The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-07-30

! Wednesday night by falling rock.
The Northern Pacific railroad track wa
laid last Thursday evening to Bakers Sta
ton, eighteen miles this side of Mi soula
Governor Crosby will leave early thi
| week to meet President Arthur and part,
at Green river and accompany them or
their trip through the Park.
Florence Anderson, of Butte, last Tues
day evening tried the morphine remedy
for: all the ills: that flesh is heir to, but a
doctor aud a stomach pump stepped in
and she still lives.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: Utah,
as collection district, is now wiped out
Hereafter we shall know it as the District
Of Montana. And thus we progress in the
Kingdom of God like crawiish.
A. G. Botkin has got through with his
examinations intQ>election frauds at Miles
City and Glendive. The general impress
sion is that he has obtained startling de-
velopments but it is not known what use
he will make of them.
Gilmer, Salisbury & Co. are stocking
up for double daily line between Deer
Lodge and Missoula. This will make a
double daily line from Helena to Missoula.
The vast amount of travel rendered this
increase of facilities necessity.
The Fort Keogh soldiers who this sum-
mer have been taught that the ak and
moving machine arc sometimes mighter
than the sword, have pretty nearly COM
pleted the work of getting cordwood and
hay enough to supply that post during
the winter.
A petition is being circulated at Miles
City urging the Secretary of the Interior
to take steps toward compelling the Crow
Indians to keep ON their reservation, and
likewise to prevent the Cheyennes from
committing depedations on the stock be-
longing to white settlers Oh the upper
Rosebud and Tongue rivers.:<
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A rich vein of free milling ore, % inches
in width, that will coup in the hundreds,
is being developed in the ,BourbSp me,
Birch Creek district .Tlpeaaead PFoper is
over nine feet in width. Other leads in
this district are also prospecting we'll, and
we would not be- surprised to see a pros
l'a'""" camp d'r"l"red at an early day.
A party of tourists returning from the
Park toward Virginia City came upon a
ison river. The bones were bleached and
other appearances indicated that the body
had lain there many years. A man known
to be horse thief was in the vicinity and
from obscure evidence it is believed that
he knew how the body came there.
s. L. Benedict, Inspector of Indian
Agencies, has just visited Blackfoot
agency and says the Indians there have
l,pt few skin lodges and their teepees for
the most part are made Of -four sacks and
gunny sacks. They have plenty to eat at
present, but are otherwise very poor.-Ex.
Good God! who ever heard tell of an
Indian being poor when ne had plenty to-
eat2
There was so much enthusiasm shown |
It Benton in organizing the fire depart
nent, and the patriotism was so un
bounded that every man and boy in the |
own joined the gang. The newspapers
ire now gravely wondering how, in case
If fire, the department can get along
Without crowd to stand around in the |
way, and give multifarious Instructions
nd absorb the surplus water which the
,oys fail to get on the fire.
The steamer Helena, while coming up
he river fbc other day met with an acci-
lent near Milk river that came very near
ending her to the bottom Of the river A
.ood-sizcd hole was made in her bottom
nto which the water flowed rapidly, turn
ng the boat partly on her side. But by
,ood work the water was pumped out and
he injury repaired before any serious
Iamage was done. Some of the goods in
he hold got wet.
The heaviest casting probably that ever
anne to the country arrived on the Z. &
I. and was shipped in sections last week
0 the Drum Lummon mine It was the
v wheel for the new mill-twenty -four
net in diameter and weighing 31,50O.
llthough carried upon imbers in sections,
! barely escaped the bridges and re-
uired the removal of coal bins, etc. The
oading of it, and carriage of it, III wagons,
1as what might be called an artistically
erculean task.
Conductor Sacia's freight train was
recked on Monday last seventeen miles
ast of Glendive. The accident was
aused by washout resulting from the ,
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