The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-09-05

/ Hon. Martin Maginnis, Hugh McQuaid
r. G. Merrill and Secretary Jon S. Took
, er represent Helena at the River Commits
sion in st. Paul this week.
The Fort Keogh artesian we'll is dowr
about SIS feet without any really salts
factory flow of water. The contract
permits boring to 800 feet.
Governor Hauser on Wednesday pardon.
ed William Lawrence out of the peniten-
tiary, convicted of stealing sheep in Gus
ter county over two years ago.
Two girls aged twelve and fifteen years,
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. Shull of Ra-
dersburg, ran away from home and started
for Butte but were rounded up at Deer
Lodge.
Marshal Kelly has made arrangements
to protect the Deer Lodge penitentiary in
case of fire-something that was never
done before. The guards are also being
uniformed.
The most productive silver mine in Mon
tana at present is the Granite Mountain,
at Phillipsburg. 1t produces over 100000
month. Its expenses are less than $14,-
900 per month.
"a cloud burst at Red Bluff, last Satur-
day, did considerable damage to the water
conduit of Mes srs. Hickman s. Olds, fill
ing UP the ditch and breaking down
part of the fume.
The Alameda and Wakoosta mines at
Virginia City have been sold by Thexton
& Deyarmon to j. H. Ramsey of Albany,
New York, for $4,000. The purchaser
will work them extensively.
Billings is in state of high excitement
over the moving of barn within the fire
limits when the structure does not comply
with the ordinance in such cases provided.
Why not settle the difficulty by burning
the barn?
The Butte Miner gives the "On.y a
Woman's Heart and "Only Farmers
Daughter" theatrical companies deserved
rebuke for imposing themselves upon
Montana The last named, which did not
play in Livingston, was much the worse of
the two.
Billings Gazette: We learn from Mr..
Becker of ti,e Big Iorn Sentinel, that on
Saturday night about hundred head of
horses belonging to stockmen, freighters
and Crows were stolen from near the
Custer battle ground and vicinity and
run over into Wyoming.
Courier: c. F. Cady, former prom
inent N. p. r. R. contractor, and more
recently successful stock raiser in the
Yellowstone country, has just taken con-
tract from w. II. Tracy, for the traspor
tation of nearly two million pounds of oats
from Custer Station to Fort Custer.
Argus: The Maiden Reduction Co.'S
smclter was sold at sheriffs sale. as adver-
tised, last Thursday, II. Clark & Co. of
Billings, being the purchasers for amount
of execution and costs-$1 ,253.61. The
plant will probably be turned over to P.
W. Meadow and operated by him.
A terrible accident, by which John
Hale and Henry Murrish, miners, lost
their lives, occurred at the Lexington
mine at Walkerville on Monday evening
last. The men had entered a drill too
soon after blast had been let off and
were over come by the powder smoke.
Wing, Chinaman under life sentence
in Deer Lodge prison, attempted to COM
NIT suicide by hanging but was discovered
and resuscitated. As Mark Twain says if
he had been cut down fifteen minutes later
it might have been recorded that ''he was
cut down in the flower of his youth"
Billings Gazette: Last Monday band
of Piegans attempted to run off 1870 horses
of Tom Laforge's, but Mr.. Laforge came
on them suddenly when they had the whole
band nearly rounded up. Tom commenc-
ed shooting and the Piegans ran off. By
the time the boys came up to his assist
ance the Piegans were across the river.
Billings Gazette: j. Hartman. the |
principal of the Indian school at the Crow
Agency has resigned per request, and IN
consequence of quarrel with his brother
in-law ex-Agent Armstrong has decamped.
It would seem from authentic information |
which we received that the school was
conducted in the most disgraceful manner.
Big Horn Sentinel: Charley Williams,
the man who was killed at Lander a short
time ago, was we'll known at Buffalo, and
Junction City, Montana, and was looked
upon as hard charater. 1t the time of
his death he was under bonds to appear
at the next term of the district court for
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