The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-04-14
MONTANA NEWS.

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An amateur dramatic club in Bentol
has been playing Romeo and Juliet. Th'
characters were all taken by youn
men.
The wind was SO tempestuous at Mis-
soula one night last week that it tori
down one of the pillars of the post
Office.
Anxious inquiries from would-be ten
stantly received by the Secretary of tn
Interior.
President Arthur has started fo
Jacksonville, Florida. 1t has been ru
mored that he would visit the Yellow
stone Park this summer.
Tho Northern Pacific land sales il
Minnesota, Dakota and the Yellowstone
country during the month Of March las
passed, aggregated 322,700 acres.
The foundation lines for the new skat
i'll rink OH Warren street in Helena pro
vides for building S0xl50 feet. The
floor will cover the largest space of any
like structure in Montana.
A law recently passed by the legisla
ture of Dakota gives probate judges 500
a year besides their salary. They dc
things differently in Montana. They
have to rustic for their fees in this terri.
tory.
Helena people think the railroad will
reach there in about sixty days. On
Saturday the end Of track was abor.
| twenty miles beyond Bozeman, with iron
being laid at the rate OF mile and a
half a day.
Salem Morse made an effort to give a
performance OF his Passion Play a few
evenings ago but was stopped by an in
junction, and the larg audience was
forced to retire without having its curl
| osity gratified.
a classical school, is to be established
at Helena. Its patrons propose that
scholars graduating from the institution
shall be fitted TO pass the most severe
examination necessary for admission to
Yale or Harvard.
The British government has begun the
free transportation of Irish emigrants to
Canada, and the movement is likely to
assume great proportions. 1t may act as
a partial solution of the difficulties
which are agitating the Emerald Isle.
Passengers on the stage line between
Deer Lodge and Missoula heartily curse
the stage line owners for not stocking
the line better. As it is now, a good
de:' of pedestrianating is made neces-
sary in muddy weather. The Northern
Pacific viii soon put stop to all of
that.
The Boston Post finds that the veto
score of the tidal wave governors stands
thus: Butler, 8; Cleveland, .; Pattison,
0. That is nothing. Montana has gov
ernor who can discount all of them put
together. He vetoed eleven bills before
he had been in the country long enough
to give him vote.-[Miner.
The experiment of using Ignite coal
on the North Pacific locomotives proves
eminently satisfactory Bv slight in
crease in ihe dimensions of the fire-box
and in the boiler capacity, engines car
rying full trains and with a full glage of
water have made steam rapidly lin as.
cending the steepcst grades on the road,
and that, too, without throwing single
spark. 1t tappears that all that is need
ed in order to burn it successfully is
little extra care in firing and little al
teration in the dimensions Of the boiler
and fire-box.
There w.re 16O wasllouts during the
recent break on the Pen d'Oreille divis-
ion of the Northern Pacific, most of
which were in the first So miles west of
Ritzville, W. L. A serpentine line of
gravel in the coulee marks the course Of
running water, though it was supposed
by the engineers who made the original
survey, and by the few cattle men in the
country, that the coulee was always dry.
So the road was located on the easiest
line in the coulee, and the possibility Of
running water was ignored The grade
crossed the serpentine line many times,
and when the melted snow came down
it carried away the grade at every point
it touched. At point near Bluff Wells,
where there is large depression, a lake
formed over the track, and it became
necessary to build nearly two miles of
new track, which will be avoided later
by making openings in the grade wher-
ever it crosses the water course. This
will be done by driving piles where they
can be drivcd, and by putting up bents
elsewhere. Three pile drivers have been
put to work. Helena Herald.
A Fort Kcogh correspondent Of the
Bismarck Tribune says: Gen. Brisbin
is east on short leave of absence but
will return soon. 1t is understood that
he has been requested to repeat in sew
eral eastern cities lis recent lecture upon
the Custer massacre. With the troops
who served in this department in 1876
it has been matter Of common report
and comment that Gen. Custer did DISC
hey his orders as regards the time he
should be on the east bank of the Big
Horn in the vicinity Of the Indian camp