The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-07-14
TERRITORIAL NEWS.


Hon. A. G. Botkin went east on Wed
nesday.
| Willard is the name of new adj itiol
to Helena.
I. Orschel return ed yesterday from
Miles City.
| J. A. and T. S. Jamison. the famou
Irish hunters, are at Billings awaiting tn
arrival of their guide, Sam Elwell.
| Twelve soldiers who deserted from For
Maginnis recently are believed to have
taken to the road and organized as ban6
of horse thieves.
A miners purse of $500, guaranteed by
prominent mining man of Butte, will he
one of the attractions for the turfmen al
| the fall races at Butte.
A six-yerr old son of Mrs Kencly, Of
Butte. had his collar-bone broken and re-
ccivcd other severe injuries by being run
over by wagon on Tuesday.
I. G. Baker & Co., of Benton, have pur-
chased about 1000 head of Leef steers
from the Shokin roundup. The price
will, it is stated, average about $50 per
head.
Bradstreets report the failure of Sweet
s. Baldwin, general storekeepers, Dillon,
with liabilities, $4,000, assets, $4,000,
of which $4,000 is stock and $21 900 book
accounts.
About sevcnty-fve men arc at work in
the Bull mountain coal mines, principally
on property belonging to the Northern
Pacific company. Claim jumping is tae
main industry among outsiders.
At American Falls, Idaho. two miners
quarre!ed, and ore named Mablv killed
his partner Mower by stabbing him in the
stomach with knie. A reward OF $500
is offered for the murdercr's arrest.
The Gregory and Alta-Montana reduc-
tion works are turning out fifteen tons OF
bullion daily. New smelling stacks, to
be added this season, will Increase the
output to about thirty tons every twenty
four hours.
A Boston dispatch dated July 10
says that Francis B. Wasster was charged
in that city with obtaining 100000 fraud
:llently 5rcm the Alta Montana mining
company. He pleaded 10: ,ut ty an]
was held. in So, ,OCO bail, which he tusnisb-
ed.
On Tuesday, at Butte, little boy OF
six years, while playing in the street,
was struck AMI thrown down by heavy
freight wagon and the wheels passed over
his shoulder and legs. Very remarkably.
he was not fatally Injured, though terribly
bruised.
A story comes up the road that Lawane
la, the iron iawed man. who exhibited her
last week in the greet feat of lifting with
his teeth a barrel of water with two men
astride of it. went crazy on the Utah q
Northern train. Before he could be over
powered he had run through an entire tier
of seats, biting at the upholstering ana
tearing the plush backs into strips.
While showing in Butte few days ago
Dan Castello's tent was caught by sud-
den gust of wind, and its mooring being
broken it gently llapseo. The audience
made rush for the .ioor and all got out
side while the canvass was still trembling
in the breeze. Happily the crowd was
small, or there might have been disastr-
Gus crush. One man was struck by a
pole and had his jaw bone broken and
had fourteen teeth knocked out.
Helena's 4th of July bullion train is
rafting the newspapers good deal and
the reports of the value of the ship
ment vary greatly. The Miner places the
value at 81, 100000, which is too high by
half. while the Inter Mountain says the
shipment is worth but $68,OOO, which is
mnch less than its true value. One paper
along the line of road traversed says that
each of the cars of the thirty six carried
1 100000 pounds, which would make the
shipment weight 50.000.OO0 pounds. An
other paper farther down the line says the
value of the cargo was twelve millions.
There is no telling what the value will be
by the time the train reaches its desti-
nation at Newark, N. j.