The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-08
MONTANA ITEMS.
Butte furnished two elopements for
last week.

last week.
Secretary Lamar has emphaticall
sit down" on the Montana Lumbe
Co. by denying their right to cut tim
Der on the public domain.
A northern Montana stockman say,
that the habit Of smoking cigarettes
which the cowboys practice, is rcspon
sihle for nearly all the range fires.
The contract for building the soutl
wing to the United States penitentiar,
at Deer Lodge has been awarded I,
McDevitt & Mcconnell, for S223,77
The long looked for history of Mon
tana, is now being delivered. 1t con
tains 1867 pages, treating of the histor,
OF Montana from 1896 to the present
year.
Yellowstone county proposes to
keep Il professional lobbyist ut Wash
lngton this winter. devoted to the
schcine of opening the Crow reserva-
ton.
The mail coach running between
Butte and Boulder was held up last
week. the treasure box opened and
Sll.sO taken. No clue to the high
waymen.
The channel Of sun river at the town
of that name is to be changed to the
other side of the town. The county
commissioners are advertising for pro-
positions to do the work.
Artesian water has been struck ut
Great Falls at depth OF forty feet.
the well is ON the bench l75 feet above
the river, and flows two gallons per
minute or :, $50 gallons per day.
The selection Of railroad land in
Montana for the year ending June 80,
1885, were 79S, ,459 acres. The govern
ment lands taken in the territory i'm
the same time were about 81, ,oO0,O
Territorial Veterinary Surgeon Keef-
er is of the opinion that the cattle re-
Gently poisoned in Custer county did
not owe their deaths to Johnson grass
but by eating some poisonous weed.
1t is reported that St. Paul syndi-
cate has secured control of the Great
Falls town site and is trying to buy up
adjoining land, which leads northern
Montana people to surmise that a rail
road is soon to he built.
Stanis, who was blown up by eight
blasts in the Black Rock
mine, Butte district, a fortnight ago,
md who it was thought would surely
lie from the effects, is now up and
Walking about. His recovery is almost
l miracle.
One of the buildings Of the insane
'sylum at Warm Springs was des-
royed by fire on the night of the Goth
md three of the inmates-A. B. Maze.
Hiram BelIen and Hector Mclean
in the flames. Cause of fire
Unknown.
Samuel Allison, penitentiaried two
ears ago for shooting G. A. Lee at An
conda, WAS last Tuesday pardoned by1
'ov. Hauser. Lee WAS not killed by
he wound. He is now dead. however.
aving been killed by falling down
mines shaft.
Ranchero, "king Of the Montana
'urf,' is comfortably home in his STA
lie again, after II magnificent months
'ork. He has earned his owner $1,000
4 that time, without making bet,
nd IT is safe to say has won $4,000 I
n those who backed him. Some day
lat horse will make record that will
otonish this boys.-New Northwest.
The journal Of proceedings of the
rand lodge Of \. .. l.. w, held a !
utie in May, shows the order to be in {
very flouri,hing condition, the mum 5
er of lodges in good standing being !
:. an increase of II during the year. q
ie membership reported last year I
''s 2,333. Since then So have been
ided, 20 have died, 4 were expelled. i
al 300 were suspended and with q
avs, leaving on May |. losj, IA mem :
,rship Of !.,s0?. IA net increase Of 4s6
ring the year. The excess of AS
t. over liabilities was S2.U2.27.
Flirting on Wheels.