Show Montana The fact that the committee appointed I ap-pointed by the Ministers association at I Butte on Monday to wait on County I i Attorney Stapleton and Mayor Harrington I Har-rington and inform them of the fact i that the association had resolved to back those gentlemen in their anti I gambling crusade have not yet called is comment I on the mayor causing The mayor is not worried over the I snub 1 I Lemuel Fowler and Billy Gaul two honest blacksmiths of Helena are the victims of a smooth bunco man What was the blacksmiths bad luck proved to be the strangers gain for he found them easy victims The visitor said his name was John Palmer and as I the agent of his uncle John B Atkinson Atkin-son he had come to Helena to collect I horses and coaches for an overland route to the Klondike which his uncle a man worth many fortunes proposed to institute in the spring To make along I a-long stcry short one day Mr Palmer was short of funds but had a draft I Could he secure the loan of 50 until his uncle arrived Of course he could And that was the last seen of Palmer or his uncle The party that left Missoula to search for the bodies of Columbus Burrill and I Otto Egbrecht who are supposed to have been drowned in the Four Mile rapids below St Regis has returned and found no trace of the missing menThe men-The bodies have probably been carried down stream and the quest is hopeless hope-less Failing to find enough evidence to hold Frank Moody for the Kruger murder mur-der he was rearrested Wednesday on a criminal charge and committed to jail He is charged with having taken part in the robbery of the Great Northern Bridge crew near Meader yule on the night of Feb 21 1897 Moody it Avill be remembered was supposed sup-posed to be a member of the old Clancy gang which did the job at Meaderville but all escaped punishment punish-ment except the ringleader Clancy who was sent to the penitentiary for along a-long term by his namesake Judge Clancy Two of the gang have however how-ever been sent to Deer Lodge for other crimes two have gone to the Utah penitentiary and another is awaiting trial for breaking into a boxcar box-car and stealing a quantity of lard some time ago Moody is supposed to be the sixth member of the gang |