Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-01-23
The Miner quotes oats at 2 "a and wheat

The Miner quotes oats at 234 and wheat
at 2 cents per pound.
The Herald reports ten-pound spec:.
men of galena ore from Bear Paw. which
. ssays 30 ounces of silver and Is per cent
lead with traces Of gold.
The Benton Line (T. C. Power q Bro.)
are having constructed new steamer fer
the Upper Missouri tr..de. Butte" is to
be the name ofthe rev craft.
Last Wednesday morning the coach took
out eight magnificent bars ofsilver bullion.
in all $50 pounds, he first shipment of the
new Silver Bow mill. liner.
A. Il. Williams, Jefferson. NJ. r.. met
with serious accident on the 18th while
blasting open a log. On the 18th lie was
reported ut the point of death.
The missing man spoken of last week,
who disappeared from Camp Baker and
wis supposed to be lost, turned up at
Thompson gulch.-Husbandman.
In executive session to-day. the Council.
bv vote of to 4. rejected the nomination
of Rev. Clark Wright for Superintendent
OF Public Observation-Disclosures, 18th.
Mr.. Chas. Rowe. of tile Missouri valley,
8 negotiating for the purchase of In. e
steam threshing machine. steam planning
mill and artesian well borer.-Record.
The Husbandman ia, ors the removal OF
he county seat of Meagher county from
Diamond to some better point. an' mare,
80 ~po@ aphical center of the county.
RObert Little. an old timer. formerl, |
IT the Crow Agency. but of late years con-
nected with Leighton & Co.'S ratling post
On the Missouri river, died recently at Fort
Bufnql.
The New North-West and the people of
Deer Lodge are decidedly in earnest in OPP
pos ion to any and all subsidy schemes
and denOunce exemption from taxation as
tiie worst form Of subsidy.
There are 800 school children in Meaghtr
county. of whom less than 80 per cent. at
end school. The amount of general
school fund recently appor.ioned to IT,,
light districts in the county is S2.353.7l.
On the recommendation of JUG
Knowles and Hon. f. A. Mayhem ti
Governor, on the 18th inst, partloned JOHN
< .eny, convicted of forgery at the Octo
ser term Of court in Beaverhead county.
A large mountain lion was recently kill
ID. near White Sulphur Springs, by Mr..
Wesley Carnett. 1t weighed $50 pounds.
nd measured 8 feet and s inches fror, tllt :
ip of the nose to the tip OF the tail.-Eus-
amman.
The Record says: Forty head of horses
we're stolen from the Piegan camp. on
Birch creek near Bear Paw. between Christ
nas and New Years. The Indians are on :
he trail OF the thieves. but don't know !.
whether they are Indians or whites. II
During the performance in Taylor's Va I
ieties, Butte. Saturday night, 11th inst. =
he entire snperstllcture. supporting the
!evated tiers OF benches and 125 men. gave ..
'ay. precipitating its occupants with "A
rash to tile floor, Only one man, J. w.
colt. was seriously injured.
A few days since Mr. Spearheisen saw a :
range mOnstrOcity in the vicinity of Our
ulch. 1t was a deer with tail like a
w.-Husbandman. II
Isn't that a pretty biS tail. brother Snther- ;,
n? Say Il yearling heifer and we'll ''stand =
with yOu." for we lost one several years
20. and never could imagine until now :.
hat became of her.-i ED. COURIER. n