The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-11-03


Glendale, some 400. 900 bushels Of charcoal
for the winter run, and sum 500 tons Of
surplu. ore in the bins Of the smelter.
One of the patients at the asylum at
Warm Springs named John Howell c,m-
mi,ted suicide at :hat place day before
yesterday by cutting his throat with q
razor.
Major John S. Coppnser, recently pro-
NOTED to lieut. colonel, succeeds Col. llges
in command at Fort Assinaboine. Col.
Coppinger is a son-in-law Of ex Secretary
Blaine.
The News says the shipments from this
city over the Utah 4 Northern for the past
week were 1870 car loads of ore, 2,SG2, ,445
pounds and ~ car loads of copper matte,
66G, 400 pounds: making Il total Of 24S car
loads containing 3, 52S, $40 pounds.
In letter to the Philadelphia Press IL.
g.. who i, no doubt Henry Gannett, of the
United States geological survey, rakes Su-
number of loose assertions regarding the
topography, area and boundaries Of the
park. H. q. says the park is the best
mapped section of the United States.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company has acquired the sole right to
the territories of Utah, Wyoming, Mon
tana and Idaho, and has eleven exchanges
and over 1000 instruments in successful
operation. The capital stock Of the com
pany is $500, 600, divided into 5000 shares
Of 500 each. 1t will pay good dividends
As still further evidence of the value of
advertising N y be cited in the case of .I"-
seIh klutZlcr of Tongue river. ~lo re-
Gently "A .vcrti>ed in one Of the New York
papers for wife The first mail brOugh!
a b,.sliel of matrimonial apulications, and
he is 30 longer bachelor. Tongue river
is now more entitled to its name than
ever.
Sam Elwcll and George Grayson lave
purchased C 300 goats driven into Nom
tana this season BY Champlin Il Co.
These gentlemen have ranches on the waters
of Shields river. about thirty miles sout h
of the Springs, which they are improving.
Mr.. Elwell is associated with Mr. Bates and
expects to engage in the Angora goat busi-
hess permanently.
Thee are four rectfiers of distilled
spirits, and ninety-three wholesale dealers
in the collection district of Montana, which
embraces the territol IS of Utah, Idaho and
Montana. Montana more than doubles
either of the other territories as a source
of revenue to the government the collec-
ton being little more than double that Of
Utah, which is next in importance.
\ Northern Pacific work train has been
ordered to Little Ilackl foot (Garri,onJ to
put in side tracks, etc. in accordance with
.le agreement made at San Francisco.
The too long deferred construction Of pas
sengcr and freight buildings and transfer
facilities will now be pushed as rapidly as
possible and fer the next month Garrison
will be scene of activity y.-Indepenpent.
There is nothing Montana should be
more proud of than her newspapers.
They are certainly a credit to the territory,
as well as to their publishers. A great
many western people hayc ali idea that
newspapers in the far west. and in a new
country, ar, to certain extent, Inferior
to those published in the east; but
glance at some of the Montana papers soon
convinccs then, "f their miSt4kc.-N. =.
Railroad journal.
The original ;rant Of the Northern Pa
cic was 81, 800. ucn acres. Of which -, 800,
600 acres were, ;.rr,r,ing To the L. S. aud
itor Of railroad ::ccJ,nts. available for set
telnent, and are yet Even f3o per cent.
of this territory Is compare lEcly worthless.
the mining and agricultural districts will
adily sell for s. an acre, uT 1927 900, 900.
1t will be remembered that the first 2,G09,-
900 acres we're sold for $4,000, 900. or more
than IS per acre. The total valuation now
put upon the grant is $lOS 0Oo.OOO.
All Gen, Chinese 'Fleamason" Of high
degree, passed in his celestial checks last
Monday. The obsequies next day were
gorgeous, ard the lamentcd was consigned
to Confucius with all the honors Of Nom
gol Masonry. The regalia of the brethren
IVES magnificent, the white cloths on the
heads OF the officers giving them the in
teresting appearance of mother-in-law
pra cing with head ache. 1t was ths
toncst send-otf that Il heathen has hli in
these parts for many Il diy.-MaIison man.
In sinking a shaft on the Minnesota lode
last week Braireri, Gardner 4 Co. broke
through into cave or rather natural
shaft, nearly vertical. which the workmen
haye explored to a depth of neariy $50
feet. The air in the SHAFT is pure and
there is strong draugh. coming from the
bottom, showing that there must be COM
nIunicuton with the outside world At some
other point, perhaps at long distance.
1hey are trimming the sides with a view of
running cross cut at II considerable
depth. probably go fret-Minaral ArstiS
The point Of departure from the Union
Pacific of the new Park railway will he al
some point between Rawllns and Medicine
Bow, 70 bc determined by the survey now
in progress. Two practicable entrances to
the park are under cOnsideration-one by
way of Togwotee pass, the other crossing
Wind river and Owl mountains by way Of
Sinking Water pass. The body Of the line
will pass through the mineral districts and