Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-11
MONTANA CLIPPINGS.

Helena Is having marriage Doom.
Meagher county's assessment for the
year is 50, ,O45,O ,O9l.
The Helena Fire Department will hold q
ball on December 80.
The oat crop during the past season has
been profitable one in Montona.
Bozeman will have an ice rink this win
ter il it gets cold enough for water to freeze
there.
The farmers of the Northwest are still
holding on to their wheat crop. They are
evidently waiting a rise in the market.
The farmers OF Montana hereafter will
provide shelter for their cattle. They say
it pays to put up sheds.
Meagher County is the largest wool grow
ing county in the Territory, the number
of sheep assessed being 452, $50.
Fergus ceunty's assessment for the year
is 50, 2,642.164, very good showing for a
new county.
Anaconda reports chicken thieves in that
burg. One night this week several hen
roosts were robbed in the east end OF the
the town.
The officers at Miles City have just made
a successful raid on the opium joints at
that place.
The appropriation for Methodist missions
in Montana is $1O,5OO for the ensuing
wear, which is $500 more than the amount
appropriated last year.
The City Council of Bozeman the other
evening defeated the repeal OF the COW ordi-
nance which prohibits cows from running
at large in that town.
Miles City has candidate for the Office
of Territorial Superintendent OF Public In
struction in the person OF A. G. Logan. f.
Rolsbach of Helena is also a candidate as
well as the present incumbent.
Hon. A. j. Seigman, OF Helena, mem
| ber of the late legisla ture, is to be married
in New York on the 22d inst. to Miss Lille
Gla zier.
! Beck & limerick have just struck another
| flow of water in the new artesian well at
Miles City. The flow was reached ut u
depth of 396 feet. If the present flow is
not sufficient they will go down farther.
| Miles City has organized tobeggan club.
The club has had some difficulty with the
Northern Pacific in regard to building their
slide on their right of way, but it is hoped
that the matter will soon be satisfactorily
adjusted.
Jnn. F. Paterson reports that one OF
his herders found the remains OF a dead In
dian with knife sticking in his blankets
on one of the lookouts formally used by
i Indians near Benton.-Billings Gazette.
| On Monday Judge McLeary decided the
celebrated mill-site case, in which George
Smith has been the defendant for several
years, in favor OF defendant, who was the
original locator of these mill-sites when
the Cook City mining district was part OF
the Crow reserve.-Bozeman Chronicle.
| G.. A. Rutherford, of Denver, who has
been in Miles City for the past week travelling
upon the merits of Death to prairie dogs"
has other claims to notoriety known to q
few. w. D. Smith among the number. Yes
terelay BILLY arrested Mr.. Rutherford,
who is wanted in Denver for forgery. He is
now in jail aud will be kept until the Den
yer Sheriff arranges for his departure
Yellowstone Journal.
| At the regular meeting of the Grand Ar.
my Post here last Tuesday night following
officers were elected to serve the ensuing
year: John L. Sloane, post commander;
George B. Hartman, senior vice comman-
der; G. Niemer, junior vice commander;
David Christman, surgeon; Frank Sher-
man, chaplain; James Y1une, officer of the
day; James Waldrip, officer Of the guard;
Will Kennedy, quartermater: c. w. Lom.
bard, VIM. Landers, Adbt. L. Lane, dele
gates to Department. Encampment; g. ME-
mer, w. j. livingston, Geo. e. Head, alter
mates to same.-Missoulian.