The semi-weekly miner., 1883-06-23
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
As Narrated by Our Montana
Exchanges.

Potatoes are selling for five cents a
| pound in Missoula.
| The spring session of the Missoula
District Court opens June 25th.
A postoffice has been established at
Townsend, the station at the crossing
Of the Missouri.
So far this month sixty-three cases
have been disposed of in the Polio e
Court of Helena.
There are lumOrs Of q mammoth
hotel in Missoula, to be built by the
railroad company.
The Beaverhead county Jail is said
to be no more fitted for holding pris-
oners than is sieve for holding
water.
George Bell, the bandit of Custer
and Yellowstone counties, was con-
Yicted of burglary last week at Boze-
man.
The Husbdndman says that it is
believed that the crop in the Judith
valley will this year be grown with
out irrigation.
A Wisconsin journalist proposes to
start German newspaper in Helena,
which will be the first German news
paper published in the Territory.
Antelope in great numbers are seen
at this season along the Northern Pa
ciflc for great part of the distance
between Mandan and Livingston.
Reports from the different round
ups throughout the Territory indi-
cate that the calf crop this year will
prove one of the largest ever known.
A man named Stanley, who
amused himself At Miles City by
making q man dance to the music of
q revolver while the balls were flying
in close proximity to his legs, is in
Jail at that city.
Two bids were received by the
Choteau County Commissioners for
the construction of the new court
house at Benton. One bid was at
$64 900 and the other $4,000. The
Board took the bids under advise
ment.
One of the notable events of the
coming Fourth of July in Helena,
will be the departu q of a special
train by the Northern Pacific
freighted with 100000 pounds of
Gregory and Wickes bullion to New
ark, n. J.
The Secretary of the Interior has
directed recognition of mining
claims of settlers upon the public
lands in Montana ceded by the Crow
Indians under agreement made June
IL, 1880, and ratified by Congress
April u, 1882. The Secretary holds
that these lands, being seded by def
mite boundaries, become public lands
upon the date of the approval of that
act of ratification. and from that date
the legal rights of settlers and claim
ants took effect.
A Deliberate Attempt to Murder.
On Friday morning, the 18th inst,
near Canton, in the Missouri valley,
in Meagher county, a person con-
cealed in q stable near the residence |
Of Dennis Shea, armed with double |
barrel shot gun, shot and wounded |
the wife of Mr.. Shea-it is supposed |
mertally. DR.. Mcdonald was imme-
diately sent for, and upon examina-
tion found that the woman had re-
ceived seventeen buck shot in diff
ferent parts of the body, neck and
shoulders. It appears that Shea joins
arms with man by the name of John
Lynch, and between the two families
here has existed a bitter feud of long !
John Lynch has been ar
'ested on suspicion ofcommitting the
Iced while concealed in the stable
md is now in the hands of Constable
W. A. Clarke, assisted by deputies
elected from among the neighbors,
Who stand guard over the prisoner.
lynch was brought before Moses
Doggett, justice OF the peace, and
Wednesday morning set for the pre-
iminary examination. Mrs. Shea's
are thought to be mortal, and
n case of her death there is danger
# summary justice in the lynching
# Lynch.-Helena Herald IS.