The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-06-05
STATE NEWS NOTES
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blowers operated in Great Falls
last week.
Thompson storekeepers have signed
an early closing agreement.
Memorial day was fittingly observed
in nearly every town IN the state.
State Treasurer j. II. Rice has submit
ted his report for the month of May and
reports resources approXimating $1,000
600.
1t is reported that the Helena Power
Transmission Co. will pay all damages
incurred as result OF the breaking of
the big dam recently.
The contract for the construction of
Missoula county's new court house has
been awarded to the William Oliver
Bridge company of Spokane The build
| ing will be of terra Gotta and will cost
Sl65, 239.
Missoula's new detention hospital has
been completed and will be pressed into
use within the next few days. The
building is located on the county poor
farm, up Rattlesnake canyon, and was
erected by Contractor f. S. Newton at
a cost of IS, 500.
| The damage suit of H. G. Schultz of
Thompson against the Northern Pacific
Railroad company has been settled out
of court. Mr.. Schultz was suing for Sl5,-
900 damages for injuries received while
travelling on freight train in 1904. Ac-
Mr.. Shultz will receive 81 200 and costs.
The Billings city council is wrest-
ling with the saloon problem. There
are 40 saloons in Billings and the
council is inclined to think that if
the liccnce fee is raised to the same
figure the county and state charge,
$3.50, making it cost saloon man
81, 100 altogether to do business in
the Sugar city, some of the saloons
will go out of business.
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murder in the second degree, in Park
county, July, 1898, has had his sentence
committed by acting Governor Miles to
20 years. The board of pardons must
act before the pardon is effective. If it
approves the pardon Webster will be
released October, 1909 Eight of the
jurors signed the petition, scores of others
in Park county, and the prison contract
ors recommended Il pardon. Webster
is 50 years old.
After trial lasting from $3.50 O'Clock
Thursday morning till 5 O'Clock Satur-
day afternoon, the Jury in the case of
NJ. j. Harrison, charged with the muir
der of Jack Norman at Belfry on the
evening of Sunday, April 10, at II o'clock
Saturday night returned verdict find
ing the defendant guilty of murder in
the second degree, and leaving tie PEN
atty to be affixed by Judge Sydney Fox,
who sentenced him to 80 years in the
penitentiary.
Acting Governor A. w. Miles has cx-
tended pardon to Ezra Trinkel, con-
victed in September, 1908, in Choutcau
county, on first degree assault charge,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
seven years His term will expire on
June +, next, and the pardon is granted
simply for the purpose of saving to the
convicted man his citizenship. Trinkel
has been out on parole since April 30,
1907, and his record has been most salts
factory, according to the officials of the
parole board.
Joseph SLUT of Winston, who has
lived in that camp for long time,
has been informed that he is an heir
to 81 100000, that being his share of
the estate of Baron Christopher
Springer. The baron loaned large
amount of money to the government
about 100 years ago, and as bonus
was given 800 acres of land in Dele
ware. On part OF this land the city
of Wilmington was built. The land
was leased for 80 years, and the lease
has expired. There are 12O heirs and
the value of the estate is given as
$l2O, OOO,O 900.
His throat cut from ear to ear and the
corpse and room stripped of almost every
clue to his identity, a man was found in
Butte lodging house Saturday morning
He is about 30 years of age. A letter
from sister, no name given, and adj.
dressed to Ed Smith, was found in his
effects, dated Castleton, no state given
The envelope was missing. The deceased
also had card as lumberman from
the Western Federation of Miners, is
sued by ''The Potomac lodge" A re.
ceipt for poll tax, paid in Helena, Mont.
last year, was also found. There is nc
clue to the murderer, nor was any wea-
pom found.