The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-03-06
MONTANA NEWS.

/ NUN ANA NuWO'
Butte has broom brigade composed o
twenty young ladies of that city.
The Virginia City Madisonian is addins
a steam plant to its job department.
The Montana Citizen, weekly news
paper, is soon to be issued at Helena.
The Commissioners of Yellowstone
county have LEVIED a tax of Il mills fo
stock detective expenses.
Tom Turley, who is wanted to accoun
for having assassinated Ed. Newman a
River Bead, Col, in 1878, is now at large
in the Big Horn Basin, carrying 81,
shooter.
! It is reported that the Walker Bros. OF
Salt Lake, will build 60.stamp mill a
Walkelville for the purpose of working
the output of their individual mines in
that locality.
Frank Conley, who for number o.
years has been city marshal and deputy
sheriff at Miles City has lately been ap
pointed guard at the penitentiary al
Deer Lodge.
The grand jury after an investigation o.
the charges Of defalcation made against
D. J. Welch. ex-trcasurer of Silver Bow
county, Ialieu 10 nnu nytnIIs upon which
to base an indictment.
Gong Gee, a chinaman employed as q
cook by Lieut.. J. B. Rodman at Fort AS
sinaboine, committed suicide on the is,
inst, by shooting and then cutting him
self with razor.
The West Granite Mountain mining
company, with capital stock of $4,000,
900, has been organized for the purpose Of
working an extensive property of the
Granite Mountain mine at Phlllipsburg.
VIC King Of Oregon has been employ
ed by the grand lodge of Good Templars
to deliver series of lectures in Montana
Mr.. King has the reputation of being an
earnest, eloquent, and interesting speaker
Proposals for transportation OF govern
ment stores between Yankton, Dakota, and
Benton, Montana, during 1886, have been
opened. A bid by T. G. Power was the
lowest and TO whom the contract will
doubtless be awarded.
The Missoula Rod and Gun club at a
late meeting instructed its executive COM
mittee to order thirty dozen quail to be
distributed In different parts OF Missoula
county. The birds will be shipped from
Shelbyville, Tennessee.
The remains of a newborn infant were
found on the prairie about two miles from
Miles City last week. The body was
frightfully dis6gured in the most shocking
manner, half of one side having been
gnawed away as If done by wolves.
John Davis of Butte on last Monday
while en- route to Chicago jumped off a
Rock Island train near Des Moines, Iowa,
while in motion, and broke several ribs
and sustained internal injuries from which
he will probably die. He had been drink
ing.
The city council of Billings submitted
an ordinance appropriating 800 towards
the purchase of lands for stock yards to
the vote of the taxpaying real estate own
ers Of that city on Saturday last. There
was almost an unanimous vote cast for the
appropriation.
1t transpires that the mother of the in
FAINT left at the Sisters hospital in Butte
last week is not dead The child, it ap-
pears, was not born in wedlock. and hence
this course was pursued to hide the shame
of the young mother who had been seduc-
ed under promise of marriage.
In view Of the possibility Of their reser-
vation being thrown open to settlement in
the near future, a number of Crow chiefs
with their followings have lately been To-
eating upon the most desirable portions
and are building houses and otherwise
preparing for civilization.
Gazette: Thore Sequis and Scott Bros.
have taken contract for the transporta-
ton of $4,000 pounds of coal from Bull
mountains to Billings, and started for the
coal fields, with their train of wagons