The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-17
MONTANA NEWS.
Livingston has a new theatre.


The weekly Helena Herald is new
the largest paper in Montana.
1t is estimated that the next general
assessment Of Montana will reach
$7o,9oo,ooo.
"Swift Bilp the legless fruit peddler,
of Helena, died recently from an over
dose Of morphine,
The snow shed at the eastern end
of Bozeman tunnel is now completed.
1t is 6I6 feet in length.
Parties coming from Heron Siding
say it is impossible to go to the Ceur
d'Alene mines a present.
The stringenoy Of the money market
and the abundance of one bit saloons
are the reasons given for closing up
John Smiths costly establishment in
Bozeman-BilIngs Herald
X. S. Burke, an old time newspaper
man of the Black Hills, passed through
Bozeman this morning en- route to the
Ceur d Alene mines. He says that he
represents 1900 miners who will fol
low him in the spring.-Chronicle.
The Northern Pacific land depart
ment reports the following sales for the
month of December: Eastern divis-
ion, 53,176 acres for $I5o,o9o, town
lots, $2,I36; Western division, 1850
acres, for $65,459, town lots, $40.
The sales for the year ending Dec. 81,
were: 1908 acres for $2,o2o,3I9'
town lots, $500, 900.
The town of Billings has more cause
to regret Frederick Billings failure to
secure the presidency of the N. P.
Railroad, than any town in Montana.
With Billings in the chair his namesake
would have received an everlasting
impetus, as the gentleman from pride
would have officially helped it, and
thereby influenced and secured the aid
of many friends.-Chronicle.
Benny Phillips, of Wolf creek reports
total of 62,432 bushels Of grain
threshed by his machine this last fall
The fastest days run was made at Joe
CobelFs, some 800. bushels being
shelled out in nine hours. Joe had
the largest crop threshed by the ma
chine, being 5,337 bushels The larg
est crop raised in the Judith Basin was
that Of Geo, Devices, on Wolf creek, it
being a,486 bushels.-RiVel Press.
A man named Donald Mitchell was
brought to Bozeman last night, and
now fingers in jail, being unable to
obtain So, 900 ball. and thereupon will
have to await the action of the grand
jury Mitchell is charged with the
seduction of Miss Maud Snider, of
Livingston, young girl just blooming
into womanhood, on the night of IAN
uary end. When arrested Mitchell
was about to take the east-bound train
to join his wife-Chronicle.
A new and still shorter route to the
mines is reported to have been found.
The starting point is at Prospect creek,
some twenty miles east of Trout creek
on the Northern Pacific An old
Indian trail extends up the creek and
over the divide to the mining region.
The summit is reported to be lower
than via Trout creek, and the distance
some shorter. Sheriff Berry, who
knows much about the country, be-
ieve this route will be the shortest of
any that can be made.-Missoula Times.
Clark, the Assiniboine stage driver,
brings in the news that the government
has ordered all persons who are now
cutting wood for the government on
the reservation, to proceed at once to
Fort Assinniboine, draw what pay IS
due them and leave the reservation at
once. This will throw some seventy
men out of employment in the dead of
winter and cause considerable hardship
According to the latest rumors the
military have determined that every
white man not an employe of the gov
ernment, or connected with the post
in some way, shall leave the reservation.
The ordering out Of the wood-choppers,
who were there under contract, looks
very much like it, at any rate. = Reed