The Billings gazette. [volume], September 05, 1899, Semi-weekly, Image 1

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Dts in Iogn f ad hiu de luahee
Committed on Five Mile Creek
id Carbon County Four
Years Ago.
HUMAN BONES FOUND
Mknil Phil'iedI by a lhIllhet--A Sheep
herder'I Thotughl, I lie the
JJtIpliiy Shlritf F od lichelder of
(Mubo arrived in Bilig131 Friday night
and the following morning loeft for A.
H. Batth's heoop ranch, twenty milesR
south of the city, accompanied by
Shecriff Hubbard of this county, where
the former arrealed ChUrley Rimont.ou,
ai shluphielder, bettor known au" Ohlm.
plgutle Churley," on a charge of mur.
der, the deed having been committed
about four years ago in Carbou county.
The story of the crime and discovery,
it. told by Mr. Bachelder, Ia about ano
follows
On Augurst 94, last, John Bujuowski,
a sheepherder lu Carbon county, found
a human skull and two bone. of the
leg in a bunch of drift wood on Five
Milo creek, about ten miles from'G(ebo.
He seported the matter immediately to
Duputy Sheriff Buchelder, who viiitedi
the scone and secured the remains,
which are supposed to be tliose of a
man who dianppeared fromt a sheep
camp on Five Mile over four years ago,
The man came directly from the east to
visit Simounu qun Five Mile, who wasr
in the employ at that time of C. M.
Hair, and nothing tmore wits over seen
or heart of the man, except from
illousou, who appeartId a few day.
later with two horses, a maddle, watch
and six.ahooter belonging to hi. friend,
and told a story that appeared lame nud
inconsistent. He said that his friend
had left the horne and other belonging.
with him and had started on foot for
Wyoming, he did not lciow to what
piece.
The skull of the remains clearly
shows that the man, whoever he was,
met death at the hands of a cowardly as.
mansin, who, a tell-tale bullet hole
proves, shot his victim from, behind,
the ball entertin the center of the head
at the base of the brain and coming out
over the right eye, The upward slant
of the bullet might be taken to indicate
that the murderer was kneeling down
at the time the fatal shot was fired, or
that his victim was on horsebaok. The
warrant, oharging Simonson with the
crime, wasn worn out by Bujnowski,
who stated that it was his belief that
the remains were those of the ;missing
man and that Simonson was his maur
derer, When arrested imuonsou acted
very nervous and insiated that he had
killed no one. He tried to argue mnat
term, but the officer told him that ihe
must accompany him and time would
develop whether or not he was guilty.
The pr4souer was brought to this city
Saturday evening and confined in the
county Jail over Sunday, the deputy
leaving with him yesterday for Red
Lodge.
If Simonson is in a position to make
a stubborn fight it is not likely that
they oan fasten the orime on him. The
prosmeution will have to prove first that
the remaina are thoms of Simonson's
friend and thon that he was murdered,
and by Simouonau It hardly looks
plausible that Simonson could have
committed the crime, for ever since his
friend's aisappearanoe he has remained
in that vicinity working for Rudolph
Molt and U, M, Bair, and later A. H.
Barth. Had he eared to do so be could
have left and no one would have been
any wiser. All his employers say be
was a trustworthy mlan, about hli only
fault being his easy going way with
bim money,
The ooroller' inquuest over the reo.
main. found was hield in Red Lodge
lanturday afternoon,
I'ORIHIDT ¥11U. lAQltit
Oni tkhe tamitiad anl Sltlllw.ater-qaery.
man Mart at Volumbus,
Lip.aial Cornspondiae. of Th. (aeotte,
Columbu)g Sept, I8,-Paroeat rom are
ragins on the Lomebud and llliwater,
Tho snamil Io Cooke City Ia meveral
timea been obatruoted and for one day
the nltuns haolt sade It lapealrble to
cams the amountaIne.
Mira I, U, AhInI and family are en,
I4Ioea daP' oamplng on the
Impt, N, J, Morn wan In town Wed,
neosA IUotligi rnomne worW for the
Poetluu ta.liI,
PI, (Gin d wife axe home form
thkelir vltlo i e t ue etue,
Mc, and Mr All, st e Vs
ando tha o bealnom hoe. a beas
laue MI Ail Ili a CLsutle aln
up neat as I a teat ,
aflwp A a eroeetag Seeas
iaaid lem gmu. bu
aliaU Ie were in
town Wednesday adjusting the losses
for the Palatine and Fire Association
of Philadelpbia, respectively.
Mr. Qauty sold his stock to Billy Mo
Creight and retired from' the saloon
business. Mr. MeOreight will contnue
the business in the Countryman build.
lpg.
You will find the barber shop just be
low the hotel in the Watkins building.
Mr. Fergusou saved all his expensive
furniture, which he had put in to his
new shop and was only delayed a day
by Monday's disaster.
One of the Minnesota quarrymen had
his leg badly shattered last Monday
morning. One blast of giant powder
had been exploded and thinking there
were no more he approached the quar
ry just in timp to receive the force of a
second blast, which rolled a rook,
weighing tons on, his log and piuioned
him to the spot. The rock was relnov.
ed by machinery and1 the wounded mani
attended by Dr. Craig. No apprehen.
sinus are felt for his recovery.
Justice court has been grinding all
the week, Judge Simpson deals out
justice singly or in job lots as the case
requires, McIntosh was fined $25 for
shooriug up the town. Another drunk
was flood $. anid costs. The thraee men
who were supposed to bo stealing dur
ing the fire, weore fined $10 and costs.
County Attorney Johnston was up to
prosecute, but found the evidence
would be luncomplete and the enormity
of the offeuse would not justify the
county iu binding themn over to district
court on a charge of grand larceny.
Miss Emma Campbell, of the Chicago
high schools, who has been the guest
of Mrs, Dr. L. M.. Line,' returned to her
home last week.
NWEEP OP YOItENt . M S.
They (Ilm MO11u t.i Lay W.Vate O il
Fieldsl amn L.elpj T'owrd Ired Lodge.
Fire swept by forest flames originat
ing from campers' criminal careless
ness, the derricks and buildings and
brfing machinery of the Butcher Creek
oil fields are today smoldering mass
of blackened ruins, says the Red Lodge
Picket. The force of eight men em
pluyed at the camp were compelled to
abandon everything, except bedding,
grub and personal effects and flee to a
place of temporary safety; At 10
o'clock last night the East Rosebud
fire, fanned by ai fierce wind, swept
over the Butcher creek mountains with
frightful velocity and. swooping down
upon the oil-well camp with the noise
ot booming cannon, licked up every
thing slik and clean. Sam Gebo and
Sam Tamgart, with their employes,
hurriedly loaded into a wagon such
portable things as they could gather
antd, being without hores, pulled the
vehicle below the timber line and
camped for the night. From their tem
porary camp they watched the mad
flames leap down the timbered moun
taln side like an angry cyclone and lick
up the two derricks and machinery and
all the builldings about the oil fields.
This morning all hands started for Red
Lodge and on their arrival this after
noon it was learned that the stiff breeze
was driving the fire toward this city at
a rapid rate. The flames have already
crossed Red Lodge creek, and this
afternoon great clouds of smoke, lit up
by great patches of red, are sweeping
sky-high toward the city and down the
valley.
The oil well buildings and machin
ery were uninsured,, and the loss will
foot up $6,000 or $8,000,
REMARKABLE FEAT
Auvnanpllhlled by the Amnericanu Troops
on thie islland or Ctebu.
Washington, Sept. 2.--General Otis
has cabled the war department a dis.
patch which he received from General
Hughes, commanding the American
forces at Iloilo. General Hughes said:
"Lieutenant.Colonel Byrne, on August
81, destroyed Arogula, a most import.
ant bandit stronghold, killing twenty
one, wounding many and capturing
large quantities of supplies, a complete
outft for reloading shells, bole spears,
etc, This feat was remarkable as the
town was accessilbe only by one road
over a. almost perpendioular slope,
constantly under are for one thousand
feet, One officer and two men were
struck by boulders rolled down on
them, but not seriously hubrt. No nas
unlties. Bandit strength was four hun
dred,"
General Otis cables the war depart.
ment that the transport Indiasa arrived
at Manila, The Indiana carried ten
offoers and eight hundred recruits,
Qolonel Hood of the isxteenth Infantry
commandiung,
In iltllllags iL te Saves
I ' borses which are to take part In
taluauea at the ounty fair 'uet week
are bea.iuig to arrive in illiuga.ll
Aboei thirty head, whicbh wre enmtered
li t The l4 a Thber races last week,
reached hue Sunday and about tea
head as epeted todlar tfrom lAwle.
towol Ti hoes will be pat on the
t l at ape and otaioen I good mon.
ditlo for ams week There ane some
Se ipedeMs amo s she aomber aad
ith rese mat week prtie sIne great
SKINNED SALT IAKE
The Billings Cowboys Beat Her
Ball Club Three Straight
Games.
LOST ONE AT OGDEN
But Billings Was Short Two Men.
Pocatello and Butte Next.
He'lena Wins Again.
nc the Gazette went to press last
~Friday, the Billings baseball club has
won three victories, defeating the Salt
Lake City nine on Saturday, tp.day
and yesterday, the coores b 16 to 5,
12 to 4 and 18 to 1F. rday's game
was an errorless onSi the part of Bil
linugs. It was pitched by Harker and
caught by Williams.
Billings was defeated in the second
game at Ogden last Friday by a score
of 12 to 3, after shutting the team eut
the day before. Our team, however,
was badly crippled. Zearfross was sick
and Williams had to catch, wh ar
shall had his knee ijunrore e second
i;uning and had to Atmt o the game
the Cowboys thus being deprived of
two of their strongest mn . The game
was pitched by Sporer4. ihe team is
scheduled to play the third game with
Ogden today (Tuesday), two more
games with Pocatello on Wednesday and
Thursday and two games with Butte
next Saturday and Sunday, which will
end the tour and the club will come
home to play here during th .tfair.
when it is expected both ajpai.a and
Butte will visit B lin s'It is a hard
game that BillingLh on its hands at
Ogden today, and it will be no easy
matter to defeat the strdng Pocatello
team, but the Cowboys won the first
game and another victory will give it
two out of three. The ball club is prov
ing to he a great advertisement for
Billings and muhoob interest is manifest
ed here in the games.
Helena won three straight games
from the Boston & Montana team of
Butte on Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day on the capital city grounds. The
score of the first game was 21 to 1, St.
Vrain pitnhing for Helena and Bu
banks of Pocatello for Butte. The
score of Sunday's game was S2 to 14,
Manpin, Helena's new pitcher from St.
Louis, being in the box, Butte making
seventeen hits off him. Yesterday's
game was also, won by Helena by a
score of 16 to 4.
IT'S A DEATH STRUGGLE.
Attempt to Distranchlse 100,000 Negroer
in North Carolina.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2.-The Journal
publishes a sensational story from its
special correspondent, who has recently
been in North Carolina, on the cam
paign commenced there by the white
people, both democrats and republi
cans, to disfranchise 100,000 negro
voters in that state. The Journal will
say:
"North Carolina has just entered
upon one of the most eventful cam
paigns in her history. It is a death
struggle between the Anglo-Saxon and
the African, and when the smoke of
the battle will have cleared the politi
cal and social supremacy of the white
man of North Carolina for all time
will either be absolute and uncondition
al or else negro domination will again
immerse the state into ignominy and
disgrace. The campaign is waged on a
proposed suffrage' amendment to the
constitution submitted to the people by
the last legislature. It was designated
for the single purpose of eliminating
the negro as a political factor and it is
a notable fact that the educational
qualificatiou enjoined on the negro is not
expected of the white man. It is not
intended that an Anglo-Saxon shall be
disqualified.
"Every person of eligible age who
applies for registration, for instance,
must be able to reed and write any sec
tion of the federal constitution. Under
this clause 100,000 incompetent negro
voters in North Carolina will be for
ever barred from the polls.
"But the ignorant white voters-and
there are perhaps thousands of them
can enter through another gate. Sec
tion 5 provides that any lineal descend
ant of any voter in this country prior
to 1867 shall be entitled to vote
whether he can read or write.
"It is more than a political fight-it
is a fight in defense of home and de
nsency. It is a constitutional decree
that the Anglo-Saxon shall govern 4i
this state. On this platform the demo
cracy stands. The negro republicans
have challenged this amendment for
party protection. The issue has been
joined. For over thirty years it has
been dodged and evaded. It is to the
point now. It is the crucial test be
tween southern republicanism and
southern democracy."
WHEELER WILL COMMAND.
GpIeral Is Ordered to Take Charge of
Funnton's Brigade.
Manila, Sept. 1.--General Wheeler
has been ordered to report to General
MacArthur. He will be given com
muand of General Funston's brigade,
which Colonel Liscon has command
temporarily. Wheeler will proceed to
San Francisco tomorrow after having
spent a week in energetically visiting
the lines. Wheeler said to a represent
alive of the Associated Press:
"I am much pleased with the situa
tion. I think that when Major Gen
ral Otis gets more troops here he will
make rapid progress. The country is
morn favorable for military operations
than I supposed. The impression that
the country is unhealthy is wrong."
The railrnod to Angeles will be re
tored within a week and General Mao
Arthur will advance his headquarters
to that place.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Kansas and Washington infantry
and Nevada cavalry will sail for home
this week.
The Idaho, Wyoming and North Da
kota troops have once more set foot on
native soil.
Shacklefort, democrat, lhas been
elected to succeed the late Richard
Bland as congreueman from the Eighth
cougressional d istriot of Missouri.
The feature of the day at Charter
)ak park. at Hartford, Gonn., last
1hursday, was Star Pointer's great
mile, which was in two minutes flat,
without slip or break, beating the track
record, made by the same horse last
season in 2:00k.
Walter Wellman, the leader of the
Wellman polar expedition, who return
ed to Tomsoe, Norway, Aug. 17, after
bavifg successfully completed opera
tions in Franz Josef land, has arrived
in Hull, England. He walks wit)h the
aid of crutches, his right leg, which
was seriously injured by a fall into a
snow covered crevasse while Mr. Well
man was leading his party, still being
useless. The explorer was acoompan
led by the American members of the
expedition, who are well.
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