Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-01-23
The Territory.

There are ninety conyicts in the
territorial penitentiary.
Two Belly a high-muek-a-muck Of
the Crow tribe is dead.
Fergus county claims to have 1885,
400 head Of cattle on its range.
Deer Lodge county's assessment
roll for 1885 footed up $33,S99, 1914, a
gain of $3.50, 900 over the preceding
year.
A very fine strata Of fire clay, large
in extent, has been discovered along
the line of the N. P. railroad, near
Thompson's Falls.
A Helena hack driver. on a wager,
ate one hundred oysters in twenty
minutes, and they sighed for more
oysters to conquer. Such gall.
The Montana Copper Go. at Butte
have closed down their smelter and
also quit work on one of their mines,
owing to the low price Of copper.
Judge Pollard, Montan's new asso-
ciate Judge has gone to Washington
to personally defend himself against
the carges preferred by his Indiana
friends?
A band Of Crow Indians were re-
Gently deprived Of 500 head Of horses.
It is supposed white men did the
stealing. The Indians are in pursuit
of the thieves.
At an informal meeting of stock
men, held IN Helena the other night,
the persons present represented an
ownership of about 125,000 head OF
cattle.-Herald.
With the exception ofColorado and
California, Montana was the only
western state or territory that showed
an increase of mining dividends in
1885 over the preceding year.
James Fergus is circulating a pc
tition to be presented to the governor
asking for the pardon Of J. j. Bowles,
who IS serving a sentence for firing
the range in Aeagher county.
Surveyor General Green announces
that $4,000 from tue appropriation
for the fiscal year ending June 80
1886, has been apportioned to the
district Of Montana to be expended
in the extension o~f[suryeys in agri-
cultural districts within the range CT
the progress of settlements.
Superintendent Blickensderfer has
ordered two brakemen on all passen-
ger trains on account Of the bad con
dition of some parts of the Utah x
Northern road. II any conductor
finds a broken rail or bad place nthe
ROAD, he must leave 3 man with a flag
until men can repair the same.
Yellowstone Vic and Montana Bill
are holding forth in a Milwaukee
dime museum. They 7 receiving
big pay as skilful rifle shots, one OF
their feats being to snuff a candle at
| seven PAGES. A candle two inches In
length is held between the teeth OF
one while the other with a trusty
rifle shoots the blaze off.
We are informed that more game.
such as elk, deer and mountain sheep
abound in the Park this winter than
has been known to quarter there fol
several seasons. Four different bands
Of elk numbering, all together, oven
two hundred head, have frequently
been seen grazing about Swan Lake
of late. Teamsters upon the Cooke
road also report game plentiful En-
terprise.
An exchange says that the track Q.
the Northern Pacific road in some
places has been injured recently BY
the freezing of road led, causing thu
ties to move, and in some cases break
ing the fisL-plates. On this account
trains hat loose time by delays ar
not. allowed to increase their speed
and make up time. the managers pre-
ferring the trains go In behind time
rather than any chances Of accident
be taken.
The Billings Gazette says J. "
Proctor just in from a liant in thu
foot hills of the Crazy mountains re
ports the killing of ten deer, nine an
telopes, five coyotes, two wolves, ant
two mountain lions. The mountain
lions are on exhibition at Fenske's
One is nine feet four inches in length
and the other seven feet six inches
He wanted to catch them alive bu
was obliged to kill them or let then
go.
At Cooke City, the central camp Q
the Clarke's Fork mines, the scene i
one Of unusual activity for mid-wintel
notwithstanding the deep sno5
Black & Gassert are pushing forwar
their work and will operate the oil