The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-01-10
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Oullod from the Columns Of Our
1xchan4es

The new Custer ct'unty Jail Gust
$l4,:s5.
It IL stated that Gallatin, Caster,
Dawson aud MeaGher counties will
demand division during The coming
session Of the Legislature.
Leesburxh IL the name Of u new
railrs,ad town about fourteen miles
east Of Weeksville. Heavy ruck
work will he done at that place.
The total assessment values of
Montana for the year 1SSc. loot up 81,
81, 31O,l3, being IN increase over
the proceeding year Of $9,l7O, 5l3.7!
Fifteen thousand dollars have been
subscribed toward pLtting = hmm, in
the Missouri river at Een(On next
spring aud for establishing u saw
mill.
The Bishop Of Montana has av,.
thOrized the Organ aviation Of M Epis.
cOpal Mission ut Billings, and has AZ
polluted Rev. VIM. H"r.fuIl, III
Miles City, ~ missionary.
On Dccesll,er :3lxt an explosion Of
giant powder ut Week.vllle, Mix~Oula
county, instantly killed three
Cinnamon and severely wounded
tl.rv,. Others. They were railr,nasl
hands.
The permanent depot In west Deer
Lodge n progressing rapidly. The
building h twenty-fOur by sixty feet
in size, with q fourteen feet ceiling,
and has U substantial rUk fOuns)u-
ton.
On Friday night, of last week,
some freighters were sleeping In the
cabin Of J0s. &. SpOOner, ut Deer
Lodge. Joe" started to step over
one, caught his foot In the blankets,
fell, and striking his back on tina
hack Of chair brDke two ribs.
An engineering party under the
change Of Mr.. lsaac started Wednes-
day, December -, to survey y line
from Billings to the Bull Mountain
csal fields. With the const ructiom Of
this branch line new boom willie b.
given to Billings.
Desperadoes went to q Chinaman's
wash house 1T Weeksville tue other
day and demanded his money. The
Celestial gave up some $:HNl. after
which they ordered him t. skip. The
villains also carried away cluilles In
hi. wasl, aud lots Of psOplc lost their
under dutls.
A Y and side track are b..iux put
In ut Thompson Prairie, about mile
and half below Thompson river.
and there Is = prevailing impression
that station, WITH machine shO,s.
n'nndhOllser, etc.. is to l,e dropped
there. Speculation Is therefore rife,
and ranches arr being seized on.
Mr.. John II. Ming, who returned
to Helena from the States Nv wsy Of
the Northern Pacific, REPORTS the
railroad track down to- q pOint near
Muir, OH the east side Of the Belt
range. He says the rails will Cc laid
across the Divide aud the train nd
nlittetl into Rczclnan within tile next
forty days.
On December 9th, the rail. were
laid on the Oregon short Line to y
point seventy.seven miles west III
POcatellO. and tn within thirty. tl,r+-e !
miles H Wool River Junction. !
Track was being laid by I'M n,en ut
the rate ut one to one and u quarter |!
miles per day. The grading was ,
z ,mpleted to Wood River Junction
Except three or four days. work. !:
WOOd River junction Is ~ miles /
rum Boise and grading 10 giving on !,
along the entire distance.
A Washington dispatch says that
indian Agent Porter, at Fort Peck. I!
Montana, telegraphs the Indian Blu
tau that the Milk river country j.
,verrnn Oy white hunters who are
the buffalo By tbou.-
|n'as, the Indisns are becoming rest
ess and the agent fears trOul.le. Com.
missioner Price informed the agent
hat white hunters had no b,,.iners
here. aud the secretary of War will
~ asked tn remove theu,.
The Northern Pacific railway cu,,,-
any pay $3.50 taxes in Missoula
''unty. This represents only the tax
n perslisal property. Ii the road
'ett. etc.. had l'een taxed It would
ave !.rOught the amount up to >2l.-
vi! There was s0n,s dOubt ~ tn thu.
'roprtety Of taxing anything exoept
ne personal property, a. inasimuch ~
mere was suit In progress IN Custer
ounty with regard to that very
uestion, 1t was deesne.i advisable to |
'ait Tor the termination 1T the suit
efSre taking definite action con.
erntnG the taxing Of roadbeal etc