The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-05-30

An incipient fire was discovered in
Bozeman and promptly extinguished. 1t
was believed to have been the work of an
incendiary and another raid was made on
tramps and buns.
Large numbers of cattle are stolen from
southern Montana and driven over into
Idaho. Efforts to capture the thieves have
so far proven unsuccessful though several
bands of cattle have been recovered.
Briggs and Ellis bought 1900 head of
cattle of Chapman, of Wyoming, shipping
them to Saltwater for the range. W. B.
Ellis also purchased 100 Wyoming horses
Of Chapman, bringing them to Saltwater.
A. J. Noyes, formerly of Butte but now
of Beaverhead county, has been arrested
on the charge Of abducting a 14-year old
girl, the daughter of Nicholas Ayres of
Butte. The girl has been away six months.
The dead body Of little girl baby,
wrapped in ordinary clothing and encased
in gunny sack. was recently found by
some Miles City picnicers on the banks
of Tongue river. The affair is enshrouded
in mystery.
The Miles City Journal says that two
cowboys caught band Of marauding In
dians who were running off five head Of
horses from the Big Dry range. After
fight two Indians were killed, the rest put
to flight and the horses recovered.
Private Walsh, Troop X. First Cavalry,
Fort Custer, while trying to dart by and
behind target, without displaying ''dan-
ger signal" CONTRARY to instructions)
was accidently shot through the head by
an officer in the Fifth Infantry.
Gen. Rugcr, who soon goes to Leaven-
worth, owing to the transfer of regiments
to be made this month. will probably be
relieved by Gen. John r. Brooke, of the
Sd infantry, now commandant at Fort
Shaw, who will become commanding gen.
eral of this district
Martin Emigh, of Thompson Falls, one
of the members of the territorial legisla-
ture, has failed with liabilities of about
$4,000. H. NJ. Horton was made as
sipnee and converted as much assets as he
could into cash and skipped. The estate
will now pay ten or fifteen cents on the
dollar.
Donnelly and Bryon, who burglarized
Chinese wash house at Anaconda, have
been sent to the penitentiary for two years
each. The wash house which they robbed
was afterward blown up with giant powder
and four of its occupants killed, but the
two who saw the burglary were not of the
number.
The Inter- Mountain states that W. A.
Clark, ESQ. withdrew as candidate for
governor of Montana in favor of S. T.
Hauser, Esq. and that act virtually settled
the contest in favor of the latter. 1t fur
tfer states that Mr.. Clark's withdrawal was
ON condition that he should name the
next collector of internal revenue for Mon
tana.
Billings Gazette; From various rumors
which have from time to time reached the
Gazette, it seems desirable that search
ing investigation should be made into the
management of the Indian boarding school
at the Crow agency. We hear Of one man
who removed his daughter from that in
stitution rather than have her contaminat-
ed by the evils alleged to abound there.
Butte Inter- Mountain We learn that
the friends of the Montana Central enter
prise are working steadily and earnestly
to accomplish its early construction, and
that the coal mine owners are erecting
coal washing machine near Bozeman to
prepare the coal for making coke. Recent
experiments warrant the prediction that
the manufacture of coke will be a COM
plete success.
Captain Jackson's company of the First
Cavalry will shortly change station to Fort
Custer, relieving another company Of the
same regiment under orders to proceed to
Fort Leavenworth to fill vacancy made
by Captain Edgerly's company of the
Seventh cavalry, which will take station at
Keogh. This will be the first visit of any
portion of the famous 'Seventh Horse" to
the Yellowstone valley since the Custer
massacre.
Sitting Bulls stamping ground where
he fought Gene. al Custer will now be lrri-
gated by the ditch now being constructed
near Reno Crossing of the Little Horn, and
the Sioux will now pursue peaceful avo-
cations on the very ground where they
slaughtered the heroic Custer and his gal
liant men.-Helena Independent. Our
esteemed contemporary should know that
its reference is to the Crow reservation and
that no Sioux need apply.
The representative Of the Stockgrowers'
Journal figures up S3,5OO head of stock
which have been or are to be shipped