The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-06-26
MONTANA NEWS,


MONTANA NEWS.
e Bradshaw g. Gugim of Butte sold thei
colt Gondolier at the Salt Lake races fc
= $4,000.
If A party of gold hunters is being organ
lied at Butte to visit the gold fields Q
- Australia.
IS Miss Pauley was adjudged insane a
Billings on Friday last, and sent to tn
s territorial asylum at Warm Springs.
j The mail service between Dillon ant
Bannack, via Argenta, has been increased
! from tri-weekly to SIX times week.
J. The president on Tuesday nominated
Samuel Gibson of Pennsylvania to b,
: agent for the Indians of the Fort Peel
: agency.
Rising Sun: Robt. S. Ford and Ton
Clary have purchased the mavericks o.
!, the Sun River roundup, paying $21.5(
!, per head.
Rev. Camilus Imode, noted for his work
among the Indians since 1860, was found
dead in his bed at Helena on the 18th. OF
heart disease.
/ The twelve horses recently stolen from
the Parrot company at Butte, and the men
who stole them, have been captured at
Mount Idaho.
A match game of cricket between the
Butte and Three Forks clubs for the
championship of Montana viii be played
to-day at Butte. ;1@ =
The Republican convention of Missoula
county is fixed for August 28tb, and the
primaries for August 14th. There will be
forty-six delegates.
Indians in the vicinity of Stevensville
are reported to be dying off rapidly from
scrofula, over seventy having been buried
within the past two years.
A postoffice called Burson has been es-
tablished at Mountain House, half way
between Thompson Falls and Murray,
Idaho, with Geo. Burson as postmaster.
Chronicle: Enoch Hodson informs US
that he has completely closed down all
work at his mill and will not start up un-
til his matters are adjusted with the gov
ernment.
Mrs. Lizzie Lee, who was so severely
burned in the Oregon House fire at Butte,
in her attempt to rescue her baby from
the burning building, died from the effects
Of her injuries on Friday last.
The new barracks and officers quarters
at Coal Banks are completed and ready
for occupancy. Coal Banks will here
after be known as Camp Otis, in honor of
the colonel commanding at Assinaboine.
Angus Mcdonald, whose leg was
broken by the fall of a pile-driver near
Rimini, and who was taken to Helena for |
treatment, died on Sunday and on Tues
day was buried by the Knights of Labor.
Dennis Manton was last week pardoned
out of the penitentiary by Governor Hau-
ser, on the representation of prominent
caurt officers that the evidence against him
was insufficient to warrant his convection.
The store and stock of goods belonging
to Tong Hi and On Kee, Chinese mer-
chants doing business at Helena, were at
tached on Monday through the Merchants
National bank of that city on claim for
$4,000. |,
Inter Mountain: The Yellowstone val
ley of Montana is filling up rapidly with
q superior class of immigrants-most of
them have money, and all of them have in
dustry, intelligence and pluck, which are
much better.
The Westlake house between Butte and
Meaderviile, about one mile from the
former place, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night. The building was
.wo story frame structure. Loss 1000,
covered by $500 insurance. II
A fire at Billings on Monday morning
destroyed small house belonging to Mr..
Lovatt. The building was occupied by
Sam Hall, who had been "baching'' there, !.
'ut had gone to his work. The fire is
to have originated from embers +
eft in the stove. II
j. d. Conrad has leased in the North.
vest Territory 200,000 acres of land from
ne Dominion government, upon which he
will drive this season 10000 head of cat
le and 200 head Of Oregon mares. The :,
ease is made for period of twenty y-one
ears at two cents per acre. o
The first herd of cattle of the season j
rom the lower country, 1,4OO head, be- s.
onging to Kellogg & Stearns, arrived at I
lilies City on Monday, having been driven a
rom Cheyenne river, Dakota, to be turned !,
pose on the north side of the Yellow -
tfne, about seventy-five miles from that h
lace.
Yellowstone Journal Bad Land il
'eorge" was in town yesterday. He in j
ends to send his plan of the Custer bat /
e-field (which, by the way, is said to be i,
cry Perfect) to Chicago to be litho- n