Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-05-29
Montana Condensed.


Montana Condensed.
Vlrg M City contributed SlIO.75 toward
the Casey fund. and Adobetown Sl6.O
The Historical Society of Montana has
nad ITS files Of Territarial newspapers
bound
Steamer Benton arrived on the 23rl with
81 passengers. $50 tons OF freight and one
Car OF lumber.
II Is rum0red that parties from Bozcman
are coming to Virginia for the purpose of
rcopening the Madison House.-Madiso-
niaa.
Cattle are waltzing out OF Missoula coun-
ty this spring at :; rapid rate. Over 1900
have passed through town the past week.
-Missouiian.
MIR. VIM. Muth came in Saturday with
an $1,000 gold brick. the result of a two
weeks run on ore from the Belmont mine.
-Indepenaenf, eth.
The Nem North West will hereafter charge
regular advertising rates tor obituary poet
ry. II says: We don't propose to per-
nit dead people TO be inflicted gratuitous-
~"
Diamond. the county seat of Meagher
county. is without meat market. There
Is no longer business sufficient in Confed-
crate to support one. So says the Has-
bandman.
Not An emigrant that has come to Mon
tana this year looking tor work but what
mas found something to do. ut wages 100
per cent. higher than he could Obtain in
the States.-Herald.
Inc contractor for digging the Butte and
Deer Lodge telegraph pole holes. threw
Tue gravel out of the last one Saturday last
r"'es are being delivered along the line
New North Vest, eSrd inst.
Inc miners in Alder gulch have good
supply OF water now. and work is in tnll
blast on all the claims. from Summit IN tho
mouth OF the canyon. There vii, he +.
large area of ground worked this year
Madisonian.
The citizens of Smith, River valley have
made up purse of 500 to purchase a
sword for Lieutenant LOler. to show their
appreciation for his gallant conduct in kill
ing the war party of Sioux on the Muscle
shell short time Experimentation.
William Kennedy has in his sar,len in
town two cherry trees loaded with Young
fruit; his current bushes are so full that
there is hardly room for another currant.
md the strawberry plants full of green
cones are pointing to Il near hereafter of
and cream issouiian.
1t is very reprehensible conduct to take
advantage ola Methodist minister's igno-
ance of the ways Of the world by palming
III a chunk of assafptida as piece of rich
lnartz. But those who did this thing last
week only intended. probably. to represent
as Shipper ore.-Madisonian.
1t is the talk along the line of the Utah
Northern Railway that Jay Gould in
ends making another attempt to get aid
rom Montana for his narrow-gauge rail /,
Dad. Fifteen years exemption from tax
ton and county subsidies are the modest
dpulations mentioned
Major Hges returned from Helena Mon 4
ay, and. on the arrival of Lieut.. LOtler
ON the Judith, will take party Of fifty :
len and thoroughly scout the country be-
veen the Mtiscleshell and Missouri river.
ld will station the detachment in a sum-
er camp at some commanding point
A freight team of G. s. Lewis. loaded
it'll Union Mills flour for Smith river.
ct with an accident on Sfaughterhouse v
II few days since. Some of the rough
cks gave way, and the team and three
agons were precipitated from the grade,
nding bottom side up. Fortunately but
tie damage was ne.--Husbandman.
Sfessrs. Con Kohrs and Michael Oxarat
,rted their band of LOO head of cattle F
I'm Deer Lodge for Cheyenne vi. Soda.
rings on Tuesday. Mr.. Kohrs has also In
100 head of steers on he Sun river range
tn which Thos. Hogan will soon start,
ing ria the Yellowstone and across the
ow Reserve.-Nep North West, Esd inst.
rhe claims commission. appointed by :
!, last Legislature to investigate and
lit claims for use OF property, supplies
subsistence receipted for by officers and
returned to their owners. during the
C Perez troubles of 1877. in Deer Lodge tn
lnty. met in April and May. and on the oh
h inst. completed their labors. Forty III
ht claims. aggregating $2,960.42, were
WED. Total amount presented. ST.. La
~. The Nssc NORTH West, from which nlt
above is condensed says: One claim
, rejected, three allowed in fun. and an
nber known to exist were never Pre-. dis
ted. Under the act the commissioners IN
lstefl the claims a cqnitahly a posi-