The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-04-18
MONTANA NEWS.
illon is to have a NJ. E. college.

Thomas G. Marshall was elected mayor
of Missoula this week.
A.C. Kies' saw mill at Bearmouth burn
ed last week; loss $4,000.
M. 8. Richards left Benton last week
with 1872 Montana horses for the eastern
market.
The Montana Cattle Company has car
load of registered Polled-Angus cattle in
transit from Scotland.
John c. Summers suicided by the NOR
phine method near Deer Lodge last week.
Encouragement and poverty were the in
citing causes.
George w. Todd, Dillon character
generally known as the Marquis of Todd,
was found dead in his bed from an over
dose of morphine.
Troops from Fort Assinnaboine are be-
ing stationed in cantonments along the
Canadian border.
Agent Armstrong, of the Crow agency,
has concluded to bridge the Little Horn
river at the Forty Mile ranch
A. J. Williams, sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary for cattle stealing in
Custer county, has been pardoned by Act
ing Governor Tooker.
The Musselshell and Yellowstone stock
men were banqueted by citizens Of Bill
lings on the occasion of the roundup
meetings there last week.
Another immense slide, or avalanche, oc-
Cured on the Cracon-du- Nez hill, north of
Benton, last week, carrying away strip
of the hill 400 feet long.
The Butte people think that if the Sui
livan-Ryan fight is prohibited there the
sports can meet there and run a train over
into Idaho to have the match.
At a meeting of New York sporting
men delegate was appointed to go to
Butte City, Montana, to arrange for the
fight between Sullivan and Ryan.
Marquis de Mores expects to ship four
carloads of dressed beef eastward per day
this summer from Medora. He has lately
bought 10000 cattle for this trade.
At New Chicago, Deer Lodge county,
Mrs. Fannie Wilkinson, young woman,
shot herself in the breast in an effort to
take her own life. Motive not stated.
A large number of men supposed to
have been implicated in the lynching of
Constance and Mcdonald on Birch creek |
have been arrested and taken to Benton.
A Butte miner named Toole got drunk
and was robbed of $3.50 cash and check |
for $500. A man who presented the
check at the bank next day was arrested.
Potts & Harrison, of Townsend, have
large importation Of Clydesdale and Eng
lish draft stations in transit from Liver
pool. They sailed about the first of April.
Thomas Barry, of California, has been
1000 head of sheep on the Crow
all winter, against the laws of
the United States, and the sheep are rotten
with scab.
A troop of calvalry is ready at Fort
Missoula to march at few hours notice.
The preparation is due to the possibility
If raid along the border growing out of
Troubles.
The man Dunbar who was wanted in
Buffalo, Wyoming, for forgery, and whose
picture and description were circulated
among officers throughout Montana was
arrested last week in Helena.
A son of Doc. Mcndenhall, camped
alone in a shack near Glendive, heard a
hief stealing his horse and saddle. A
light followed IN which the boy got shot
wound in the leg but recovered his prop
,rty.
John G.. Bryant was shot and danger
,usly wounded last Thursday at Dewey's
Flat by Jack Hazleton, commonly called
Sailor Jack" Jack was arrested and
aiken to Dillon to await the issue of Bry-
.nt's injuries.
The following Montana postof1iccs were
lately: Blatchford, Custer
county, John E. Kennedy, postmaster;
Profile, Meagher county, G. G. Carville,
P. NJ; Sunnyside, Gallatin county, Sarah
\. Robertson, P. NJ.
A spaniard named Phillips, butcher at
Poplar Creek Agency, recently lost one of
lis children by death, and as sacrifice
;ut off his left fore6pger, besides killing
fine mare and three-year-old steer on
he grave Of his child.
Billings Post: Mr.. Alistair Mackenzie
,as gone to Oregon to purchase two hum
lred mares to put on his ranch in Wyom-
ng. He expects shortly to join his regi-
nent, the 35th Sussex, to participate in
he expected Anglo Russian war.
The Butte papers tell of one William
Quinn, q Yellowstone ranchman with a
wooden leg, jumping out Of second story
window in that city and breaking his re