The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-04-09
THE CITY cHRONICLED.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
The st Paul Iapers say that travel to
to the West and Northwest still contin-
ues large and increasing daily.
A. p. Williams, of Red Bluff, is in town
and reports considerable activity in that
section. SHELTERS are being built and all
preparations for the reduction of ore.
Hon. D. Jorgenson. late member of
Congress from the Petersburg district,
Virginia, and now Register of the land
Office at Walla Walla, passed through
Bozeman last night on his way to the
Pacific.
Ten thousand head of cattle will be
shipped from one ranch in the Panhandle
part of Texas to the Yellowstone Valley.
They will come by the Union Pacific to
Cheyenne and from then:e overland to
their destination.
Col. James Muir, the famous tunnel
contractor, ia in town He has just ar
rived from Winnipeg, where he had been
to secure contracts for tunneling and
other heavy work on the Canadian Pa
cific. He has been successful ia making
concracts. The Col. says he has got to
be doing something.
Theophrastys, a Greek writer who
flourished in the fourth century before
the Christian era, in work entitled
"Book on Stones" describes an earthly
substance which would kindle and burn,
and which was used Dy smiths. There
can be no doubt that he refers to coal,
and that this is the earliest passage in
which that substance is expressed or
mentioned.
AT Garrison ON the oath ult., John
Shields, brakeman on the Utah and
Northern, was accidentally shot in the
knee by a pistol, the ball fracturing the
knee joint, etc."-Ex. A fracture of the
knee joint seems to he something novel.
It is, perhaps, fortunate that the bullet
was not received in the abdomen, else
the progressive scribe might have re-
ported a fracture of the abdominal
cavity.
We received letter this morning from
a Bozeman young lady now visiting rela-
tives in Eastern Oregon, enclosing but
ton-hole boquet which she says "may
give you an idea of the climate we are
enjoying while we think of you poor
mortals almost freezing" If she could
look in Bozeman to-day she would not
think We were in any danger of suffer-
ing. In conclusion she says her mother
and self will be home in two or three
weeks.
A colored individual who went down
on the slippery flags at the corner Of
Woodward avenue and Congress street
scrambled up and backed out into the
street and took q long look towards the
roof of the nearest building. "You fell
LOAA tAIos tuAu-oVoIy "iAoow, ACHo1A So
q pedestrian, who had witnessed the
tumble. "Boss, I believes yer !" was the
prompt reply; "but what puzzles me am
de queshun of how got up dar an why
/ was leanin' outer de winder w-Detroit
Free Press.
We acknowledge the receipt from
Charles s. Fee, general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific of very hand.
some phamplet entitled ''The Won
derland of the World" It is de-
signed as guide to tourists especially to
Wonderland and is full of interesting and
historical matter. 1t is neatly gotten up
with copious illustrations of scenery
along the route and an elegant specimen
of the "art preventative" Accompany
ing it Is map and folder devoted to the
Occur d'Alene mines and is we'll calcu-
lated to stir the blood of adventures and
prospectors.