The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-06-16
subject. Beware, Mr. Dear, and take care
Of your hair, for the white man is on your
track.-IIslena Herald.

subject. Beware, Nr. Bear, and take care
Of your hair, for the white man is on your
track.-IIslena Herald.
Victor Hory made murierou, assault
on Israel Gibbs last Tuesday at the latter,
ranch near Warm Spring Station. Gibbs
captured him and lodged him in Deer
Lodge Jail. Gibbs was at one time mela-
Der of the Montana Legislature.
Col. j. o. Hubnott, late surveyor general
Of Montana, has just returned to Helena
from trip through the Kootnai district,
and states that he heard nothing up there
to indicate any gold stampede. He did
not enter British Columbia as the rivers
were all too high.
A large number of horses and mules has
recently died of some strange disease in the
(! vicinity of Walkervlle. Charley O'Neal
has lost ten head of horses, and Eugene
Sullivan two mules. 1t is believed that
the ANIMALS are poisoned by some herb
| which they cat on the rangc.-Miner.
L. Rotwitt, Of White Sulpher Springs,
and Toombs of Reeds Fort, ars digging an
immense ditch to irrigate their desert land
claims between Big Spring creek and
Cottonwood creek, The ditch is several
miles in length and will drain from 1,5OO
to 1000 inches of water from Big Spring
creek.
The Courier says: All the light grading
on the branch road to tbs Park is about
completed. Large forces are now employed
in rock work at Point OF Rocks, Upper
Canyon and Cinnabar Hills. Beyond the
the latter point but little has been done.
start has been made from Gardiner, and
the line will be finished at all early date.
No work has yet been done this spring
on the roads in the Park. Under Major
Congers Supervision a blacksmith shop
and other necessary buildings have been
put up. The Superintendent is still an1-
iously awaiting the arrival of the appHo;
priation and the government official un-
der whose direction it will be expended.--
Ayant Courier.
The Custer county commissioners ad.
vertisc that they will issue new warrants
in payment Of warrant. issued on the Sth
of March last, the latter bein. void. having
been issued by the old board after the
legislature had removed them. New war
rants will be issued only when the ac-
count. have been re-psssed by the present
board.
Arrangements are being made for eel
sbra;ing the driving of the last spike in the
Northern Pacific railroad some time in
August \ party Of English and other
prominent gentlemen have been invited
especially to be present, a special palace
car having been provided for them FROM
New York. The round trip will cost the
company some 5000.
The latest a,lyices May 2i) from the ono
Cache mine at Maiden, belonging to Mcssrs
Hauser and Hotter Of Helena, shows
-, ,3G. for a run Of two weeks from the 1tl
inst The average assays OH the lower
tunnel, in 2b2 feet al depth OF ll5 feet are
$40 per ton-tllree- -fourths gold and one
fourth silver This mine i. worked by =
prospecting mill of ten stamps, called
Huntingdon Oscillator.-Herald.
The Weld of wool rhis year will DC \
rrsat factor 10 the advancement and rapid
settlement of this section, as it Hill cause
capitalists and sheep owners 10 look to
~: hn fhn nt
bringing our territory into general notoriety
Sheep owners who have already done
shearing, report an unparalleled yield, and
that means wealth, as Montana wool
is known and appreciated the world over,
dealers paying higher prices for it than
that from any other section
The Yellowstone Journal describes an
irrigatins wheel recently made BY tho
Whitside brothers near Miles City. Sis
designed for hoisting water from the rivcr
TO the banks, a distance Of from ten to
hfty feet, and has q capacity of throwing
six barrels per minute. Being asioat III The
river, it is easily moved either up or down
the stream, without incurrins much loss
Of time .r expense. The cost Of the wheel
is triHn.; comparing the value of 1t,
With one Of these wheels put in active use,
a quarter section OF land could be made to
yield large crops very season.
Montana stock growers are buying
Young cattle in Iowa and Illinois and
shipping them out Ia the bunch grass
ranges Of the territory by / he train load.
There is money in this new deal Year
lin.s in the prairie states are bought for
considerably less than owners are willing
to take In Montana. This is already the
present year quite an item in the trans
portation receipts of the Northern Pacific.
The same stock in two OF three years later
will go back over the same line of rail-
road, rolling fat beeyes, to supply the
markets from near which they came IN the
first place.
Choice Cabbage ana Tonlatoe plants in
lois ia sl,it purchasers Call at New