The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-08-09
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Helena must be the city of the tender
foot. Beer sells at five cents per glass.
The first commercial traveller that ever
visited Fort Macleod reached there a few
days ago.
Col Eaton is employing one hundred
men at Cooke City In erecting buildings
| for his smelter.
Bozeinan has number of very bad
boys who are INCLINED to steal, and re-
quire careful watching.
The infant child Of DR.. and Mrs Bry-
ant, Of Missoula crept to the edge OF the
stairs, and falling over, was killed.
The body of John Nearly, aged sixty,
was found in q thicSet near Q Appcllc,
recently. The dead mans skull was
crushed and battered as if by an axe.
1t is SAID that white man killed an
Indian at Cows Nest, Coeur dAlene
| mountains. The Indian stole horse and
the owner followed and killed the thief
J. w. Ponsford, of Bozeman, started
Friday for Idaho to meet the band of
sheep he and }. L. Sanborn are bringing
to Montana to put on their range in the
Musselshell country.
Two Helena young people who design
! to get fixed 80 their hearts will beat as
one propose to have the ceremony per-
formed by Henry Ward Beecher next
week. To be married by II. ". ought to
ensure connubial bliss.
At special election held at White Sui
phur Springs few days ago, the PROPOSE
| ton to issue S3, 900 in bonds for the pur-
pose of erecting an addition to the school
house was defeated by vote Of twenty
against ten in favor of the proposition.
The Bozeman Chronicle says that a pc
| teton for the establishment Of a mail
route from Crow Agency to the Wyoming
| line, near Clark FORK river, was in readi
ness for presentation to Delegate Maginnis
| at his visit to the agency, and it is to be
presumed that it is now in his hands.
Among the theits in Bozeman, one
man lost venerable moving machine
that he had owned and used since '6S. 1t
is generally supposed to have been segre
gated by some entcrprising machine
agent who wanted to make an honest dol
lar by selling mower.
The Independent suggests that Jay
Cooke hold the COLDER. spike while Henry
Willard drives il home with the, silver NAL
let. That is all right ii Henry has sure
eye and steady hand and does not wllack
Jay on the fingers In the latter event
there might be call for some one else
whose initials are J. G..
| Robert Owen, who was kicked by a
mule at the brickyard Of Messrs. Lewis &
Carey, in Bozeman, on Sunday July goth,
died August 1st. from the injuries re-
ceived. Mr. Owen was young and In
dustrious man about twenty one years Of
age. He received two kicks, one in the
right temple and one in the abdomen. He
was buried last Thursday.
The preliminary survey of the project
| ed Northern Pacific branch to Wickes.
was completed yesterday. No official re-
port has yet been made by the engineer in
charge OF, the party, but it is understood
| that the route has been found to be one of
| ordinarily easy grades and quite prac-
ticable It is reasonably certain that we
will have railroad in operation to Wickes
| before snow es.---Independert.
Work on Bozeman tunnel is progressing
very rapidly, progress Of 212 feet hav-
| ing been made in the month OF July in
| the east end The west end SO feet which
as vet has to be timbered, but indications
point to reaching solid rock soon. The
east end had penetrated the mountain
1902 feet Sunday last, and the west end
| 75O feet. So that there remains about
1900 feet yet to be driven. Mr.. Muir
thinks he can complete the tunnel during
| the present year.
A large building situated in the centre
of the stockage at the Crow agency and
occupied as the children's home was to-
tally destroyed by fire last Thursday
night The origin 81 the fire was I'M
| known. and by the united efforts Of whites
and Indians the balance of the buildings
| were saved. The Indians at first did not
offer to aid in its extinguishment, but
upon being informed that the store houses
were liable to be destroyed with their
contents. they heartily went to work to
| asape their bacon n--Chronicie.
The en:l Of track reached Mccarty's
bridge Thursday night, where it may pos
sihly be delayed q day or 50. But be-
| fore .ca nuhIisfl arnfher narer II will