The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-06-09
MONTANA NEWS.

Decoration day was duly observed ir
Helena, the school children participating.
Al Bait" prime hay is worth from 500. To
$50. per ton, aud wood $500 to sc, 30 per
cord.
The Times says that Miasoula is marked
out on the map Tor the final concentration
Of boon,s.
! The NJ. f Conference Of Montana Bishop
Wiley presiding, viii convene in Butte
City, August 18th.
Secretary McCutc'ieon is acting Cover
nor during the absence Of the Executive
from the Territory.
The people of Benton have pctitinned
The Secretary Of War not to accept the re-
si.nation Of Col. 1 les.
G. G Trowbril-c the last survivor of
the Lewis and Clarke expedition to this
country, died recently in Detroit
Deer Lodge voted in favor Of issuing
$1,000 bonls for school purposes For
tv-hve votes. all i'll favor were cant.
Young cattle are arriving rapidly from
tie States for the Yellowstone ranges.
Over fifteen thousand head haYe already
arrived
The HERALD complains Of The disgracefu
condition Of the Helena cemetery, esper-
tally thit p,rti1i vI,r. tlr CAinese are
inferred.
Tie M,rllis de Mores, the titled soil
iii! :r of the Little Missouri. has purchased
an interest in TIL y ,rth-rn Pacific rcfrger-
atpr line
The Deadwood disaster by food has
pat the Helena people tn thinking. and
! they are now advocating the construction Of
u tlume down the gUlCh.
! The Montana mission ri the Methodist
| Episcopal C..;tc., viii met in Conference
at 3 ute on An Hlst lih. Bishop Wiley,
of Cincinnati, will preside
! Mr. Margaret viii ans desires in forna-
! tisn of the whereabouts Of her husband,
George Williams who di.app-arcl from
. Helena on the lGtil Of ApriI, 1888, and has
! not been seen or heard from since.
Il is understood thar Gilmore & Salisbury |
will APPEAL from The decision of the D:s- |
'TIct C"urt At Deer L0dEc awarding S2I 800 !!
damages 20 Dick Kcmnon, whose le.
was broken by the upsettins of stage |
coacE.
correspondent Of the Ifn-banlman .
predicts that in eight We .r. Montana will |
ron:ain more sheep than California does at /
present. and that wind mills will be one Of |
the main Instrument. to uIitize the present
watcrieSs ranges.
man named Cecil, who rnhbed the
treasure box Of the Helena and Benton
stage Inc il' Fthruary "f $500, was arrest
al Last week. A. tie time no cline could
b obtained, and the matter rested until
La: wce-; when Cecil gave hinlsclfaway hv
diSpo,ing OF come otthe stolen coin.
There has been {. marked advance in
copper stocks in the Eastern markcst. pro-
'H!biF me result El inc ilcT'asth USES lpE
copper in The mechanic arts recently dis
GOV red w. have as promising copper
mines in Montana as exist anywhere
Avant Courier. i
Judge II. n Magure, ofthe Henry Vii
lard Mining Company. is about TO write a J
"IIistory of the Last Fields of the Sioux .
In its full scope it will embrace, carefully
compiled ani we'll authenticated, all the
facts in regard to the first settlement Of )
and the progress ofciyilization in Montana
Territory.
The Henry Willard mining company now Y
tent of placer gr,un in + nj grant gulrl
and no barren gravel h - been enrounterr .
az anv point. Rich ny iriulIc pro<pcc' .
are found throurhru the gravel bodies
which are in places 1i0 feet deep. y"
houIdcrs have 50 far be- encountered 81
larrc as to require blasting. The workin-
facilities could not be better.
On Wednesday. the miners. 81. work ~. {
the claims Of the Al Ter q llc', Co.. Min Z
ming Co.. dag on. an intere.tin, relic in til"
shsre If IN clel,h mt tn>k very similar IN .
Shup; (, the one Inull NJ 4 ipHetown som"
wears ago and which ia nov IN =
the Smithsonian Institute The one I'M
aartheh this week is forty one inches in 1
length and thirteen in circumference,
and is in an excellent state OF preserva- '
Iion. Y
Glendiyc Times: A proposition has been
made by party capitalists to n7.saniz-a
in F.r.-o for the purpose of bring
ny Montana beef cattle from Glen.live and j
,ther shipping points to the stock yar'l, q
here, and slaughter them for canning pur +
poses, instead of pa, ing frciht to Chicago L
III the live stock, and then freight back on .
he canned gnuis. It woulI seem a. "
hough this were s srhrme worthy Of atten- :,
ion by oar own nea3lc.
&
The Montana Improvement CnnparT, y
N organization recently Incorporated a! !,
Hissnrtn. has contracted for the entire q
tumpage or timber, on the Northern :,
'aciiic land in that section of country.
'xtening from tn. !lho line eastwsrl ;,
md covering tn. dytilahs timber on the .
Northern Pacific lanl grant in the Ter ~
;tnry. Thy will furnish the Northern u
Pacific all the lumber and material r"Guir-
d on the road from Ilaho to the Missouri.
General Anderson was in Deer Lodre z
'n.;hs 9th inst. accpnp.lie! by Dr.. u. u
'.rings Professor of Political Economy at