The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-04-25
MONTANA NEWS.
Diphtheria is prevalent in Billings.

Is MUN1ANA N6W6.
~ Diphtheria is prevalent in Billings.
It A soldier named Morton Wagner su
10 cided at Fort Keogh last week.
re A prisoner named Moore escaped fro1
te the penitentiary last week but was quickl
1e rounded up by the guards.
es Paul Mccormick has secured the COZ
Is tract for freighting the military store
m between Custer station and Fort Magir
in mis-.
Citizens of Maiden are moving to hav
l. that townsite surveyed, plated and sol
J. by the probate judge under United State
r. law.
Peter Roman, Indian agent at the jock
reservation, is candidate for the office O
= Internal Revenue Collector to succeed
- Fuller.
A swimming bath 40x80 feet and ,
large addition to the female department
are to he made at the Warm Springs in
sane asylum.
f Agentleman just arrived at Benton from
! the north says there is strong probability
of the Blackfeet (Piegan) and Blood In.
dians joining Riel's rebellion.
Frank Fountain was warned out of the
South Fork country in Lewis and Clarke
county by stockmen who suspected him
of being too free with the lariat and brand
ing iron. He went.
The Minnesota Farmer says that large
herds of stock are being bought in the
vicinity of Mankato, Blue Earth City,
Janesville and other places for. shipment
to Montana grazing lands.
Sun River Sun: J.J. Hill, accompan-
led by his chief engineer. will visit this
section within the next two weeks and
will definitely settle the railroad route
through northern Montana.
The county commissioners of johnson
county, Wyoming, have applied to the
governor for 100 stand of arms and am
munition for the people to protect them
selves against threatened Indian out
break.
Wallace Van Winkle, OF Dayton Wash
ington territory, cloped with the wife and
year-old daughter of w. P. Goldsberry
and came to Butte with them. Goldsber-
ry got on their track, had them arrested |
in Butte and taken back to Dayton.
Madisonian: Last week, D. w. Ringer,
entire band of horses, n,im6ermSg5 ;.seon,s
thing over one hundred head. Mr.. Ring
er left for Miles City yesterday. He will
drive the band to the Yellowstone valley |
early in May.
The Lower Judith Wool Growers As
sociation, in discussing wages of herders,
decided that at the present price of wool
$50 per month was all they could afford
to pay, but as they did not care to reduce
the wages of good men they would con-
tinue to pay such $35.
The wife of Major A. S. Reed, the hero
of early days in Judith Basin but who
now lives in Billings, has served notice on
all saloon keepers in that town not to sell
her husband any liquor because he is an
habitual drunkard. She sued saloon
man the other day for violation of this
notice but he escaped.
Billings Rustler: One of our promi-
ncnt citizens is to-day in receipt of let
ter from Richard X. Fox, of the Police
Gazette, relative to the coming prize fight,
in which he says: "Your favor of the
9th inst. to hand. Please accept my thanks
for suggestions. The matter is now under
consideration, but there will be no doubt
but that Montana will come out ahead"
Husbandman: Last Monday misun-
derstanding occurred between the miners
working in the Montana Belle and Mime
haha mines at Neihart and their foreman,
which resulted IN the work stopping. The
miners thought they were to receive $3.50
per day but on settling they were only |
paid 1926. They ceased work and say
they will not allow others to work at the
reduced wages.
Journal: Bonds have just been duly
executed by Messrs. Fritz & Leonard and
forwarded to the Crow Indian agent at
Fort Custer for the building of an irrigat-
ing ditch eight miles long on the Little
Horn river at the Grow agency. There
are four bitches to be built on that reser-
vation soon, this and another on the Little
Horn and two on the Big Horn. One of
the bitches on the Big Horn will be about
fifteen miles in length.
Miss Cleveland at Glendive.
Glendive Times; All who we're here in
the summer of 1881, will remember that
Miss Cleveland, accompanied by Mrs.
Rnll the wife of the Rev. Bull at that