The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-29

were L4slQe IN tue l16leIla assay olhCc
for the first six months of the present
year.
Paul MCCORMICK was passenger on
the west bound train destined for
Washington Territory, to ship herd of
cattle.
James Bowie, an aged employee of the
Northern Pacific, was caught under a
moving train at Milton receiving severe
if not fatal injuries
Nellie Farnsworth enters suit against
Jim Leadford in Butte for$ 600 damages
by reason of his alleged untitled promise
to marry her.
Sadie Dean of Helena, prostitute, COM
mitted suicide by taking an overdose of
morphine. 1t is said her husband lives
in Minneapolis.
The Judith Basin men are considering
the question of shipping their beeves
this fall from Maple Creek over the
Canadian Pacific road.
Major Blaine US. paymaster, who has
been stationed in the territory for twenty
one years, passed through on his way to
his new station in New York on Thurs
day.
The Billings Gazette is printed on a
new cylinder press with steam as the
motive power, the first paper that has
been printed in Yellowstone county by
steam.
The Northern Pacific has shipped this
season 100000 pounds of WOO. from the
Helena depot, all from upper Lewis and
Clarke and Choteau counties. There is
much more from the same district yet to
hear from.
The grasshoppers have reached Miles
City in consideral numbers, flying south
east. They are the same kind, and
about as numerous there now, as they
were in the wheat fields of Dakota two
years ago.
The Hessian fly which is doing SO
much damage in Kansas derives its name
from the fact that it is supposed to have
been brought into this country in straw
by the Hessians during the Revolution
airy war.
Gnats and flies are altogether too
plentiful for comfort in the mountains
The blue-bottle fellows show no mercy
to poor pack-horses, and they will blow
a brothers blankets where they get half
a chance.
Benedict Milburn an old resident Of
Washington, was buried yesterday. He
was the father of G. r. Milburn, late
SPECIAL Indian agent. well known in
Minnesota and the Northwest and now
a resident of Montana.
During the recent storms the Widow
Berthelote, living ON the South fork of
Sun river, lost 200 sheep, mostly lambs.
They were in corral on the river bot.
tom, three feet above the highest water
ever known in that vicinity.
Bozeman coal is now used on both
freight aud passenger trains oftlris Rocky
Mountain( division. By some process of
cleaning or sitting the coal it is now said
10 burn well. Wood is still used on
the Idaho DIVISION issoula Times.
The Butte Grand Opera House will be
opened on Monday evening by the
Wallack Theater Company of New York
The house is a model of beauty and has
been supplied with all the accessories
necessary for the proper presentation Of
plays. Nothing has been sighted about
the house.
General Agent Stokes, Of the Northern
Pacific Office, is in receipt ola telegram
from F. w. Gilbert, division superintend
ent at Missoula, stating that he viii have
employment for $50 first class laborers on
track work on the first of August The
men will be paid $1.60 per day; board
will be $3.50 per week. Applications
are to be made to the station agent at
the depot.
Major Maginnis rode in an open landau
drawn by four white horses and as he
passed up Main street, Helena, crowds
gathered upon the sidewalk and at the
entrance to the hotel to meet and to vel
come him home. Mrs. Maginnis shared
with her husband the congratulations
and good wishes of the people. She
carried in her had large and beautiful
presented by the citizens Of
Bozeman.
The Husbandman says that there is
now a great need gilmore fair associations
ia Montana There should be one as
Of this kind at least in every
country. Our industrial interests need
fostering and encouraging and especially
should the breeders Of good stock be
encouraged and given an opportunity to
test the quality Of their product. Gallatin
Country above all others needs such an
9 ssosiation.
The Osborne Harvester walked away
with the gold medal at the international
co,,4es,4 az Nantes France All Aueri-