Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-11-01
Montana Mention.

Prairie fires are raging throughout
the Milk river country.
The Musselshell roundup will be
through by the LIST of November.
Butte has a chiropodist; the Mon
tana corn crop will now be harvested.
A choral society is to be organized
mt Helena under the direction Of Prof.
Born.
Montana cattle take on more flesh
at this time OF the year than at at any
other.
Plat Burr has been released on bail
secured by the arduous endeayors of
his wife.
Attending the theatre with another
woman's husband seems to be this
fashionable craze of Butte society.
The Jail quarters in the new city
building at Helena have been occu-
pied by transfer from the old cooler.
Last week the Smith river (Meagher
county, round-uppers had a quarrel
and the roundup was divided into
two sections.
1t is estimated that Montana con-
tains 493, S96 sheep, worth Sl,693, l4S,
an increase of All per cent. over the
figures Of last year.
The Flat Willow roundup was COM
pleted about,a week since. The calf
and beef roundup was carried on ut
the same time.
A man named Brown, while on his
way over the Musselshell TO Billings
the other day, shot mountain sheep
near Fenton's ranch on Alkali creek.
The Town Talk ascertains somehow
that the Northern Pacific is a dlvi-
dend paying road and that it distrib-
uted 800, 600 in this manner in Sep
TENDER.
Miss Sullivan, of Walkerville, who
fell into prospect hole recently while
wandering in derangsd condition, is
improving and hopes are entertained
for her recovery.
Behold to what depths the great has
fallen The LOCOMOTIVES with which
Brigham Young used to do all his
travelling, is now at the Butte shops
doing stationary" work.
The new -four mill at Great Falls
cost S25, 600. 1t is not running yet be-
cause the water power utilized was
not sufficient for the purpose. The
wing dam is being enlarged.
When Commissioner Read goes TO
the New Orleans exposition, he will
take with him history of Montana
as an evidence ofthe barbarism of the
territory aud the fierceness of it's in
habitants.-Town Talk.
Dillon & Hess have leased Rem
shaw's opera house and are converting
it into first class concert and ball
room. The boxes will be taken out,
new spring floor put in and other i'm
provements added.-Town Talk.
Urlin's planning mill, a two story
frame building at Missoula, was de-
stroyed By fire the other day. II was
built in 1883 and cost $4,000. The
loss for mill and lumber Is estimated
at 5000. There was no insurance.
Butte has bold butcher boy named
Louis Kipp, who skipped from his
true and lawful wife in Brooklyn. N.
Y, taking with him "squint-eyed
blonde" The abandoned wife is now
after the children, but Is willing to
forego all claims on Louis In favor of
the young lady affected with strabis-
mus.
The Rocky Mountain Husbandman
in answering the query of CORE
spondent unearths law on the Mon
tana Statute book which declares II
unlawful to ship out Of the territory
the skin or pelt OF any game animal,
making the transportation company as
we'll as the shipper, liable for its vio-
latIon. The penalty ranges from ESQ
TO $500 fine, and imprisonment from
thirty days to six months.
Reports from the Sweet Grass
mines brought into Benton by the
miners themselves, show that there IL
pay dirt In these diggings. notwith-
standing the rumors 10 the contrary.
This year the miners have contented
themselves with taking out a grub
stake" ut the expense of very little
labor, occupying the rest Of the time
in prospecting, and building bitches
aud reservoirs. They look to next
season for the profit.
Last week party Of Piegsns with
twenty horses crossed the Yellowstone
at Boulder, and went across country
to Rock creek. While they were rest
ing In the brush near Boulder, q COW
boy named Charles Brant came along
aud was ordered back by the Indians
who pulled gun on him. There
were six when he saw them, but only
four when they crossed Rock creek at
Red Lodge postoffice on Sunday.