The Mineral argus., 1885-01-22
HONTsN; NEWS.

Many OF TIE piegan Indians are re
ported frozen 10 death.
The tax levy in Missoula county
neat year will be - mills
Residents Of Meagher county will
pay IS mills tax next year.
The Legislative halls in Helena are
lighted by gas chandeliers.
The sixteenth exhibition of the Ter
ritorial Fair will be h, III at Helena on
August ,ith, next.
The total gold and silver received
III the L. ). assay Office, Helena, IN
1884, was $o97.osr.52.
The publishers of Montana meet in
Helena OF February 10, to form Ter
r;,orial Press Association.
The output of Montana mines for
1854 is put at Sa5.45o,ooo. In 1855
the estimate was $4,000. ooC.
The Drum Lummon recently de-
livered four bars of silver bullion in
Helena. valued at over $1,000.
The Senate. on the 9Th inst, prompt
" passed the House bill for the relief
of the Blackfeet Indians in Montana.
Judge Coburn has lad the United
States District Court tor the ist dis
trict removed from Bozeman to Miles
City.
The strike at the Bozeman coal
mines has been settled satisfactorily to
all concerned, and til" miners are at
work again.
The Dr. Carln, shot near Miles
City in the Sullivan embroglio, was a
cousin OF Receiver Carlin, Of the Boze-
man Land Office.
The freight business of Gallatin City
station, principally for Three Forks, is
said to exceed that of any station be
tween Bozeman and Helena.
The yield to twelve mining COM
panies in Montana of precious metals
tor the first ten months Of 1881 is
given by the Surveyor General as
$s+994, 284.
AT a meeting Of the Helena Board
Of Trade, recently, 5. +. Hauser was
appointed as delegate TO the Silver
Convention, to be held at Denver,
Colo, January sSth.
Ii the bill introduced in tn. house
by Gov. Potts, to prohibit prize fight
ing in the territory, should pass, Butte
would commence to decline, rs that
city seems to be the resort of all the
sluggers in America.-River Press.
If there is one thing more than
another that will infuse the spirit of
Ananias into an otherwise good man,
it is foOling with a shotgun. And thus
1t is that Henry Conrey and Phil Gil
bert have fallen from grace. They
went out rabbit hunting last week;
and, when they returned. the yarn
they spun ran about thusly: I'VE shot
4 hundred and thirty nine rabbits; but,
fearing that SO many would glut the
Virginia market, We sent fourteen
dozen Of them to Butte" Our esteem
ed fellow-cits. are badly ''off'' in their
mathematics or their veracity, and We
are sure it is not the frs the last, We
Observation-Disclosures.
Jacob Reading and Harry Gesset,
two OF the best known prospectors and
miners in Montana, are recent arrivals
in the city, where they expect to re-
main during the winter. In the two
years just past they have sold over
100000 worth Of mining property.
Their last important sale was the 'Blue
Bird" sold some five weeks ago for
100000. Some two years ago these
gentlemen made purcha,cs in Clark's
Fork, where they own the Battle Axe
and Morning Star On one of these
locations work is being constantly
prosecuted, and the gentlemen will
visit the camp next spring to see how
the mines open up. They intend to
devote their energies the coming sum-
mer to developing mines in Clark's
Fork, believing that section to be the
most promising undevelODei region in