The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-27

MONTANA NEWS.
The Helena and Bozeman baseball
clubs are to play match game on the
9th of July in Helena.
Benton is bound to have land Office
| and aston house if persistent Agitation
will accomplish it. :.
J. j. Hills manufacturing town at the
falls of the Missouri, at the mouth of Sur
river, is to be called Great Falls.
Helena is having deluge of snide
shows, which make up by high sounding
names what they lack in actual worth. ?
The Billings newspapers are kicking
because the road to the Bull mount ain
coal fields is not likely to start from that
town.
MI. M:Evans, owner of a placer mine
near Blackfoot, had his leg terribly
crushed by boulder rolling ON it last
Monday.
Calgary, on the Can .dian Pacific, is
becoming quite place. There are
already 5000 people there, and more are
focking in.
Montana, Idaho and Utah have been
consolidated into one revenue district and
0. J. Hollister, of Salt Lake City. has
been appointed collector.
Macon Murphy, a member of the great
Wyoming stock firm, Murphy Bros, own
ing 10000 head of cattle, died in Miles
City on Sunday, Of dropsy of the heart.
Coal has never been on sale in Helena
but on and after August 1st the Northern
Pacific Coal Company will offer this
species of fuel for sale i'll the capital OF
M oltlna.
The Northern Pacific track reached
at 8 o'clock p. m. On Saturday.
The citizens turned out en- masse to see
the construction train steam into the de-
pot grounds.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is with
Vie President Oakes in the western part
,f Montana. Distinguished T. s. sena-
tors seem to be "catching on' the north
west this season.
A little boy in one of the Benton Sun
lay schools was aSkel recentlv by his
eacher why oar FIRST p ments were driven
rom the Garden of Eden, and he replied,
'ery innocently, Because they ate up all
}. le Lords en- red fruit.''
Erie Woods, nineteen years of age, a
of A. j. Woods, who owns ranch in
graveyard Bottom, was drowned last FIJI
lay in a slough near his house. He was
ubject to epileptic fits, and it is sup
'osed that he fell into the water while
uffering from one of these attacks.
The Henry Willard Hydraulic Mining
ompany has contracted to place $780,
90 of its stock with an English syndicate
he proceeds will go to the treasury of
1e company, and be used as develop
lent fund fund for putting in the Mill
reek ditch. This places this gigantic
on its financial feet, and en-
lres large mining camp at Chico.
Dillon Tribune advice: Editor Prout,
the last Churchman, appeals to his
piscopal brethren for news and notes to
l up his paper We do not know much
,out getting up religious newspaper,
1t the way propellers of secular sheets
} is to shop on to anything that can be /
orked into live fill up. 1t is also a !
rdinal virtue to do plausible guessing
the absence of solid facts.
A railroad workman at GreenhOrn
alch last Tuesday saw something gilt
ring in some sluice boxes under the
tlroad bridge ON which he was working.
4 going down and making an examina-
IN he was little astonished to find a
Id nugget about the size. Of his fist. He
,orted the find to the owner Of the|
lice boxes Henry D. Evnns) who took
arge of the prize. 1t is worth $780, 7
dependent.
News was brought into Mlssoula on the :
tn, by an eyewitness, that on Saturday
6 80 p. M, at Elk creek, one and q
If miles east of Heron siding, wood
in, backing down, was run into by al
svel train, instantly killing eighteen s
inalnen and wounding from twenty to| :,
enty FIVE others. The engineer of the
,vel train was killed and the fireman 4
iously wounded. No one ON the wood 1
in was hurt. The gravel train WAS
ing at the rate of thirty five miles an
ar when the collision occurred Both C
yines are complete wrecks. The dead