The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-25
MONTANA NEWS.

it's telegraph line from Belknap to
Eagle City by the end of the present
week.
VIM. Cecil, who robbed the treasure
box of the Helena and Benton stage,
a year ago, has been convicted of the
| crime.
Parties at Eagle City are said to
have purchased the Associated Press
franchise for that place-an indication
of daily paper.
Some miscreant hooked Il wire over
| the line from Helena to Benton,
| .grounded" the electric current, and
cut off Benton from the outside world
for several days.
The Anaconda company, which for
the past six or eight months has been
shipping ore Via Garrison and tie
Northern Pacific, now ships again
over the Union Pacific.
An interpreter of the Flathead In
dians is now in Gallatin valley, look
ing up the thirty head of ponies which
the two murdered Indians had with
them when they left Bozeman.
Benton evidently contains some hard
cases. A few weeks ago s. Kennedy
imported some bees from the east ana
one night last week some wretch stole
all the honey out of the hive, leaving
the bees to rustic for a living.
The first marriage ever celebrated
in the Occur 'Alene mines was per-
formed by Rev. w. c. Slippen, of the
M. E. church, at Murrayyille, April
81, 1884, when Henry John Scott, u
bachelor, was united in tie bonds of
matrimony to Laura Bell Wright.
A dispatch received from Salt Lake
says: Walkers Opera house is now
added to the Montana theatrical Cir
cult by John Mcguire and it is possi-
BILE that Laramie City and Cheyenne
will also be added. Only the best at
fractions will be booked in the future.
The Northern Pacific land depart
ment will this season put two parties
of Typographical surveyors in the field
both to start out about the first Of
May, Both parties will start from
Helena, one going to Mlssoula and the
other to Billings, at which points they
will leave the road.
Missoula Times: One of the chests
of the passenger engine No. 237, ex-
ploded the other day, beyond Arlee.
The train was running about twenty
FIVE miles an hour and the engineer re-
versed the lever to avoid collision
with hand.car. The compressed air
blew off the top Of the steam chest,
bnt. fortunately, the engine was not
thrown off. The hand car was dam
aged $5 and The engine about $500.
independent: Tasso 0. Felix, OF
Columbia, Mo-, writes us to make
some inquiries in reference TOD. w.
Hanna, who is now at White Sulphur
/ Springs under sentence OF death. She
says that if he is the person whom she
has in mind. he is her uncle-htr
mothers brother-who has been liv-
/ ing in Montana for the past few years.
From the description given in Miss
i Tor Mrs.) Felix's letter, and from
other information at hand, we have no
doubt that Hanna is the person whom
| the lady believes to be her uncle.
Since the hides ts:ken from the dead
cattle OH the ranges in the vicinity of
Sun River have begun to come III,
/ cattle men have concluded the loss
i will be somewhat larger than antici-
4 patel. Hon. r. S. Ford, who is one
Of the largest stock owners, thinks the
loss will not fall much below ten per
cent; but that the fine weather which
we are now having Will more than
| make up that loss by adding to the
crop of calves. many OF which die
| from cold. snow, and wind storms,
usually during March and April, and
this spring there will be no loss from
that source.
j Red Wing Republican: A young lady
in WEIGH has fine twelve-pound boy, and
claims chat she has never known man.