The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-12-12
MONTANA NEWS.

Lester Sulgrove, deputy district court
clerk, Miles City, was lately married a
indianapolis, Indiana.
Anaconda is the largest town in the
United States without a resident minister
of the gospel.-Review.
Gov. Hauser lately bought the Australia
mine, Boulder district, from J. J. Vial
and D. C. Turner for $25,O00
Henry C. Hurd died of excessive drink
in Helena on the 9Th. He was formerly
| commissary sergeant at Fort Shaw.
A man was found dead in Basin Gulch,
! 18 miles from Butte. He is a stranger
but suspicion of foul play is entertained.
News was brought in from the 'Neilart
| smelter this week that run OF cne
week gave returns of $4,000 in bullion.
w. w. Dewitt has been appointed
postmaster at Cottonwood, Meagher coun-
ty, and B. F. Shawbert at Twin Bridges.
Jefferson county.
The democrats of Butte have nominat-
ed DR.. Beal for alderman and John T.
Baldwin for city clerk and attorney, both
to fill unexpired trims.
Albert Babcock, of the firm Of Bah
cock & Miles, Billings, has been appoint
ed to fill w. B. Webb's unexpired term
as commissioner of Yellowstone county.
Fred H. Foster has been appointed to
make expert investigation of the accounts
and records of Yellowstone county. He
is to get S. per day for net to exceed
fifty days.
Platt Burr, the ci-devant newspaper
man who is under bonds for tria. on the
charge of burglary at Butte, is under ar
rest in Idaho for obtaining money on
bogus checks.
In fight among miners at Butte John
Lynch was badly stabbed by Daniel
Murphy with miners candles:ick-a
singular weapon but, as it proved, a
dangerous one.
MissOula Times: An Indian known as
Deaf Louis came upon three grizzly bear
male, female and yearling-on Ravalli
creek Thanksgiving day, and killed all
three with his needle gun.
A nearly successful effort on the part
of the prisoners to break out of the Miles
City Jail was discovered and frustrated by
Sheriff Savage. They were cutting
through the floor Of the steel cage.
The Anaconda company lately closed
dowr eight mating and six calcining
furnaces and discharged 180 men. But
they are still running eighteen furnaces
and turning out eighty tons Of matte
daily.
Courier: 4 postotfice has been estab-
lished at Flathead Pass, this county, and
designated Gallop, in honor of "Jim"
Gallop. This is we'll -merited CON-
pliment to the pioneer settler of that To-
caljty.
The Yellowstone Journal publishes a
nebulous story about an earthquake on
Otter creek that came on with q noise
like clap of thunder and was hard
enough to shake the chinking from the
cowboys cabins.
The members of the Chestnut roundup,
moved by the increased numbers and
feroclty Of wolves and coyotes, have. de-
cided to offer bounty of 81 for wolf
scalps and so cents for those of coyotes
in addition to the government bounty of
half those amounts.
J. w. Pitts, who was shot at Boulder,
Jefferson county, by John Hart, about
five weeks ago, died last week. Hart is
in Jail and will answer to the charge OF
murder. Beside being the murderer of
the husband, Hart is also said to be the
seducer of Pitts wife.
Stock inspectors lately went to cabin
in the Big Horn mountains to arrest two
men suspected of horse-steallng. One of
them refused to surrender, reached for
his gun and was shot dead by Chris Gross,
the detective. His name was George
Wood, alias Big George, alias Red Cloud.
The other man, Frank Lamb, surrendered.
Printed notices have been issued in. the
Bitter Root Valley by the indignant citi-
zens to horse and cattle thieves, to leave
within ten days from the service Of the
notice. Two men Immediately left, and
another, one Of the Wilkinsons, refuses to
go. He is heavily armed, with cabin
strongly fortified, and bids the vigilantes
defiance.
W. D. Morgan accused Of the murder
of Fred Haining in Beaverhead county,
was arrested some time ago in British
Columbia and extradited and is now in
Jail at Dillon. The murder was acovard-
ly one and the shot that killed Haining
also caused little girl who was sitting in
his lap to lose her leg. Haining was mar