Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-10-21
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Montana Mention.


adjourn this week.
Butte sportsmen shoot at live
Pigeons-and hit very few ofthem.
Duke Dutinell, Of Helena, will rep
resent the colOred race Of Montana in
tie New Orleans exposition.
"Teton Jack, "a notorious character,
has been captured by Sheriff Canton,
of Johnson county, Wyoming.
The salary Of the chief fire marshal
Of Helena has been cut from 100 to
5000. Cheap men, cheap work.
The Town Talk says the Stevens
engagement is the only successful one
that Butte has seen for many a long
day.
A l4-year-old girl of Walkerville,
hires OFT as beer jerker in a Butte
saloon and refuses to rec the error Of
her ways.
The Butte city council have passed
an ordinance making the Use of pro-
fame language on the streets, a punish
aDle ofiense.
Surveyor General Harris has just
returned from visit to Cooke City
and is sanguine Of pros porous future
for the camp.
The new court house at Helena will
be built of brown stone brought from
Bayfield,, Wis. What's the matter
with Montana granite?
The smoke stack at the new cslciner
building of the Anaconda company is
completed. The stack is lis feet high
and contains 200 brick.
A four foot vein Of good soft coal has
been discovered within three miles of
Anaconda, and parties are now min
ing and delivering it there for use.
The Collar mill at Maiden, which
has been hanging fire for a couple of
years, started up October LIST, with
5000 tons of rich ore on the dump.
AT the request of citizens OF the To-
cality, Major Roman, agent for the
Flathead Indians, has promptly or
dered all rowing redskins of that tribe
to return to the reservation.
A case Of smallpox has developed
in Missoula. The patient is a boy 4
years old, who with his mother, is be-
ing taken care of by the county. He
was removed to the pest house.
So large a drain has Montana made
on Oregon for cattle this year, that the
Oregonians are now fearful that they
have oversold their beef. and that
home consumers will suffer this
winter.
Surveyor General Harris has not
been succeeded in Office by Greene Of
Louisiana, ar anyone else. General
Harris is assured by the President
that he will not be disturbed during
his term of Office.
1t is reported that Gaylor's Globe
theatre will close on Saturday next,
which will leave the two old stand
bys, Arion and Comique, in the field.
1t is understood that Bobby Gaylor
will assume the management of the
Comique.
A detachment of soldiers from Fort
Assinaboine have been sent 10 the
Sweet Grass hills to turn the miners
out under the recent order of the In
terror Department. Many miners
had just packed in their winters grub,
and their eviction now IL much more
of hardship than ID would have been
Il few weeks ago.
The compilation Of the reports of
the different inspectors appointed by
the board Of stock commissioners
show that over $1,000 head OF cattle
have been inspected since April lst,
and out Of that number there were 400
estrays discovered. There has been
about $50 head Of horses recovered
from the Indians and picked up dur
ing that time.
A committee representing the His
torical Society, including y. Beidler
and Colonel Wheeler, this morn
ing repaired TO the site Of the
famed Hangman's Tree In Dry
gulch, for the purpose of procuring a
relic Of that dread instrument Of JUS
tice in the early times in the shape of
a block from its historical trunk. The
tree having been cut down some years
ago, nothing remained but the stump,
which was ia turn almost leveled TO
the ground by the axes OF poor resi-
dents of the neighborhood, whom the
writer hereof has seen resort thither for
a meagre supply of free fuel. After
much delving the committe succeeded
in obtaining n block about a foot
square, which was borne back TO the
city and placed in the rooms of the
Historical Society. Helena Herald.
Melville Bensdum wanted.
IL this should meet the eyes of Mel
VILE Benadum, will he write 10 bis