The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-19
MONTANA NEWS.
Benton wants u land Office.

oats $3.50 per hundrsi.
| 4 Fort keogh deserter was captured by
! Lieut. A lien, in GIendive, few days ago.
! The lodge OF United Workmen at Maiden
will give bail on the night of May .3rd.
The teachers institute for Levi, and
Clarke county will be held on June 10th and
| llth.
The 18th inst, is the day designated when
the track layers will reach the Missouri at
Townsenh.'
! Judith has stock protective secret Or
ganization which has adopted as its name
| Ku-Klux-Klan."
Four Indian cattle killers have been cap
tured and lodged in Jail by the sheriff Of
Chotcau county.
| The National Park hotel people have sub
mitted their plans, and say that they will
| be ready for tourists July l6.
| The blast furnace in the Barker district is
! now turning out from 100 to 80 bara of
; bullion every twenty -four hours.
II now takes Butte mail three days to go
through to Helena There is no bottom to
the stage roads between Boulder and Butte.
! A syndicate of ST. Paul capitalists has
purchased the ranch Of John j. Faut, 32O
acres in all, adjoining the Helena town
site
| The Oregon g. California railroad an
nounce that the California extension is
opened to Glendale, 65 miles south of Rose
burg Oregon.
! The Northern Pacific takes out daily fifty
cars of emigrant moveables destined for
points between Fargo, Dakota, and Boze-
man, Montana.
| Two soldiers and corporal were guard
ing two horses u, Box Elder station, a few
nights ago, and yet the horses were stolen
before morning.
The first through ticket from St. Paul to
Portland, Oregon. was sold on the 9th. 1t
was q second class ticket, and cost 500.
First class tickets cost $l25.
| Herzog, the Radersburg culprit, was
found guilty of murder in the second de-
gree, and sentenced by Judge Wade to
| twenty years imprisonment.
Costcllo's big circus, now vending It's
way up the Missouri. will not post its bills
! in Montana until the Northern Pacific rail
road is completed to Helena.
The Pioneer Press says that the Northern
Pacific will take out twenty carloads OF
stock this morning for Hobson d Co., OF
Utica, Montana. The shipment is made to
Billings.
Willard and party arrived in Miles City
about 2:30 OIL Thursday afternoon. They
stopped short time, took rapid drive
around the town and then passed on east
ward.
George Williams drew $500 from the
FIR, National bank Of Helena q few days
since, aud then mysSerious}y disappeared.
His wife believes lie has been spirited away
or foully dealt with
II is reported that the Northern Pacific
has closed a contract with the Knights
Templar of Chicago for through Transports
ton of their representatives to the San
Francisco conclave, by way of the Montana
Short Line.
Three tramps robbed Hon. Frank d.
Coopcr's house, near Helena, and got away
a gold watch, some clothing and several
other articles Mr.. Cooper got on their
trail and captured them in Benton with
some OF the stolen property still in their
possession.
Trach-laying Oh the Park branch BEGAN
this forenoon, and, as we learn, will be
pushed forward as vigorously and rapidly
as the progress Of grading will permit. The
road will without doubt be completed by
July LIST, quite in time for the first tourist
travel Enterprise, 18th.
Two children, a boy and q girl, were play
ing in a lumber yard III Helena when a tall
nile OF scantling fell upon them. The boy
was taken ont alive, bat he died soon after,
and the little girl was found under the
lumber quite dead. The former was a boy
four wears old and the latter five.
The land on which the new town OF
Gardener stands is covered by desert
filing made by Ed. Stone, agent OF ths
Northern Pacific, who bought out the right
of one Mccartney, 8 squatter. A gentle
man rejoicing in the name OF Buckskll
jim denies Stones title and is doing s
thriving business in granting leases to those
who are green enough to pay for them.
, The track of the Missoula division, North
eru Pacific, reached its 37dth mile on thu
10th, Ave hundred and ninety miles east o
Portland. It is expected the western eli
vision will reach Mlssoula and the eastern
, ent: Helena by the middle of June. Th'
The company will then issue through
tickets from Portland to st. Paul for $l2O
including 1928 miles Of staging.
The Judith Cattle company, whose head
quarters are on Big Spring creek. have sole
their entire band, numbering some 1000
except, we are told, about 800 heifers--to
party. whose name as near as We got 1t, j
: lWahlstode The price is understood t
:, have been $3.50 all around. The cath
3 will be driven to the Northwest Territory
: The Judith company will largely restoci
G their ranges with young cattle from tn
e east,