The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-04-11
MONTANA NEWS.


Only thlrty-two votes were cast at Miles
City school election Saturday last.
Butte has issued charter for street
railway. Two years immunity Of taxes
is granted.
Capt. j. A. Rodgers Of Missoula, an
aged and prominent old-tiner OF the ter
ritory, is dead.
I'M. Belts was caught in the machinery
of Rankin's saw mill at Missoula and
received fatal injuries.
Twelve bars Of Alice bullion, valued at
s1s.4O0, were shipped by the Pacific Ex-
press from Butte on Monday
Billy West and John Gould had a catch
as-catch-can wrestling match at Dillon
last week, for 800 side. West won.
According to the Auditors report for
1884, the number Of sheep in Montana is
583.896, whose value is about 81 1913, 148.
VIM. Wright was sentenced to IS
months imprisonment for dealing two-card
box at faro, and VIM. Frye, one year for
the same offense, at Butte. on Saturday
last
The shingle mill Of the Montana I'M
provement company at Nixon was destroy
ed by fire Sunday night. together with s.
5,oO0,00O shingles, and entailing loss Of
$4,000.
The report of the expert appointed to
examine the books of ex-treasurer Kemp
Roberts of Lewis and Clark county shows
him to be in default to the amount of
$3s, 1851, 40.
Billings Post: We learn on pretty
good authority that II. ]. Armstrong;
reign over the Crows has practically ended.
and that new agent will be out to take
charge in few days.
Yellowstone journal, A dozen boys
swimming in Tongue river on the fifth OF
April may seem like an early beginning
of the season but it was fact and they
seemed to enjoy the sport immensely
The grand jury of Lewis and Clark coun-
ty, in their report to the presiding Judge,
D. s. Wade, after diligent search are un-
able to designate the party OF parties i'm
plicated in the hanging of Con Murphy.
d.. Davis was killed instantly last
Monday in the Magma Charta mine, Butte,
Ivy the cnving Of several tons Of rock from
the hanging wall cf the mine. Two other
miners were also badly injured by the
same accident.
Last week an aged man by the name OF
Palm was drowned in the Yellowstone, OPP
posite Junction City He was crossing ON
the ice to 90 to Custer station when ne
stepped into an air-hole, thus finding a
watery grave.
Big Horn Sentinel: Robert Wills, who
located among us last fall, has returned to
his former home in Gallatin valley, Mon
tana, from which place he will drive some
fine stock to this part Of the country
during the season.
The Collar mill and mire at Maiden is
to he sold on the 2jth to satisfy four
judgements obtained against the company
It is said that this sale and the resulting
purchase will lead to the operation of the
property by re-organlzcd company.
1t is authoratiyely stated that four COM
panies of the Fifth cavalry, now stationed
at Fort Mckinney, will leave that post in
course of month or six weeks, for Fort
Riley, Kansas, their reginental head
quarters. Four companies of the Ninth
cavalry (colored) will he stationed at Fort
Mckinney instead.
Again it is announced that the "History
of Montana prepared by NJ. A. Lesson
&Co., will be published. This time Major
Robert c. Walker tclegraphs from Chicago
to the Helena Herald that he has seen the
first three forms in actual print and that
sixty pages Of buildings and portraits have
been printed. The work will contain
1900 pages.
Mr.. John Sullivan, from St. Louis,
came to Montana, by way Of Colorado, in
1862 or 1868. Four or five years since
he wrote a letter to his friends from Helc
ma. Nothing has been heard from him
since, and a sister, Mary A. Sullivan, is
now at Helena and would be very CRATE
full for any information from or in regard
to her brother.
Under the heading Of skating rink
eyils,' the grand jury of Silver Bow
county made the following recommended
ton: 1--WE urgently recommend to the
city council OF Butte City the enactment
of an ordinance supervising and controlling
the admission and attendance Of minors at
skating rinks, particularly after night, to
the end that Il threatening evil may be ar
rested
Several years ago when women were
scarce, and the Journey to the states long