The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-19
Depots, Warehouses, Machine
Shops, BigHOtels and Doubled
Population in Store for
Helena.
A Desperate Attempt to Over
power the Guard at the
Penitentiary.
A Riot at Gallatin City Promptly
. Squelched by the Sheriff.
Progress of tina Northern Pac:dc.
HELENA, MAY II.

AAEAENA, Way It,
The Northern Pacific Railroad
company has purchased over 500
acres of land at Helena for depot
grounds. A large amount of land will
be set apart for side tracks, deuots,
machine shops, lumber yards, ware
house, ETC., and the remainder will
be plated into town lots. Among
other improvements proposed by the
railroad company is a 100000 hotel.
The location selected for the de-
pot is very satisfactory to this
community and has given renewed
impetus to building operations. Many
expensive business houses are being
erected. End of track is to-day thir.
ty-seven miles east of Helena and is
advancing at the rate of nearly two
miles per day. Immigration tn
Montana is very large and it is prob
able that the increase of population
for the year will aggregate thirty to
forty thousand. The new settlers
are coming in by the Northern Pa
cific both from the east and from the
Pacific coast. Helena, which is the
commercial, financial and political
centre of the Territory, will probably
double her population within the
next year.
DEER LODGE. May II, 1888.
Six prisoners in the penitenliary
made another unsuccessful attempt
to escape at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
One of the guards went inside for
some purpose when some prisoners
caught him and one drew a pistol.
The guard called loudly Cor help.
All the ether guards rushed in and
fired two shots at the prisoners, who
fled to their cells. No one was hurt.
The prisoners acknowledge getting
the pistol from parties on the outside.
The prisoner who had the pistol
came from Silver Bow county. His
name is Thompson.
There are eighty-six prisoners in
the p%enitentiary and only tive
guards. j. A. H.
BOHEMIAN, May 1.-THE sheriff of
this county received a telegram Tues
day night from Gallatin City, stating
that a riot had occurred among the
laborers on the Northern Pacific rail-
way, and that the town was in the
hands of a mob. Sheriff Blakely
and posse left at once and arriving at
Galiatin, surrounded the rioters,
all of them to throw up
their hands. The leaders were ar
and thrown into Jail at Boze-
man.
HELENA, May II.
The end of the track Of the North
ern Pacific east of Helena is near
thirty-seven miles dis
tant, and is coming westward at the
rate of about two miles per day.
Helena will certainly have rail con-
nection with the east by June 2O;h.
The track from the west is laid
thirty-seven miiesof Missoula
one hundred and sixty from
Helena. There now remains but
hundred miles of a gap between
the two ends of the trans-continental
line. The grading is done, tiesare
on most of the grades and bridge
work we'll advanced. There will be
delay in laying all average of three
miles of track per day and the gap
will he closed within ninety days.
The distances on the Northern Pacific
will be as follows: Superior City to
end of track, lob miles; distance
across gap, 200 miles; end of track on
the west to Waliula, w. T., 1888
from Wallula to Portland, Or,
0. r. & N. r. r. 213 miles. Total
from Superior City to Portland, Or,
1893 miles.