Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-02
MONTANA SOUIBS.

Walter j. Hill, superintendent OF
construction of the Billings & North |
ern, announces that he has purchased |
a tract of 5000 acres at Laurel about |
eight miles southwest of Billings. on |
the Northern Pacific, which will be the |
southern terminus of the Billings & |
Northern; the new town to be known
as Hill City.
The disappearance of N. S. Artman,
the Troy employee of the Great North
ern, remains a profound mystery. The
hounds brought from Spokane by Har
ry Draper have failed to locate the
missing man.
A report from Forsyth says heavy
rains and overlooking creeks have
caused three deaths on the north side
by drowning. VALLEY Folmer, shipper
for Rea Brothers Sheep company,
Thomas Hamilton, a well known north
side sheep herder, and Mike Gasinsh
Senator w. A. Clark says that orders
have been given for the extension OF
the Tonopah & Tidewater road from
Bullfrog to Tozopah, via Goldfelds,
distance of 101 miles. The final sur
vey will be commenced at once.
According to sheep men the wool
buyers are still steering clear of Mon
ANA, owing largely to conditions they
have encountered in Wyoming and 9th
er states The Montana wool grow
ers are suffering from the effect pro-
duced on the buyers by the exhorbi-
tant prices asked in some other locali-
ties.
Forty-three carloads of cattle from
Ontario, Ore, have arrived in Miles
City, consigned to Mr.. Holt, one of the
best known stockmen in eastern Mon
tana
No new cases of spotted fever have
been discovered within the past few
weeks. Drs King and Ricketts,. who
are studying the fever conuiuons in
the Bitter Root valley, have received
a monkey for experimental purposes.
Il will be inoculated with the blood OF
persons i'll of fever to determine if the
disease can be transmitted from one
person 10 another.
Con DAILY. one of the best oarsmen
this or any other country ever pro
duced, is in Butte, having arrived to
interest himself in mining.
A. K Chittendon, chief of inspection
Of forest management, and Earle H
Clapp, assistant inspector, both Of
Washington, d. c.. are on the FlatheaC
reservation TO estimate the amount o.
timber that was felled by the storm
u last March near Evaro. Il Is though
that the storm felled between 40, 900,
600 and 100000 feet. and severa
bids have been received from lumber
men for it.
i Butte, Mont, May 29.-When J.
!. Smith awoke Monday morning it wa
to make the grusome discovery that h
had been sleeping beside the corpse o
his pretty 10 year old wife.
Loving her husband devotedly bu
brooding over the death of her father
!, which occurred last Christmas eve
!. Mrs. Smiths sorrow is believed by he
friends to have deranged her mind
During the night she slipped froI
the bedside Of her husband, draine
A the contents of vial of lardanum
crept back into bed and died, her srii
u fened arms touching her spouse.
IL Twice before has Mrs. Smith mad
> Intellectual attempts to kill herself, il
u timating to her friends that she sougf
e the sleepof death for relief and wante
D. to rejoin her departed father. MIR
Smith became bride in Spokane la
September. Her parents resided nei
Harrison, Idaho. The home life of Il
lg Smiths was happy.
n.
The rambling preacher seldom hi