The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-01-03
MONTANA NEWS.

Dlphtheria is prevalent among small
folks in Helena
The Dillon postofice is worth 81 400 a
year besides clerk hire.
There are now GO students in the Col
legiate Institute, Deer Lodge.
At Fort Benton the theremometor regis
tered AZ below on the Gath inst.
A fire at Bozeman last week destroyed
the residence of John Anderson.
A careful estimate places the number
of beef cattle in Idaho at 100000.
The Dillon Tribune enters upon its
fourth volume with its next issue, as live
and spicy as ever.
On Wednesday morning Of last week,
at Dillon, the thermometer registered Al
degrees below zero.
Over in Meagher county man has
wilfully and deliberately married a girl
named Chilla Frost.
Con Conners confined in the Beaver
head county Jail for horsestealing, made
his escape Friday last.
Ft. Assinaboine, Montana, is the second
largest military post in the United States,
Lcvenworth ranking first.
The county commissioners of Mcagher
county at their recent session divided that
county into eleven townships.
District Attorney Blake has appointed
@. F. Goddard, of Billings, as his deputy
for the county of Yellowstone.
| D. A. Mcmillan, of Butte, has issued a
challenge to wrestle any man in the Terri
tory for from 800 to $3.50 side.
| A new manager and superintendent,
both hailing from England, have been ap-
pointed for the Drum Lummon mine.
William McGrath, employed in the
Lexington mill, Butte, met sudden death
last week by being caught in the machin-
; cry.
The publishers of the Benton Record
have suspended the publication OF the
daily edition of that paper during the
winter.
Judge Wade has remitted the fine OF
81 900, imposed upon Stephen Wiles
convicted of smuggling at the last term
of court at Helena.
The Indians of Belknap agency have
raised enough potatoes this year for theil
' winter use, and have surplus of 1000
bushels besides.
The copper smelters in the vicinity OF
, Butte and Anaconda will be shut down
shortly for an indefinite period, owing tc
r the present low price Of copper.
A raid was made on Chinese opium
den at Butte last week in which five
Cinnamon were captured, together with
pipes, lump opium, and complete outfit.
Postotfices have been established in
Montana and postmasters appointed as
follows: Victor, j. H. Chilsans; Crow
Agency, G. F. Babecock; Fort Ellis,
Edward Ogden.
1t is reported that Charley Schaft. for
merly OF Benton, IS writing a history OF
the Indian service Of Montana. It would
probably pay some of the agents to have
the work suppressed.
Billings Herald: On Tuesday night
Qast week) every mercurial ern,ometer
in town was frozen. and the only reliable
registry of the temperature was found at
the headquarters, where the spirit instru-
ment indicated 81 degrees below zero.
A Swede living near Miles City, who
had been employed to assist in taking cat
tie to the east, and was returning to his
home took hilarious mood at Brainerd
and arrived as Bismarck SO badly frozen
that his limbs will have to be amputated
to save his life.
On Monday evening last James Riley, a
man who had been employed on ranch
near Virginia City committed suicide by
taking strychnine. He was from Now
York, and had no relatives in Montana, or
elsewhere, so far as known. He was
about SO or 40 years Of age.
Cow Boy: Vic Smith came in Sunday
and reports killing eighty-nine deer and
antelope. Sixty-nine Of them he killed
in five days. Vic is not given to drawing
the long bow on his hunting exploits, and
he has the saddles to show for it, We ac-
knowledge our record has been beaten.
! Frank Baxter, cowboy, was severely
frozen while on the range near Powder
river, having to camp out one night when
the mercury was As degrees below zero,
and after climbing cottonwood tree and
breaking off the branches for wood. had
to use his overcoat for kindling IN starting
the fire.
| About one mile and half from Terry
some person cut hole in the ice on the
/ Yellowstone river, last week, evidently to