The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-04-02

lor and blew out his own brains He
leaves five small children. Riley was dis
solute and drank hard. His wife had
some property, and he repeatedly asked
that it be decided to him, which she re-
fused. In quarrel yesterday on the
subject his wife threw cup of coffee at
him. She left the house then, returning
this morning, when the tragedy occurred.
Riley had refused to support his wife and
children for several years.
We reproduce the following letter to
the Minneapolis Journal, which we sup
pose is from the facile pen of p. s
Rountree:
BozEMAN, Montana, March IL. 1884,
Special Correspondence-Montana still
wonders at the reports of heavy SHOWS
in your country. Our mercury stands at
70 degrees above, with the streets almost
dusty. Ranchmen are getting their ma
chinery ready to put in crops and the
miners are outftting for the summers
work in the mountains.
coEuR D'ALENE MINES.
An old miner named Fisher is just in
from the Occur d'Alenes. He reports
that he spent four weeks prospecting all
the opened placers and found no pay ex-
cept in one place where he took out 40
cents in the first pan of gravel and after
that did not get a color. The 40 cents
was California gold and he asserts that
all the pay there has been blown into
the gravel with shot gun. This how
ever seems to make no difference with
the travel on this stampede. This ex-
element may drop some capital into the
upper Yellowstone country, 30 miles from
this city, where for miles along the river
or any of its tributaries one can find color
in every pan. There are thousands of
acres of the finest of placers in that dis
trict with water with which to work
them.
THE UPPER YELLOWSTONE PLACERs.
The Cone Placer company, of Mime
apolis, whose mine is in Emigrant gulch
on the upper Yellowstone, are making
new and rich finds all the time. The
Drain Ditch company, just above the
Cone, have inst struck their pay streak
again and are taking out from $50 to
$3.50 to the set of timbers. Just adjoin-
ing the Cone below rich pay, running 81
to the yard, has been uncovered. Three
miles above the Cone ground two men
washed out 81 200 from twelve running
feet of bedrock. The Cone company has
contracted its machinery and lumber, and
by July LIST the expectation is that bed
rock and big pay will be reached. Half
a dozen placers in that vicinity will be
opened this summer, and the fact Of their
paying has long been established by the
years of pay taken from this ground by
ground-slnicing.
NEW COAL DISCOVERIES.
New bituminous coal mines are being
discovered and opened all the time. The
Northern Pacific company's new mine at
the end of the coal-spur near the west
end of Bozeman tunnel shows one vein
60 feet wide and 81 feet of coal in its four
veins. Between this point and the heavy
veins on Trail creek, where the Union
Pacific company are picking up coal
properties. Dan Maxey has found a new
ten-foot vein of the finest coal yet shown.
It cokes beautifully and burns with a
small amount of ash.
COOKE CITY MINES.
In the Cooke City mines work has
been going on all winter, and the results
read like fairy tales. The Ash lead shows
tN o and one-half feet of galena carbo n
ates running on an average thirty-five
ounces of silver to the ton. The Wheel
of Fortune shows three feet of milling
galena, carrying gold and silver up to
$500 to ton. The Street has been opened
with 132-foot tunnel, giving thirty-four
feet Of galena ore between the walls,
mining $38 of silver to the ton. In Bear
gulch the Keats responds to labor with
samples taken from one shaft and three
tunnels averaging $50 in free gold. Pick
ed pieces go ss14 to 23s9 in gold. New
lite has permeated the mines and by
next fall the county of Gsllatin will loom
up with record second to no county in
Montana save Silver Bow.
THE MARCH OF IMPROVEMENTS.
Bozeman ity is still putting on city
airs. This week she comes out with sill
yer numbers on her doors. Her tele'
phone subscribers are numbering up very
respectfully and various new deals fol
| improvement are on the way toward full
! fillment.
THE CATTLE KINGS
report their herds as in bettershape than
Sr several years. In fact the beef nc"
sArved in this city's butcher shops is ripe
and prime and all of it is grass-fed ant
'.rAstled.' There has been no percentage
of loss in either cattle or sheep the pas
wiAter near here.
WINSTON BRNS.,
| the old contractors on the Northern Pa
cific, have ordered their outfits of gradin
machinery put in shape for the work Q
the Union Pacific,s extension to Bozemal
The engineers are still at work on tn,
Park extension, but work on the mail
line will undoubtedly commence will
the opening of spring, which is not ia
off now. R.
Edmunds and Blaine.
Boston Helald:-Of course, Mr.. Blaine
does not like the idea of Edmunds as {
candidate for president. Blaine always
dreaded the sharp eyes and sharpe
tongue of the Vermont senator, Edmund