The Mineral argus., 1884-12-04
NEWS

been appointed governor is denied.
An effort IS being made looking to
The erection Of smelling works at
Bozeman.
Governor Crosby entered upon his
duties as First Assistant Postmaster
General on the nth inst.
The Worlds Fair and the "Mardi
Gras" at New Orleans can both be
seen by buying excursion tickets via
the Northern Pacific railroad.
Bob Roberts, an old timer, known
to many of our citizens, is reported to
have recently killed a man at Medora,
OAK, during a disturbance yellow
stone Journal.
The Helena Herald is of the opin
ion that the population of Montana is
between 10000 and 10000, and that
the assessed valuation of property will
reach $5o,ooo,o oo.
President Arthur has committed the
sentence Of Frank Young to imprison-
ment for life. Young was sentenced
to be hung for murder committed IN
Gallatin county last winter.
The Avant Courier mtimates that
Sam Langhorne is laying pipes for "a
orhce." calculating that Cleveland will
be tic dispenser after the next 4th of
=, March. Sam, il seems, aspires to the
high and lucrat We ''posish' Of P. NJ.
of Bozeman.-Helena Herald.
An amusing feature of the cattle
convention recently in session at St.
Louis was a cowboy band from Fort
Dodge, Kansas, twenty men strong,
and in full frontier costume. The
leader welded, in place of a baton,
a silver derringer which was nearly a
foot long.
Acting Governor ]. S. Tooker ar
rived this afternoon from Trout creek.
Meagher county, where they started
up yesterday the ten-stamp mill upon
the great Cod Bluff lead. He re-
ports the mill as working %sp'endidiy
each stamp dropping a hundred times
a minute.-Helena Herald.
The great Mullan bore is causing
the Northern Pacific road cons der
able trouble by the frequency of the
caves that are occurring. Hardly a
week passes that a force of men is not
called out to clear away debris oc-
casioned by the treacherous character
of the soil through which the tunnel
passes for a considerable distance
Yellowstone Journal.
Mr.. Charles Bowers, of Youngs
town, Ohio, who has been looking
over the country from Miles to Bear
Tooth and the. Snowy mountains for
the location of a range, returned from
his far western trip Thursday, and call
ed on the Stockgrower's. He ex-
pressed himself highly pleased with
the outlook, and after stopping a few
days at Glendive, will return to his
home in Ohio, and immediately pre-
pare for a permanent location in Mon
ana.-Stockgrowers Journal
In yesterday mornings Miner ap-
peared a challenge from Miles MIC
Nally to fight Jack Waite Tor $3.50
McNally did not have to wait long
for its acceptance, and Yesterday
afternoon he and Waite got together
in the Pioneer saloon and consummat-
ed arrangements for a battle a Ia Mar
quis of Queensbury, to a finish. with
Montana hard gloves, for $3.50 a side,
the mill to take place at the Amphi-
theatre, Sunday evening, December
I4th. A referee is to be chosen from
the aud ence. With regard to Nc
Nally, but little is known of him
among the sporting fraternity, but his
hackers are sanguine and say he is a
good one, and are willing to back their
assertions with coin of the realm.
Jack Waite is well know Throughout
Montana and Utah as being a clever
sparrer. hard hitter and good fighter,
and when the two men meet in the
ring some lively humping may be
looked for. Both men will 90 into
training Immediately and get them
selves in trim. Frank Mccormick
will handle McNally, while Frank and
Dunk Mcdonald VIII do that honor
for Waite.-Butte Miner.