The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-07-24
MONTANA NEWS.


register of the land office at Miles City I
5 succeed Washington Berry.
The Miles City slaughtering establish
ment is being rebuilt, contract haviD
been let for 100000 brick.
John E. Hayes accidentally shot hin
self at Helena Saturday, dying shortl
after. He was a teamster.
Helena will adopt standard time. 1t
a wonder live city like Helena had nc
taken this step two years ago.
At Tuesdays meeting of the suprem
lodge Knights of Pythias, at Toronto,
charter was granted to the grand lodge
of Montana and Dakota.
W. c.. Spencer, while exploring a
abandoned mine shaft thirty feet dee
west of Missoula gulch, found the dea,
body of Chester Magoon.
| Smith, who was shot by Jake Harris a
Great Falls, is reported to be recovering
Jake was examined and discharged OF
the evidence of self-defense.
Tramps started fire in vacant build
ing in Benton Monday evening, but it wa
discovered and eXtinguished in time II
avert serious loss of property.
A dividend of twenty one cents pei
share, payable at the First National Banl
in this city on the Goth day of July, viii
be paid to stockholders of the Rumle,
mine.
The Montana Central and Red Noun
tain companies are at logger heads regard
ing right OF way. This is their first dis
pute and a hearing of the case will be
held on Monday.
Butte Miner: Delegate Toole is il
Washington attending strictly to business
for which he was elected. His political
future does not worry him half as much
as 1t does some republican journals in
Montana.
The locating engineers Of the Montana
Northern left Great Falls Monday or the
line to Benton. The preliminary survey
party is at work on the Teton. Graders
will follow closely in the wake of the
former party and railroad building in
Choteau county is assured.
st. Paul Globe: The first of next
month the members of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Rod and Gun club
will go to Montana, where month will
be spent in hunting. The English grey
hound belonging to r. J. Wilson will
accompany the party.
Large numbers of petitions have been
forwarded from members of the bar of
Butte to President Cleveland praying
the appointment of 7. c. Bach, of the firm
of De Witt & Bach. to be associate Justice
Of the supreme court of Montana to fill
one of the two places now vacant on the
territorial bench.
Joseph Faulkner, butcher and for
twenty years resident of Sheridan, Madi
son county, shot himself through the head
with pistol Wednesday morning and
died instantly at his home at that place.
No cause is known to exist for the act,
and he is thought to have been insane.
He was native of England, 40 years old
and was worth $4,000. He leaves
wife and two children.
AT Bozeman on Saturday night about
6 o'clock Miss Alice Benson shot Lena
Stanley three times, the first shot passing
through the right breast and coming out
at the back, the other two shots were
through the legs. The first shot, it is
thought, will prove fatal. The partici-
pants in the affray are members of the
demi- monde The trouble was a Jealous
quarrel over a man named Lenihan. Miss
Benson is the daughter of wealthy
planter at Jacksonville, Florida, named
Bradburg.
Interviews by the Independent with
the parties interested in building the road
from Manitoba into Montana say the work
will not be delayed by the Presidents
veto of the reservation bill this season, as
that time will be consumed in getting to
the reservation on the east, and by next
season the Indians will be removed from
the reservations. When the track reaches
the Missouri, rails can be brought up next
season to iron the Montlna Central to Hell
ena. The grade will be completed this
year.
The settlement of the Indebtedness ex-
listing between the counties of Custer and
Yellowstone, when Yellowstone was Gre
ated out of Custer, was amlcably settled
Thursday by the payment of $45,793.33
by Yellowstone county, in warrants of
s5, 900 each, and which will bear interest
from the date of issue of each warrant
Mr.. Peter Koch of Bozeman, who was ap-
pointed referee by the judge of the dis
trict court, performed his duties thorough
ly. The settlement does not include or
affect the smaller case, involving some six
Or eight thousand dollars.
Butte special: Chief Justice Waite,
who spent last night and to-day here,
made an inspection of the various leading
mines this morning for the purpose of, as
he stated it, getting practical knowledge |
Of quartz mining, which he never had an
of doing before, his object
being that it would give him a clearer
of the western mining
cases. so frequently carried up to the su-
preme court of the United States for his |
decision. His first supreme court decis-
on in any mining suit thus appealed was
with relation to the Gagnon mine in this
city
Alaska's Governor.
Gov. A. P. Swineford, Alaska, was on
Tuesdays Pacific express accompanied by |
several eastern capitalists whom he has
got interested in mining company, their
destination being Alaska, where an lvesti-
ration of the vast mineral despOsits of |