The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-12
MONTANA NEWS.

square miles.
The advance of the railroad has so en-
livened the saloon trade in Helena that
)ld>timers are reminded of the days of '65.
Discouraging reports come back from
quite a number who left Montana to work
on the Canadian Pacific, work is reported
scarce.
The body of man was seen In the
river near Billings On Saturday but dis
appeared while the discoverer went In
search of coroner.
The contract for the care of the poor of
Custer county has been awarded to j. G.
Mackenzie, and that for medical atten-
dance to DR.. j. j. Wood,
A Chinaman stole $500 at Trout creek,
Missoula county, recently, and left for
San Francisco. He was arrested at Dillon
and is now in Deer Lodge Jail.
A skating contest IN One of the Helena
rinks between w. Alexander and J. Rey-
nolds resulted in the latter winning the
purse, $65, by narrow majority.
A few days ago the dead body of
young and we'll dressed man was found in
the Jocko river, near the third crossing.
The feet were tied together with rope,
and bullet hole through the body told a
tale of murder. The body was buried on
the bank of the river; name unknown-
Missoula Times.
twenty-five carloads of cattle passed
through Fargo over the Northern Pacific
yesterday, en- route to the great Montana
Stock Company's ranch. It is said that
during the present season this company
will ship from the east to their stock farm
not less than five thousand head of fine
cattle.-Fargo Republican, Sunday.
Montana stock growers are buying
young cattle in Iowa and Illinois and ship
ping them out to the bunch grass ranges
of the territory by the train load. There
is money in this new deal. Yearlings in
the prairie states are bought for consider
ably less than owners are willing to take
in Montana. This is already, the present
year, quite an item in the transportation
receipts of the Northern Pacific. The
same stock in two or three years later will
90 back over the same line of railroad,
rolling fat beeves, to supply the markets
from near which they came in the first
place.
u. Lowry tells the story of freighter
Who was coming along the road in the
Three Forks bottom at the same time the
rack was being laid. The bottom was
llmost sea of mud, and for ten days it
vas nip and tuck between the freighter
md the railroad. Sometimes the freighter \
vas ahead at night, and sometimes it was
he railroad. The freighter was almost in
despair, thinking the railroad would beat
i'm into Helena, but finally bridge de-
aged the tracklayers, the oxen struck
old ground, pulled out, and have reached
Helena before the iron horse after ALL
The Northern Pacific is making giant
tribes across the continent.-Helena In
dependent.
Several of Major and Mrs. Maginnis'
riends drove to the terminus of the North
IN Pacific yesterday to meet the stage
nd escort them to the city. When the
'arties met there were hearty greetings to
ur distinguished delegate and his lady.
Delegate Maginnis stands at the head of
he territorial delegation in Congress, and
as served SO well and long in the halls of
congress that Montana is justly proud of
er able and eloquent representative. He
J always welcomed here most cordially
y his constituents, irrespective of party,
$ he works with an eye single to Mon
ana and the interests Of the whole people.
lrs. Maginnis is glad to get back to the
and her old friends once more.
hey are stopping at the Cosmopolitan :.
otel.-Independent, 10th.
Dan Costello's circus has left Duluth
ia. the Northern Pacific en- route for the