The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-09-21
MONTANA NEWS.
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MONTANA NEWS.
The Masons of Helena, have sold
their building to the Merchants Ma
tionai Bank.
Bozeman is making move to con-
fine it's houses Of ill-fame to a specl-
fed locality.
Lieut.. J. P. Storey of the signal SER
vice, is inspecting all the signal sta
tions in the northwest.
The Helena base ball club was
beaten by the Butte nine in match
game played at the latter city on the
18th.
Mrs. c.. "A. Lewis has closed her
millinery shop in Miles City. and gone
to Dillon, to see her husband. From
there she goes east to remain.
An eastern journal says that Henry
Willard s true pane is Heinrich Hill.
gard. lie assumed s.Villard" as a
nom de plume when he was writing
western letters to New York paper.
The assessment of Lewis and Clarke
county is looming up this year and it
is thought that the grand total will
foot UP more than ss7.O00,0OO. This
will be an increase of nearly Or about
$3. 3.0o0.000.
The dogs of Maiden have become so
used to having tin cans tied to their
tails that whenever they see man
carrying canned goods through the
street, they back up to him for the
| necessary attachment Argus.
From eighty to !. hundred tons OF
coal are being received daily from the
coal mines across the range, and from
fifty to sixty men are constantly en-
ployed. The Northern Pacific COM
pany who are operating it, ship the
output to western points.
It is understood that two enterpris-
ing citizens of Benton are iii cOnsulta-
tion with parties in Helena on the
subject of building a telephone line
between the two cities. The distance
is not so far hut what the task might
be successfully accomplished
ord.
It is not attempted to disguise the
fact that the wheat crop of this sec-
tion was materially injured by the
frost occurring just prior to the har.
yesting of the grain. A conservative
gentleman says that the loss is very
great if it is regarded that the wheat
cannot be converted into choice -four;
it is not, however, a total loss, and
will he converted to other uses which
will in measure remunerate the pro.
ducer-Courier.
Fred Sanderson nearly caught a
mountain lion yesterday at John
Tinkler's ranch. Sanderson was on
horseback when he saw the lion. He
ran over it twice; it then crossed the
Land Company S ditch. and in attempt
ing to follow it Sanderson's horse
mired. and before the horse could be
got out of the ditch. the lion made
good his escape.-Biliings Herald.
Henry Ward Beecher in a letter to
an eastern friend says: 'sThe suMmer
along the Northern Pacific is ideal.
SO dry is the air that neither heat nor
cold take hold as in the east. The
railroad is as good, cars, engines and
road bed, as the average eastern. The
hotels are good enough for sinners
better than we deserve. The people
kind. sympathetic and enterprising."
A Benton dispatch of the 18th.
says: The citizens of Benton gave a
reception and banquet to Senator Vest
and Delegate Maginnis, Indian COM I
last night. They had just
arrived from the Blackfeet agency
and had held very satisfactory coun-
ell with the Plegans. The indians
agreed to cede to the government all
the eastern portion of the reservation,
and prayed that the governments
would give them cattle and farming
ana help then to make
i living for their people, who are
now that the buffalo are all &
gonr. The commission to-day pro.
cpeds to Fort Assinahoine to meet the Il
4 Aasinahoines and Grrs Vehtses.