Show NOTES samuel D stewart one of the trail blazers of the west died at his home in butte on june 7 he was born in illinois in 1836 and came to montana in 1866 while engaged in a swimming raco race at ah portland in the willamette wil lamette river charles E vaughn 18 years old was seized with cramps and drowned in full view of his two companions A union pacific freight train was caught by a land slide near walcott wyo the slide striking the cars behind the engine no one was waa hurt but the trainmen had a narrow escape from death A E elliott a well known resident of miles city mont was drowned in a slough north of that city while on a fishing trip it is supposed he attempted to cross tho the slough in an old boat D W connole a pioneer of iowa and montana a heavy property hold er in butte and president of a na lional bank at anthon iowa suffered a stroke of apoplexy in butte last week that proved fatal prank frank A lucy a prominent mining minine engineer who was recently appointed superintendent of the florence goldfield company at goldfield nev nevada adaa fell down a shaft last week and was waa instantly killed he leaves a widow chris olson former cashier or oc tha defunct first scandinavian bank of everett wash was acquitted last week because the prosecution failed to show that he had accepted money from depositors with the intent to def defraud raud A dispatch from ontario or ore e announces that there is every prospect that the ontario emmett railroad planned four years ago but abandoned at tte the time of the financial panic will he be built within the doming coming year two mounted and masked men blew open a safe in a saloon in butte mont at 2 in the morn seized in cash and escaped without leaving any clow clew to their identity although they were seen by a number of people for the first time in the history of the new town midvale nevada will celebrate the fourth of july this year the committee planning a celebration which is expected to dr draw a w a crowd to midvale from every town in the county while trying to board a moving train at willis station 28 miles east of missoula soula mont edward saul a northern pacific workman fell under the trucks and was waa so badly injured that he died while being rushed to the hospital at missoula construction work began june 1 on an independent telephone line from spokane to seattle which is being built by the local and long distance telephone company a new corpor tion of which F E woods of coeur dalene ida is president john williams has been placed in jail at armsted mont and a fellow is hovering between lite life and death as the result of a light between the two men at a railway construction camp williams practically disemboweling disembowel ing his opponent secretary ballinger has withdrawn temporarily from entry as a ponc site four hundred acres of land on gray bull river wyoming ry oming in aid of proposed legislation this withdrawal is in accordance with the P policy 0 licy which secretary ballinger has adopted of withdrawing for power site purposes twenty year old richard hocking has been sentenced to serve eighteen months in the federal prison at leavenworth en kans and pay a fine of 1872 for embezzling money while employed in the money order department of the post office at butte horse racing was the cause of the youths downfall |