The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-06-16
THINGS TERRITORIAL.


menced. and that numbers u NO
h men on seeing the wounders OF the
%otionaI pleasure grounds are carried
aror The Park branch every day
The independent urges the people Of
- 80 take measures for celebrating
I Il'Io Day. Billings takes the
I In"Ii r. That respect this year, and VIII
100 tbe crandest and most unique
',,Iu.tion ever seen in Montana. Inc
80, 'dorcos by the 500 Crow Warriors
IN Iva worth crossing the continent 10
see as the day for Indian dances 0"
LARGE scale is almost gone.
d;srotcb from Cinnabar to the IN
donondcpt saws that considerable an
novance has been caused 10 Iil0 I soto
mont officers in charge OF the NatIoiI :.
Dark bv trespassing bands OF GRO" lhul-
80 ,rIo have entered the park IN con-
siderable numbers, in small hun' ti
Ss5I and made great slaughter Of the
D,'l', reserves. Col. Weir superInten-
S 3ant IF the park. received instructions
From tie department Of the interior 10
warn these bad Iadlans to cohllne 'nen
o "',, TO their reservation or Suiler
tbc JisnIeasure of the department.
~ . circular of the Sd inst Fenno
prns ( ChiIds, wool commission merch-
ants Of Boston, says: "our Market mao
',stoined the improvement previously
oatoJ and It seems safe to predict tha'
"oIoss some unexpected disturbance
Cc,rrs we have seen the WORST 81 tn1
5onrossed state Of business, ana tha'
Loncoforward we can hoTe Tor De''er
things, Prices, to be sure nave not
octnalIv advanced any above quotations
I,mt onotations are more firmly sustained
DaI thoro Is not the disposition shown
to "seIl at any price which sellers
manifested a fortnight ago. We DO not
look for much if any higher ilglreS' Out
wo do expect a greatly improved genera
feeling. a brisker trade and more satlslac-
torv because prompter returns Tor snip
pers."
The Union Pacific will sell excursion
tickets from all their stations in Montana
to Topeka, Kansas. at one fare Tor rouhu
trim 70 all bona fide teachers desiring to
attend the national association meeting |
TO be held in Topeka in August.
territorial Sunday school convention
will he held in Helena July a and -.
The hack fare between the Helena
depot and town is now only a quarter OF
a dollar.
The navigation season on the Upper
Missouri will, it is believed be short this
year,
Sam bod, who committed murder at
Rocky Point last fall has just been ar
rested at Miles City.
Billy Hartwig's barber shop at Helena
was burglarized for 5000 worth OF razors'
shears, etc.
The Helena land Office is doing larger
business now than at and time before IN
the history of the office.
The apprehensions felt at Fort Asslna-
boine of a Piegan raid across the border
have been allayed.
It cost Alderman Hewins, Of Helena,
$50 to slap the cheek of 6. W. Shaw
during council session.
Frank Willard, of Billings, has been
held in the sum of $500 to answer to the
grand jury for selling whisky to a Crow
Indian.
Briggs & Ellis, cattlemen, have a sort
of cattle lease of the Crow reservation,
paving 50 cents per head per year, the
cattle to be kept away from Indian
camps.
Curley Rogers is in town. Curley is
great bear hunter, and if all reports are
true. has killed more bear than any man
of his age between Hudson's bay and
the Gulf of Mexico. He expects to
guide a party of New Workers who will
arrive here in July, to the choices hunt
NO grounds in the Rocky mountains.
Curley says the bear crop promises to be
unusually good this season.-Billings
Gazette.
The Upper Missouri has another
steamboat. DIR. Davidson, of Twin Bird
yes. has built boat from his own model
and under his own direction, GA feet long
and IA feet in the beam. 1t floats on the
Jefferson, Just below the bridge, but
will be brought down to Townsend,
where it will be strengthened to receive
the necessary machinery and paddle
wheels. 1t will ply on the Missouri as a
pleasure boat during the season.
Butte City, Montana, is conceded now
to be the wicl;edest city in the world,
writes Eli Perkins in the New York
World. 1t 50 far surpasses Dodge City,
Cheyenne and Leadville in pure and
unalloyed wlckedness that a shame to
mention them in connection with Butte
City. Butte acknowledges no rival but
Miles City-a cow town over the mount
aims on the Northern Pacific. Miles
City tries hard to be the wckedest city,
but being a simple COW town it cannot
with Butte City, which has
both mines and cattle ranches. Helena,
Montana, situated between Butte and
Miles, is proud Of its wickedness, too. 1t
has its myriad of gambling saloons, &
where Cinnamon and cowboys buck the
tiger at the same table. 1t has its con-
cert saloons, its French demi-monde Z
quarter, Its African demi-monde street 1
and its Chinese bad houses with their 9
burning candles in front. but Helena has
TO acknowledge-sadly acknowledge
The supremacy of wickedness to Butte,
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His Wife MIXED. 4
Here is little story that amplifies
.he statement that truth is stranger 9
than fiction" 1t can be read with profit .
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