The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-21
MONTANA NEWS.

the Clarks Fork mines awaiting shipment
Vice President Oakes is expected along
Montana divisions of the N. P. in few
days.
Billings district is about to bond itselt
to the extent of $4,000 to erect school,
building.
| DR.. Lamme, of Bozeman. had his pocket
picked of $3.50 during recent trip over
the Utah and Northern railroad.
Hugo J. Hoppy, who killed Patsy
Walters in Bozeman last winter, is held in
the sum of $1,000 bonds to appear at next
term of court
John Downey, brakeman, had his foot
badly mashed at Bozemans ON Monday in
attempting to couple cars to the forward
end of locomotive. Es@
From telegram received by Acting
Governor McCutcheon, we learn that Gov.
j. Schuyler Crosby will return to Mon
tana on the 18th of July.
A telephone line extends from Custer
station across the Yellowstone to Junction
City on the opposite. Messages are trans
| mitted at 25 cents each.
The western end of track is within fif-
teen miles of Missoula and advancing
rapidly enough to warrant belief that it
will reach that town by July 1st.
A stock company is about to be formed
in Bozeman to build and operate street
railway from the court house to the depot.
They think it can be made to pay.
A new town is to be lain out up Tongue
river, about eighty miles above Miles City.
1t will be called Ashland from the uuanti-
ties of ash timber found in that section.
The Northern Pacific company is about
to expend $4,000 in improving the road
from Sinking Water to Billings, to en-
courage the shipment by this road of
cattle grown in northern Wyoming.
Water tanks have advanced along the
railroad line as far as Townsend. Loco
motives utilize the syphon in taking drink
from the Prickly Pear, Ten Mile and other
streams west of the Missouri crossing.
Gallatin county Jail is now "desig-
mated depositary' for criminals convicted
under crimes to serve in the penitentiary
The county charging therefor the sum of
$3.50 per day. Warden Blakely will take
care of them.
The largest testle on the line of the
Northern Pacific is that across Corican
Defle, about twelve miles west of Mis-
soula When finished the track level will |
be 300 feet in the air. The length of the
trestle is Z, 400 feet.
On Tuesday evening, soldier of COM
pany E, Fifth infantry, named Daniel
Shaw was killed by lightning at Fort
Keogh, while lying in his bunk in the
quarters. No one else in the
room was injured in the slightest degree,
nor was the building damaged. It is sup
posed the electric fluid came down the
chimney.
A Nez Perce chief, supposed to be old
White Bird, passed through Bitter Root
valley last week with a band of his peo-
pie. This little band of about thirty is
the remnant Of the once powerful tribe.
Their ranks have been thinned by life in
he Indian Territory, until now harmless,
hey are returning. to thesvicinity of their
Sid homes.
The first shipment of bullion from
Helena >via. the Northern Pacific, will
AXE place July 4th, when 100000
pounds Of Gregory bullion will be shipped.
It will require fifty cars to transport this
me shipment. The Helena Herald esti-
mates that the Gregory reduction works
will furnish 100000 pounds Of freight
very month for the Northern Pacific, east
Yard. T.
The grand jury failed to find an indict-
nent in the cases Of Nathan G. Lay and
aeorgc A. Lowe, charged with killing ,