The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-23
MONTANA NEWS.

mail contract between Benton and Okla.
Fifty thousand pounds of sheep tobacco
Is piled up in Powers warehouse at Ben
ton.
Benton will observe Independence day
in proper style with speeches, races and
fire works.
The railroad celebration in Helena on
the Fourth of July is to be the biggest
thing of the kind ever in Helena.
The entire shipments of cattle this
year from the states to Montana is esti-
mated at between $4,000 and 40, 900 head.
Madame Modjeska, accompanied by her
husband, Count Bozenta, will, it is said,
pass the summer in the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park.
The stock-growers of the Musselshell
range advertise that they consider it over
stocked and will allow no outsiders to join
in the roundup.
A detachment of troops from Fort
Assinaboine lately took from band of
Piegans eleven horses belonging to the
Canadian mounted police.
Two miners left Billings last week for
the Big Horn mountains to search for the
Lost Cabin, which is said to stand upon a
ledge streaked with pure gold.
A woman named Shea living in Town
send was shot last Friday with a charge of
small shot. John Lynch, a neighbor, has
been arrested ON suspicion of doing the
shooting.
One of Paris Gibson & Sons Delaine
Merino rams this year sheared twenty-five
and one-hah pounds of nice clean wool.
One hundred Vermont ewes averaged over
ten pounds each.
John A. Jamison, the Irish sportsman
who spends season every year in Mon
tana, is en- route to the Territory, and will
meet his guide, Sam Elwell, on the yell
lowstone about the 18th prox.
On Tuesday of last week miner named
Peter Dahl, working in the Urbana mine
at Red Bluff, was fatally injured by the
falling of heavy mass of rock, which
mutilated him in horrible manner.
Miss Sallie Hosmer, a sort of retired
old-timer of tender years is giving read
ngs and musical entertainments in the
towns of western Montana. She is the
laughter of the first chief justice of Mon
Jana.
Horse stealing is going on in the vicini-
y of Billings, one of the local papers
Mentioning eleven head of horses and
mules that have been stolen lately. There
IAN be no doubt but what a band of horse
hieves arc at work in the Yellowstone
ALLEY who deserve summary extermina-
ion.
We are inclined to believe that Jack
Johnson, the Custer county sheriff, is So
burning somewhere down in the states
nix keeping his weather eye open for
Briggs, the absconded commissioner, and
steve Taylor, the ex-clerk, and we further
'elive that Jack will run down his mem
ilendive Times.
L. w. Peck, secretary of the Montana
Wool Growers association, says that there
vill be big crop of wool this year. The
verage yield will be much greater than
ast season or than he has known it to be
4 the territory. Some of his yearlings
heared nine pounds, and he expects big
verage yield.
Custer county warrants now sell readily
a Miles City at 90 per cent of their face
alue. A few weeks ago they were worth
orty cents on the dollar and no takers.
ONE one must be reaping rich harvest
ut of this sudden rise in value, as thous-
nds of dollars worth of these warrants
yere in private hands in Miles City.
To-day Benjamin Butterworth, Of Ohio,
nd W. A. A. Patten and G. L. Perkins, of
lew York, the commissioners recently
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