The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-03-14
MONTANA NEWS.

A quartz mill is now on its way to tn
Ceur d. Alene district.
Helena had an incendiary fire on Mon
day night. It destroyed barn filed wit
hay.
John Ford was killed at the Drum
Lummon mine by an explosion Of gun
powder.
| Husbandman: Wool growers hav
lost less sheep this winter than for man,
years previous.
! The Ursuline Sisters convent near Mile
| City will consist of two contiguous build
ings 40xs0 and 45x25 feet in size.
A fire, believed to be of incendiary cri
gin, occurred at Helena on Tuesday nigh.
A haystack and shack were burned.
G. F. Williamson a furnace boss a
Anaconda was waylaid and brutality beater
BY rufflans who had a grudge against him
Inspector General D. B. Sackett of the
army, whose death is mentioned elsewhere
was brother of T. B. Sackett of Boze.
man. {
Ellis & Parker, saloon men Of Anaconda
hid large stock of whisky and cigars il
a woodpile then failed without any asset
in sight.
J. Y. Bogert has thrown orthodoxy in
Bozeman into convulsions of horror by de-
livering an infidel lecture under church
auspices.
The Billings street railway, cars, rails
and all, sold for 100 to the plaintiff in
the suit to satisfy judgment on which it
was sold.
1t takes three trains daily to do the
work between Anaconda and Butte. All
the freight trains run extra, having no
schedule time.
Joseph DeLoge's wife at Anaconda fire.
quented the skating rink and there made
the acquaintance Of a man who induced
her to enter brothel.
1t is probable that the meeting of the
Eastern Stockgrowers' Association at Miles
City will be postponed to about April 25th
on account of similar meeting at Chey-
enne April 9Th.
G. R. Wilson, of Martinsdale, has sold
his mail contract, coaches and teams on the
line between Ubet and Maiden, to T. G.
Power & Co., proprietors of the Billings
and Fort Benton Stage line.
One of the cowboys concerned id the
Mingusville fracas was discharged on the
charge of assault with a deadly weapon
and has not yet been tried for OBTAINING
the U. s. mail. The other two arrested
have not yet been examined.
Thomas A. Hendricks, vice-president of
the United States, is a prominent stock
holder in the Hecla Consolidated Mining
Company of Glendale in this territory.
The output Of the Hecla last year was
nearly million dollars, principally silver.
Joseph Laundre of Miles City, whose
release from a territorial sentence which |
he was serving in the Custer county Jail is |
spoken of elsewhere, did on Tuesday |
night only one day after his pardon. He
was one of the pioneers of eastern Montana
and was widely known.
Governor Carpenter issued pardon on
Monday for Joseph Laundre, convicted
last November at Miles City of receiving
stolen goods. The prisoner was very sick,
md the pardon was granted at the request
# the District Attorney who prosecuted,
md prominent citizens of Dawson and
Custer counties.
Paris Gibson writes the River Press that
he machinery for saw mill has been
shipped to Great Falls, the machinery for
. Touring mill is being purchased, an
'rtesian we'll apparatus is to be shipped, a
voolen mill and securing concern is in
prospective, machine shop hoped for
md railway demanded.
J.w. Kinslcy, proprietor of the Billings
Rustler is in New Chicago. instituting a
odge Of A. 0. U. w. of which order he
8 the Grand Master. From there Mr..
zinsley will visit Stevensville and Phil
ipsburg, for the same purpose. After re-
urning he will respond to call from
Buffalo, Wyoming, as that is the jurislic-
ion he represents. l.
Helena Independent: Messrs: Hun1ley
Pruitt have just received twelve dzen ,
luails from Shelbyville, Tennessee, b be
Introduced into the Missouri valley for
he purpose of propagating the species in
he territory. A private association has :
een formed for the purpose Of carrying
ut this project, and $120 contributed
nd twenty dozen of the little '.winged ,
reatures" sent.
The Ohio miners con vention, held at
dec ided to accept the follow
10 prices for mining. District No I [