The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-10-02
MONTANA NEWS.

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Benton wants Touring mill in tt
worst way.
The 5000 bath house at White Su
pbur Springs will be completed in
few days.
Four live young swans were car
tured on Henry's Lake last week an
shipped east.
Itis hoped that the Dawson count,
court house will be completed abou
the middle of November.
A Madison county hunter shot al
animal in the mountains last weel
which is pronounced identical will
the ibex found in the Alps.
John Howe. formerly of St. Louis,
and now a resident of Virginia City
Montana Territory, is one of the four
Americans who carry upwards o1
$30O,000 life insurance.
In Miles City on Saturday. Padgett S
'Black Bess" beat McCowan's ..Nan.
cy." The two cayuses were wort h
about $3.50, but no less than 5000
changed hands on the 1esult-that is
If there has been no lying about it.
At the term of court for Choteau
county just closed, forty-six cases
were disposed of. beside several cases
brought up and continued. James
Oglesby goes to Deer Lodge for term
of three years for horse-stealing.
Healy and Saunders, highwaymen,
went up for ten years each, and one
divorce was granted.
Last week the general land Office at
Washington, issued two mineral pa.
tents for Montana. One was for the
claim of John McLaggan, ct al. upon
the Samantha lode; in the Summit
Valley mining district, and the other
for the claim of Mary Z. Higgins up
on the Kessler lode, situated in the
same district.
The Union Pacific company is keep
ing abreast with the progress of events
in Montana, by reducing freights as
rapidly as the volume of shipments
will warrant. The recent reduction
ON salt has already proved stimulos
to mining operations, and a reduction
from 500 to 500 is now announced on
first class ores to Omaha.-Butte
Miner.
Delegate-elect Raymond, of Dakota.
in speaking of the prospects of his
territory being admitted as state,
told the Washington correspondent Of
The Pioneer Press that there was little
nope of Dakota and Montana being
aiken in together as a sort of political
as he considered that MOnta.
Ia was doubtful in politics and liable
% givea Republican majority at next
election,
A prominent Shonkin stockman says
hat there are fewer calves ON the
ange this year than ever before, when
was all along supposed that there
would be fully fifteen per cent. more.
lie thinks the decrease is due to the
everity of the spring storms and to
he large number OF wolves in that
ection. Stock men ON the Teton,
Iarias, rnd older ranges make the
anne complaint and give. about the
anne reasons for the decrease.
A party of Union Pacific surveyors
,ere met at Sheridan, Montana, by a
'ilot correspondent few days ago.
hey expect to begin surveying in
with lines already run; be.
inning at Frederick Basin and pass
g through Madison Cynyon and
lence to Tygee Pass. The company
e also making other surveys, and as
le engineers give the assurance that
le grade can be made an easy one,
I'd the distance is but seventy five
lies from the Utah & Northern road.
is highly probable work will soon be
and that next season
n ride on the Union Pacific cars to
'onderland. Il
NEWS NOTES.
The report of Parnell's death is un-