The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-11-28
at one time occupied the position of local
reporter on the Butte Miner.

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reporter on the Butte Miner.
Gen. Schoteld has issued an order from
division headquarters at Chicago postpon
ing the meeting of the court martial at
Fort Keogh for the trial Of Lieuts. Tilsor
and Avis until January 7, 1886.
jefferson County Sentinel: A drunken
Indian attacked man by the name Of
Pias, on Dupuyer creek lately, when the
white man cut the Indians throat from
ear to ear. Guess that is Pias Indian
now!
Some Of our people are talking of Or
ganizing an expedition to explore the un-
derground passage recently discovered in
the Castle mountains by Colonel Kent.
It is believed to he miles in extent and
probably leads to crystal palaces thousands
of feet from the surface.--Husbandman
Jefferson County Sentinel: Soule Bros,
Merriman and Bennett have located a
carbonate magnesia mine on Warm
Spring creek which is at present attract
ing considerable attention. This is said
to he bonanza of the first water,
and we hope these gentlemen will realize
handsomely.
G Company of the Seventh Cavalry,
Captain Edgerly, and twenty men from
G Company, Infantry, both under COM
nland of Major Snyder, left Fort Keogh
Monday to move the Pine Ridge Chey-
ennes, who have been visiting the North
ern Cheycnnes back to the Pine Ridge
Agency.
A story is going the rounds of the press
to the effect that James Dempsey, accom-
panied by John Hoag and jacob Scheller,
while prospecting in the Blue Ridge noun
tains were attacked by wolves and that the
two latter were torn in pieces and devour-
ed by the animals, Dempsey making his
escape by climbing tree.
Billings Gazette: J. W. Proctor is in
town, on his way to the Sinking water
country to capture live mountain lions,
mountain sheep and elk for his menagerie
in St. Paul. He left St. Paul about five
weeks ago to collect fossils and other curl
osities to exhibit IN st. Paul and has been
travelling over Montana ever since.
Husbandman: A second shock of earth
quake was felt here about 1915 p. m.,
Sunday last This was far more severe
than the one last week and was accom-
panied by sound almost like distant
thunder. So sensible was the shock that
some of our people who had retired for
the night were awakened from their slum-
bers.
The Montana Land and Improvement
company will apply to the district court
now in session at Billings for permission
to remove from the original plat of that
town 4SO acres. The removal of this tract
of land from the Billings townsite does
not include any portion of the Crow reser-
vation on the opposite side of the Yellow
stone.
Madisonian: 1t is reported that an Or
ganizatlon has been effected on the Madi-
son valley for protective purposes, and that
it has adopted very significant motto.
1t is this: "You had better mind whose
range you are on, and whose cattle you are
branding. A nod is as good as wink to
blind horse' 1t is, at least, concise and
to the point.
Independent: A gentleman visiting
the Helena mining district yesterday re-
ports having discovered Dechenite or Van
adate of lead and zinc, which he discover
ed in the Christmas Gift mine, and which
is worth $22 per gramme, or about $780,
900 per pound. A sample of the ore has
been forwarded for analysis to Professor
Henry G. Hanks of San Francisco.
A Lander, Wyoming, dispatch of the
21st says: Intelligence has reached here
that old ''Mother Osborne" who was once
so notorious as female road agent in the
Black Hills, has died in rude cabin on
the Clarkes Fork of the Yellowstone, from
destitution and exposure. She left the
Hills in 1879, and carried away a large
sum of money with her, as the result of
her criminal enterprises.
Miner: While there may bel other
causes for the circumstance, it is positive
fact that since the recent suicides gamb-
ling has decreased in great measure in
Butte. This is true of all the principal
games of the town. There are, of course,
the usual number of small players and
pickers-up, but the absence of large play
ers is noticeable. If this can be attribut-
ed to the two deaths and is continued the
Young men will not have died in vain.
New Northwest: Gates Bros, Files
and Sharp, who own the Silver Prize lead
twelve miles west of Anaconda, sent that
handsome 101-pound specimen from their
lead, which Judge Waterbury used for a
paper weight in his Office, to the New
Orleans exposition. It was the third