The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-03-24
NEWS.
Culled From the. Columns Of Our
Exchanges.

Livingston's first Sunday School
has been organized.
There are several cases of typhoid
fever in Benton.
Nelson Storey will erect a seven
story Touring mill at Bozeman.
Water has been turned in the Alder
Gulch Mining Company's flume.
Farming operations have already
begun in the Judith Basin.
The chances look bright for build
ing a good live town at Twin Bridges.
The Virginia City council haspass-
ed an ordinance requiring the re.
moval of all signs and all awnings
| from the sidewalks.
/; The Indians around Fort Belknap
are preparing to engage quite extern
sively in agricultural pursuits during
the coming summer.
The jury in the case tried at Hell
nj on the 10Th, of the Territory
against Ford, who was charged with
shooting James Crump, brought in
a verdict of not guilty.
Elk Head, the Indian denizen of
the penitentiary, who assisted to
murder Phil. Lynch in Miles City
four years ago, has presented a sketch
in colOrs to the editor of the NeW
Northwest.
A st. Louis commercial traveller
was so impressed with the liberality
with which the Methodist cOntribu-
ton jugs in Miles City were filled
that he carried Oft one Of the jugs to
show st. Louis people how they
manage things in Montana.
The April number of The North
Wcst. a monthly periodical published
in New York, and edited by E. V.
SmaIley, will contain Illustrations Of
Billings and the upper Yellowstone
valley from drawings 10y Baron 0
Seedlings.
A military court of inquiry will
meet at Fort Custer to-day to inves-
tigate the operations last fall of the
command under Lieutenant Alfred
NJ. Fuller, I'd Cavalry, on the line Of
the extension of the Northern Pacific
railroad. The inquiry is made at the
request of Lieut.. Fuller.
By some oversight the division bill
sent to the Commissioners of Yellow
stone county was not ornamented
with the great seal Of the Territory.
When laid before the Commissioners
of Custer they demurred to the bill! at
first but finally agreed to regard it as
authentic, Notwithstanding the af,-
sence of the seal.
George StoDer one of the eld-time
workmen engaged in running the
tunnel of the Chollar mineat Maiden
in the Maginnis district, was serious
~ injured a few. days since by an ex-
plosion of giant powder. He was
frightfully bruised in various parts of
the body and sustained injuries
about the the face and eyes of mature
that will seriously impair, if notde-
stroy, his eyeslght.
An old trapper named Uncle Billy,
who lived on Flat Willow creek in
the eastern part of the Territory, is
missing, and is thought to be
and his body showed under |
the ice. His horses, beaver pelts. ETC..
are gone. A cowboy named Forbis
is suspected, he having lit out for the
hills with the old mans horses, and
. deputy sheriff from Miles City is
on his track.
A Crow Indian chief was shot by a
man about two weeks ago
between Big and Little Porcupine
Some difficulty arose over
the ownership of a horse that the
Indians had in their herd and
claimed on the ground that they bad
traded for the animal. They were
not willing to turn over the horse to
It's original owner, who then and
there drew his gun and shot the
chief through his head, killing him
almost instantly. He was arrested
by the tribe and taken to Fort Custer
where he will be held for trial before
United States authorities.