The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-05-05
MONTANA NEWS.

Glendiye is infested with vagabon
tramps.
The postonice at Fort Ellis has beel
discontinued.
, Property Of every description is bcin,
offered at auction sale in Miles CITY.
Diphtheria is prevalent in Helena
and several fatal cases are reported.
The HusbanIman says that good milcl
COWS in its vicinity are worth eighty dol
lars.
A stockman of Dayton, Washington
Territory, is buying up a large band o
cattle to drive to Montana.
Heman Clark and the Winston broth
ers employ l 500 horses in grading or
the Northern Pacific.
The main street of Helena, is much
encumbered with pieces Of wood, rocks
brick and such ornaments.
The Barker smclter is now running
night and day Oh ore from the Silver
Bell and Wright & Edwards mines.
Thomas Bryan, of Benton, has been
sentenced to three years in the pcniten.
tiary on account Of selling other people S
horses.
A Helena young man has been pur-
chasing cigars with a forged check for
SIG on Sandford and Evans. He left
town before discovery.
Missoula will probably follow the
example of Helena and welcome the
arrival of the Northern Pacific with n
grand celebration.
Owing to the increase of the gambling
license, many saloons in Bozeman have
not taken out license, and those who
have are only running one table.
The Husbandman says the authori-
ties are resolved at all hazards to break
up the gang af horse thieves that infest
the eastern part of Meagher county.
John Kirk, well-known gambler,
died ut Bozelnan on Thursday of last
week. His funeral was celebrated with
almost as much eclat as Buck Fam
shaw's.
Ed. l.. Davis, colorcd man who was
was running fashionable boarding
house in Helena, has vanished, leaving
unsettled accounts to the amount of
1900.
Work will soon be commenced by
Winston Bros, on the high trestles, five
in number. between Greenhorn and
Mullan tunnel. The foundations are
now being laid
The statement that Col. Ilges, Of the
18th Infantry, has rendered bis resigna-
ton is discreditcd in Helena. It is said
that he has no intention of reiuquish-
ing military life.
A. f. Pond, of the Fort Benton, Mar
tinsdalc and Fort Maginnis lines, has
purchased lot Of new horses. and will
have the lines equipped with new
coaches at an early date.
On Wednesday a Livingston team ran
away with funeral procession and did
much damage. Whether to the Sub
ject," procession, or surrounding OBJ
jects, deponent sayeth not.
The Collar Mining company at
Maidenvillesis working two hundred
men. The twenty-stamp quartz mill is
on the ground, and will be in running
order in about two weeks.
J. B. Alexander, principal assistant
engineer in charge of the track and
bridges on the Rocky Mountain division
of the Northern Pacific, railroad, has !
moved his headquarters from Livingston
to Gallatin City.
\ number of Bozemanites have or
ganized Us a company to operate the ,
placer mines along the Yellowstone near
Emigrant Gulch. Their district is called !
the "Ilenry Willard Hydraulic Gold
Mining District"
A reporter ofa Butte paper has been
by one of those low, mean
jokcrs who think it fine fun to mislead
Il newspaper man into publishing some
apparently live item that occurred only
in the jokcr's imagination.
4 mounted detachment, under COM
mand of 1t. Bell, Sd infantry, left Fort
Shaw few days since for the purpose Of
making scout along the Marias river
and expelling all Canadian Indians
found this side of the line.
Fly. Haynes, of Fargo, has boen in
structed by Vice President Cakes, of
the Northern Pacific, to proceed to
Bozenan in few days, and thence fol-
low the road westward photographing
all points Of interests as he proceeds.
About two hundred men and large
number Of teams are employed in laying
track between Salt Lake and Ogden, on
the Denver and Rio Grande, and the
road IS being completed at the rate Of
over a mile per day. The grading is
nearly completed.
The Inter-Mountain says that forty
miners from DOzeman passed
Butte within the past few days
on Il stampede to the Coenr dAlene
where it is reported that a