The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1882-10-19

Tho Butte cemetery contains the graves
Of thirty suicides, seven homicides, and
twenty-one persons killed by accident.
Messrs Botkin and Waterman are now
out in the Judith sheep country trying to
pull the wool over the eyes Of the gentle
shephcrds.-[Helena Independent.
Fourteen Thousand men arc at work on
the west end, grading, tracklaying etc.
Eighteen miles Of track were laid in forty.
eight hours.
A gentleman just in from the booming
camp Of Barker district estimates that there
will be a very large vote cast there and says
that large majority will be Democratic
The Montana Agricultural, Mineral and
Mechanical Association ran $3.50 behind
| this year, which added to the former In.
debtedncss-5,50 ,500-makes prtsent indebt.
ness of 5000.
John Dusan, the Billings telegraph on
orator, who has been confined at the post
has made good his escape and at the pres.
ent writing has not been heard from
[Gallatin News.
Medicine Hat is the point on the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad whence Benton ex.
poets to have branch railroad. Medicine
Hat is the point where the c. p. r. crosses
| the South Saskatchewan.
Lieut.. Grimes, who for several years past
has been acting signal officer and super.
| intendent of the Northwestern division of
the United States military telegraph, has
been ordered to rejoin his battery. ca.
Booth has been appointed in his stead.
Eli Gibson, known all over the territory
as one of the best whips ever in the en-
ployment Of the Overland Stage Company,
died on the llth inst. in cabin near Flat
Creek, on the Benton road, of smallpox.
He was but three days ill.,
1t is stated by the Salt Lake Tribune,
that James Morrison, who will be remem-
bered as the proprietor of the Mullan Tun-
mel boarding house last winter, and has
been missing since July, is believed to
have been murdered on the Yellowstone
and his body thrown into the river
The Northern Pacific tunnel at Bozeman
Pass has advanced 45 feet into the noun.
tain at the west end Of the tunnel and
work is progressing satisfactorily. The
machinery at both ends is now properly
adjusted and drills arc cutting their way
through the mountain with the regularity
Of clock.work and momentum that is IL
resistible.
A band of eight Indian policeman from
the CGur dBlene mission, visited Missoula
last week in search of an eloping couple of
savages. They failed to catch their oyster,
however, and after diligent search, returned
with heavy hearts and empty pockets, for
reward Of fifty dollars was offered for their
pture.-lMissoulian.
Twenty-Five hundred white construction
employees Of the Northern Pacific, in Mon.
tana, struck Saturday on account of raise
in board of half dollar week. There is
no violence. The supervising engineer tel
cgrapled that the old board rates must be
maintained, and it is thought the men will
return to work. The Chinese, numbering
!, 600, were not in the strike.
The general land Office at Washington
has made the following ruling, important
to Montana people: Land which proG,,-
ccs wild grass, but not in sufficient guam
tity to l'ay for cutting as hay, arc desert
lands, and may be entered as such; but
when the character Of the land is such that
a crop Of hay may be produced without ir-
risatioD, such land is not subject to desert
entry.
A dinner party in honor Of Mrs. Power,
mother Of 7. c. Power, was given Thurs
day evening by Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Cannon
at their residence on Broadway. Mrs.
Power contemplatcs leaving in few days
for her home i'll Dubuque, Iowa, and this
was a farewell party in her honor. There
were twenty-five guests present and the
evening passed most observation-disclosures
1t is reported that branch road is to be
built from Billings to what is known as
the Gap in the bull Mountains. The road,
t is understood, will be built by the North
nrn Pacific authorities, and work is to COM
nence at once. Bull Mountain is in the
;oal mining region, and the proposed
branch will be extended directly to the
tBozeman Conrier.
The bridge Of trestle work at Marsat's
,ulch, fourteen miles below Missoula,
when finished will be quite an elaborate
'i1alr. Including the approaches the bridge
will be S66 feet long, and o27 feet high, con-
aiming l,0O4,OO0 feet Of lumber. What is
inown rs the Howe truss will be used in
he centre Of the structure, which will prob
'bly cost in the neighborhood OF $4,000
n s5o,uO.-I IMissoulian.
J. b. Orr intends stocking pond on
Browns gulch, near Butte, with 10000 fish
+ different varieties. He already owns a
sh pond which is we'll filled with fish
mong them large numbers of trout which
ill weigh from one and half to four
onnds. The new pond will cover about
IN acres of land, and when il is ready for
sc he intends to remove the choicest fish
rom the old pond and place them in the
CIV. Hcwill also put pleasure sail-boat
n the new fish pond. and smaller one
,r fishermen who will be allowed to try
leir luck for small sums.-[Helena Ind.
The Oro Cache Mine.
From gentlemen just arrived from Mai.