The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-14
THINGS TERRITORIAL.
Wool prices are steadily advancing.

ington territory, coal on all locomotives
from Helena west.
Choteau county will forward 25.00O
wethers this season.
The Utah Northern Railroad. with its
fifty-six stock cars, is handling over e.
600 head of stock.
At o'clock Monday morning a fire
broke out in the packing house owned
by Dustin 4 Hough at Miles. The build
ing was completely destroyed together
with two cars of dressed beef. The fire
is supposed to haYe caught from the
ashes thrown out from the engine room
and wood piled upon the hot cinders.
The insurance on the building was Sl5.-
000 A number of the Northern Pacific
CompanY's refrigerator cars were in the
building and adjacent. but were saved
by the employees. The loss is more than
$4,000.
The Montana Union has secured two
consolidated hog engines two ten-wheel-
ers and four eight vhee.ers for its road.
1t is expected that the two consolidated
engines will be put on the ore run be-
tween Butte and Anaconda, and the two
ten wheelers viii be used for freight,
while the others will be used on passen-
ger business between Butte and Helena.
A territorial Sunday school convention
will be held in Helena on the oath and
9th of July. It will be conducted under
the immediate direction of B. F. JAG lbs,
the noted Sunday school worker of Chi
cago.
Gabriel Dumont, of Riel rebellion
fame, is starring in the East with the
Buffalo Bill" combination. He writes
to friend at Fort Benton that all he
has to do Is TO sit around.
The Tribune Publishing Company of
Dillon was incorporated with capital
stock of $4,000, in eighty shares of the
par value of 500 each. The intention of
the incorporators, Messrs. Hiram and
6. H. Brundage and B F White, is to
publish the Dillon Tribune, and do
general publishing business.
The Muscular, in a recent issue,
makes some severe comments on Judge
Galbraith for the manner in which he
adjourned the District Court at that
place.
The Flathead Indians are on the game
trail near the Cumberland mine, on the
Big Blaekfoot, killing deer and their
young for the young and their hide alone
the does being too thin to eat.
The output of the Montana Company
Drum Lummon) for the last month
reached $4,000.
]. NJ. Venable has been appointed
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector by
Collector Shields. The appointment is
generally REGARDED in Butte as an ex-
cellent one.
c. b. Haynes will represent the P;o-
neer Press Co, in Montana another year
beginning with August 1st at an increased
salary.
Lee Sing, the Chinaman. who was shot
on Sunday by sam Wah, fellow cum
tryman at Town send died on Wednes-
DAY. At the c1roner's inquest no evid-
ence was lduced to sustain a criminal
charge and Sam was released from Gus.
tody.
Neutrality-suspicious. with gen.
teeI lady. object matrimony. Address
Geo. NJ Sloan, Bozemln MONTANA" ap.
pears in the Philadelphia Item.
Mr.. Ziegenflss, the resolute editor of
the Butte Miner, is the chief of the
Worlds expedition which is about start
ing out for Alaska, to investigate the
alleged gold fields. He will be accomp-
anied by an expert mining engineer and
practical miner, and if there are any
precious metals in that section of
Uncle Sans domain, they will find it.
The Pacific express was ten hours late
Thursday last owing to a washout near
MIngusville, on the Dakota division.
Wednesdays races at Billings resulted
in AL Harrison oh. e. Frog winning the
six hundred yard dash from Joe. Doze's
Sleepy Dick, and Hank Blooms Snow
fake beating Harrison's Captain.
Fully thirty thousand people cele-
brated independence Day in Butte. On
no previous occasion in Montana have
so many people joined in holiday festi-
witty. The procession, the public exer-
cises, the races and the fireworks in the
evening oil reached the climax ofsuccess.
When Judge Deadly dissolved the in |
junction in the case of Wells, Fargo &
Co. VI. the Northern Pacific Railroad, he
also made an order directing Master in
Chancery Geo. H Durham to assess the
damage sustained by the railroad comp
any by reason Of the injunction was
granted short time since to restrain the
railroad company from interfering with
or ejecting Wells, Fargo & Co s express
matter or messengers from its trains
The decision will exclude Wells, Fargo
4 Co. from shipp ng express to ali points
on the Northern Pacific Railroad and
branches. This will necessarily greatly
increase the business Of the Northern
Pacific Express Company and cqrrespon-
dinghy decrease thar of Wells, Fargo &
20. in the Northwest. It will throw
about fifty messengers, agents, clerks, etc
out Of employment, but a majority of
these will be employed by the Northern
Pacific Express 20 As Wells. Fargo &
70, went under heavy bonds to reimburse
he Northern Pacific Railroad Company
or any loss it might sustsin through the
operation ofthe injunction, Mr.. Durham
las been appointed to assess these
lamages. which will amount to a con-
sum.
BISHOP BREWERS APPOINTMENTS,
sunday. July 18th, morning and even
ng at Bozeman.