesting Items Gathered
erom Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
.oundina country-Numerous Acct.
..,.e and Personal Events Take
pIaee-outIook Is Bright.
MONTANA ITEMS.

Anaconda is becoming shipping
,o;nt for Big Hole valley cattle.
Miss Agnes Mountjoy will represent
tho Montana Agricultural college at
the sixth annual state oratorical con-
lost which will be held in Helena on
May 5.
Several hundred Finnish miners and
farmers of Red Lodge vicinity, all
ardent socialists, are planning the
establishment of a colony near Ha-
vana Cuba, in which socialistic doc
trines will be carried out to the let
ter
The creamery at Billings has been
in operation one month. The daily
outnut has been between 300 and 400
mounds of butter. The business is rap
idly increasing. There are about 40
farmers who are now patrons of the
creamery.
Mike Rosa, an Italian laborer on
his way to Rome, cut his throat in the
smoking car of train near Cutbank
recently, jumped out of the window
and disappeared. A few hours later
he walked into town with blood still
flowing from a cash and tainted. When
searched $4,000 was found on him. His
wound was sewed up, and he may re-
cover. He would give no reason for
The act
Y The jury in the case of George Gar
celon, at Bozeman, charged with the
murder of Harry Corwin, January Is,
returned a verdict of manslaughter,
leaving the punishment with the court.
Trouble over the attentions paid Cor
wins wife by Garcelon is believed to
have caused the tragedy.
As Emil Carlson, a leaser on the
Biz Seven mine at Niehart, was chew
ing together dynamite cap and fuse,
the cap exploded, tearing his jaw off
and inflicting terrible injuries to his
throat and tongue. He was brought
to Great Falls for treatment, but it is
not thought he can live.
Seven persons were injured recently
in collision between a motor car
belonging to F. Augustus Heinze and
a rig containing Thomas Roe, a livery
man, and Miss Lille La Combe. In
the automobile were F. Augustus
Heinze, Al Frank, Judge T. c. Bach
and NJ. J. Gum of Helena and A. E.
Hook, the chauffeur. All of the per
SONS were painfully injured, but none
will die. The accident occurred on a
boulevard about six miles south OF
Butte.
The Cascade county commissioners
have granted to DR.. Ernest Crutcher
and his associates franchise for the
construction of electric railway lines
on all of the highways of the county.
1t is the purpose of Crutcher to ap'
ply for similar franchises in Teton,
Fergus and Lewis and Clark counties,
and he announces that his project
contemplates the gridironing of north
ern Montana with electric lines. He
states that he has financial backing
from California and Chicago men to
the amount of $5,O00,000.
The yards and plant of the Western
Lumber company, owned by Senator
W. A. Clark, at Butte, together with
number of houses on Porphyry
street, were almost totally destroyed
by fire early this morning, entailing
loss in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The loss of the Western Lumber com
pany is covered by insurance. A mum
Der of families had narrow escapes,
being dragged from burning dwellings
by the police.