The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-01-09
LIVINGSTON MONTANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY g. 1886

Big Jim, the Indian connected with th'
!. recent disturbance at Arlee, on being ex
amined before Justice Sloan at Missoula
was discharged, the evidence not being
sufficient to bind him over.
! New Northwest: Mr.. N. J. Bialenberg
has sent to Iowa for twelve dozen quail
which he will put in the willows on his
Race Track Farm, and feed through the
winter, letting them rustic in the spring
We hope he will be successful in the ex-
pertinent.
The president has pardoned Frederick
Arley of Monnana who behaved most gal
lantly in the recent prison fire, and thirteen
Mormons who were convicted under the
Edmunds law. Cleveland has granted
forty pardons. Arthur granted two hund-
red in 1884.
There is now continuous wagon road
of wide grade and we'll bridged from
Thompson Falls to Murray, Eagle, Delta,
Kingston, Kentucky, the Mission, and all
the south fork country, a distance of 100
miles or more, and from the east and west
through the mineral belt.
The bullion shipment from Butte on
Monday was nineteen bars from the Alice
weighing It'll pounds, valued at s28, 1856; :;
the Moulton thirteen bars, weighing LIZA
pounds and valued at $18,784, and Clark
& Larabie, one bar weighing tifty-one
pounds and valued at 1916.
James Purding, rancher near Pipe
stone Springs, committed suicide Friday
last by blowing out his brains. He had
been suffering from blood poisoning and
had grown very despondent. Deceased
was 68 years old and lived in cabin all
alone. He had been resident of Mon
tana for years.
Maiden Argus: Charley Brown arrived
in town from Yogo, Friday evening. He
reports the outlook for that embryo camp
most promising. The Weatherwax mine
is giving employment to some twenty
men and turning out ore that mills on an
average of $40 per ton, some running as
high as $3.50.
S. NJ. Keeler, resident of johnson
county, Wyoming, was arrested at Butte
last Saturday upon telegram from the
sheriff OF that county. Mr.. Keeler, is re-
ported to have some $4,000 worth of
property hutchinson county and was about
to return home when arrested, and for
what offense he knows not.
Miles City toughs have been holding up
soldiers on the railroad bridge between
that place and Fort Keogh of late. Thus
far they have. been but lightly rewarded,
having only secured a single S. note for
their trouble in three different attempts at
highway robbery. Times must be mighty
hard with the toughs or they would not
fool away time with the Fort Keogh blue
coats returning from the Miles City gin
mills.
Humphrey Vest Fowler died at the Pa
clfc hotel. Fort Benton, at 80 o'clock
on the 31st ult. The deceased was born
in Missouri, ten miles from Kansas City,
in 1927, and was So years of age. He
went to California in 1849 and was
among the early ones to join in the
stampede to the Occident. He came
from California to Montana in 1865
and returned to Missouri to visit friends
in 1866 where he remained until 1870,
when he came back to the territory.
Independent: A sad accident happen
ed Wednesday night to man named
Willard Weipert, in the employ of Jack
Ackley, while driving team loaded with
lumber from Els lumber yard. 1t is
supposed that his rough lock broke while
coming down hill from Bremier's saw
mill, as the wagon was found at the bot
tom of the hill very badly broken up, and
the man in the middle of the road in an
insensible condition. He was carried into
Porter's hotel close by, ard died in about
ten minutes.
An Englishmen named H. Burt Turney
was arrested in Helena Monday charged
with forging the name of Coutts to two
bounty certificate warrants. Turney
claims to be an English lord, and has been
hunting IN Montana for some time with
complete armory of expensive weapons,
blooded dogs and two servants. He has
created quite furore, and other loose af-
fairs in the financial transactions are re-
ported. His family have cabled an
answer in response to his request for as
sistance stating that they can do nothing
for him and they have evidently thrown
him over on account of some crime COM
mitted in his native country.
A Desperate Attempt to Break Jail.
The Butte Jail was the scene of a des-
perate encounter last Monday. Jailer
Eugene Shortsleevc had unlocked cells