| Show WESTERN FLOATS jame james fergus of Mea meagher glier county montana is the oldest member af pf the constitutional convention which met in helena he has been in montana a quarter of a century and until last week had not seen a railroad car for twenty two years he lle Is over seventy years old while on his way to butte sheriff blakely biakely of gallatin county montana was put off the train between silver sliver bow and buetti because having paid his fard all the way through ty W another conductor he refused to duplicate duplica it from the junction to butte the officials of the road have since apologized I 1 d ma northern sales for the ane montana during the month of 01 De december cemper amounted to 1312 acres for fer which atas i tas as ra received eivid and four town lots for M 60 this tha makes the total saie sale for the month acres for tos town lots 3 72 the of e egon h ou transcontinental sales tor for december were 11 for 1297 9 at portland oregon the grand jury which adjourned on the lith made the following recommendation i it having been found impossible to suppress we recommend the licensing of houses bouses of atut ill ili fame famo as they keing keind bein a necessary evil we belle belie believe vc t that at bein being license licensed and aud under the supervision oatlie of the health officers or of a board of physicians it would be the means of closing the worst places and und cutting the remainder restraint and exam illation me tram tramps s attempt attempted ted tp boadine bo ord arine the southbound south bom bound anel horain at borden cal cai calop op the rux yut off offey by a bra kemani made an assau assault I 1 t on him with clubs and stones the conductor came m i ja the ad avd of bt the brakeman but V was A knocked 0 akl down dovin with a club another brakeman nake fake man came t to D the rescue and being armed rew his viol pistol I 1 and ana commenced 0 the tha Q tram tramps s also drew pis pistols and returned tre the bire fire anre ouro them were finally captured and taken to esq 0 was conveyed to ana aonda Mon montana tanal orf oti on tife tiie that a person persan had been found on mill creek six miles from there evidently frozen to death it appears that the deceased was james sinith ems the proprietor of the mamo alamo gloy otel ouel but recent recently t y had been chopping wood for uld aid Naggl esome seven miles from anaconda while while in a suemi intoxicated he had fallen injo into infra a creek his hlf being wet through and th then n frazell stiff on ort his body last thursday morning an accident happened at no lo 10 2 mine jq in almy aimy by y which fourt fourteen een ben men were more or less Injured two or three quite seriously themen the men were ejust just starting to work was atas go going ii n down the slope siope eon on a trip R 0 cars carb had y with them il a bott ke keg of pow der which had been opened when the powder wa was s farst first placed ip in the car the keg was ti tipped aver and a little of the po powder milled spilled 1 outon out on the bottom of th the e car ar when near ilear the foot of the slope siope 1 e the powder exploded with a ter or 9 or scattering at tho the men raen and carsin all directions it 4 11 supposed to have caught by a spark from one of the lamps I 1 it is a singular sin gulai fact that none of the men were killed outright 6 thoth though two of them mr ishma ishmael el iSco scothern them and mr dir john burnett are arc very badly injured the chinese and demimonde demi deml monde residing on sacramento street san francisco were werd greatly startled led about the other night by pi A joud loud ex oslon the officers entered the El house ouse where it occurred and found one of tot the the inmates named lena wallace bleeding ble bie edin from a wound in the arm while ahil e her face bore several small smail cuts the window of the room in which the girl was found was blown to lo fragments ints the casement shattered and tile the small smail pieces of glass littered the furniture I 1 and the floor the window looks out on oneida place which is frequented by chinese for whom the house is a resort the woman says she was standi standing ilgin in the room and went to the m window ow to call a passing heathen when she discovered the f fuse tase use of a giant cartridge burning on the sill she fumed around quickly to get some water to put atit oh oil the ding dangerous erous combustible when the cartridge exploded blowing the whole window out and in its passage cutting her slightly on the arm she was aiso also struck in the face fabb by several small pieces of glass thet wounds were werd dressed at the receiving hospital and are not very serious in their character |