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a. toA Missoula special save: The murder of two men and seriously wounding of three more at McCartyville by two masked men is deepening inton mystery, ed in names of the victims cannot evenmher jH. learned. The governor of North Oa-tness ^ota received a letter stating that the two dead men were citizens of that state, • and that proper legal measures not had will ta^en to afic^rtam the cause of their• f death. He at once communicated these Ln k, to Governor Toole of Montana, who JM u ’ | wrote to Sheriff Huston demanding an investigation. Huston informed the irose. I coroner that complaint had lieen made, ! hUi, and C’/oroner Myers has now gone to Mc-,f the Cartyville to investigate the whole af-ittor, | fair. In an hour after the slaughter Is or anlt;l robbery Deputy Sheriff Sprague j was in pursuit, and 6ince his dispatch, ! when within forty-five miles of McCarty-oun- vi)|e, no word lias been received from *,MVe him. It is feared the gallent officer has ,n been ambushed and killed. Deputy I i Sheriff Memberue also joined in the per-n*'1'1 suit and captured a man named Cummings at Cut bank, whom he thinks is the of the murderers. He has a crim-Dil- inal all right, but it is not to besuppos-cen- | ed that the murderers separated, as )jH»r their safety would lie in remaining to-i was get her and defying capture. It was one irned of the most coldblocxled murders on KHen record to gain a little money, and men so desperate are not to be taken without making a desperate fight to the tit of death.beenFirstA Drummond dispatch ’says: John Anderson, a rancher from the Bitter
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The Livingston Enterprise

Livingston, Montana, US

Sat, Feb 07, 1891

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