The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-09-25

/ A collision between two freight train
at Elliston on Saturday, resulted in N
2 greater damage than the disabling of boil
: engines.
John Burg and W. H. Smith, two o
the prisoners who escaped from White
: Sulphur Springs Jail on the 18th ult., wer'
captured at Dupuyer last week.
Two local base ball mines of Helena
the Alerts and Actives, played mattel
game of ball on Monday for purse O
$3.50. The Actives won and the score
was 20 to %.
Geo. Kennedy, brakeman, had botf
feet crushed at Spokane Falls, Monday
by the cars. The feet were amputated al
the ankles, and the unfortunate man i.
expected to recover.
The official returns of the recent Maine
election for governor, embracing all but &
few small towns are as follows: Bodwell
r., 6s,837; Edwards, D., 55,987; Clark
Pro, 3,872: scattering, 20.
Sitting Bull and number of other
Sioux chiefs have been making visit to
the Grow agency. They were received
with great pomp and circumstance as
became their station in the noble order
of red men.
Anna Burk, seemstress of Butte, ar
rested several months ago charged with
stealing diamond breast pm worth $500
from Mrs. Lavelle for whom she was sew
ing, has been discharged after an examina-
ton by the grand jury.
A special dispatch from Guaymas,
Mexico says: Reports reached here of a
serious fight on the 14th between the
Mexican troops and Yaquis. The Mex
leans lost twenty killed and forty
wounded. The Yaquis, sixty-two killed.
Commissioner Sparks has sent out a
special commissioner to look into the
matter of timber being cut in the whoop-
up by the Canadians and foated down
the Belly river to be manufactured into
lumber and sold throughout the North
west, and thorough investigation is being
made.
Dune Mcdonald OF Butte, Montana's
champion, ard Slade the Maori, fought
to finish at Salt Lake Sunday night for
5000 side and gate receipts. McDon-
aid knocked his opponent out in the ninth
round after hard fight. Slade succumbed
to three successive blows on the neck and
dropped like log. He was carried to
his hotel ami for while his recovery was
doubted.
Father p P. Prando. who has been
missionary among the Indians for many
years writes the Yellowstone Journal,
offirming that the Cheyenne Indians arc
in a starving condition and that unless
something be done at once they will either
die of starvation or again resort to killing
cattle this winter. He appeals to settlers
and stockmen to use their influence in
petitioning the government to give full
rations to the Cheyennes.
At Drummond on Tuesday last two
miners named Jacob Gallagher and Bill
Quinnan quarreled while at work, and
were layed off by the foreman. Subse-
quently another quarrel cnsued in which
Gallagher was shot through the thigh,
causing death. Another shooting affray
occurred on Saturday last in William
Mobiles saloon in which Hanson shot Mr..
Noble once in the shoulder and once In
the thigh, because he refused to loan him
money with which to gamble. Arrests
we're made in both instances.
Helena Independent: The body Of
Robert Whipple, who was drowned in
Cooper's lake the 1st of September, rose
to the surface on Saturday last and was
taken out of the water. The body was
swollen almost beyond recognition, and as
soon as the air reached the flesh decom-
position began its work with fearful rapid I!
ity. To comply with the request Of the
unfortunate young mans brother to re-
move his remains from that remote
region to Helena, was impossible, and it
was concluded to inter the body near
where it was probably at Helms |
vile. Upon Whipple's person at the
time he was drowned was heavy belt of
cartridges and revolver. In his dying
clutches he had grasped his hands full of
the lake grass, and when the body arose
to the surface it still retained this mourn
full evidence Of his desperate struggle to
retain hold on life.
Railroad Notes.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific |
fer the last eight months ending
August 31st, 1886, were $7,259, sos; for
corresponding period of 1885, Sc, SIT, ,78O;
$681,778.