The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-12-04
MONTANA NEWS.

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Miles City is to have toboggan sllde.
The total assessment of Dawson county
amounts to $1,62s, ,734.15.
The Montana copper company intend
starting up full blast January 1st.
Manager Mcclure has secured the John
L. Sullivan combination for tour OF the
Montana circuit.
On Thanksgiving day Governor Hauser
pardoned Thos. Keefe, convict IN the
territorial penltentiary.
John Worrick, herder for the Shonkln
roundup, was lost in the late storm, and
is believed to have perishcd.
T.J. Lowry, one of the pioneers of the
territory, and a resident of Helena, died
at that place on Saturday last.
J. Martin and Henry Thibodo were ar
rested at Missoula, on Monday, ON a
warrant charging them with stealing
cattle.
The Territorial Teachers association
will meet at Butte, December 2Sth, 29th
and 3Oth, 1886. Railroads will give re-
duced rates to teachers.
While at work on the 1,00O-foot level
in the Lexington mine at Butte, Monday,
Thomas Dovan was seriously injured by
the falling of large rock.
Levi Wilkerson, of Corvallis, the past
season raised small patch OF sugar cane,
from which he has Just turned out five
gallons of fine brand of sorghum.
During the recent snow storm Ed. H.
Irvine's band of sheep on Rock creek, in
Deer Lodge county, huddled up in the
corral am, $50 of them were smothered.
1t is reported that Mrs. Lyons, who was
injured in the accident to the Helena and
Benton stage coach, has accepted $500
in liquidation of damages sustained.
i A rich strike of ore is reported in the
Peerless Jennie mine, four miles from
Rimini, a large body of ore, assaying
5000 per ton having been found in the
new tunnel.
Another explosion from the experiment
of thawing out giant powder by fire,
occurred at Butte Wednesday. Forum
ately it resulted in no further damage
than to demolish blacksmith shop.
i At Butte, on Tuesday, while james
McQuade was being raised in the shaft OF
the Amy mine, he was thrown from the
, bucket and fell to the bottom of the shaft
sustaining injuries which are liable tc
prove serious.
Charles Ford, charged with attempted
rape upon the person of Lizzie Ford, an
eight-year old child, last summer in the
, Prickly Pear canyon, has been acquitted
+ after jury trial in the district court o.
Lewis and Clarke county.
a Thirty thousand broad gauge ties, got
2 ten out for the Utah & Northern, by ths
Big Hole Lumber company, have beer
D frozen in the Big Hole river, and many o
them will probably be lost in the break
ing up of the river next spring.
;. The Northern Pacific, through J. NJ
d Sanders of Helena, last week paid owe
y to the treasurer of Yellowstone count,
the sum of $4,ss4.77, being the amour
o of their taxes in that county, due Decem
# Der 1, $4,000 of which was on surveyed
e lands.
n It is said that herd of buffalo ar
e grazing somewhere within 100 mile
d north of Miles City, and the cowboys of
ranch jim the vicinity know the grazin
it ground, but as far as possible mislea
# stranger hunters, so that the herd is "
G unmolested
N Five Indians, confined at Fort Shaw ft
Of horse stealing, made break for ibert
y on Wednesday last. They had been clan
of oring for water, and as the sergeant ,
the guard opened the door Of the cell