The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-06-02
MONTANA NEWS.

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| Eozeman, Monday June 4th.
Ti1 Nj i.rs Tnio'.. at Bate will cele-
brate its fifth anniversary on the 18th o
! June
"Gendiys Is riding sefsnciy on the top
wave of prosperity" y. J. the Time. o
/ that city.
! NJ. Ryan, All Idaho cattle dealer; Is driv
ing band of 5000 cattle from Idaho into
Custer county.
Rufus Hatch is getting up q National
Park picnic which will he largely made vi,
of distinguished people.
The Crow Indians are being removed
rom the Saltwater agency to the valley
If the Little and Big Horn Rivers.
John c. Oswald, the millionaire LIQUOR
man signifies his intention of going into
the cattle business not far from Glendive.
Gardner boasts Of fifteen saloons and
three stores. 1t is said that newspaper
trVn.
The Northern Pacific tract. j. laid TO Bed.
ford, to which poiii; trains run, landing
passenger. within halfa days stage ride TO
Helena.
\. Van Camp and Martin Settle sold their
hersi. OF the Musselsl,el to McGayin ana
Johnson OF keokuk, Iowa. The herd was
rated q! $50 per head
The Smith river round up commenced
operations Monday last This is the first
time the stnckgruwcrs os the valley have
united i'll . general ruund-Up.
The Helena Land Office has received in
ntrnctions to sell the old Black:cet agency
grounds nor,l! o: i ,rt Sriw. The grounds
compri. e al acres of choice land.
Having resi- sncd and LEFT Fort Keogl,,
Geo. W. Butler the cranky nephew of his
uncle, has reached Wa-hinyton. and is
misrcprcsenting Montana like the brilliant,
lying lunatic he is.
Az sooE ae the Nationa PARK branch il
completed coupons will be attached to
each through ticket. from s.. Paul 10 Port
land. giving the holder Of each ticket (;
free ride TO the Park and return.
A. Van Camp, one uftEe well-tO.do stock.
men of the Mu-sel=heil, recently sold his
band rf cattle, numbering 800, for s35 per
head. He retained only COW and q calf.
just what he started with ten years ago.
Col. J. T. Dodge psid visit yesterday 70
Mu!lsu tunnel, ani has found upon inves-
tiga,;on tba: an overhead railroad can be
built across the ridge with grade cf only
four feet IN one hundrsi--Hciens Indepen
dent.
An explosion OF giant powder Oh freight
train about six miles west Of Poca tel!a
inred two men. The car caught fire III
some mauper and the hes. cx,odsd the
dynamite.
The Northern Pacific au:L0ritic. Lave
issued a circular announcing the compile
,ion nj the read to Townsend, l20 miles
west Of s.. Paul AMI J; miles cast If
Helena. The rate to Por.land /. s,ls; time
seven days.
4 prominent stock grower savs that
with continuance of the interest and at
k, ND, Sfr
will shortly assume proportions that will
ovcrshadoH any single interest ci . COM
ule-cial nature il the west.
Judge Sterling paid Fred Stuke yesterday
IS a. the bounty for killing bear. This
/. the first awar,, made under the new law.
The bear, large black one, WAS killed re-
Gently in Colorado Gulch. The hide was
sold 10 Green Pruitt-IIelena lndepen
dent.
Lieutenant Steele. Of Fort Magnnis,
lately discovered and captured band OF
hfty-two Cree Indians under Chef Tabor,
Oh the Missouri river near tie Mussclshell.
The tIicving red rasca.s ars being kicked
back into Canaua with luphasis and e1pe-
dilion.
The robe and fur trade Of Benton has not
been 80 extensive this year ss last. Last
week the sales Of robes amounted to about
81, 900, averaging $3.50 to s7.25. Twenty
three cents pound was paid for deer and
antelope skins, and beaver skins sold for
81. 60 each.
\ circular issued by General Manager
Hault Of the n. p. road, states that the
practice of giving orders Oh the paymaster
for wages due has become too common.
After June ls1, 1883 such orders vii not be
approved. except for satisfactory reasons.
Merchants and others are cautioned not to
accept such orders as without approval
they are worthless.
The Yellowstone Park contains 1900
square miles, or l $1,000 acres, or 10000
acres more than in the state Of Delaware,
and nearly twice " many acres as the State
Of Rhode Island. In size it exceeds all the
national parks OF the world combined. #
IL were all arabic land, susceptible os settle
nent ant! successful cultivation, it would
afford homes Of loo acres each for IA, 720
families.
Very nearly l,0tsl. .ooOGo0 acres Of land Of
the United States remains ursurveycd 20
this day. In Montana 5000 600 acres are
rs free from the touch Of the Surveyors
chains Us when Penn made his treaty with
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