The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-04
MONTANA CnRosICLED.

MONTANA CHRONICLED.
Livingston and White Sulphur Springs
are endeavoring to obtain mail route
and telegraph line between their
towns.
The recent consolidation of the reve-
nue. districts of Montana, Idaho, and
Utah, will muster out of service Capt. T.
P. Fuller, of Helena.
The BoZeman CHRONICLE comes to us
full and overlooking with interesting
matter. The CHRONICLE comes danger
ously near being the best weekly in the
Territory.-Billings Herald.
A ticket from Helena to st. Paul was
sold last week for $3.50 simply because it
was handsomely printed, according to
that mode of figuring the Miles City
Press ought to be sold for enough to pay
up the indebtness of Custer county.
p. Mitchell, member Of the North-
ern Pacific engineer corps, formerly sta
toned at different points along the Vel
lowstone valley, was drowned last week
in the Missoula river. His father, who
is assistant engineer of the road, went
west Friday, bound for the scene of his
sons untimely death. The young mans
body has not been found, and his father
will offer reward of 81 600 for its reeov-
cry.
The rooms in the hotel at Mammoth
Hot springs in the Park are being plast-
cred, and work il going forward very
rapidly throughout the building. The
Improvement Company seem bound to
make good their promise of having the
hotel ready to accommodate guests by July
18th. We are informed by parties who
have just returned from the Park that
the building is five stories high and fully
800 feet long, and will accommodate ! 600
people.
Two loads of lumber and force of men
have been sent up Shields river to con-
struct bridges along the White Sulphur
Springs road. Four bridges are urgently
required while several smaller streams,
which are fordable now, will need bridg-
ing next autumn, though if the requisite
funds are available all necessary bridges
will be built at once. Spencer, Mayn 4
Heitman's freighting outfit on Its last trip
to Livingston brought from the Springs
lumber enough to build two small bridges
on the head waters of the Smith river in
Gallatin county.
About twenty miles from Helena on
Tuesday evening last two masked men
with their faces partially covered with
handkerchief, stepped out from the
thick brush and commanded the Deer
Lodge coach to halt. John Mccormick,
of Missoula, was ON the drivers seat and
lost no time in getting out his revolver
| and shooting at the spokesman. Owing
to the disadvantage he was at however
in firing he emptied his selfcocking re-
volver without killing either of the men,
but succeeded in wounding one. The
shots were returned and a horse killed,
when the agents" withdrew.
An cold man" makes a vigorous kick
through the columns of the Helena In
dependent, because circuses are only
charged $40 license. He says it ought to
be five times as much, and asks the coun-
Gil to hold special meeting, and at once
pass an ordinance to that effect The
enterprising towns along the Northern
Pacific railroad have done everything
possible to welcome the first circus to the
country. Bismarck's council allowed it
to exhibit without charge, and in Boze-
man, the next town in enterprise, few
citizens made up purse of $40 and paid
the license.
The last. week in August promises to
be an eventful one in the history of Mon
tana. At that-time President Willard, of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, accom-
panied by large number of guests from
the old world and large cities in the east
will proceed to the point where both
ends oft track will meet, and there
drive gold spike, with silver sledge
hammer, mounted on an ebony handle.
Gilmor's band, of New York will accom-
pany the party. Excursion trains will
run from the various towns along the
line, and it is whispered that every
newspaper man along the road will be
given half fare rate for this trip.
All honest men will rejoice and all
men ofproperty will breathe more freely
to learn that George Bell, the notorious
rounder has been sentenced to fifteen
years in the Deer Lodge penitentiary.
From Mandan to Bohemian this mans
villanies have made his name byword
for everything that is bad. Time after
time, he has been arrested for great
variety of misdeeds, and each time has
managed to evade the tolls of the law.
It remained for Gallatin court and jury
to finally cinch Mr.. Bell, and the earnest
hope of every respectable person is that
the warden of the penetentiary will keep
close grip on George, until his full term
expires which will be within eighteen
months of the end ofthe present century.
Billings Herald.
What change has come oyer Miles
City. A year or two ago Sunday was the
big day. The buffalo hunters and ranch
ers came to town, and the weather was
very Indictment indeed when no horse
race was run. But now, if little, harm
less circus comes along and exhibits on
the Sabbath, the preachers rise up in
their awful dignity and denounce it as
fraud and snare, andpublish their edict
commanding church members to stay at
home We can well remember when
the preacher of Miles City took his gun /
on Sunday morning and hied himself in
the foothills to shoot the willy buffalo.
Truly, Miles has become changed, and
instead of appealing to the church goers
TOWN all they could from the faro bank
for donations to the church, they sup
port the good cause with Guilds brown
;,,rs 100 craon, ond all tho latest modern