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MONTANA NOTES. W. G. Conrad, multimillionaire banker, mine owner and rancher, who is an avowed candidate for the vice presidential nomination on the democratic ticket, has opened headquarters, and Warner G. Stensel of New York has been engaged to manage his campaign. Edward Brennan, lawyer, of Butte, who was arrested last week in New York city on a charge of attempting to extort $40,000 from F. Augustus Heinze in connection with the matter of the Aetna Bank and Trust company of Butte, waived examination in police court, gave bond and was released. Surprised in his retreat at the Bonnabel ranch, in Valley county, Montana, "Pigeon-Toed Kid," a notorious cattle rustler and one of the few remaining bad men of Montana, attempted to make a stand against a sheriff's posse recently when asked to surrender, and was killed by a deputy named Calderwood. The bullet passed completely through his body and struck John Maybelle, a herder, in the shoulder. It is learned through the report of Dr. M. E. Knowles, state health officer, that there are between 50 and 60 cases of smallpox at Havre. All the schools, theaters and other public meeting places have been closed. The state boar dis considering the advisability of quarantining the town. Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific, who was a Helena visitor for two days last week, said that his company would throw open immediately 200,000 acres of land near Glendive and in the near future 500,000 acres near Billings. The company will endeavor to bring in only actual settlers, the deeds being conditioned on residence. Sheriff Edward Martin and Deputy Sheriff Al Morgan, now in the field after the notorious halfbreed outlaw, Mosney, are uninjured and have the desperado cornered in a cave near Arrow creek. A suit to recover approxximately $180,000 from F. Augustus Heinze and associate, A. B. Clements, was begun in the supreme court, New York, recently, by Robert Lyons, receiver of the Aetna Banking and Trust company of Butte, Mont. They are asked to account for $100,000 worth of stock, a credit of $37,770 and for another amount of $43,000. The odd spectacle of a pedler endeavoring to sell Bibles, two for 25 cents, and finally entering several saloons, where he tried in vain to trade a Bible for a flask of booze, led to the arrest of William Pitts recently in Butte.
