The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-08-11

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One of the striking operators at Helena
has gone to work in the Northern Pacific
office.
Loaded steamers cannot reach Benton
at the present stage of water i'll the Mis-
souri,.
The Northern Pacific track layers are
fairly clear Of the Rocky mountains by
this time.
The new mill of the Collar Mining
Company at Maiden will cost the COM
pany $150,000.
1t is asserted at Miles City that Charles
G. Cox is soon to be reirstated in the
larmy.-Bozeman Chronicle,
John Fl. Ming is rounding up his cattle
on the Chestnut range, with the intention
of removing them to the Yellowstone
country.
Mr.. J. E. Sprague, lately Of Ubet, has
leased the Grand Central hotel at White
Sulphur Springs, and took possession on
August 1st.
The buffalo are nearly all in the vicini
ty OF the Woody mountains. They are
quite plentiful there, and a great number
of half-breeds are hunting them.
The construction of the Miles City
school house, like the Butte court house,
is being delayed on account of legal
technicalities, with reference to disposing
Of the bonds.
A Butte lothario was shot in the leg
last Sunday night by an irate husband
who had been '.watchin' Of him." The
husbands name was Potter, and Jo
LaRoche is the man who was shot.
Lieut.. jill Thompson, OF Fort Missoula.
has been assigned to place the Big Hole
monument in position. The monument is
in commemoration OF the fight between
the NeZ Perces and detachment of the
Seventh Infantry.
After Mullan tunnel is completed and
the overhead line abandoned. it will make
the boss wagon road across the mountain.
The grade is easier and more regular than
that of the present wagon road and the
route is shorter.
The Montana Fair Association offers
$4,000 in premiums this year. There
will be trotting races, running races and
bicycle races every day among the exhi-
bitiOns. The association has mile track,
which is the finest in the Territory The
grand stand accommodates 1900 persons,
and commands view Of every part of the
track.
A. correspondent of the Toronto (Can-
ada) Globe, gives Mics City terrible
hard name for prohigacy, calling it the
paradise of rowdles and drunkards."
The scribe evidently draws on his imagi-
nation for many of his facts. Although
Miles has great many rough characters,
even for frontier city, it has large
share of very desirable citizens.
Twenry-six tons of wool and forty-six
tons of bullion were taken to the Marias
yesterday august 6th) to be put ON the
Black Hills-all the boat is able to take
at that point About forty tons of b1llion
additional will be taken to the Coal Banks
and put on the boat at that place. Ed.
Smiths train, loaded with bullion, goes to
the Coal Banks. and the other teams un-
load at the Marias.-River Press.
On Saturday last train On the Park
branch ran into band OF cattle belonging
to F. F. Fridley, knocking several of them
down the grade, bruising tn EN- consider
ably, and cutting off the hind legs of a
fine thoroughbred Durham cow valued at
$500. Two horses of Mr. Fridley's had
been killed by train near the same
place but short time before, and it is not
surprising to know that the colonel is not
feeling very much in love with the iron
horse Just now.-Courier.
J. r. Wilson. who has been connected
with the Dillon Tribune for two OR three
years past. has turned his Faber over to
another. j. r. has furnished many col
umns Of sprightly reading to the Tribune
during his connection with the paper, and
he will be missed by the readers as well
as by Montana exchanges, 1t is under
stood that he has fallen heir t. rich pos
sessions in the south of France, for which
country he will leave soon as the walking
becomes good. The name of his successor
has not been announced.
Dick Argus, a sheep herder on a range
north of Billings, had narrow escape in
this wise: On Monday night last about
dark. while taking walk around his