, 1883-02-24
FROM THE FRONT.
An Interesting Batch from Our Able Cores
pondcut at the Front OF the N p L. K.
FEoNr, WEST MONTANA,
E,.brnlTy IA. lSS3.

FEONr, WEST MONTANA,
February IA, lSS3.
Horse Pl,ins Station, ::52l miles east Of
WalluIa Junction IL now the terminal
station. All trains run through to there.
PASSENGER train. arrive at & A. NJ. and leave
at NJ. Fad Of track is at the 3J6 mile
most Four mere bridges TO be built and
six miles more of iron to be laid, viii COM
pl.te the {. F. Division. Superintendent j.
|. Hallett will then have constructed l''o
miles OF the harvest railroad TO be built, all
,hiups considered. there h.s been III North
America.
Superin,enient Ilallett has over ;hous-
and men already at work on the the Mis-
scula Division, on the uncompleted eight
miles between the end Of the c. F. DIVISION
and the third crossing. Also, has two pile
driver, at work driving pilrs Tor bridge at
the third crossing.
c. A. Lynch & Bro. have daily st'ge
,unnipo b,tween the terminus and Missonia;
distance rinety miles. The trip Is made III
fifteen hours. Lynch brothers are rustieTs
and old.timers in Montana. Nepton Lynch,
.b.;r father. now quite an old man, Is the
| ,ioreer of this section of the country. lie
frs. came to Horse Plains i'll lS65, and now
owns a good-sized ranch and numerous
b.,3 of cattle. The Hors1 Plaias station
houses and tnrn-table are being built on his
| farm
The mountains aronnd Horse Plans have
every indication of being rich IN mineral
few promisinS quartz leages have already
heep located. At the head OF Horse fiaihs'
,wo miles from the track, party oFns d
foot vein. which assays so TO the ton
Arou,ii there fair looking iioat quartz Is
,;cLed ND in abundance. Old prosPeeto's
have begun to prick up their 'ars AMI heei
their weather eye opep.
Yesterday, at Horse Plains. John A =. .ur'
tain, foreman, and VIM Taylor, iah'Fer'
! xe,. killed instantly, and John Gilmore
I,borer. vas seriously wounded, by an eS'
pIosion Of giant powder, which they wer'
tb,sins out by an open fire. Curtain ieave'
wife and two children at Spokane lie
WIS well liked by his men and had many
friends along the line.
Smallpox has again broken ont. lHi'
time At stevens mill. Six cases there az
r,sse,. and one death from the disease.
nr uttlefield, who has for some time ha'
charge of the hospital on construction Is Sn
psrscded by DR.. II. B,ne. OF San Francisco
The cold snap is over. Weather ei0naS
.,n. Oalv one inch OF snow at th'
Front. -,
Conductor Ed. McEvoy's numerous 'riehd'
=, the Front were pleased to see r L. retu'i
TOW W,n, W.lla looking so well and hap
J.r,he town or what makes the boys
look so happy;
VIM. Bigham- of Spokane, is on a 0us'
ness trip at the Front -
A, Uorse Plains, last week, Thomas NJ
Archer. a swamper. became insane anh WI
taken to Missoula-
To-day at LAST Chance, French Levy
laspsr of a chop house, shot Batch
gambler. in the lef. shoulder. ,aase-
gambling quarrel.
In Dutch JAke's saloon u nohf
i, two faro games and four stud poker
Games running day and night 1t no IN
r.n,I sight to see twenty-five hundred Q
!, three thousand dollars in com On s'uu
,,bls At once and pots Of five and 81
hundred dollars. S..rsn,
D Another death from small -Po1 IL sse'e"'
J mill to-d.y-a Mr. Wilcox