The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-02-12
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MONTANA NEWS.

lie HuSDanumdn suggests tnS loItu.
alton of a board of trade for its town.
A young man who was blowing him
self in at Virginia City claims to have
been rolled for about $50. .ff
The Husbandman has begun the
Of series OF views OF
Montana ranches, homes, natural seem
cry, etc.
The sheriff's Office in the Virginia
City court house caught fire from de
fective stovepipe. ahd the building
narrowly escaped destruction.
On Saturday night a small house
with its entire contents was burned IN
Miles City. It wss owned by a man
named Clifford and occupied by Mrs.
Bugbee with her family. The fire
S tarted in the kitchen. M
r. HI. Suthsrlin. editor of the, Rocky
Mountain Husbandman. Wentito New
York to attend ameetlng of the Amer
lean Agricultural association. Until
he took the train at Townsend, it had
been ten years since he had seen a
train. M m
A man named Williams "bilked'
three Fort Benton men out Of enough
money to pay bis stage fare from Hell
ena to Benton, by selling them nice
interest in a fabulously rich placer
mine near Barker which existed only
in Williams mind.
The east side of Helena. comprising
a large part of the residence portion
of the city is cut off from any conven-
lent water supply and is forced to CON-
yey water from other parts OF tbe
city. The water company is greatly
blamed for not providing against this
predicted difficulty. ~
The young woman who lately died
at Belknxp from the effects OF NOR
phine did not take it with suicidal IN
tent. She took it with the idea that
lit would enable her to sleep, notwith-
standing the uproar of an adjoining
bar.room. She took too mach and
next morni 6 her companion found
| that half Of the bed was occupied by
corpse. She was young girl and
| had but recently entered upon 4 life
of shame.
Tommy Regan, OF Butte, says that
| while he was in the Occur d'Alene
country the miners held q meeting, ut
which it was voted that the first Chi
naman who yentured into the diggings
should be hung. and not having suffi-
cient rope OH The ground to hang a
man. miner was Immediately sent
ont on snow shoes to Trout Greek,
where he purchased forty feet of the
article and returned.
Miles City Journal: Upon further
inquiry INTO the mortality list Of the
sheep of the Marquis de Mores and
/ the cause of it.. it is now positively
4 known the sheep were in deplorable
| condition when they were placed OF.
| their ranch on the Little Missouri,
I(Dak.) and did not dare to move
around so timid were they. They
have had to lerend OH their own rnst-
ling since their arrival and being raw
hands in the country did not succeed.
The water being alkali is also said to
4 have caused their deaths.
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Two negro women met on AusUln
j avenue. lrs4s
HAS yer heard from husband Gabe
since he done luff yer 2"
II got one letter from him outer de
postoffice isEf
Il spo'se after de way he bused and
beat yer, dat yer sent it. back to him
widont openin' it 2" s.l
sYou Jess bet didn't open de letter
after desway he treated me. No, IN
1 deed, 1 didn't. I'd see him in his coffin
fust. Y @ IL
But dar mout hab been q IS bill IN
de letter.
NO, dar wasrrn't no S. bill IN de let
ter; de low. mean, wi1Hcss, yalier
mokep Ill feHgifgl
@How does yer know dat,ief yer
didn't open de letter ?"
Il got my sister to open de letter.
He wanted me ter send him his razor
and his stove pipe hat, de low, mean,
!. wuhess niqger. eJds Sifsings.
Don't Groan. S.