Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-07-24
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Montana Mention.


10 take hold Of the street car franchise
relinquished by John II. Ming.
The Alice company is now working
more ore than any other silver COM
pany in the camp. The stamps daily |
crush 100 tons.
Silver Creek Lodge No. 10, A. o. U.
W., will give their second anniyer-|
sary ball at their hall at Marysyille,
on August eth.
"rhe ELUSIVE Celt, or Misunderstanding
Dan" is the titk the Silver Bow peo-
pie give the newly appointed United
States collector.
Operations actively continue on the
Barnard placers in Missoula gulch.
which will produce this year about
$1,000 in gold dust.
The Missoula and Fort Missoula
baseball mines played a match game
last Sunday, resulting in a victory
for the former by score of ~ to 90.
Captain and Mrs. Wellman, of the
steamer Missouri, gave reception at
Fort Benton this week. 1t proved TO
be one Of the principal social events of
the season in that city.
The Moulton mill is making one of
the longest runs on record and is pro-
ducing between $50, 600 and $50, 900 per
month. The percentage Of amalgams-
ton remains remarkably high.
A traveller whose trunk was retained
by the authorities at Helena, for
charges incurred while they held il
on suspicion, has sued the city for
damages and seems likely TO recover.
A four round hard glove fight has
been arranged for by Thomas Garsides
and Frank Keith. Garsides is to
knock Keith out in the four rounds or
lose $3.50. Dillon is the fighting
ground.
Opium Jim, a Butte Chinamsn, was
set upon by tramps who demanded
money. Failing to deliver he was
carved with butcher knife and a
dagger, sustaining fatal injuries. The
assassins were arrested.
The Liederkranz society, of Butte
contemplate leading an expedition ia
the geysers, starting the latter part OF
August. They will take brass band
with them. The people Of the terri.
tory will be invited TO participate.
James NJ. Reynolds, the champion
Montana skater, has now become
enough of celebrity in the east that
his photographs have been placed on
sale in nearly all the art stores in tn,
United States 10y an enterprising New
York photographer.
The wool growers are very muci
elatcd at the treatment they received
in Fort Benton this year. TheiI
WOOL has been cared for and every eff
fort has beeu made by our merchants
TO facilitate the handling and ship
plug of it.-River Press.
A lady visitor who has been in
Montana about a year weighed nine
ty-two pounds when she arrived, and
now weighs l26 pounds, She gained
eight pounds in the fist six weeks.
She will now remain here and try to
double up in weight next year.
w. A. Chessman has cleaned up
81 100 in dust, the result of a months
run on his plaoerground north Of Hell.
ena. He Is working three men and
one hydraulic, running the dirt
through fifty-foot fiume. The dig
gings are within the city limits.
Mr.. Healy, Of Benton, signifies thai
IL would be agreeable TO him to basil
IN the sunshine Of the customs Office
Mr.. Healy was one Of the crippled
eabdinates for the marshaIship, and
he now asks that Cummings be "fired
and himself appointed collector
Helena Herald.
Conrad Kessler, who died at
o'clock Monday evening. was al
honorable and upright man, and hi
death was a severe blow to his man,
friends and relatives. He was a Ger
man by birth, but had lived in thi
country since 1916, and in Montanl
since ls76.-Helena Independent.
The sessions OF the Montana Woo
Growers association closed last Thur.
day evening at Fort Benton, and as
fitting conclusion Of the labors OF tn
fiockmasters'a banquet In their homo
was given atthe Union hotel by IN
merchants and bankers OF that cit,
IL was a success In every particular.
The Elkhorn company shipped o
Saturday last seven bars Of bullior
aggregating 100 pounds. and value
at Is, 500, TO the New York mint TIL
was the result OF ten days' rul
Few. u any. mining enterprises
the country pay proportionately
large dividends as the Elkhorn.-H,
ena Herald.
Oscar 0ruwell. Of Froze.to-Death.