The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-08-16
MONTANA NEWS.

Mrs. Mary Flanagan, an aged resident
Of Helena, is dead.
A Polish colony is to be started in Mon
tana by an emigration expeditor named
Hof.
A subscription is being taken up in
White Sulphur Springs to raise funds for
purchasing instruments for the brass band.
In Virginia City last week the PROPOSE
ton of levying a special tax of 81 900 for
school purposes was carried by vote OF
80 to 6.
Gold creek, where. the first discovery
of gold in Montana was made in 1861,
will probably be the place where the gold
spike will be driven.
Charles Wood, employed by the Wyon-
lug stock company to look up stolen
horses belonging to the company, found
four ON the Grow reservation last week.
While Mr.. Hawley was hauling pgoI
of logs across Gird's creek. Missoula coun-
ty, last week, one Of his horses got en-
tangled in the harness and fell, and before
he could be cut loose, drowned.
John Peyton. the Missoula bunko man,
who is charged with swindling Spaniard
out of 500 was examined last week and
held in the sum of $3.50 to await the
action of the grand jury.
A private dispatch states that while
President Arthur and Senator Vest spend
much of their time fishing, Gov. Crosby
remains in camp consulting the mosqul-
toes and vetoing their bills.
The assessors, convention, which held
meeting in Helena, Monday, decided upon
assessing the roadbed of railroads within
Montana at $4,000 per mile. Telegraph
| and telephone lines will be assessed at
$500 per mile.
The last telegram from the presidential
party was dated Aug 18th and came from
an encampment near Terry's lake, under
the shadow of the Shoshone noun
tains. and just this side of the Wind river.
Everything was going along pleasantly.
The steam yacht Yosemite arrived in
Newport. R. l., ON the 14th. She had on
board Henry Willard and family and q
number of Bavarian military and civic Of
ticerss who come to the United States to
witness the completion Of the Northern
Pacific railroad. = tr -
While Mr.. Beecher was lecturing in
Miles City he CHANGED to change his posi-
ton on the platform once somewhat
actively. and a bright little boy in the
| audience turned to his mother with the in.
ouiry in a loud tone: Mamma, is this q
dancing school2"
A man came to the Helena coroner and
notified him that the dead body of a man
Law in the road a short distance from
town. He lost no time in fastening down
to the scene of the death. but when he
got there the remains got up and in a
voice that was husky with mountain dew.
expressed its ability to lick the corpse
| viewer or any other man.
In the Legal Tender mine. in Warm
Springs district, body OF rich ore has
been struck which is apparently OF large
| proportions. It is composed Of black
| sulphurets and chloride of silver and will
ASSAY away up in the thousands. The
| same company also struck another rich
lead last week in the Mother Green which
bids fair to prove one of the largest leads
| in the camp.
The New York Mining Record says
one of the richest camps in the territory,
considering the area covered and the de-
gree of development reached, is that
known as Maiden, in the vicinity OF Fort
Maginnis, in Meagher county. In that
small district there are already recorded
probably $50 locations, some OF which are
widely known as exceedingly rich proper
| ties.
| How long will the fertility of Montana
lands endure? we are asked. Forever,
| we say. Irrigated lands increase in fer
tilitv each year. Land in New Mexico
that has been irrigated for 200 years, is as
productive as at the beginning, and land
| in the Nile valley, Egypt, has been culti-
vated under irrigation for over 4, 900 years
| without any perceptible diminution in
fertility The Montana farmer has a
property that will enrich all his descend
ants forever Billings Herald. ~