The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-08-11
THINGS TERRITORIAL.
There has not been sermon preached
II, PARK City this wear

The colored population of Helena and
Butte celebrated Emancipation Day on
August 4th.
, The Pope's ALLOCATE gave Maj. Walker,
city editor Of the Helena Herald, valu-
able souvenier ring set with diamonds.
It is probable that the fall term ofcour t
{ at Benton will be abandoned, there be-
| ing no business of importance to tran
sact.
Several members of the Mcguire COM
pany were robbed of jewelry in their
dressing rooms at Helena Saturday
evening.
Hon. Samuel Word was the recipient
of beautiful gold-headed cane from a
valued Chicago friend during his recent
visit East.
The Northern Pacific has surveyors
out running a line from Wickes to Boul-
der, and it is claimed they will build the
line at once.
Old Lane, who shot man at the Big
Hole placer mines few weeks ago, has
been captured in Idaho, and is now in
Jail at Dillon.
The Grand Lodge of the A. o. U. W.
for the district which includes Montana
will meet in annual session at Ogden on
the 1lth inst.
There were l 900 sacks of wool ship
ped from Judith landing this season,
about half Of which was sold at from 224
cts to 90 cents.
The survey of the Montana Northern
has been completed as far north as the
boundary of the Indian reservation,
which lies just beyond the Marias.
Montana will have a good represen-
tation at the G. A R reunion at San
Francisco. About one hundred persons
have already gone from Helena and
Butte.
A movement is on foot to raise a fund
by subscription to erect suitable monu
ment over the grave of Jane Macarthur,
the heroine of the recent Sun river
tragedy.
The recent rise of three cents in the |
price Of wool will increase the profits of
the Montana sheep raisers by fully $780, !
900 this year, on an estimated product of
100000 pounds,
The Mineral Argus has changed its
name to the Fergus County Argus, and
its place of publication from Maiden TO
Lewiston, the county seat of the new
county of Fergus.
When Governor Hauser arrived in the
Ceur d'Alene county, where he went
with A. NJ. Esler to inspect the works of
the Helena mining company, seventeen
guns were fred in his honor
The English company that recently
bonded a one-half interest in the Keat-
ing mine at Radersburg for $50, 900 have
decided to take the property and have
made the first payment of $4,000.
Eight hundred sheep were drown d at
the Musselshell and their carcasses are
strewn along the river for a distant of
sixteen miles below the scene, last week.
A water spout caused the disaster.
General Passenger Agent Fee says Gen.
S. s. Burdette, commander-in-chief OF
the Grand Army, and 1000 of the dele.
gates to the camp at San Francisco, will
return east via the Northern Pacific.
Three days work with the dredge
boat each season Of necessary would
lengthen the season of navigation to TT.
Benton to November l, even such an
unprecedented dry year as this has been,
says the River Press.
A private dispatch from Washington
announces that enc of the last acts Of the
senate previous to its adjournment, was
the confirmation of L. G. Bach, for as
soclate justice of the supreme court Of
Montana. The Four Jack club, of which
he is a member, celebrated the event.
Six cars loaded with iron for the Hell
ena Street Railway Co. passed through
st. Paul on the Sd inst. bound for Hell
ena Ties are now being distributed
along the line of the road and construc-
ton will commence in few days.
A dispatch from Fort Keogh, Mont, to
the Pioneer Press says that on the LIST
inst. Col. John D. Wilkins, Fifty In
fantry, was retired by operation of law,
having arrived at the age of sixty four
years. Lieut.. COL George Gibson, Third
Infantry, will probably become colonel
of the Fifth.
OF the fifty-one counties in Dakota,
only twelve have escaped serions dam
age to the wheat crop from drouth; only
seven have escaped in Minnesota; all but
eight in Iowa have been seriously dam
aged, while in fourteen counties of Mon
tana the wheat yield will be fully up to
that of former years.
A new department in rairoading be-
tween Butte and eastern points was in
yesterday when the :ime
schedule of the Montana Union west in
to effect. Several Helena parties who I
left the Capital city in the morning took
heir dinner in Butte and returned home
n time for their evening meal. But the :
most noticeable and important changes !
Effected by the widening ofthe track be-
ween Butte and Garrison was the de-
last evening of a standard
yauge train with Pullman sleeper for
st. Paul. Under the new arrangement
passengers from Butte, Anaconda, Deer
lodge and other points on the West Side
an 60 10 st. Paul without changing cars,
n delay upon the road. The convenience
hus afforded our citizens is fully ap.
,reciated and will be taken advantage of
n the future by them. -Four Butte "
were among those who engag
d berths in the sleeper last evening
Miner.
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The GrasshODper Plague.