Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-12-18
Neighboring Territories.

Brick costs 500 per VI at I.eadvlle.
Teams crossed the Ice at Bismarck O
Dec. End.
Pneumonia is reported quite prcyaleu
throughout Utah Territory.
The Puget Sound log crop last yea
amounted to 2jO.OOO.OOO feet.
Sheep have advanced 100 per cent. il
price in Los Angeles, California.
The number of Chinese in California
has decreased 1900 in the past year.
-Colone! Lating propose to drive O.OOt
head of cattle out OF Grant county. Oregon
next Spring to the East.
Cattle are dying from starvation il
Pleasant valley. Nevada. SO says the Tus
carOra Times eriem
w. W. Keene. who gObbled $4,000
! funds of the Northwestern National Bank
in Minneapolis, gets seven years in Still
| water.
The Boise Statesman says the wire
bridge which is being rebuilt across the
Salmon river. on the Warrens and Florence
trail. has been tipped over into the river
BY a hurricane.
The total product from gold and silver
mines il this country since mir ing began
in California is estimated at ST .6l7, 100000.
The value Of agricultural products har-
vested this year alone is SlOO.OOO,O0O
larger.
About 500 men are at work OH the
grade in the bad lands. This force will be
kept at work during the winter. They
have comfortable quarters. and winters
supply of provisions are being hauled in to
them.-Mandan Criterion.
According to the Black Hills Times. as
soon as the building material is removed
from the streets. the improvements paint
ed, awnings up. and sidewalks down.
Deadwood will be a ten times better and
pleasanter city than it was before the fire.
Gen. Thos l.. Rosser, who since the
of work Of constructing
the Northern Pacific railroad. has been
with the enterprise, most OF the
time during periods of construction as
chief engineer, rendered his resignation to
the company, to take effect Dec. LIST.
Miss Josephine Meeker lectured re-
GENTLY at Denver. 1t was narrative of
the massacre at White River Agency and
The incidents attending the captivity of
herself, her mother and Mrs. Price and
children among the hostile Utes. 1t was
old in simple conversational way. which
made it very interesting. She was dressed
n the costume made ola blanket sewed
With wrapping Irvine, which she wore dur
ng her captivity.
The New York Graphic sent to the
governors of the various States the day
'efOre Thanksgiving, to find out what the
PEOPLE OF the respective commemorative
cit occasion to be thankful for. The re-
ponse of Governor Pitkin. of Colorado,
numerals causes for thanksgiving. of
which the following is prominent: 'Tte
'eople ais thankful that no create. num-
'er OF the citizens of the State Lave been
by Indians that the peace COM
nissioners at Los Pinos lave not Ueen
nassacred and that they are now with fif-
cen soldiers in brick building properly
oopholed and with sufficient provision to
,st a month. The people of Colorado
merely hope that their countrymen at
he East, whose ancestors over century
go regarded Indians armed with bows
nd arrows bad neighbors, will sympa-
lize with us when we entertain the same
pinion to-day of Indians armed with
Winchester rifles, who are fed by the gov
rnment. and whose only occupation is a
PREPARATION for war.