Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-20
NEWS.
From the Butte Miner

shipped $65, 600 in gold dust last week. Won
der if this will induce a few thousand delud-
ed pilgrims to Ego west? ~
We are pleased to be enabled to state that
Mr.. Henry Wilkinson, who has been quite
sick for several days, is now conyalescent,
and will be out again in a day or two.
From the Avant Courier.
Mr.. George Reese, who went from this
place to the Black Hills, writes to Messrs.
Huston. Farrell and other friends on the
Yellowstone river, from Deadwood City re-
Gently, that the country is infested with
white horse thieves as we'll as red ones ; that
ne has to watch his stock day and night.
and that many have had their horses stolen.
among whom are MIR. Ed. M%endenhall and
John Werk, of this place. Mr.. Reese saws
he is coming back to Montana it he can, and
advises his friends to stay here. There are
but few Montana miners at work, and very
little paying ground opened. Mr.. Frank
Grounds promises many of the boys work
after he gets his ground opened if it pays.
wages to be 81 per day.
From the New North West.
MIR. Larabie showed us, a few DAYS aoo.a
blood stained relic of. the stage robbery lin
Port Neu-an envelope torn from a letter
to his wife and smeared with bloody san
culinary gore. The rascals robbed the mails
TOR money, and one of them had torn his
hand on the express box before tearing omen
the letters.
Joaquin Abascal, Esq, has visited B lutte
this week and is enthusiastic over the miner
ais, which he says are simply immense.
From the Helena Independent.
John Nolan, formerly Of the Diamond r.
Company, writes to the Independent, from
Crooks camp, ola Fort Fetterman, that
there were ten soldiers killed and forty-four
wounded in Crooks encounter with the In
dians on the 18th of June. Only seven ILL.,
dians were killed.
Mr.. Nolan wishes INSTANTLY at Diamond
to know that he is we'll.
Governor Potts has received a dispatch
from Gen. Sherman, declining to accept any
MALTA to aid in prosecuting the Indian vxar
on the frontier. . a.
Delegate Maginnis telegraphs to Govern
or Potts chat his bill making an apropria-
tlon Tor the erection of military posts at the
Forks of the Muscleshell and on the. yellow
stone river has become a law. The telegram
does not state the amount of the a%ppropria-
ton, but it is presumed to be the amount re-
;lted In the original bill. The President
signed it as soon as it was passed by Con-
gress.
From the Helena Herald.
folndexter d Orr, the stock kings of Bea-
'erhead county, propose to drive some OF
heir herds into the Muscleshell country.
Captain DeLacy states that when Enein-
er Roberts, m ade surveys of the country on
he river between Canyon Ferry and the
falls, he pronounced that part of the Mis-
ouri as being navigable for light draught
Captain Del4acy writes to that
fleet to Captain Clark, of the steamer c.
Y. Meade.
work on the second story of the Assay
'fflce is progressing rapidly. It will not be
'ng before the mansard will be started.
Ihe only one escaping from the terrible
atchery i'll which the daring Custer and his
allanf command laid down their lives. was
re only Grow scouhwith Custer. He waulJ
SO have fallen had he not wrapped his
laiaRet around him and. boldly mixed up
lth the ao1x. I'm the excitement of the
our NO one knew whether he was an; Ar
a Sioux. We have stated how he.
'caped to a ravine and there efactually
hlmseif', and at last was the only