The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-04-04
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

TERRITORIAL NEWS.
As Narrated by Our Montana
Exchanges.
Livingston is-to have a First Ma
tional bank.
The Virginia City school term ends
April seventh.
The Billings street cars will COM
mence running this summer.
The Helena Electric Light Com
pany now has forty-four lights in
use.<
John White, a barber of Pony has
been arrested as insane at Virginia
City.
Fort Benton is now a city, having
adopted the charter by an overwhe!ln-
ing majority.
The trip from Benton to Billings
eau now be made by Stage in less
than three days.
It is expected the population of
Judith Valley will be doubled this
summer.
The Barker district has q candle
famine, and mines are shut down for
want of light.
Townsend is the name of the com
ing town of the n. p. r. II. in the
Missouri valley.
Some giant trees are reported on
the Cour d. Alenes, which measure
twenty-seven feet in circumference.
The Canadian Pacific road carries
westward red Scotch Fyfe wheat for
seeding purposes free of charge.
Harry Symes. VIM. English and
Charles Molger have been arrested in
Custer county for horse stealing.
Snow fell at Corvallis during the
recent storm TO a depth of thirteen
and one-half inches.
1t is rumored that large smelling
works are to be constructed in the
Red Mountain district this spring.
The charter election at Bczemap
resulted in the measure being carried
by a majority of LOG votes.
The Legislative commissioners Of
Custer county advertise an election
TOR a board to succeed themselves on
April 10th.
The Tongue river stock men will
have a general roundup on May
first, when the nimble branding iron
will be the test of thrift.
The Helena coach due at Benton
on March 18th was snow bound OH
the road two days and nights. Four
passengers came near %perishing.
Ames Armstrong was shot twice
by David Kennedy at Mammoth
Hot Springs, q few evenings since,
while engaged in a drunken quarrel.
John Sullivan, the n. 2. brake
man who robbed the stowaway pas
senger Appel, has been bound over
to the spring District Court at Miles
City.
Henry Fohrman, sentenced in Hell
ena to be hung on May I'd for the
murder Of Jacob Kenck, has passed
his three score and ten allotment Of
life.
The gale of Saturday night, March
10th, was general and severe through
out settled Montana, as reported in
the local papers. Happily 10 serious
results ensued.
Bids are open for a tri-weekly mail
route to be established between June
ton City and Vaudeville. The dis
tame is l2O miles, and the time spe-
CITED for the run is thirty-six hours.
A drunken Flathead on the Re-
serve took a shot at Lieut.. Cooke last
week. The belligerent buck was
Immediately disarlnsd, and no dam
age was done.
Superintendent Conger reports to
Washington that game killing in the
park is practically stopped, and
never has amounted to very much
except in newspaper reports.
Horse Plains is just now about tile
liveliest place in the Territory, it be.
ing the transfer station for rail and
stage passengers, at the N. p. terml-
nus in Missoula county.
A 1nan named Perkins, employed
near Bozeman by Winston Bros, ig-
uited a stick Of giant powder a few
days ago and lost one of his hands by
the operation.
The Silver Bell. difficulty at Barker
has been settled by the Clendenin
Gold and Silver Mining company
paying the jumpers SIS, 900 and re-
ceiving from them a qu~it-ciailn deed.
Last Monday morning the lifeless
body of Frank McKenzie, an inmate
of the Gallatin county hospital, was
found lying near the hospital. Di-
a of the heart is supposed to be
the cause.
Mr.. Henry Wyles, a resident of
Horse Plains. was fatally injured re-
Gently by his gun bursting while he
was hunting. a fragment Of the gun
entered his temple, causing death in
a few days.
The March term of the United
States District court, and the March
term Of the District court OF the
Third Judicial District, sitting 1T
Helena, both adjourned sine die last
Saturday.
Jim Finlay, a half-breed on the
Flathead reserve, shot and killed
himself on Tuesday of last week.
The incident Is remarkable, as it is
probably the first case on record Of
an Indian taklng his own life.
Several buildings are in course of
construction at the new Northern
Pacific town of Townsend in the
Missouri valley and it is expected
that within q few weeks real estate
in that burg will be in great demand.
A man named Morgan, while hunt
ing stock on the Madison river
recently, was thrown from his horse,
breaking his leg. His horse got
away from him and he crawled on
his hands and knees three miles to
the house Of a rancher.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
the killing of Irving Hunter, OF Gal
latin, found a verdict to the effect
that the deceased came to his death
by q gunshot wound Inflicted by Geo.
A.. Lowe and Lewis p. Raw. The