The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-06-28
MONTANA NEWS.
John b. Cough is to lecture in Butte

is being advertised.
The har lest characters that have
i ever visited Benton are now III that
| town.
| Mrs. Patrick Conlon, of Butte, got
her collar bone broken last Sunday
while the team was indulging in Il
runaway.
The soldier who was shot during
target practice, at Folt AsSinaboine.
on Tuesday, died from the effects of
his injuries Tuesday evening.
Tile hail storm on Saturday last in
jured and in some cases destroyed
crops in the Prickly Pear valley. In
some places the hail lay six inches
deep.
Tie Missoulian looks upon the
Northern Pacific us a ''heartless cor
poration,'' and regrets that nothing
has been done toward torfeiting its
land grant.
A train on the Utah & Northern
was ditched near Glen Station. the
engine and thirteen cars were wreck
ed, and Frank Edwards. the conduct.
OF. was killed.
Michael Hogan on Wednesday last
was struck by II Northern Pacific
train at Gold creek and had his leg
broken in two places. lie is now in
the hospital at Helena.
I. On the Utah & Northern branch
from Stuart to Anaconda the track
has been laid for distance of three
miles. and the road will be in opera
ton about the lst of July.
Butte will have q twenty five mile
running race with lady riders, Miss
Williams. Of England, and Miss
Floyd, of California, for ST. 900, as a
Fourth of July attraction.
The sheep shearerS of the Mussel-
shell held meeting '.early in the
campaign" and resolved not to shear
for less than ten cents head. Their
demands were acquiesced to.
The Seattle Chronicle has circulated.
with the title of Under Il Black
Cloud, a map of Washington terri.
tory as overlaid by the land grant of
tie Northern Pacific railroad.
S. T. Hauser and Samuel Word the
delegates to the democratic convention,
have engaged rooms at the Grand Pa
cific Hotel. and will have there a Mon
tana headquarters, and will receive
their friends in grand style.
The citizens of Missoula and Bitter
Root valley want IL railroad up that
valley and To that end will petition
the Union Pacific to extend its branch |
from Anaconda mp Bitter Root. But
the Union Pacific is not building
branches this year.
Four confidence men were arrested
ut Thompson's Falls q few days ago
and brought to Missoula. but as no
crime had been alleged against them
they We're discharged. Ina few min
utes they had chartered special train
and were fleeing to Idaho.
Al Flem or ..Dutcll Al. stole some
horses in Judith Basin but was fol
lowed and overtakrn and barely es-
capped lynching. He then visited a
ranchman' S cabin and stole every
thing he could carry off. since which
exploit he has not been heard from.
We are indebted to Mrs. Howey
for All excellent poem by Miss glpora
Stout. Int it is SO long We have not
vet been able to find a place fo. it III
the rush of other matters demanding
attention. Independent. This being
interpreted, means I'VE have no
space for any such trash.
The story going the rounds Of the
territorial press taken from an eastern
paper. that Miss Kate i. Harllmrt of
Rutland. Vermont. was waiting to
marry Montana man she had never
seen. but whose acquaintance had
been made ''y correspondence and |
exchange Of photographs, proves true.