The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-03-09
MONTANA S0UIBBS.


Judge William H. Hunt has appoint
ed H. A. Burrell as United States COM
missioner at Landusky.
]. P. Kelly is president, as he heads
the list of officers of the mill and
Smeltermen's union in Anaconda.
The Anaconda City Improvement
association has been organized with a
membership of nearly fifty citizens.
Governor Joseph K Toole has ap-
pointed Emerson Hill as a member of
the Helena executive board of the
State Normal school, to succeed F. c.
Kress
Public-spirited citizens of Helena
have for some time been agitating a
plan to convert the unsightly slopes
of Mt. Helena, which lies just outside
the city, into a forest park.
Joe Spreisch, a youth of II years,
was convicted of safe-blowing before
a jury at Butte, largely on the testi-
mony of Detective M. P. McInerney,
who swore that Spreisch had confessed
to him.
At a recent meeting of the Billings
city school board, bids for the con-
struction of new school building, to
be erected on North Thirty-first street,
were opened. The contract was award
ed to e. H. Canon for $26,750.
Sheriff Gibson Of Boulder has Sc
cured requisition papers and has gone
to Salt Lake to bring back Richard
Flaherty, who was arrested on COM
plant of relatives of Miss Laura Hall,
for not fulfilling his promise of mar
riage.
The largest mining deal for a long
time in Helena has been consummated
by A. w. Martin in the sale Of the
Jay Gould mine, in the vicinity of
Helena, to syndicate of eastern CAPT.
talists, for a cash consideration that is
understood to be $45O,O00.
Captain ]. ]. Healy, formerly of
Fort Benton, and who is known to
every old timer in Montana, with 200
men, will start in the spring on an ex-
petition to Alaska, his destination be-
ing part Of the territory that has not
been explored.
Professor w. ]. Elliott, of the dairy
department of the state college at
Bozeman, is planning to make a tour
of all the creameries of the state the
last of March or the first of April.
holding a one-day dairy school at each
creamery for the benefit of the farm
ers of the vicinity.
The engineers society of the college
at Bozeman, which includes all the stu
dents in the four-years' engineering
course, has arranged to make a trip to
Butte the last of this month to study
the application of mechanical, civil and
electrical engineering in the Anaconda
smelter, the Butte power plant and
mines, and the substation of the Butte
Electric company. They expect to
spend two days, at least. Professor
Thaler, Copper, Tannatt and Dearborn
will probably accompany them.
A bloody tragedy occurred at Carl
ton, Mont, Is miles from Missoula in
the Bitter Root valley Monday after
noon, when G. A. Alls, a rancher. shot
and instantly killed William Hoff, who
went up the valley last summer from
Philipsburg, where he had resided for
10 years. Alls shot at Hoff three times
with Al caliber revolver, each shot
taking effect in Hoff's body.
Inc tragedy occurred in the house of
tne Ais ranch, and as far as can be
learned was the result of a drunken
quarrel. There was one eye witness to
the murder in the person of George
Conif. Missoula officers brought the
aead man and the alleged murderer to
Missoula.