Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-02-09
Montana Me ntion.

VI tJNli lpAH ny tue ANA
conda town site company Tor the last
thirty days has exceeded any month
since the organization Of the company.
| Col. T.. Il, Pike, prominent Mason
and a long time connected with the
Northern Pacific railroad, died ut
Emigrant gulch last Friday.
:. C.. +. Gotham, of Butte, a gentle
man who has no confidence in banks,
but prefers All old chest for u treasure
box, was robbed last Thursday Of
| S2,2s5 in cash. His roommate Sc
cured key to the chest and suddenly
left for parts unknown.
( The very warm weather of the past
few days has caused a rise in the yell
/ lowstone. The wafer is running ON
the ice, at Billings, which is breaking
up in many places. IL is early for the
spring break up. but il is not consider
ed possible that another bad freeze
will be experienced.
Messrs. Hodgson & Stem, of st.
Paul. architects of the Lewis and
Clarke county court house, have re-
signed the job. The Helena old timers
don't see the use of having buildings
built under the superintendent of
architects when they bull, their old
log cabins without such assistance.
A special correspondent of the
Toronto Mail in the Blackfoot country
writes from Fort Macleod, and makes
serious charges against Indian agents
and contractors OF systematic plumber
ing and fraud. The white settlers are
charged with smuggling whisky into
the north west territory, and with car
rying on traffic in Indian girls, who
are being bought for from $40 to $50
each aud sent to frontier towns for i'm
moral purposes.
The Glendive Times says: The
board of county commissioners held a
meeting Friday. II was their purpose
in calling this meeting to secure adj
vice in several matters from Judge
Blake, the district attorney. Blake,
however, stated to prominent county
official tina. he had nothing to do
with the commissioners Of Dawson
county as they had ignored him in the
past and disregarded his advice, TAX
ing up with Nickel instead We are
sorry that there is no room 10 deny
this AS ii is a patent fact"
Saturday morning the Theater Com
ique, Butte's leading variety theater,
WAS burned to the ground. The fire
started at $3.50 o'clock in a room i'm the
northwest corner of the building, and
spread so rapidly that ii had envelop-
ed the entire structure when the fire.
men succeeded in getting their first
stream upon it. The building was of
frame with brick front. IL was u
three story structure, with a 25-foot,
frontage, and extended back about 100
feet. The first floor was occupied by
the auditorium, the stage and the bar.
The second story was occupied by
several wine rooms in front and a tier
Of boxes on each side extending to the
stage. The third story was divided
into rooms which were occupied by
attaches of the theatre as sleeping
apartments. The building was erect
ed last May by J. +. Van Gundy, and
was rented by Messrs. Gordon & HAM
ilton, under whose management IL
was conducted until couple Of weeks
since. when Mr.. Hamilton's interest
was purchased by Mr.. John Stein
breuner. The building was valued at
81 900, and insured for IS, 500.
For quite while after the appoint
ment of Robert S. Kelley, of Deer
Dodge to the position Of United States
marshal for Montana Territory, the
Butte Inrer-Mountain only knew him
as the Mlssouri-Kansas "border ruff
fan" of twenty-five or thirty yearr
ago. Byron, in one of his poems, ex-
presses the sentiment that IL a man
will but watch his chance, he can
get even with his enemies. Kelley
evidently belives in the correctness of
Byron's idea, for he took no notice of
the border ruffian" articles. but laid
low waiting his chance for revenge.
This came when the Inter-Mountain
sent q couple of weeks ago for his pho
tograph from which to make an en-
craving to go In the series of promi-
nent Montana men which that paper
is publishing. Kelley immedistsly
sent picture taken in those old "ocr-
der rufiiian" days and the Inter Noun
tain last Saturday scattered abroad
this alleged portrait OF the United
States marshal for Montana. AT least
that 10 the only way we can account
for a picture which looks about ~
much like Bob Kelley as it does like
Grover Cleveland or the king OF the
Cannibal Islands.
The secretary OF war has declined 10
forbid the erection Of stone arch
bridge across the Mississippi at Min
neapolis. The argument Of those op-