Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-06-21
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Montana Mention.
The Billings party visited Butte.

from Sl2 TO $40 per month.
aBishop Brewer, of the Episcopal
church, was at Butte last week.
One Of the best sketch artists of the
Harper's Weekly force visited Butte
with the Union Pacific officials.
A star route contractor of Livings-
ton is advertising for bids to carry the
mail from ChOteau TO Valleaux.
Seventeen men are now employed
by the Collar company. Night and
day shifts are working the mine.
The Benton & st. Louis cattle COM
pany have lost three head Of horses
from their ranch. Indians did the
stealing.
Several mountain sheep were driven
down from the peaks by last weeks
storm TO a point within sight Of
Missoula.
Tobacco Juice, "a dissipated young
Shoshone, will, If he lives, be the
next chief Of that tribe. He lives
near Butte.
A. NJ. Hotter q Bro. have one raft
Of lumber al Great Falls anG will put
in planning mill as soon as their
building is completed.
On June at Brighton Beach Hick-
DRY Jim, the we'll known Montana
racer, took second money in seven
furlong race with eight entries.
Mr.. Speer has bored well 40 feet
in depth at Great Falls and the water
is within ten feet of the top. He will
contiue work until he strikes flowing
water.
Kingsbury's cabin. famous head
quarters OF Butte old-timers, has just
been torn down to give place to new
business block. The cabin was built
in 1868.
Profanity is getting quite a set back
in Butte. For using cuss words J.
X. Robinson was charged s2s and
John Harm s3l in that city on Tues
day last.
Missoula county's school fund does
not seem to be very large. The APP
portionment was made last week, S723
being divided among tweniy-four
districts.
The Record building was sold at
sh eriff 5 sals at Fort Benton to satisfy
a judgment against j. ]. Healey and
VIM. III. Buck. The building was
bought in by the plaintiff, Henry
Cannon. of Helena, for $1,000.
The connecting rock between two
drifts In the Anaconda mine was not
as thick as the miners thought and Oh
last Tuesday two of the miners came
near being killed. Mr.. Farrell,
shift boss. was seriously injured but
will recover.
The Inter Mountain says that the
maiden princess Of the Shoshones
wears a garment rudely fashioned
from a xxx -four sack with the
brand outward; that her face was
wreathed in innocent smiles and dirt;
and her graceful limbs were clad in
very dilapidated pair " oil pants.
Near Anaconda on the 18th inst.
Mrs. Evans and three children were
rendered insenslble by the shock Of
thunderbolt. A horseman who was
riding past the Evans house at the
time WIS thrown from his horse by
the shock and had to walk home, his
horse having been scared away.
The estimated production Of copper
in the United States for the present
year is I4O,OO0.OO0 pounds. or this
amount Montana is supposed TO sup
GO. 900, 900 pounds, divided rs follows:
Anaconda, S5.O0O.O0O; Montana Co.,
9, O0O, 900; Clark, 5000, 900. Bell. $780,
900; Parrot CO., 100000; sundries.
100000.
Nj. Fullerton, Of the signal Office,
furnishes US the following. showing
the quantity Of rain which has fallen
during the first eleven drys OF June
for the past three years. Between the
hours OF ) p. m. yesterday and s a. M.
to-day the rainfall was inches; total
during the storm, l.s5 inches; total
this month, SIS inches. The total for
the corresponding time In 1883. l.0i
inches; 1884, "A inches. The rainfall
so far this month fully equals that OF
the wonderful storm Of 76.-Benton
Press.
Fort Benton was cut of from tele-
graph aud mail communication for
several days after the early June
storms. Therefore the River Press
calls it, home the isolated city OF the
great northwest" Only few yesn
ago place so far north could be
dubbed 1.-THE iceberg city OF the cold
northwest" and very little kicking
would follow. But Jerry Collins and
his typos have made things 20 hot up
there that the chill has been taken
out Of the northern Montana atmos-
phere, and TO call Ben1on the "lcc.
berg city" would now be unhlr aud