The weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1883, 1883-04-18
MONTANA cHRONICLED.

MONTANA CHRON1CLED.
News of the Territory Sifted
From our Exchanges.
Miles City has new daily called the
Rualer, it is = free sheet and is published
by E. H. Becker. Messrs. Cox and Hub
bell has returned to Miles and fun is ex-
pected by uninterested ones. The Com
mercial hotel, one Of the best hotels in
Miles City, has been closed. Eighty-two
emigrants arrived last week to take up
their abode in the Tongue River country.
Seventy-five ladies voted at the school
election. The new county commissioners
have disapproved of the bond Of W. W.
Garland and requested time to allow an
inspection of his books. The town Of
Junction City, says the Miles City Press,
was almost totally destroyed by fire last
week. The work of rebuilding has COM
menced however. The government tel
egraph Office at Miles City has been
abandoned.
According to the Billings Herald the
Democrats had walkaway in the late
Yellowstone county election. 1t says
that it is remarkable that there was
enough energy among Republicans to
conduct the campaign against the odds
which faced them from the time of the
convention. Work of laying iron on the
street car line has commenced, under the
supervision of John Anderson. G. H.
Thompson sold a lot on Main street
for 81 500 last week. The same lot cost
one year ago $3.50. Thus it will be seen
that property in the booming town Of
Billings is still on the rise. Billings has
given up the idea of having railroad
from the Park, but desires that the one
from Benton, diverging at Billings shall
commence at once.
The Butte Inter Mountain says that in
dications point to big output for the
Alice company this month. The daily
Miner of the 4th inst, treats its readers
to the account of m attempt to rob the
First National bank of that place. The
work is supposed to be that of tramps
who were unacquainted with the thick
ness of the vault. Some individual SUBJ
stituted the word "Drunk" for Daniel in
the name of Daniel Searles, which ap-
pears over the editorial columns Of the
Miner. Who the miscreant is the Miners
force has not been able to determine. 1t
Is supposed to be the work of an outsider.
Each one Of the Miners force having
made affidavit that they knew nothing
of the matter. The roller skating mania
seems to have taken hold on Butte in
such manner a. to be the all absorbing
topic Of talk.
The Virginia City Madisonian informs
% that there is q quartz mine within =
mile Of Virginia which the owner does
not make much Of fuss about; yet it is
about as valuable property as any that
tiles out Of doors" Mr.. John NJ. King
has been pegging away, la Tommy
Grouse, on the U. s. Grant until he has
got deep in the bow Is of the earth with
his shafts and tunnels on the lode. We
are glad to learn that he has first-class
prospects Of becoming one Of our bonanza
kings at no distant period. 1t is under
stood that parties are ready to put up
mill in return for portion of the lode;
but John is patient, and does not care to
make any big sacrifice Of this kind at
present. He not unreasonably expects
the Grant to prove a veritable Drum
Lummon before many months are past.
The Miseoula county Times Gays that
the cars are now this side of the crossing
sixty-two miles from Missoula, with fair
sailing. The grading is substantially fin
ished, but there are number of small
bridges that will occasion slight delays
when they are reached. That Missoula
has also an attack of the roller skating
mania. Also that Winston & Clark, the
contractors have arrived in Missoula,
with fifty men and teams. The body of
q man drowned in the Missoula river in
the early part Of the present year was
found on the 3rd inst, in q cave. A
shooting affray at stevensville resulted
in the death ofa man named McCluen,
on the End inst.
Richard Stein, through his attorney r.
B. Smith, has brought suit against the
Utah 4 Northern railroad company for
damages in the sum of $4,000. The
complaint has been fled in the District
Court for Beaverhead county. Stein met
with an accident on the line Of the rail-
way some time since whereby he lost
leg. The limb was so badly crushed that
it hadsto be amputated, and now Stein
seeks satisfaction in silver or its equiva-
lent. So says our spicy contemporary,
the Dillon Tribune. From the same
source we are informed that James Fitz-
patrick has been appointed postmaster,
q fact with which the Tribune does not
appreciate.