The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-14

LUG EaIOn tuelIer VIII start aDOul
November 10.
1t is proposed to bridge the Missouri
at Townsend.
The Roman Catholics have established
a school at Bozeman.
A syndicate in Miles City intend Dor.
ing another artesian well.
The Indians at the Poplar River
agency are reported to be starving.
A Benton firm sold nearly fifty
ounces Of strychnine in a few days to
wolvers.
A Benton hunting party recently
brought in over two hundred ducks and
thirteen geese.
The assessed valuation Of property in
Silver Bow county this year will foot
up about SO, 25O, 900.
The Alice Mining company disbursed
S31, 800 during the past month, being
S105, 1856. 90 assay value.
One Marshall who holds a lease from
The government of a location in the
middle geyser basin, will build a hotel
there in the spring.
7. W. Thompson, of Benton, has
been committed to answer the charge
of raising a check on the Bank Of
Northern Montana.
The grand encampment of Odd Eel
lows will meet at Helena on the 10th
instant. Montana now has seven sub
ordinate encampments.
There is said to be three feet of snow
on the Upper Madison valley, in the
vicinity of the big ranch recently taken
by Virginia City parties.
The Hecta company has on hand at
Glendale some 400, 600 bushels of char
coal for the winter run, and some 900
tons Of surplus ore in the bin at the
smelter.
The shipment of beef cattle from the
Yellowstone valley has averaged seven-
ty-ive carloads per day for the past six
weeks, and the railroad officials are
taxed to their utmost to furnish cars to
supply the increasing demand.
The overhead line across the main
range, fifteen miles west Of Helena. will
be dispensed with on and after Monday
next. The great tunnel will come into
use on that day, and all traffic of the
Northern Pacific will pass through 1t
after that date.
Stephen Gainan brought in Monday
has 1864 ounces of gold dust and mug
gets from his claims on Browns gulch.
The ''stuff" is worth a little over so, 400
and is the result of five months labor
of two men on ground that had been
previously worked.
Frank Auer, committed suicide at
Green River at about HIS Sunday
forenoon, shooting himself in the right
temple with a 43-calibre revolver. He
has long been suffering with rheuma-
tism, and lately has had a very severe
attack, which is thought to have affect
ed his mind.
Land grabbers at the west traudu-
lently inclose thousands of acres of gov
eminent lands for stock raising pur-
poses, to the great injury of actual set
tiers. In one instance men living near
a city in Montana fenced up 5000
acres of public lands and pastured the
cattle of citizens at the rate of 81 per
head.
Jack Waite, in a communication to
the Helena Herald, states that he will
agree to stay in a 24-foct ring with
Paddy Ryan until the latter starves to
death, and Paddy retorts in the Salt
Lake Herald that he is willing to fight
Waite, and will agree not to raise his
hands from his sides. He says he can
make Waite knock himself out.
The Bozeman Courier is nothing il
not sympathetic. This is the touching
way it alludes to the Miles City fire:
again it is our sad duty to chronicle
the work Of d~esolation and destruction
WiouBhb oy tuo ulo ueuu. lulS IlLue
the fair little hamlet Of Miles City is
the victim. 1t receivesa crushing blow
at its leading industry-thirteen sa-
looms were burned to the ground"
The Lexington Mining company, who
have under bond the Princeton lode, in
the Boulder district, Deer Lodge coun-
ty, have decided to purchase the same,
paying therefor the sum of $4,000. We
understand the papers will be drawn up
soon. This lead was taken up under
the old law, and is about $500 feet In
length. The purchase is to include the
mill site and water right.-Miner.
We understand that H. E. Wolf, the
veteran theatrical man, has made a
proposition to the young men of Miles
City, which Is about as follows: If they
will furnish him with two lots In a de-
sirable location, he will Immediately
erect a building to answer for a theater,
ballroom and a place for any kind of a
public entertainment, said building to
cost $4,000. The proposition is a good
one and we think is worth looking
after.
The Montana Cattle company, whose
ranch is located at the mouth of Sun
river, have 1,750 acres Of hay and pas
ture lands under fence. Among its
stockholders are three United States
senators, the third assistant postmaster
general, and other officials high in au-