The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-10-03

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espied one small party of Piegans ant
took seven ponies from them.
1t is said that company has beer
formed to work the old river bed at th'
head of Confederate gulch. 1t will b,
developed by tunnel run 5000 feet int
the gravel deposit.
A prairie fire at Profile, Meagher county
burned over great range area and con
sumed the household effects of Thoma!
Brewington who had moved them ou
fearing that his house would burn.
Geo. V. Simns, who lately went cas-
from here, told the Pioneer Press that the
whole country along the railroad from
Glendlve to the Minnesota line was burned
over and looked like a blackboard.
A lad named Walter Henry Potts, so1
of Joseph Potts, living near Boulder, Jef
ferson county, was thrown from the wagor
by a runaway team, kicked by one of the
horses as he fell and almost instantly
killed.
DR.. A. H. Mitchell of Deer Lodge in.
tends to erect large hospital in Anaconda
at an early date. 1t is designed more es.
pecially for the care of the patients
of the Anaconda company, though outside
patients will be treated.
Dillon Tribune: Considerable work is
going on in the Birch Creek Mining Dis
trlct. The Shelby Mining company is
shipping two car loads of iron ore daily
The ore goes to Haley, Idaho, where it
will be used for 1uxing purposes In the
smelter at that place.
In the western part of Gallatin county
last week, prairie fire set by passing
locomotive destroyed considerable
amount of property. Thomas Waterhouse,
A. X. Stanton and an unknown hunter are
mentioned af the chief sufferers, the hunt
er being badly burned.
At Radersburg, one night last week, a
young man named Geo. E. Mckay was
caught climbing ladder that led to the
bedroom of 14-yearold girl, the
daughter of prominent citizen. 1t is
supposed that the young people were i'm
properly intimate. The gay Lothario was
arrested.
Returned prospectors from the Sweet
Grass hills tell the Maiden Argus that the
placer excitement in that locality Is a
great blk. About forty men are in the
district and white and Indian thieves have
stolen about sixty horses leaving many of
them with no means of transportation out
of the camp.
Journal: Last Sunday morning while
assisting in catching some horses at Jim
Archdale's corral, on Locate creek, David
Deming, who was standing near the gate
was struck just behind the ear with bar
against which wild horse had run and
had his neck dislocated. He lived until
Tuesday noon when he died. .-.
At Basin, Jefferson county, man nam
ed Smithey was o1t walking with Miss
Donahue. One Fossett seems to have con-
sidered that he had lien on the girls af-
fections and when they returned from their
stroll he took several shots at Smithey and
then fled. Two of the shots passed through
Smithey's clothing but he was not
On Monday evening Gilmer & Sails
bury's stage from Jefferson bound for
Butte was held up near the latter city by
three masked men. The driver and the
two passengers were searched but what
little money was obtained from them was
handed back. The express box was broken
open and package containing $11 and
another supposed to contain some jewelry
taken.
Stockgrowers Journal: A letter from
Mr.. H. F. Fountain, of Mingusville, dated
23d inst, says the country between the
railway track at Dickinson and the Can
non Ball river has been recently completely
burnt over, and that Maj Towers, who
just arrived, says it is impossible to get
into Dickinson with cattle, and that he
has turned his cattle to Mingusville, from
which place he is now making large
shipment.
New Northwest: Murphy, who con-
fessed in St. Paul or Minneapolis that he
killed Edwards, the brakeman, is losing
his memory. He now pleads ignorance
of the matter, and says that, although he
was working for Coles circus at the time
and went to Garrison on the train that
night, he did not kill Edwards; did not
see him, and does not know he was on the
same section with him. He evidently in
tends to let the prosecution make the case.
Young MCGEE who shot and killed
Studor, his step-father, at Butte, in the
belief that he was stranger who had
relations with the boys mother
has been tried and sentenced to one years
The man killed was the
second husband, tho boys fathor
being divorced from her. The killing
occurred in the darkness. The boy said
in court that men frequently had criminal
relations with his mother and he thought
this was one of them.
Madisonian: As Mrs. Geo. w. Marshall
was coming in from the upper Madison
basin, last Sunday, while passing through
the Madison canyon she observed large
band of horses. which she is convinced
have been stolen from the lower country.
Passing ravine, she saw one man about
to mount horse, but, hearing the wagon
coming along he desisted and was evident
ly trying to escape observation. A few
minutes later she saw another who seemed
equally anxious to avoid being seen. The
is admirably situated for
hiding bands of stolen horses, and recent
events leave no doubt that horsethieves
have rendezvous thereabouts, and that an
examination of the vicinity would develop
q good chance for a necktie sociable.