Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-10-28
Montana Mention,

The Alice mine buildings narrowly
escaped cremation on Friday last.
Kennedy a Kelly purchased Henry
Martins beef steers at Maple creek for
Si2 head
Nelson StOry's shipments of cattle
this season amount TO 800 head, with
more TO follow.
The calf roundup in Johnson
county, (WyO,, is reported to have
been very good.
L0rn Baker, recently shot at sun
River, by Charles Buckley, still lives,
though in critical condition.
The Butte Operate League is en-
gagged in the rehearsal Of an amateur
production entitled "Kal1ma the
! HoodOo."
An enormously rich body of ore,
showing native silver and free gold in
misses, has been struck in the Drum
Lummon.
SIR. and Mrs. p. WLalen, of the
Marias, celebrated the twentieth ami
yersary Of their wedding on October
twentieth
Citizens Of Benton recently held
public meeting and subscribed $500 TO
be used for some local public benefit.
Object not stated
Hunters Hot springs have been
leased for the winter to William OFF,
Ger. DIR. Hunter and his family will
probably go south for the winter.
Ed. Burnett, who has a small band
Of cattle ranging on the Crazy Woman,
departed this week for England,
where he will spend the ginter.-Big
Horn Sentinel.
There has been no acquittals Of
criminals at the Silver Bow term of
court. Every one that has been tried
has had to take good dose Of hard
labor in the pen.
The Maiden Argus reports the ar
rest of ten Crow Indians by the mill
tary at Fort Maginnis for horse steal
ing. They were lodged in the guard
house and their agent notified.
Ike Clarke and number of the COW
boys who accompanied the cattle
drives to Maple creek, returned TO the
city yesterday. Ike says the prairie
fires have laid the country bare from
Milk river TO the Canada Pacific rail-
road. -Bsnton River Press.
! A fair damsel of Missoula has an
album in which she keeps the pictures
Of all the young men who have flirted
with her without coming to the point.
She calls it her rogues' gallery. She
has already over half the boys in town
and to expects make additions to it
shortly.
Mr.. Il. p. Walker, superintendent of
the Montana cattle company, is in the
city. Mr.. Walker is justly proud Of
the fact that he realized the top price
for his beeves in the Chicago market
"a higher figure than has been paid
for any lot of western cattle. His
herd of beeves Melted him S54.-Ben-
ton RIVER Press.
There Is every indication that a
fiourishing mining camp will be es-
tablished at the headwaters of Little
Goose creek, where there are at present
sixteen men at work on lodges and es-
tablishing winter quarters. Most of
these men are practical miners and
have considerable faith in the mineral
thus far discovered. Big Horn Sem
tinel.
The new building erected at the In
sane asylum by Drs. Mussigbrod and
Mitchell is 2sxS4 feet in dimensions
and one and a half stories high.
Every precaution will be used TO guard
against fire. A night-watch will be on
duty, TO visit each building every half
hour. A force pump has been placed
in position, drawing its supply Of
water from the large swimming bath,
and with sufficient hose to reach all
the buildings.
The Benton River Press Of the 23rd
says: 1--WE learned from Jim Clark,
the AsSinaboime driver, last evening,
that the prairie FIRE on the reservation
is making rapid progress In all dlrec-
tons. The fire was under full head
way In the timber Of the Bears Paw
yesterday. On the south side Of the
mountains II had reached Clagett and
was still going on, while to the north
1t was heading toward MIX river and
the Belknap agency. burning at
rapid rate in the luxuriant grass of
that section. Coming this way the
fire had reached Twenty-Four Mile
Springs and was moving on TO the
Marias.
The grade Of the Sioux City A Pa
cifc railroad reached Buffalo Gap ON
Monday last, and as the contractors