The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-04
MONTANA NEWS.

1
Judge Conger will engage in the
practice of law at Virginia City.
Miles City citizens are making their
annual move for town organization.
| A post OF the Grand Army of the
| Republic has been organized at Deer
Lodge with membership of twenty
| two.
W. Cowan, q former stock grower
of Beayerhead county, has located II
ranch on Froze.to.Death creek, and
will stock his ranch with LOCO head
of native cattle.
Near Dillon last week in the New
Departure mine, three sticks of giant
powder were exploded accidentally.
James Toole received injuries that
were nearly fatal.
Virginia City is to have creamery
which will be operated by stock com
pany having a capital of $4,000. Two
hundred head of cows will be pur-
chased for starter.
Miles City Press 1st: Yesterday even
ing wagon train arrived from Dead
wood in the town. The party is com
posed of about twenty-five Black
Hills miners, en- route to the Occur d
Alenes.
In the. District court, at Virginia
City, James Donovan, who killed John
Sullivan at Sheridan, was found guilty.
Donovan was sentenced to one year In
the penitentiary at Deer Lodge.
No trains on the Northern Pacific
reached Missoula from the west
for five days last week. A snow fall
of several feet in the vicinity of Bel
KNAPP was succeeded by a rain, settling
it about four feet. The road was
blocked for eighteen miles, snow
plows were unava ling. and force of
$50 men were empl Dyed to shovel cut
the track fOr tnat distance.
Four men have died in the Occur
d'Alenes: Sam Norris, an old resi-
dent of Montana, of gastric fever;
VIM. III. Allen, of heart disease; NAL
Xxi Johnson, of poisoning. hav-
ing received a CHASTITY wound in the
foot from All axe; VIM. Day, of pleu-
risy. The graves of the four men are
newly made and are side by side, each
having head~board upon which is
painted, the name, age and date of
death.
Madisonian: George W. Rea, mas
ter Of transportation for the q. P.
National Park surveying party, was in
the city Sunday. George was consid-
erably used up by the hardships and
exposures of the expedition; but not
so badly as to prevent his return onthe
following day. The worst of the trip
lis now over, and the progress will be
more rapid from now on. Several of
the party have been slightly frost
bitten since leaving the Fire Hole
Basin; but none very badly, and no
serious casualties have occurred.
New Northwest: 1t will be seen
from telegram in this issue that Mr..
Nelson Bennett, of Deer Lodge. who
has contract on the Cascade division
of the Northern Pacific, has brought
suit to recover $4,000, which he Or
dered sent to the scene of his work III
Washington territory, and which was
s.nipped'' by somebody after reaching
its destination. 1t is the impression
that Mr. Bennett will recover tle
amount from the express company or
the Portland brokers who forwarded
the money.
At.El Paso, Mexican dollars are worth
85 cents in American coin. At Paso del
Norte, just across the river, American dol
lars are worth S5 cents in Mexican coin
One morning a car-dnyer started from the
American side with Mexican dollar, TOn
his arrival at the Mexican town he took a.
drink of whiskey, which was 10 cents,
and received an American dollar inGhange
| for his Mexican. On his return to the
American side he took another drink OF
/ equally bad liquor and received Mexiean
dollar for his American. repeating the
drinks at intervals during the day, and at