The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-23
MONTANA NEWS.

e Sleighs were on the streets in Hell
ena Yesterday.
The school election in Billings tt
vote special tax of 500 was car
ried.
Wells, Fargo 4 Co.. have fled pa.
pers with the recorder to do business
III Yellowstone county.
The owners of the Massachusett.
mine at Neihart, refuse to rebond
their property at $l5 900.
Merriam, republican, aud McSorley
democrat, will represent Jefferson
county in the constitutional conven
ton. si
A new paper is to be started at Sun
River. It will be in charge Of Mar
shal Wheeler, better known as the
Commodore.
White Sulphur Springs is getting to
be pretty lively place. They had a
prize fight and horse race there one
day last week.
The artesian drill in the we'll at Bill.
lings is now working through lime
stone boulder formation IT'S feet be-
low thelSurface. IS
C. w. Savage, with 449 votes; w.
Van Gasken, 292 S. R. Douglas, 28l;
will represent Custer at the constitu-
tional convention.
Gallagher's surveying party which
worked iu the Musselshell country
during the summer, has disbanded
and gone east.
The entire force Of the Montana His.
torical company's employees are now
in Butte gathering data for the work
to be issued next spring.
The men arrested at Park City few
days ago on the charge of horse steal
ing at Pease Bottom. have been dis
charged, it clearly appearing that they
were entirely innocent.
Nelson Stcry's bank at Bozeman will
heneeforth do business under the
name Of the Gallatin Valley National
Bank of Bozeman, having recently re.
ceived it's charter under national law.
An escaped Chinese murderer from
Missoula was harbored in Bozenan a
week by a brother celestial, until
finding that his secret was known he
skipped out.
Governor Crosby to-day refused to-
pardon George Wells, convicted OF
burglary of Henry Elling's bank at
Virginia City in 1879 and sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment in the Deer
Lodge penitentiary.
An eastern exchange says: $50 on
Change. in Boston, New York, or
nowadays and shout,
Hi, you mister from the west with a
copper mine for sale!' and over half
;he men on the street will turn around
Ind say, what do you want!'"
A gentleman just from Lake Occur
'Alene says that there is tree out
mere which is promising rival Of
big Trees. 1t is cedar |
md is seventeen feet in diameter,
which would make it over fifty feet in
That country is full
# fine timber.
Exchanges from all sections Of the
Pacific coast report the old prospectors
re getting The Ceur ,d'Alene fever
,adly AMI parties are forming to be
m the ground early in the spring. ln1
n California particularly general
ush for the new gold fields is expected
ext May. An estimate based upon
eports Of parties forming in various
ections, places the number Of pros
ectors. miners, traders and adventur-
rs who will be in the new camp byl|'
une next at not less than fifteen
From private letter received from
we learn THAT Jefferson
ounty officials are in quite muddle
yer the county seat removal from
.adersburg to Boulder, It seems that
he bill authorizing. the removal made
o provision for canvassing tn re-
urns Of the election held under lt.and
) consequences the matter has gonQl