The semi-weekly miner., 1883-06-27
MONTANA MELA.NGE.
Accidents and Incidents as Mar
rated By Our Exchanges.

Choteau county will organize rae
ing association.
There is a big demand for sheep
shearers in Eastern Montana.
Thirty tons of bullion are awaiting
shipment at Cook City.
Choteau county has thirty prison
ers in the county Jail.
Prospectcrs are finding good quartz
in the north part Of Ross Hole.
The bonds of the city of Helena
sell at a premium of three per cent.
The project of building a Metho-
dist church at Livingston is being
agitated.
All of the rivers and streams of the
Territory are having their annual
"June rise"
Methodist sinners at Dillon are
now called to prayer by six hundred
pound Baltimore bell.
Tommy Cruise has purchased the
Pen0bscOt mine Oh Silver creek, Deer
Lodge. county.
The Glendive jailor now guards
the prisoners in the county bastile
with two bear cubs as assistant SEN
tiHels.
J. e. Fazenbaker, a printer, and
w. Yeomans settler, were drowned
in the Saskatchewan at Medicine
Hat, recently.
President Arthur will make an ex-
cursion to the Yellowstone National
Park in company with Gen. Sheri-
dan in August.
Miles City hasa Tornado Insurance
Company, which takes all the
chances against cyclones, windstorms
and bloviating editors.
A stock company is about to be
formed in Bozeman to build and Op-
crate street railway from the court
house to the depot.
The architect who drew the prize
for the best model for the National
Park Hotel received S., 600 for his ac-
cepted plans.
Downs s. Allen have sold their
herds in the Sun River country to
the Montana Cattle Company for
1926, 900.
The Helena policemen have re-
ceived their new uniforms, and are
now about the best dressed men in
Helena.
The Montana mine at Maiden is
proving to be a valuable piece of
property. The little mill in opera
ton on it is cleaning up 5000 per
week.
Congress having reduced the ap-
preparation for the Dext fiscal year, q
number of forts will be discontinued,
among them Forts Keogh and Mis-
soula.
Major Blaine on returning home
from his pay trip to Forts Maginnis
and Ellis, was nearly drowned while
crossing the Musselshell in an ambu-
lance.
James rutherford, while laboring
under an attack OF tangle-foot, made
two attempts to kill himself with a
rifle at Billings last week.
Noah Armstrong; new mill in
Georgia gulch has started up on ore
from the neighboring mines in which
Mr.. Armstrong is interested.
Some ghoul has been disturbing
the graves in the Bozeman cemetery,
and it is probable that if his identity
is discovered he will be candidate
for graveyard space himself.
It is reasonably certain that the
narrow guage road will be built down
the Jefferson. In the canyon the
rock work is about all done.-BOze-
man Courier.
A Sunday School Association for
Montana will be organized in Helena
some time in July, by B. r. Jacobs,
Chairman of the National Commit
tee, Chicago.
DR.. A. Lamme took the stage at
Deer Lodge for Helena last week,
leaving $3.50 in narrow-gauge
sleeper, which has not been rec0v-
cred.
A new town is TO be laid out up
Tongue river, about eighty miles
above Miles City. 1t will be called
Ashland from the quantities of ash
timber found in that section.
On Tuesday evening, soldier of
company E. Fifth Infantry, named
Daniel Shaw, was killed by light
ming at Fort Keogh, while lying in
his bunk in the company's quarters.
The Northern Pacific Company
will expend $1,000 in improving the
road from Sinking Water to Bill
ings, to encourage the shipment by
this route of northern Wyoming cat
tie.
G. H. Dewey and Walter Burke, of
Billings, engaged in law suit in
volving the title to span of mules.
when festive horse thief stepped iii
and settled the ownership by getting
away with the mules.
The Herne g. Roscoe combination
have proved themselves to be a COM
bination of first-class bilks. They
are now in Livingston, minus their
trunks and show paraphernalia,
which are held in Bozemau for debt.
-BOzeman Chronicle.
Interviewing Greystone.