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for 1856 amounts to S5.269. $40.
| The artesian well at Dillon is down $50
| feet and none but surface water has yet
/ been struck.
! H,1cna ri ,ries in a line of street cars. The
city busses are experiencing a falling OFF in
their receipts.
| An additional guarn has been employed
at the Helena Jail at salary Of seventy
five dollars per month
| Carton Allen of South Carolina. has been
arpointed custodian of the abandoned mil
itary reservation at Fort Ellis. Montana.
John Mullan, discoverer 81 the Muiian
pass through the main range lat the point
where the Muiian tunnel was built) is in
| Helena.
| Since the River Press sold its soul it has
lost it's grip on truth, and is again talking
of $40 per day diggings in the Sweet Grass
hills.-Inter Mountain.
Somebody is making canvass "i
Meagher county, taking orders for an cleo
trical wire fence which wiz make the most
breechy steer back oii.-Mincr.
! l lF reDOTttu tiiist r1i'h''' s''s P'
poets have been discovered in the Bear Paw
mountains recently. Where they were
found we did net learn-Rver Press.
Gallatin county has .wo female candi-
dates for the office Of county superintend-
ent of schools. Miss Moliie Houston. demo-
crnt. and Miss Ada Hamilton. Independent.
The prcttest one will probably get there.
The salary law works like n charm in
| silver Bow county. For instance the Sher-
iii earned in fees for the quarter ending
september list, I,773.37 more than the
| exuonses of the Office Inter Mountain.
| The rate on cattle in car loads from st.
Paul to Chicago is now made 10 cents per
| 100 mounds The ma ximum is $40 per ear
load and the minimum s33 per ear load.
This will make "a reduction oi 10 cents per
head.
| RYAN Bros. OF Salt Lake. Utah, were
here Yesterday looking up n range. They
expect $500 Utah cattle III n few days
They are brothers of Dennis Ryan, the pro-
prietor Of the Hotel Ryan, -. Paul.-''il-
lings Gazette.
The Anaconda Review. which has always
maintained an independent stand in poit-
ical matters, unfoid- its banners with last
| weeks issue and declares itself squareiy
for Wilbur 4. Sanders for Delegate to Con
sre-s. to rcpresen. Montana at the national
capital.
The rich men oi Montana may he size'l
up about this size: W. \. Clarke OF Butte.
50 600. .Ooo. Governor llauser S2,ooo,-'
600: a. A. Broalwater. 81. .5oo,Ooo. A..
J. Davis, $iOJ,OOo; Jim Murray, 81.
900. 900; IL. l.. Frank, 81 ,oOo,0Vo, and
cow ,nillionairrs, real estate and prospect
i've too numerous to tabulate.
The Montana price has always been 20
cents for shaving and 30 cents for hair cut
ting, but the Helena BARRIERS have decided
to make assurance doubiy sure by forming
an assoeiation with these prices as the
basis Of the constitution.
The first train load oi Montana cattle
over the canadian Pacific railway passed
through Winnipeg last week. 1t il expected
hv those Interested in the road that they
will ship about 900 head altogether
this season.-Stoclgrowers Journal.
The number al acres Of land disposed of
by the government in Montana during the
fiscal year ending June 30, according to the
report just out, goes mp into pretty big
figures viz, 81 .57t. Sparks in the same
period issued patents for about an acre
and a auarter.--Inter Mountain.
Hon. Granville Stuart, Who has repeat
edlv represented different sections oil the
territory in the LEGISLATURE. is ambitious I"
APPEAR once more in the arena and is run
ming in Fergns and Meaehercounties on the
Democratic ticket for the House Live
Stork Journal.
Hr 4. Bentz. whosn excellent farm is u
short distance south of Bozeman feels that
~ II cul,ivator of Barley he is about H.
successful as the best. During the past
season he sowed some 30 acres of his ranch
with barley, and the other day he threshe;f
, fherpirom | .iS9 bushels of iir-t-clas- grain.
worth 81 10 to 81 30 per hundr,d pounds.
IN average Of 49, bushels per acre is not
bad FOR such II remarkably dry season.
courier
On the broad ranges 81 Montana feed
nearly "A million and II hall of cattie.
They are worth probably sio.1oo.ooo.
Their existence T.. endangered by the
breaking out "f pruro-pnennonia in
hica-o, for the disease may be brought Ia
the empty cattle ear which daily coane
into this territory from the Injected lii
triet The danger H. Montana may be
remote, yet it T. possible that ihe disease