Show territorial ITEMS CULLED from FROU LATEST EXCHANGES last thursday in a fl night fight 9 lit between two men at butte montana one of the parties bit the others nose off captain topp committed suicide at port townsend washington ter on thursday night by shooting shoo tinz D W dilda the murderer 0 of f deputy sheriff Al murphy urphy was arrested at ash fork arizona on thursday last on christmas day near steeple rock arizona three men were killed by indians the band of horses in charge of the men was stolen on thursday 1 last ast at thed pot a helena dion Alon montana tana G george 0 0 be bell beli 1 I 1 aged ct 64 was severely deverel c crushed rushe we beewen h his nis is own wagon waon anza anya and a freight frecht 11 car I 1 an indian outbreak is feared at port townsend washington territory and the inhabitants have applied to the for protection on dec 23 near las cruces bew mexico a company of volunteers attacked an indian encampment killing 11 II indians and capturing SO 0 of their horses revolver practice resulted in the ki killing llinge of john church a saloon keeper at powderville Pow dervIlle montana on christmas chrisom as eve ile he was waiting on a party of cowboys who claim that a stray shot struck him I 1 james conner a member of the G AR A arshat R shot and killed a soldier hametl cornelius corneilus Cru ellus eilus lenghart Leng harn haro on thursday at vancouver washington ter leng ham stealthily entered red conners house for an ail unknown purpose i the accounts of united sh states ates commissioner E aecil timoney were approved in the second 31 district strict court at beaver od on dec timoney noney was arraigned the same day on an indictment charging charping him with selling liquor without a government license timoney ri money will be all right on that charge as he is nota not a Il lormon mormon 11 at the opera house logan during a tancy dress dresa ball thursday evenin evening g a ladder was being dragged under a chandelier when it struck strook two of the lamps limp knocking king them down they were broken by the fall and the burning coal oil ran over the floor making a high blaze coats cushions etc vefa used to smother out the flames and after some time this was accomplished complis hed I 1 last friday a miner named ed powell in the rock kock springs mines wyoming was se severely arely hurt and narrowly esi est escaped a sudden W den death ile he was makin making a mine when about pounds of coad coal slipped off the face of the room striking him on the head and cutting his scalp open in several places he was pinned to the floor and his mate helped him out ile he was sent to I 1 his is home in utah till lie he should be able to resume work last week an accident occurred near argenta montana in which mr air john T mclaughlin received very serious if not fatal injuries mr mc me thug hlin and his nephew were cutting timber for wood the young man doin doln doing the chopping INI mclaughlin cLaughlin was standing in with his back to the tree some feet fe et away and anti as the tree fell the branches struck him en on the head he was knocked down and to such an extent that it became necessary to take him to his residence several miles away and a physician was summoned the next day his condition wa was worse and his lower extremities became paralyzed at last accounts he was in a very serious condition fohn john P porter of porter ville morgan county who was in attendance on the district court at ogden on thursday as a witness in the sheep case went raving mad after leaving the court room A physician examined mr porter at 1 p in thursday and gave a certificate t to 0 the effect that he was non compos mentis in entis this however did not prevent porter from testifying as a witness at the afternoon af session of the court he gave his testimony in an apparently straightforward manner but the effect was disastrous at about 6 p in another examination revealed the fact faett that hat he was a raving maniac when his feet ani hands were c tied it took three men to hold him A meeting of the representative citizens of helena montana was held last week to consider the investigation of alle aile alleged cd frauds in connection with the conty county courthouse court house housa A committee of sixty live tive live citizens was appointed and empowered to procure testimony and commence and prosecute suits hults in the courts against the dishonest officials the leading ledding montana papers are pushing the work if those citizens were residents residents of utah and were to take such a course against the lec lecherous herons violators of the law here the chances would be about 1000 to 1 that they would be prosecuted in the federal courts and punished for conspiracy I 1 I 1 and the Afo montana utana papers would say amen |