The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-20
THINGS TERRITORIAL.

bonded for $4,000.
The tax levy in Lewis and Clarke
county is thirteen mills.
II e Indians at The Crow agency have
received their annuities.
A movement is on foot to establish
Catholic church in Anaconda.
The De Mores company at Medora will
pnt mp 10000 tons of ice this winter.
There are now four or five applicants
for the position of collector of customs.
Judge Pollard will hold his first term
of court in Miles City, on February 18th.
The Utaf and Northern's reduction on
saltdeljyeled at Butte is from s23 to SIS
per ton.
substitution to the Gait railway pr
ject now foot up between $4,000 and
$4,000.
AtDeersLodge court Mrs. Kerling was
acquitted If the murder of her divorced
husband.
The Ten Mile Mining and Reduction
company's concentration at Helena has
been closed. l-I- ~. -..t
= The tax in Deer Lodge county for the
year is l6l mills; Beaverhead county will
pay t@elsAlmiIls.
james Purdv, an old-timer living at
Pipestone Springs committed suicide by
shooting himself.
hissoula county will pay -! mills
taxes on the dollar this year on account
OF the salary law
Architect Hodgson says he will hold all
.the, citizens of Helena responsible for all
libelous ntteranees.
The county commissioners of Custer
County have reduced the taxes Of this
year go,e2l mills on the dollar.
The Belle of Butte mine, Just south of
the Magma Charta, has been leased and
worked upon it has been resumed.
a new post Office has been established
at )" Windy Campbell,s' ranch on the
Mnsselshell. 1t is named Barrett
-. IN irrigating ditch is being dug
Judith Landing. When finished it Wilt
he capable of irrigating 900 acres
land
The minimum temperature in Helena
for the month of December, as reported
by the War Department was l06 degrees
above the normal.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific
for the last half of 1885 show an increase
Ofnearly million and a half of dollars
over the corresr ending period of 1884
The. ;Ispuary term of the supreme
court was opened in Helena Monday
morning with Chief Justice Wade and
Associate Justice J.. r, Pollard on the
bench.
Judge Pollard rendered his first opinion
as On Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court bs affirming the judgment Of the
lower Court in the case of Moles vs.. Ed
wards ct al,
The United States commissioner at
Glendive has been notified by the sec
Rotary of the interior to take c0gnizance
in future of all persons cutting timber
on government land.
Reports from the range state that cat
tie haye been very uneasy for the past
few DAYS, and the line riders on. the
Yellowstone have had hard work to keep
them from drifting on the river.
Al eonynlsion Of nature has lately |
caused several hundred feet square of |
ground near Electric mountain, National |
Park to be thrown about in remarkable |
way. Portions of it have been upheaved |
while in other places great openings of
an unknown depth appear
The bids for the construction of the
Cascade tunnel on the Northern Pacific,
road were opened in st. Paul on Monday
by Chief Engineer Anderson, of that
company. The figures of the successful
bidder were not made public, but it wss
understood to be in round numbers ST.
OOO, 900,
Lieuts Edwards S, Avis and John G. F.
Iillson are undergoing court marshal at
Fl. keOgh, Mont. 1t is alleged that Avis
charged Col Cochran, of the 9TH infantry
with perjury at the trial of Lieut. Tillson
without observing the prescribed forms
and with intent to disgrace Col. Cochran.
Tillson is charged with instigating the
perjury Gaze against Col. Cochran.
A. ii. Hersey has received letter
from Hon. Ben. Harrison, chairman of
The committee on Indian Affairs, intimat-
ing thatthe opening of the Grow Reserva-
ion win receive early consideration. The
sworn testimony taken by the commit
zee while in Montana last summer, and
subsequent report forwarded by DR.
Hepey, viii have much weight in tLeir
-epore.
The impost for 1885 in Madison county
VAS fixed at II mills on the dellar APP :
'Ortioned as follows: Territorial, mills;
ounty, z poor, school, 5; road, 2, and
he special stock indemnity tax of one
ialf mill. 1t was also ordered that John
!. Carruthers, sheriff, be authorized t.
mploy one under sheriff. or in Ii n
deputy sheriff, at his option,
{ salary Of one hundred dollars per
month.
Humphrey Vest Fowler died at the Pa
ifc hotel Fort Benton, at 4:20 o'clock on
le Slst ult. The deceased was born in
iissourI, ten miles from Kansas City, in
S27, and was IS Of age. He went
} California in 1S49 and was among the
ally ones to join in the stampede to the
Incident. He came from California to
Iontana in 1855, and returned to Missouri